The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-10-03

the goveransat TO The people ZAP
plause-l
Al Turning to Am~wsoa-
Colonel Roosevelt here told Of has
trip through the Old coussry sna
stated that throughout the Old woriA
he could zee the natives. wke we're
born poorer. with smaller oeportsa-
ities and liberty oniy q dream. tara
Ing 20 America And everyvhere.
he stated. thls great agttatacn tor
popular rule has been going On there
has been indifference. and ~ every
failure. the heart OF every rea<tion-
ary Ia giadecaed.N = and the heart OF
every Progressive saddened.
Platform Of the Two Old Parties.
eft you will turn 20 the platform
OF the two old parties" continued
Colonel Roosevelt. you will nnd no
remedy offered for our troubles. Tn
fortunately for US. when we launch
a movement. we have TO fight en-
trenched power. ss per cent OF the
organized wealth. a large majority of
the newspapers. and nearly all OF the
political ability. told our people
when / entered this fight that IL the
matter was left TO the people and
was defeated. ! would have nothing
TO say. And said in the beginning.
that IL l were not beaten By the peo-
pie. | would have a good deal TO say.
(Laughter.) And ! am saying IL.
(Renewed laughter.1 And | expect
to keep on saying 1t for about five
weeks"
Here the A. & NJ. students who had
section in the gallery could hold
their enthusiasm no longer and they
gave many "rahs" for Teddy"
which was appreciated by. Colonel
Roosevelt
Il am spekaing about the rule OF
the people because / have known OF
the rule OF the bosses (laughter). and
I am going to tell you that IL you
won't govern yourself. some boss will
govern you.
my opponents say that / am
against representative government I
am not. but IL against mis-repre-
sentative government. (Applause.)
am against government by some
body that you don't see.
This is why favor the election OF
United States Senators by direct
vote. - r
II know that IL we had popular
elections Of Senator's, we would make
some mistakes. But then we would
be making them, not somebody else.
And we could see our mistakes. We
could correct them. We would take
our own medicine when we made
those errors. We don't want to see
the errors made by Mr.. Penrose and
Mr.. Barnes"
Wants the Law to Give Us q Chance.
Now. friends, we want the law to
give US a chance to get government
When | was Governor of New York
and President OF the United States, /
found out that / couldn't get what
wanted from the politicians. So !
went over the heads OF the politicians
to the people. They didn't always
give me what wanted, either, and IL
they didn't, / had to be satisfied"
Here Mr.. Roosevelt took up the
great trusts, the Standard Oil and the
American Tobacco Company He told
how he started the suits, how they
were prosecuted land decision rem
dered in favor of the people. The
Supreme Court rendered a decision in
favor of the people and wrote an
opinion severely condemning the
Standard Oil Company and the To-
bacco Trust 1t was a sweeping in
dictment against those companies"
He showed that the law was not
being carried out, that the values of
those companies are doubling and
that on Wall Street instead of getting
an envelope with one slip of paper,
you get an envelope with thirty-four
slips OF paper, showing that the trusts
are intact.
Such is the policy of make-believe
of the two old parties. The prayer
in Wall Street must be. o Provi-
dence give us another dissolution
(Applause.)
Should Have a Look Inside.
Now our proposal is definite. We
ask the government to give US a COM
mission and allow US to get on the
inside of the business and take a
look at the books. We would do
that business as receiver of q bank
does from within, and the losses
would fall as they did fall upon Mr..
Morse.
"The big trusts don't care for de-
nunciat1on. They rather like IL. And
one Of the disadvantages OF the pres
ent system is that IL In a constant
menace to the business that is de-
cent. We are making no war upon
the size of business. We are fight
ing against the conduct OF that bust
ness. And when we find a trust that
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