The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-29
CANDIDATE ROOSEVELT pElU
EHs CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH
IN MINI. TODAY.
The METHODS OF DOING
EVERYTHING ARE WRONG
breaches Square Deal For EVERYBODY
Aho Uses Same Meaningless Plati
tudes-FaVors Commission to
Look After the Tariff.

Albert Lee, Mimi, March 29.-Theo.
dore Roosevelt delivered an address
here this afternoon on the tariff. His
train stopped at Albert Lee for a
brief period on its way from Cedar
Rapids to st. Paul Colonel Roose-
welt spoke in part as follows.
"On September 3rd, 1910, / spoke as
follows on the tariff at Sioux Falls.
having gone over the speech most
carefully with my lamented friend
the later Senator Dolliver, whose
ideas it expressed as well as my own:
Whenever men just like ourselves
possibly not much better, but prob
ably not in the least worse-continu-
ally fail to give us the results we
b. havH q right to expect from their
efforts, we may just as well make up
our minds that the fault lies, not in
their personalities, but in the condi-
tions under which they work: and
profit comes, not from denouncing
them but from seeing that the condi-
tionus are changed. This is especial
ly true Of tariff making. 1t has been
conclusively shown, by experiments
repeated again and again, that the
methods of tariff making by Congress,
which have now obtained for so
many years, cannot, from the very
nature of the case, bring really salts
factory results. With the present tar
iff, made by the same methods as its
predecessor and as that predecessors S
predecessor there is grave dissatis-
faction The people know that there
are some things in it which are not
right, and therefore they tend to sus-
pect the, as think, more numerous
things in it which are right. They
know that the system on which it was
made. the same system on which its
predecessors were made, encourages
a scramble of selfish interests, TO
which the all-important general in
tuest of the public is necessarily
tlore or less subordinated. There
was time when this scramble was
regarded as the natural course in tar
iff making and was not resented. The
people demand, and rightly, that the
profit of the special interests shall be
subordiuated to the general welfare
in every case. 1t is this attitude
practicall 4 new attitude of the peo
ple which must be met in dealing with
the present tariff, and with proposals
70 amend The present tariff. Very ut
file Improvement, indeed will follow
any attcnut to revise the tariff Dl
methods hitherto used The thing tC
do is TO change the methods. ne
Ieye that this country is fully com
mitted TO tne pllHtIplC VI -
but if is to protection as principle
TO protection primarily in the inter
est of the standard of living OF tn'
American workingman. J believe INA
when protection becomes not a primer
ple but a privilege and a preference
or. rather, a tumble of privileges ant
nreferences-then the American peo
nIa disapproveIJf it. Now to correc
the trouble it is necessary In the HTS
place. to get in mind clearly what W.
want. and, in the next place to ee
in mind clearly the method by wnic.
we hope to obtain wha' we a Man'
What ". want is what | nave i'e"I !,
said-s square deal in the tarln aS a.
everything else; square deal lOr ~ -,
wage Garner: square deal lot In tn
employer, and a square deal ,OF lt VI VI
NeAeral public. To obtain ~ on
,,,.t s have a thoroughly efficient al
~ igGiOn.