The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
The Ex-President Presents His Case to the People
 of Missouri
THE COLONEL SPENDS
 A VERY BUSY DAY
Makes Six Speeches, Issues Two State ments, Sends Message to Illinois Senate, Attends Breakfast,
 Luncheon and Dinner

St. Louis, March 2.-Colonel Roosevelt stated his case today to the people of Missouri He made five speeches in this city, and another in East St. Louis in which he explained his political doctrines. The streets were drenched with rain but the colonel found a crowd awaiting him at the station, and wherever he spoke large audiences applauded him.
 In addition to making six speeches he attended breakfast luncheon and din- ner, issued two statements, sent a mes sage to the Illinois senate, covered a large part of the city in his jaunts from place to place by automobile, and be- tween times found opportunity to go over the political situation with leaders of the Roosevelt campaign in Missouri.
 Main Speech at Armory
 Colonel Roosevelt's main speech was delivered tonight in the First Regiment armory. He discussed "The Right of the People to Rule" and talked largely in the same vein as in his speech in New York last week upon the same topic.
 In his address at the luncheon given by the City club Colonel Roosevelt discussed the recall of judicial decisions. Six judges, four of them on the federal bench, were seated at the table beside higl.
 My proposition has been discussed by my opponents in frame of mind which makes history seem calm by comparison, '' he said. Somebody told me that l was right on that proposal, but should not have injected 1t into a campaign. 1 said that l wasn't in the least interested in the campaign except as a means of getting justice. I'd a million times rather lose the campaign and get justice than win it without getting justice.
 Colonel Roosevelt referred to the days when he was police commissioner of New York. and said that he made that city apoplectic with rage by enforcing the Sunday liquor law, until they got de- cision that r beers and one pretzel made a meal"
 Discusses Business Commission
 The second speech made at the Merchants Exchange, where Colonel Roosevelt discussed his proposal for the creation of an interstate business com InIssipn to deal with large corpora tions. Thence he went to the Coliseum, looked in on the household show and spoke for two minutes. The remaining two speeches in the armory and in East St. Louis were delivered in the evening.
 report which appeared from several quarters to the effect that Colonel Roose- welt had intima tea that he might bolt the Chicago convention in case he should not be nominated, prompted him to issue two statements, in which he charac- terized the reports fake
 Any statement of that nature is false, he said. i've nothing to say on the sub ject now. If have anything later I will say it myself Anything purporting to come from me without my official stamp is a fake.'
 Refers to Tariff
 The first reference which Colonel Roose- welt has made to the tariff in his present campaign was brought into tonight's speech.
 "I haven't spoken on the tariff" he said. because l have little to add to what said two years ago, in upholdine an honest fulfllment of what the re- publican platform contained on that sub- ject.''
 The colonel said he would lay emphasis upon one additional point which was that the tariff should be regulated for the benefit of the wage-earner and the farmer and that the benefit should not all ac- crue to the men at the head of large business corporations.
 Roosevelt Speaks
 Theodore Roosevelt. speaking here tonight on The Right of the People to Rule." said In part:
 "I insist that in all government, es- pecially in popular government, there must be control, and if control does not come from within it must come from without. hold that as a whole, our people can govern themselves a great deal better than any small set of men can govern them.
 .'The attempt has recently been made to improve on Abraham Lincoln's statement that this is government of the people, for the people, by the peo- ple' As a substitute, therefor it Is proposed that this government shall hereafter be a government of the peo- ple for the people, by representa- tive part of the people
 We have had such a government in various parts of this Union from time to time and, stripped of Nerbiage, 1t simply means a government of the people by the bosses
 Here in the United States experi- ence has shown that the effort to sub stitute for the genuine rule of the peo- pie something else always means the rule of privilege in some form or oth- CT. sometimes political privilege sometimes financial privilege, often a mixture of both.
 Will Fight Tyranny
 Sometimes as in the case of some public utility franchise, or other bit of grabbing by a few what belongs to the many the tyranny is primarily commercial: at other times it is primar- fly political. This. for instance, is true just at the present day in those states where the people have been denied tho right to vote at primarioE in order tC express their preferences for President
 What we really want from our rep resentatives is that they shall mat age the government for us along tho lines we lay down. We are content f, let experts do the expert business [, which we assign them without fussy interference from us But the exper must not get it into his head that | is his business to drive us or to rul' us. His business is to manage tho government for us.
 Panama Canal Illustration ''Whenever there is tyranny by the majority, I shall certainly fight it. But the tyrarnies from which we have fAen suffering in this country have 9s tines out of 100 been tyrannies by q minority. that Is tyranny by privilege
 ITO illustrate what l mean, take tn; Panama canal under Colonel Goethals That has been the Dfggest piece ei engineering work ever attempted In the world. We found .n Colonel Go.- thals the man who could do the jol
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