New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-10
ROOSEVELT ANGRY WHEN
CHARGED WITH UNTRUTH
Uproar at Houghton, Mich,
After Hearer in Auto Re-
Sents His Thrust at Wilson.
STEEL TRUST THE ISSUE
Colonel Tells Disturber He
Stands for Theft and Accuses
New Jersey Governor of
Hostility to Labor.

Houghton. Mich, Oct s--uproaT among
the auditors OF Colonel Roosevelt followed
a colloquy between the speaker and one
OF his listeners tonight. The colonel was
replying 10 Governor wilson's charge
that the steel trust was behind him,
and Incidentally made reference 10 the
Representative In Congress from this dis
trlcL
A man in an automobile IN front Of the
colonel stood up. and, rsing his hands as
a mesaphone. shouted:
THAT is not true!"
II suppose, SIR" Colonel Roosevelt called
back that you approve OF the theft at
Chicago You stand for theft and YOU
can Tor lying and false witness
THAT IL not So" the man shouted.
The crowd war thrown into such an up
roar by the incident that IL was some
time before Colonel Roosevelt could make
himself heard.
II don't know who you are, nc called
ont. but am told YOU represent the
coal trust. II Is perfectly natural that
you should object TO hearing the truth
about your side OF the campaigri."
Wilson tabor's Enemy, He Says.
On the ground that Woodrow Wilson
displayed sullcn hostility TO labor In
the past, Colonel Roosevelt appealed In
A l.. -. - mas III
men for the Progressive party. That
party. he said, had put forward an eHec-
tive programme IN their behalf. His
speech here came toward the close OF a
hard days campaign in upper Michigan.
He began IL with two speeches before
breakfast After making what was to
have been the last address OF the day
here. he hurried OH to Calumet by special
train TO speak at rally arranged only
a few hours before. On the Journey TO
Houghton from Cheboygan he was called
on at almost every point for a speech.
One OF the largest crowds OF the day
was that In Marquette. The welcome
given the colonel reminded him, he said,
Of u football crowd.
In his attack in this city on Governor
Wilson's attitude toward labor Colonel
Roosevelt said.
AZ Mr. Wilson has seen fit TO attack
the Progressive platform about labor
and especially about organized labor,
ask you TO compare what | urged on
Congress and what / succeeded in get
ting Congress- TO DO during the time
was President with Mr.. Wilson's utter
ances throughout the course OF those
very years
During those years I again and again
Endorsed labor unions. Now, during
those very years Mr.. Wilson was also
speaking OF labor from time TO time.
And / ask you to compare his utter
ances with my utterances. In an adj
dress at the Peoples Forum at New
Tribune OF February n. 1905. he said:
THE objection l have 20 labor unions is
that they drag the highest man to the
level OF the lowest"
In an address before the South Caro-
lima Society, as given In The New-York
Tribune OF March 10. 1907, he says
Says Labor 10 Apt to Corrupt.
we speak too exclusively OF the CAPT
talistic class. There rs another, as for
midable an enemy 10 equality and free
dom OF opportunity as IL Is, and that ~
tho class formed by labor organizations
and leaders OF the country-the class rep
resenting only small minority OF the
laboring men OF the country, quite as
monopoilstic in spirit as the capitalist and
quito as apt 20 corrupt and ruin our In
dustries by their monopoly"
Mr.. Roosevelt here quoted Governor
Wilson as having said In speech at
Princeton University. In 1875, that the
usual standard OF the employe In our day
is to give as little az he may for hts
wages" The colonel went on:
am not questioning the sincerity Of
Mr.. Wilson's change. but wish 20 call
attention TO the fact that the extreme
lateness OF his conversion and It's very
imperfect nature do not warrant him In
making any comment whatever on the
Progressive platform in this matter. Mr..
Wilson by a sudden and Violent retraoing
OF his steps, and In zigzag fashion. has
nearly. but not entirely, reached as adj
vanced a position as | took eleven years
ago IN my first message 20 Congress.
congratulate him upon having gotten so
far. but this fact does not entte him
to leadership and In many respects hs
has still long way 10 20.
Te-n,orrow 10 tho first day Of regis