Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-31
'COL. ROOSEVELT
 GIVES SPEECH
Notwithstanding His Recent Wound from Assassin's Bullet Rough Rider
 Talks to 30,000
HE MAKES BIG HIT

night addressed crowd of more than
 s0,OOO hearers at Madison Square
 Garden. Nearly every word he ut
 tered was cheered to the echo. i The candidate of the Bull Moose for president showed no evidence of weak
 ness but he kept up until his last word was uttered and then he left
 hurriedly for Oyster Bay.
 Battle for Human Rights Friends, perhaps once in a genera tion; perhaps not so often, there comes ' a chance for the people of country
 to play their part wisely and fearless ly in some great battles of the age long warfare for human rights. To our fathers the chance came in the | mighty days Of Abraham Lincoln, of the man who thought and toiled and | suffered for the people with sad patience and kindly endeavor. To our forefathers the chance came in the i troubled years that stretched from the time when the first continental con | gress gathered to the time when | Washington was inaugurated as first president of the republic.
 Task is Lighter One
 ''To us. in our turn, the chance has now come to stand for liberty and righteousness as in their day these 1 dead men stood for liberty and right
 eusness. Our task is not so great as | theirs. Yet it Is well nigh as import
 ant. Our task is to profit by the les sons of the past and to check in time
 the evils that grow around us, lest our | failure to do so may cause dreadful | disaster to the people. We must not sit supine and helpless. We must rot | permit the brutal selfishness of arro- gance and the brutal selfishness Cf | envy each to run unchecked in it's ' evil course. If we do so then some ! day smoldering hatred will suddenly ! kindle into a consuming flame, and ! either We or our children will be 1 called on to face a crisis as grim as i any which this republic has ever seen.
 Must Be Wise In Time Tt is our business to show that nine | tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. We owe to our natioa 1 if We let matters drift: if in our iL- dustrial and political life we let an | unchecked and utterly selfish indi- vidualistic materialism riot 10 its ap- | pointed end. That end would be
 widespread disaster. for 1t would i mean that our people would be suu- | dered by those dreadful lines of di- ! vision which are drawn when the self ish greed of the hayes" is set over | against the selfish greed of the have l nots.' There is but one way to pre- vent such a division and that is tc forestall it by the kind Of a movement in which We are now engaged.
 Mans Right Paramount
 1 Our movement is one Of resolute in.
 sistence upon the rights, and full acknowledgment of the duties of
 every man and every woman within this great land of ours. We war against the forces of evil, and the
 weapons we use are the weapons of right. We do not set greed against greed, or hatred against hatred. Our creed is one that bids us be just Co
 all; to feel sympathy for all and 10 strive for an understanding of the
 needs of all. Our purpose is to smite
 down wrong But toward those who
 have done the wrong, we feel only the kindliest charity that is compatible
 with causing the wrong to cease. We preach hatred to no man, and | the spirit in which we work is as ia. removed from vindictiveness as from l weakness. We are resolute to do
 away with the evil, and We intend to
 proceed with such wise and cautious
 sanity as will cause the very minimum
 of disturbance that is compatible with
 achieving our purpose.
 Do not forget, friends, that We are
 not proposing to substitute law for gh M a aTfrTar
 to buttress character by law We
 fully recognize that as has been true
 in the past. so it Is true now, and ever . will be true. that the prime factor in
 each man or woman's success must normally be that man or womans own character-character the sum Of many , qualities, but above all. of the quail ties of honesty, of courage and of
 common sense. Nothing will avail a
 nation if there is not the right type
 of character among the average men and women. the plain people. the hard working, decentliving, rightthinkiHs
 people who make up the great bulk of our citizenship. l know my country men.
 Where in order to obtain them | is necessary to invoke the power Oi
 ! tue uhliOfls Nutu we Sndlt llhDht iD lii , uttermost limits that mighty power , We are for liberty. But we are fOl
 the liberty Of the oppressed. and nOl
 for the liberty of the oppressor tS
 oppress the weak and to bind burden.
 on the shoulders Of the heayy-laden It is idle to ask us not to exercise thu z power of the government when onll
 by the power Of tbe government cal we curb the greed that sits in higl $ places; when only by the exercise o ' the government can We exalt the low T ly and give heart to the humble anl l. the doWn-trodden. We care for facts ' and not for formulas. We care 70 l- deeds, and not for words. We recoe
 nize no sacred right of oppression
 We recognize no divine right to wor
 injustice. We stand for the consr.iI
 ton. We recognize that one of 1t q most useful functions is the protectio = of property. But we will not conser
 to make of the constitution fetis [. for the protection Of fossillize D wrong"