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scale only after thorough scientific and
prompt inquiry.


prompt inquiry.
Mr. Roosevelt declared that our present
bank currency based on government bonds
is unscientiflc. and urged the adoption OF
a system which shall provide elasticity
in the credit and currency necessary Tor
the conduct of business. free from recur-
ring panics.' The control of such sys-
tenn should be in the hands of the gov
eminent and must be free from manipu-
lation by Wall street or the large In
terests.'
Mr. Roosevelt reafflrmed his we'll known
policy on the conservation and reclama-
tion of national resources. THE public
should not ALLEVIATE it's fee in the water
power which will be Of incalculable value
as a source Of power In the immediate
future and I'VE should undertake the
complete development and control of the
Mississippi as a national work, just as we
have undertaken the work of building the
Panama canal.
Fresh Field in Alaska.
I'm Alaska the government has an OPP
portunity Of starting in what is almost
a fresh field to work out various prob
lens by actual experiment" Mr. Roose-
welt claimed 1T should at once construct,
own and operate all the railways in
Alaska; it should keep the fee of all coal
fields and allow them to be operated by
lessees. with the condition in the lease
that nonuse shall operate as forfeit;
system Of land taxation should be tried
which promotes the actual use OF land
and discourages the holding or land Tor
speculation: the telegraph lines should be
owned and operated by the government.
International Affairs.
I'm international affairs this country
should behave toward other nations ex-
actly as an honorable private citizen be-
HAYES toward other private citizens" Our
small army should have large efficiency;
the navy must be steadily built up until
ut proves possible to secure by interna-
tional agreement a general reduction or
armaments;'' the Panama canal must be
fortified. Panama canal tolls on deep
water commerce should be uniform to all
nations, including ourselves; American
coastwise vessels should pass through the
canal free, for this would be no discrimi-
nation against foreign nations and would
give us reasonable competition with
transcontinental railways. No foreign
treaty should be entered into which We
do not mean scrupulously TO observe in
every particular
Declares Cause Will Finally Win.
In summing up the specific policies ex-
pounded in his address. Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
Now friends this is my confession OF
faith. 1 have made it rather long because
/ wish YOU to know just what my deep
est convictions are on the great questions
OF today. so that il you choose to make
me your STANDARDIZED in the fight you
shall make your choice understanding
exactly how 1 iceland If. after hearing
me- you think you ought to choose some
one else. ! shall loyalty abide by your
choice.
surely there never was a fight better
worth making than the one in which we
are engaged. 1t little matters what be-
falls any one Of us who for the time be-
battle. l hope We shall win, and be-
lieve that II we can wake the people to
what the fight really means We shall
win. But. win or lose. we shall not fall
ter. Whatever fate may at the moment
overtake any Of US. the movement itself
will not stop. Our cause IL based on the
eternal principles of righteousness. and
even though we who now lead may for
the time fail, in the end the cause itself
shall triumph. Six weeks ago. here in
Chicago, / spoke to the honest represent
atives Of a convention which was not
dominated by honest men: a convention
wherein sat, alas! a majority Of men
who. with sneering Indifference to every
principle Of right, so acted as to bring to
a shameful end a party which had been
founded over half q century ago by men
in whose souls burned the fire of lofty
endeavor. Now to you men, who, in your
be spent in the endless crusade against
wrong. to you who face the future reso-
lutte and confident, to you who strive In
spirit OF brotherhood for the better