Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-30

St. Paul, MINI. March 29.-Anothel
plank in the platform upon which Col
Roosevelt is to fight out his campaign
was produced in Il speech here. to-
night, on The welfare of the farmer
Col, Roosevelt said the movement
for conserving the country's natural
resources and for lettering country
life had not been carried forward since
his administration Tie advocated a
policy of governmental activity in this
direction.
His address was delivered toward
the close of a day in which he travel
ed across iowa and part Of Minnesota
and naade dozen speeches. On reach
ing ST Paul he conferred with polit-
ical supporters, and in the evening he
went to The Auditorium and made his
principal speech of the day. He then
went 10 Minneapolis to make short
speech before starting for Chicago.
At Cedar Rapids Vinton, Waterloo.
Cedar Falls and Rockford, in Iowa.
and at Owatonna, Faribault and
Ncfthfield i'll Minnesota he spoke, to-
night from the train platform. At AL
bert Lea, Mimi. he left his train TO
address an open air meeting of such
size that many persons were unable
to get within earshot of the speaker.
The meetings at railroad stations, to-
day. were among the largest of Col.
Rooseveit's tour through the Middle
West ard on no previous day did he
find the crowds more demonstrative.
In these speeches he repeated his ar
gnments in favor of control OF the
government by the people instead or
by ID representative part of the peo-
nle." which he said always meant the
bosses.
A delegation from st. Paul and Min
neapolis met Col. Roosevelt at Albert
Lea. Mimi. and escorted him To the
twin cities.
Cot Roosevelt's private car, when his
train arrives in Chicago, tomorrow, from
st. Paul. will be switched to a belt line
which will convey him around Chicago
to the road over which he win travel to
Detroit
Col. Roosevelt's entrance to the audi
forum was spectacular. Seated in an
automobile from which a dozen flags
were flying, he was driven through 4
rear door onto the floor of the building
into the fringe of the crowd. All of the
seats Ill the duuitOf1dIH were OSNupiSb
and the people streamed in until there
was no more standing room..
Col. Roosevelt departed from the text
of his prepared speech to discuss several
other questions which he has taken 40
in recent addresses. He laid emphasis
upon the direct presidential primary.
Minneapolis. Mimi. March 29.-col.
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part as follows:
"In the fight in which we are now en-
gagged the lineup is clear. We stand for
the plain people against the bosses. We
stand for the rights of the many against
special privileges.
'tWell meaning men at their head, the
President of the United States himself
having continually been insisting on the
shortcomings of the rule of the people
have announced they are against, the de-
eision of vital questions by the people
because they dstrust the 'impulsive ae-
ton of the people although in the par
ticular case referred to this impulsive'
action would have 10 be spread over a
period of two years, which is certainly
long enough to permit impulse to become
steady purpose), and have insisted that
Apraham Lincoln was wrong when he
said that this should be a government of.
for. and by the people. and that instead
it ought to be a government of the peo-
pie by a part of the people.
I'm the contest, today, we are warning
against the same forces that opposed
Lincoln. We are striving for precisely
the principles for which Lincoln strove.
In one of his closing debates with Doug
las 81 years ago, he spoke as follows:
That il the real issue This is the
issue that will continue in this country
when those poor tongues of Judge Doug
las and myself shall be silent. Ii is the
eternal struggle between these two prin-
eples-rght and wrong-throughout the
world They are the two principles that
have stood face to face from the begin
ming of time and will continue to strus-
gle
Change the names so that they will
apply 10 the men and events of our own
time and this sentence describes the
present contest as accurately as it de-
scribed the contest in which Lincoln
was then engaged.
IF Lincoln was right in this speech
that have quoted. then the President
and all who follow and support him are
wrong in UNFOLDING the doctrine that it is
unsafe to trust the people, and that Il
part of the people should rule the rest.
The, privilege which once took form
as the divine right of Kings, which in
Lincoln't day took form as the divine
right of the slave owner, now takes form
as the divine right of the great special
interests.
"Our opponents are those who disbe-
lieve in the right of the people to rule
and who regard wrong done to the help
less as of inflnitessimal Importance when
weighed in the balance against the fetica
of adherence to formulas of a dead le-
galism.
But whatever form the contest may
take at the moment, the issue is funda-
mentally the same. As Lincoln said, it
is the same principle in whatever shape
it develops 1t is fundamentally a fight
between those who strive to get justice
through doing Justice and strive to Ra-