The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09
ROOSEVELT TOURS THE MIDDLE STATES Defends Bull Moose Human Welfare Programme ATTACKS GOV. WILSON Says He Is Interested in Statements of Bryan That Taft is Gaining.
 Alleges Combination to
 Defeat His Party
ATTACKS GOV. WILSON

Saginaw. Mich. October -s.-with half dozen speeches on a days run across lower Michigan, Colonel Roose-
 welt today opened his campaign tour
 through the middle states He spent
 the first half of the day in Detroit
 then came to Saginaw, making sew eral speeches on the way. Tomorrow he
 will go across the upper part of the state.
 Crowds which turned out for Colonel Roosevelt were large and they vel
 oomed him enthusiastically. The armory in Detroit was filled long before hs
 arrived and the crowd. which blocked the street outside. called upon the colonel for a speech. On the way tc Saginaw Colonel Roosevelt was met at stations by crowds which came out in rainstorm to see him. He spent ar hour in Flint, went through an auto
 mobile factory and made a speech tc the employees.
 Colonel Roosevelt here tonight de- tended the progressive party's human welfare programme. He criticised Gov. crnor Wilson's position and declared for a governmental inquiry into the condition of modern industry.
 There are many different kinds o, steps necessary for the people to take. said Colonel Roosevelt, ito secure gen. | uine social and industrial justice. Bu
 it. Is absolutely necessary that there
 shall be governmental action both 1T | the nation and the several states, no | in nrdn h nraf ri of industrial conditions but also to built up our working capacity as a nation We are interested in the peoples rights and not in states rights as such oi nations rights as such.
 We of the progressive party pledge the resources of the government to lift the load of illiteraoy from the young men and girls of the nation. Educa- tion must not stop merely at the school door; the adult worker must gird him. self as he goes along for larger and more efficient share in the working life of the nation; and vocational train ing must receive development. MT. Wilson has laid down as cen tral principle of his position that the history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power and so far as MT. Taft can be said to fol- low any rule of conduct at all, he
 takes the same position. This is a piece of pure toryism of the most re- actionary kind. It Is the attitude taken by every big employer of labor Mir
 Wilson's statement has not ono particle of Justification in present day fact
 There should be thorough inquiry by a national governmental commis- sion. We must know the facts, and we must vividly call to the attention of the public the facts when known" "
 Detroit, October s.--"There are three
 tickets in the field, but only two sides
 to the present campaign" said Colonel Roosevelt here today. He opened his tour fo the middle west by speaking to a large crowd in the armory.
 You needn't take my word" said Colonel Roosevelt, flor the statement that the republican and democratic parties occupy substantially the same ground.
 I'm interested" Colonel Roosevelt said, fin the statements of Mir. Bryan and other democratic leaders that Mir.
 Taft has grown in strength. What the leaders of both the old parties desire
 is to heat the progressives and they are willing to coalesce to accomplish this purpose"