The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-17

SASsIN'S BULLET HERE YES TERDAY-GETs CORDIAL AND ENTHUSIASTIC R E EP ITO N FROM BULL NIOOSERS.
 'ASincere? How could Col Roose- welt have better demonstrated his sin cerfty in the Progressive cause than by the manner in which he behaved when he was shot Monday night in
 Milwaukee, said Francis J. Heney, the man who jailed Abe Ruef and set the grafters on the toboggan in San Fran
 cisco. to a reporter for the Farmer yesterday. Heney addressed Bull
 Moose rally in St. Josephs hall yes terday noon. He talked with a Far
 mers reporter short time before he began his address and was asked what were his thoughts about the shoot ing of Col. Roosevelt.
 T know the sting of a bullet,'' he replied, and I believe [ know some thirg of the nervous shock which ac- companies a bullet wcund.'' Heney pointed to a slight scar benea tn his the grafters he was fighting in San Francisco. few years ago. 'HThe sen sation is one which ordinarily causes break down of the nervous system for the time being ana it requires a tremendous amount of courage to hold up. Col. Roosevelt's attitude was the most GSmaTkaD1e QOnOnSCrat1On that l have ever heard of. It is surely sur prising that any human mortal could go before such large and ezlthusias- tic audience, which alone is enough liver an excellent address while suf- fering from a bullet wound such as he received.
 II honestly believe that the man didn't have a single thought of his own personal welfare but was think ing only of the great cause that he is leading. I believe that he went be- fore that large audience more because he didn't want to disappoint the peo- pie than for any other reason and to put before them the true. attitude of the Progressive cause on the vital and important questions of the day. He clearly showed that he didn't care a rap for his own person when 1t was necessary to make a sacrifice for the Progressive cause. Col. Roosevelt's behavior in this unfortunate affair should clearly put to rout all such he is looking only for personal gain
 Heney gave a brief address which was one of the best that has been giv- en at 9 local Bull Moose rally He is a fiery speaker and held his audience all attention during the short time ne had to speak. There were three wo- among those who came forward to meet Heney after he had concluded his
 talk
 Heney declared in his speech that a
 
 the beginning of the world if men were left to their own individual self con trol of things a certain few would be- come the slaves of greed and cunning ness and the result would be that these few would become the lords and mas ters of the many Land. Ia d; he maintain sentials of life, food, shelter and cloth ing.
 has always been an economic fight,
 he said. When we speak about 1ib-
 erty and freedom it is foolish to be- 1ieve that the right. to vote and elect
 we mean. The right to vote doesn't mean ain economic liberty such as we want. An economic liberty is the only
 liberty that we haven't got and it is
 the one liberty that the plain people of this country needs.
 When our forefathers founded this
 country they dedicated it to the prop osition, All men are born equal It is folly however, to assume that men are born equal in everything; they are equal only in the God given right to a chance to become president, there is no chance when Teddy is around; burt an equal chance to making a liV- ing. This cry about a man or woman being held back because they are not industrious, is all wrong to me. Of course industry, energy and resource cess but it isn't the lack of those qualities so much as it is the lack of the chance that makes men and wo- because they don't have the chance to do differently Men and women work hard and long and yet remain
 poor and not because they are extrav- l agant, for one cn'e be very extrava- gant on a mere pittance. of ten dol lars a week.
 The equality of opportunity is what makes men and women poor. Our equality of opportunity is disappear ing because we are giving away to a privileged few our property and our re- 1 sources that belong to the people as T l of us in equal shares
 Heney Illustrated his point by show 1 ing how the government gave to a
 small group of men, 50, ,000. 900 acres of | land because those men wanted it to build a railroad. He said: True the railroad was built at cost of S75, ,000,- 600 and did much to develop the coun- try but the men who built it after receiving a gift valued at s998, 0GG. 900 l from the government then sought the 1 right and got it, to tax everyone along it's line. Why it would take the aV- l craze man over two million years to earn what the government gave way | to a few individuals.
 "Now I hold that to maintain the l equality of opportunity it is first nee l essary to make the proper laws to prevent the government from giving away our property Heney then l showed how the conservation plank in 1 the Progressive platform covered this iIeee anu pAOpOSed d GOHSci Y Alloi1 OI l the national natural resources. He 1 declared that Col Roosevelt gained 1 the hatred of Wall street because he advocated the conservation policy. i Up to 15G. years ago. said the speaker, Human energy, plus animal l energy was the only things that con | tributed to mans wealth But q
 change came about that time. Prior ! to then man couldn't make enough l wealth to go around and poverty was 1 inevitable. Then came some very inn l portant discoveries These dfscov- cries have since made it a disgrace to | have poverty Timber, coal oil, nat l ura1 gas and water power are the five 1 energies that contribute to our pro- l gress and Livelihood I don't overlook l the energy that. comes from the wind 1 through the windmill and. sail boa ts