Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-23
ROOSEVELT OPENS
FIGHT IN JERSEY
Guns Roar as Former President
Begins His Campaign in
Paterson.
Continued from First rage.)


party. as was Borden u. Whiting, State
chairman of the Roosevelt League.
After his speech in Paterson he dined
at the Hamilton Club.
Fight Is Very simple"
Mr.. Roosevelt sad In part:
In Its essence this is a very simple
fight, and yet | think 1t is a fight of
more farreaching Importance to the
people of our country than any. that
has taken place since the days of Lin
coin. for 1t is a fight to restore and
strengthen the simple, healthy ideal.sm
century and a quarter ago made this
union, and the men who, half a cen
fury ago. restored and perpetuated 1t.
We have against us In this light prac-
ticaliy every representative and bene-
iciary of the old systems OF privilege
both In politics and business. The i'm
mense majority of the bosses are
against US. The immense majority of
the big business concerns, which profit
by unfair and improper conditions In
the business world, are against us.
Above all, we have against us pract:-
cally every representative OF the am,
crooked politics, which has been the
most fertile source Of corruption In
American life.
We also have against us all that por-
ton of the press, including the ma
iority of the great New York dailies,
which. whether from conviction or for
less proper reason, represent wall
Street.
For instance. it is a curious fact. and
illustrates how entirely indifferent to
any politics except those of the till the
newspapers of this type are, the same
papers,. Including the great majority
of the big metropolitan dailies. which
as Democrats championed Judge Parker
for the presidency against me. in 1904 IN
Taft. against me for the nomination
within the Republican party.
But we also have against us many
sincere and well-meaning men. who are
misled because the channels OF infor-
nation are choked, or who are fright
| ened because they do not entirely under
stand our position. We are revolution
airy only In the sense that Washington
and Lincoln and their colleagues were
revolutionary.
Has Hatred of No Class.
We preach hatred of no class exeepi
the class of crooks, and even in thai
case we hate the crookedness and do no
wish to hurt the crooks, unless 1t II
absolutely necessary in order to stor
the crookedness. We preach discomfort
only with injustice and wrongdoing.
We wish the people 70 rule. h
means that we wish direct primaries FOL
nominations. We are against the con
vention system because in actual prac-
t1Se at mis- very moment tne men WIN
manage the affairs have shown that
they use them not to represent, but te
misrepresent the voters behind them.
In the same way we wish to see sena'
tors elected by popular vote. We think
that the people can choose their own sell
ators better than the politicians can
choose them for them. So as regards in
dustrial Justice. In the tariff. for instance,
| believe In a protective tariff. but | wish
to see the benefit get into the pay en-
yelope of the workingman as well as ap'
pear among the dividends.
For this reason | advocate the creation
of a national bureau. whose business Il
shall be to investigate protected industry
and see that the protection does really
benefit the working man. So we believe
in workmen's compensation laws, In laws
to secure better conditions In tenement
houses, laws to prevent women from
working o~yerhours, or children working
at all.
Therefore. we believe in establishing
over all big Industrial enterprises ell
gagged in interstate a super
vision similar to that which now obtains
over all big business concerns engaged IL
interstate transportation and over ma
| tional banks. aot