The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-04-18
ROosEEvLT'S POLICIES

time NOl. ROOSEVELT uduS pan
the issues which the voters of tn
country are called upon to de
eide at the polls; made plain tina
there can be no middle ground be
tween the rule of the people; thu
rights OF the many against specla
privilege; right against wrong anC
honesty against dishonesty Some
OF his striking sentences nollew.
Our aim is to secure the real
and not the nomial rule of the
people.
We propose to do away with
whatever in our government tends
to secure privilege.
We believe in securing for the
people the direct election Of
United States Senators.
We believe in securing for the
people the right OF nominating can
didates for office, from the Presi-
dent down, by direct primaries.
We believe i'm securing fog the
people the exercise of real and
not merely nominal control over
their representatives in office.
Our object is to give the peo-
and not the nominal rule of he
pie control and to have the people
exercise this control i'm the spirHt of
the broadcast sympathy and broadcast
desire to secure social and indus
trial justice for every man and wo-
man.
We stand for the adequate com
tnol of all big business and es-
pecially of all monopolistio big
business where it proves unwise or
impossible TO break down the
monopoly.
Prosperity can only permanently
come to this country on a basis OF
honesty and of fair treatment for
all.
Col. Roosevelt made a stirring !
appeal for fair play for those to
whom fortune has not been kind
1--WE fight" he said, to make
this country a better place to live
in for those who have been harsh
ly treated by fate, and, If we sue
coed, ii will also be a better place
to live in for those who have much,
None of us can really prosper
permanently If masses of our fell
lows are debased and degraded, if
masses of men ard women are
ground down and forced to lead
starved and sordid lives, so that
their sous are crippled like their
bodies and the fine edge of their
very feeling blunted."
Continuing, the colonel made
the following eloquent plea: II
ask that those of us to whom pro-
violence has been kind shall re-
member that each must be his
brothers keeper and that all must
feel their obligation to the less
fortunate who work beside us in
the strain and press of our eager.
modern lie.
81, ash justice for the weak, for
their sake, and ask it for the
sake OF cur children and our
children's caileren who are to
Tome after us
Ibis country will not be a good
place for amy of us if it is not
reasonably good place tor all
Of us.
when ! plead the cause of the a
crippled brakeman on a railroad, of
the ovoIworked girl in factory, of ,
the stInted child toiling at inhu- ,
man labor, of all who work eN- I
cessively or in the unhealthy sur
roundings of the family dwelling in
squalor of noisome tenement, of I
the wornout farmer in regions wher {
the farms are worn out also; when l
l protest against unfair pro it of !
INSCRIPTIONS and constituencies
men or against the greedy exploita- t
tion of the helpless by the benefit t
Charles of privilege, am not only l
fighting for the weak l am fighting
also for the strong.
The sons of all of us will pay +,
in the future if we of the pres :
ent do not justice to the present. g
If the fathers cause others TO eat I
bitter bread the teeth of their {