Arizona republican., 1912-07-27
Some of the Things to Be Touched Upon by Roose- welt in His Speech on the Night of August 5 at Chicago
A REORGANIZATION
 OF THE UNIVERSE
He Expects That Some Will Think That He Takes Ad- vanced Ground for a So- cialist; Some May Think Him Anarchist
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OYSTER BAY, July 26-"The con- fessiOn of faith of Colonel Roose- Nelt is now down in black and white, the finishing touches having been made today. When he has completed the recital of his doctrines at Chi cagO on the night of August 3 he probably will be called sociaHstic and anarchistic and he may be both, he said tonight But he insisted that the measures he advocated must come. They are a corrective to so- cialism and an antidote to anarchy" he declared
 Those of the most striking meas ures favored by the colonel are the fixing by law of a minimum wage scale for women workers and a guarantee by law to workmen em- ployed in what he calls the con tinuous industries" of eight hour shifts and one days rest in every seven.
 Although Roosevelt has taken per caution to prevent the contents of his speech from becoming known prematurely as he gave a glimpse behind the veil tonight. He dealt al most entirely with broad, economic problems and gave the impression that he will lay emphasis chiefly upon subjects of this nature, which he says both the democratic and re- publican platforms have ignored Roosevelt said that he had not wished at present to take up new things but he had come to the con- cluson that he must develop some of his doctrines in his Chicago speech and he wanted to go further than | ever before in advocating what might | he regarded by his opponents as rad | ical measures.
 | He sad he was curious to see how his speech would be received by the | large interests. He added that he | hoped he would not frighten these men. for if they were wise, he assert 1 ed. they would see that he was acting in their interest.
 Business should be encouraged in | every legitimate way he said, but al | the same time business prosperity 1 should be made the "handmaiden of | the people" and the tendency should 1 be toward the diversification of | the ownership of property. The l lines along which this has de- veloped recently, as best illus | diversification of the ownership oi
 property. The lines along which this | veloped recently as best illus
 trated oy tee formation of the large | corporations, should be recognized, he said and an effort should be made to | correct the attendant evils rather thar | to attempt to abolish the large cor | pOratiOns or to restrict heir size.
 It was in this connection that he sait | he favored a minimum wage for Wo-
 men and he added that later. it prob 1 ably would ne necessary to make 8 | similar scale for men. His prOpOsa for a guarantee for six days work anl
 eight hodr shifts he restricted to "cOn- tinuous industries like the steel mills
 in which work is kept up for "A hours
 of the day and seven days in the week
 Roosevelt mentioned that these two | measures were merely as Illustrating
 the kind of legislation which he be l lieves should be adopted to meet the
 existing conditions. The proposals O the democrats Roosevelt said were flu. | tile. He cited the Stanley congress iOnal investigation as illustrating hi!
 point The democratic party, he said
 offered no solution of these problems
 saying that the platform was writer by Bryan who did not know what h,
 wanted The republican party nov
 that the men in the national prOgres
 sive movement had left it, he asserted
 was composed largely of bosses an,
 financial interest.