Arizona republican., 1912-09-18

NOW my friends, how should the
 government deal with the corpora
 tiOn? Just as We deal with private
 individuals of our own size If try to
 make the grocer give me groceries
 free and a chromo besides the busi-
 ness will not be a good one for him
 and he will have to give it up. Op
 the other hand, if l habitually pay
 every bill without looking at it, or
 having my wife look at it, one or the
 other. they won't say I have a soft heart. but they will say I have a
 soft head. Now that same thing ap- plies as regards the government and
 the care of corporations. The gov ernment is bound to do justice to it.
 it is bound to see that there is an , ample reward on the money invested 1 in the railroad. in the Standard Oil ] or whatever il is: because the people l are not in the business for their 1 health. they've got to have a reward, 1 that is q matter of justice and they 1 are entitled to pay for their work. i 1 find that the very poorest job done ] for me is done by the man who is not himself profiting by the job. So 1 the government must see that justice 1 is done to the corporations. but the government must see in return that l justice is done by the corporations. 1 It must protect it's own citizens, and l that is why I believe. even if the big ! corporation is behaving itself. it must i be superintended and controlled by | the government, but because it is 1 powerful and great I don't mean il ! should be hampered. on the contrary l I favor it as long as it acts honestly | and fairly by the stockholders and 1 that means that there isn't to be any i water stocks. there shan't be what in l New York is known as cutting the ! melon" That it shall be fair with 1 itself, with it's wage workers. that it 1 shall be honest in it's dealings with l it's rivals and finally, honest with the | public, the consumers. As long as it behaves itself l wouldn't do anything 1 to hurt it. In other words, l would 1 make the standard apply to any size, l but if it is big it has got to be put 1 under the control of the government 1 because it's potentialities are so ] great"
 Coming to a matter of local inter est Colonel Roosevelt said:
 1 Now 1 am greatly interested, as l you know. in the irrigation policy, and there is something I want to say of immediate interest to you in this
 valley but which applies throughout
 all the regions of the United States where the government has undertaken
 to help the home makers by joining and doing the work of irrigation. The first essential is that there shall be ]
 ernment and the farmer and the
 ranchmen; that there shall be a 1 genuine cooperation between them. 1 Where in any case the expense proves
 to be greatly beyond what the gov
 ernment experts forecast then there
 should be a corresponding extension 1 of the time for the annual payments 1 for repaying the government And if I am elected president l shall see i to it that there is no change of gov 1 ernmental policy as regards any ir- rigation scheme without it is to be personally submitted to the president and without its being put before the people concerned so they shall have the amplest opportunity to be heard upon it Now, on the other hand friends. there must be no repudiation
 of the obligation by the people them
 selves I will go as far as 1 can
 to help the cause of the home maker
 the cause of the farmer l will dc
 everything 1 can to make the con
 ditions of payment by him easy
 but he in his turn must help me and
 must see to it that there isn't dol lar repudiated on the part of tht farmer
 reduction in part of common and gTievous complaint the colone [ believed might be brought about:
 There has been a great deal O complaint. and much just complain
 about the high cost of living, and il