Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-27
SAYS
 HE IS FULFILLING
 L|NCOLKS LEGACY
Tells Children He is Trying to Restore Principles Which All Men Know Are Right

dore Roosevelt today addressed one of the most scholarly audiences he has faced since he came to South America. His topic was The Democratic Move ment in a Republic" and he spoke be- fore the oldest institution for higher education on the continent, the Uni. versity of Chile.
 The university was founded by the Jesuits in 1743. Col. Roosevelt re. minded his audience tliat although Chile, as a nation. was younger than the United States of America. it's co. lonial history was far longer. "Chile's history" he said. "as known to peo- pie of European stock, began three quarter or a century before the Puri- tans landed at Plymouth Rock.
 His review Of the Democratic Move, ment in the United States was con fined mainly to the twelve years since he first became President. During the period, he said: The political move ment in the United States has repre- sented chiefly the effort to put into actual and concrete performance the principles which in the abstract all in- telligent men admit to be true.
 ''In barest outline" be said. "our problems were in the first place to restore the government to the people so as to make the fact correspond with the theory, and in the second place and even more important to use the governmental power when thus re. tored so as to make an industrial and economic as well as political democ- racy.
 During the last dozen years the political movement in the United States has represented chiefly the eff. fort to put into actual and concrete performance the principles which in the abstract all intelligent men admit to be true. It has represented the eff. fort to make the great republic of the north a genuine democracy. It is the history of a democratic movement in a republic When twelve years ago became president, it was as the representative of party which when founded under the lead of Abraham Lincoln had been the genuine party of popular rights of radical democracy. The rank and file of the party re- the machine leaders, who controlled the organization, had grown false to them. The movement with which dur ing the last twelve years ] have as- sociated has consisted merely in ap. plying to the conditions of the present day, in actual fact, the principles of the founder of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, and in bringing 10 the task before us the purposes net only of Abraham Lincoln, but of Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party. The political and financial leaders of the old parties still paid lip service to these prin, ciples and purposes, but it was lip service merely; and these leaders resented as party disloyalty the effort t0 translate into deeds the exact words which they were only too glad to use as long as they remained words only; I believe that the effort to which I and those associated with me are committed, is in its essence chief ly an eftc-tt to turn words into deeis and that il is ellphaficaliy a move r,cut in tls interest of the plain pee pie, in tcc interest If the raIS aud alc of botl me Ult partiCs, as aciir,' tla political an1 fin1nctal u,aeLiucs :rlch have domiuetn1 them 1He pow CT og names is great; We of the new movement care nothing for them whereas We care infinitely for the facts which The names syrbolize; and one Of the chief obstacles Tn cur patl ia the adroitness with which the lead, CTS Of reaction have used loyalty to q dead name as a fetish wherewith to keep the rank and file of thelr follow CTS in line against their own living in terests.
 In our own movement during the last ten years we have seen OH a small scale the exhibition of all the pas sions an dmeansness and follies which were witnessed on a large scale in such movements as the French Reyo lution, in such movements as the struggle which brought about the abolition of slavery in the United States. The zeslots of an unwise and extreme radicaism were almost as un healthy allies as were the hypocrite' vho professed allegiance to the for
 ward movement merely to advance
 their own fortunes. On the othel hand. the uitra-reaetionaries who se
 their faces against all reform played | into the hands of these zeaiots ant I rendered doubly difficult the task O the same radicals. It is these same radicals alone who are in reality thu l wise progressiYes. They wish to sub stitute social consciousness-the con
 sciousness that recognizes the duty o
 the individual towards all his fellow tor a malign class consciousness
 whether preached in the interest O
 the working man or practiced in sth | interest of tue capitalist The reaction ary who upholds an ancient abus tends to excite a feeling which wishe
 to destroy all that exists. whethe good or evil; and the zeslots who i | hie assaunlts confounds good and evi