New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
ICOLONEL RECITES
POLITICAL CREED
Ex.president Roosevelt, In Chill,
Outlines Recent History OF
US. as He Sees II.

Roosevelt to-day addressed one Of the
most scholarly audiences he has faced
since he came TO South America. HIS
topic was The Democratic Movement In
a Republic" and he spoke before the
Oldest Institution for higher education on
the continent the University Of Chill.
His review Of the democratic move
ment In the United States was confined
mainly 10 the twelve years which nave
elapsed since he first became President
During this period he said. the political
movement in the United States has repre-
sented chiefly the effort to put into actual
and concrete performance the principles
which in the abstract all intelligent men
admit to be true.
'In barest outline" he said. 'our prob
lens we're 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 me governmental power
when thus restored so as to make us an
industrial and economic as wei as d
political democracy"
Colonel Roosevelt explained his views :
regarding the judiciary and big busi-
ness" During the last half OF the nine
teenth century he asserted, the leaders
of reaction in the United States, political
and financial alike, gradually grew TO
, recognize in the judiciary their most
powerful potential ally" The judges, he
said, by their training and the aloofness
OF their position on the bench have little
real knowledge of or sympathy with the 6
lives and needs OF the ordinary hard D.
working toiler. The judges. he declared.
were in reality irresponsible lawmakers,
| with a strong natural bias against every Z
species of reform legislation for social
and industrial relief and fair play"
He repeated his campaign declarations
that big business has come to stay
and that the problem was 80 to con-
troll It and supervise It as TO prevent
there being any improper advantage
taken by big business at the expense Of
small business"
Speaking OF the Republican party, Col
cnel Roosevelt said: There was in the
United States an historical party. the one
to which then belonged, which II true
to its origin would have championed,
without exception, every single one OF
the REFORMS WHICH tHc IIoeEesSlNeS haNo
championed."
Must Advance with Caution.
Among other things said by Colonel
Roosevelt was that there could be no per-
nanent advance II such advance went be-
yond what at the time humanity was
capable OF receiving Therefore. radical
! reformers," he said, who also possess
/
good by pushing the forward movement
| up TO but not beyond the limit which can
at the moment receive popular accept
ance."
Continuing along this line. he said:
! "A generation or two later or a century
A, or two later. when the people have ad-
vanced. it is necessary for the -eformers
again TO lead them further forward-and
in such case the spiritual heirs OF the
men who bitterly opposed the original
reform when It was reform are 10 be
| found zealously championng the same
reform when years and events have made
| It buwark OF reaction. Under these
circumstances Jealous radicals who do
not understand the past are apt TO let
| their zeal to overthrow or modify the
existing system make them unjust to the
men who founded the system. and, what
| is of more practical Importance, they are
apt to play into the hands OF the reac-
tionaries by championing reforms so e1-
treme that II the effort to realize them Is
made II invites and insures reaction.
I'm the early days Of the nineteenth
century, when government almost every
where was in the hands OF the few, the
rights of the many could best be secured
and intrenched abuses oyerthrown by re-
stricting the use OF the powers Of gov
ernment and by claiming for every man
| the exercise OF an almost unrestricted
| individuallsm.
The leaders OF tn, democratic move
ment in the United States at that time
! had championed these two principles. A
/ century later the growth Of the country
in wealth and industry had resulted IN
the creation Of conditions which conclus-
| lively showed that in order TO achieve the
! objects which the early democratic lead
ers had at heart. Il was necessary 10 re-
verse the processes by which these early
democratic leaders thought the objects =
could be achieved
To Control Individual Action.
1T was necessary 10 increase the power
OF the government and TO control indi-
vidual ection in order to secure the rights
OF the many against the enormous power
amassed in finance ard industry by
few men operating through a system OF
uncontrolled individualism.
THE conditions OF modern life make II
essential that men should work with con-
! centrated capital. There must be big
| business in this era OF world business, In
this era OF steam and electricity. Yet
very great evils have come through per-
mtting the uncontrolled concentration Of
| big business in the hands OF a few men.
whose enormous wealth became formida-
BILE to the body polite because il was in
| entirely irresponsible hands.
THE mock radicals, both the sincere.
usually the rural, tory. and the man who
| wanted 10 make believe that he was a
| radical without accomplishing anything,
attempted TO meet this situation by
| breaking up all big business units. This
was attempted not merely as regards mo-
nopolies but as regards every great cor
poration OF such size as TO get the maxi
mum OF efficiency.
| I'VE are not socialists. for we do not
| believe in class consciousness, and we as
| little believe in mere doctrinaire dog
matism about colectivism as we believe
in mere doctrinaire dogmatism about in
| diyidualisn, Rut we do helleya that TIA