Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-19
ROOSEVELT BEGINS
RAPID KANSAS TOUR
Addresses Statewide Pro-
gressive Meeting at Wichita
on Capital and Labor.
DEN0UNcES NINE OWNERS
FOR COLORADO STRIKE
Announces in Letter That Republic
an Candidates in Certain States
Favor Him for 1916 Leader.

Favor Him for 1916 Leader.
WICHITA, Kan, September 19.-Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, reaching here to-
day, expected to begin a rapid tour
Through Kansas in the interests Of the
progressive party.
| Three addresses have been scheduled,
one here today. another in Hutchinson
tonight and a third in Kansas City,
han. Monday night Further speech
es in the state have been forbidden
by the coloners physician From Kan
sas City. Kan, Mr.. Roosevelt will go
to Lincoln, Neb., to speak
| 1t Is planned to ask Roosevelt to
make short speeches in several towns
through which the special carrying the
party including o. K. Davis, secretary
OF the progressive national committee,
was to pass. but 1t was believed these
requests would be refused.
| Col. Roosevelt, addressing state
\ wide meeting OF progresslves here to-
day, elucidated his position on impor-
tant subjects Of legislation. He dis
cussed the relations Of capital and Ia
Dor at some length, pointing to the
Colorado labor troubles as illustrating
the failure Of national and state gov
fecttve laws. and pointed to the New
York, New Haven and Hartford l>il-
road scandal as an example of capital
gone wrong in the absence of proper
governmental control
Business, he asserted, Is entitled to
Its profits, and We must learn to &C
| cept the principle of combina tions OF
capital as of the highest economic
value. But this acceptance, he insist
| ed. must carry with it q fair share OF
the profit Of the employe. The indus.
| trial situation has greatly changed In
| the last twenty-five years, he said, for
! whereas at the beginning OF the period
mentioned only about rs per cent OF
he said, half Of them live on theii
| wages.
Reforms Defeated.
| Congressman erred in defeating re-
form measures proposed by progress
ives, the speaker asserted, mentioning
| the Murdoch trust bills, the tariff com.
mission bill, the federal employment
bureau bill and the bill for the aboli.
| ton Of child labor as measures which
he said were blocked by opponents Of
This opposition, he said, emphasized
the need of our demand for a reform
| OF the political machinery, notably the
reform OF the presidential nominating
system"
Col Roosevelt cited the case of condf.
lions in Colorado in connection with the
strike of the Colorado Fuel and Iror
company.
these conditions" he asserted, "ar,
primarily due to our failure as a natior
following the failure Of the people o.
colorado as a state), to provide the kline
Of remedy and to adopt the kind of at
tttude that I advocate, and that all o
US who feel as do are endeavoring t,
bring home to the national conscienc
and to the national understanding. Il
the case Of the Colorado Fuel and Iror
Company we see the absolute negatior
Of the principle of industrial democ
racy."
I Denounces Violence.
Referring to the violence accompany.
ing the strike, certainly on the par
Of the employees and probably on thu
tpart OF the agents Of the employer
he declared:
| Such lawlessness and brutal violenc,
must be put down by the strong hant
OF the law and obedience to the Law
must be exacted not as a favor, but a.
la right.
THE testimony taken before the con.
lgresslonal committee shows that the
managers and stockholders of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company have not
the slightest sense of their real obiga-
tons to their employees and to the COM
munity at large. This testimony shows
as clearly as the exposures in connec.
ton with the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad the folly and worse
than folly Of those who believe that
There must be no oversee.ng-or as our
lenemies call it-no policing Of big in.
ldustries or big business by the govern
Iment.
When employers show themselves as
Jealous to public needs. as short-sighted
land as greedy Of their own profit with
tout regard to the welfare Of the wage
been the case in the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company and the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railway Company
it is essential that the people of the
Icountry shall be able through the exer-
else of their collective power to remedy
the wrongdoin4.
The colonel emphasized his belief
that every wise employer or corpora
men working for wages to bargain
collectively, whenever and so far as
they desire. and in the form which
they desire.
| 81 believe NO less emphatfcally in the
right OF a non-union man to work side
! by side with a union" he said. 81
will no more stand for tyranny by
labor union than for tyranny against
shop in which there Is discrimination
against union men. Is one of the most
vicious types of closed shops"
For Roosevelt in 1915.
BALTIMORE. September 19.-Edward
C. Darlington, jr., republican nominee
for the United States Senate, has made
| public a letter under date OF August
| "a from Col. Theodore Roosevelt,