Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-07-16

States That the Present Admins
tration Is Pursuing Course That
Prevents the Existence of Prosper
lty-Would Put Stop to the Mis-
deeds of Business Men Who Do
Wrong and Also to the Marrying
and Persecution of Honest Business
Men Who Do Right.
Pittsburgh, July 1.-Following is
the speech which Col Theodore Roose-
welt delivered at the Pennsylvania
Progressive Conference:
l am glad to speak for such men as
Clifford Pinchot for senator and Dean
Lewis for governor. These men by
their lives have honored the republic.
1t would be supreme good fortune to
have them in public position for al
ready in private position they have
been among the best and most useful
public servants.
Moreover / am glad to speak for
the second time at a meeting held
under the auspices of the Progressive
Service of Pennsylvania, first, be-
cause Pennsylvania has taken an ad-
vanced position in fighting for the
Progressive Party and for the princi-
pies which that Party represents, and
second, because the most striking,
and l am tempted to say, most i'm.
portant of those principles is both
symbolized by and embodied in the
fart +hof MO hava roada Drnorao
sive Service an integral and and es-
sential portion of the working machin-
cry of the Progressive Party. This is
one of the ways in which we make
1t evident that our promises are to be
made good by our performances; that
our platform was solemn pledge,
| contract of obligation and that the
| planks 1t contains were neither put in
| merely to catch votes before election
| and to be cheerfully repudiated after
election nor put in with such reckless
disregard of feasibility that the prom.
ises they contained were certain to
be falsified the moment the attempt
was made to reduce them to practice.
| Our whole fight centers around the
great principle Of social and indus.
trial justice. Our platform was a
veritable charter of democracy. Each
promise in it set forth some principle
of conduct which itself represented
one method of achieving our great
central purpose.
We are devoted to things, not
names. We are not fighting for re-
venge nor rancor nor to crafty grudges.
When we oppose certain public men
we oppose them merely because they
embody and represent evil principles,
or else because their practices have
been such that they cannot be trusted
to stand in good faith for those great
and vital principles of public morality
which are essential to the permanent
well-being Of our people. We wish
to see these vital principles incor-
porated into our governmental system
and become part of the habit of
thought and habit OF action among
our people. We will gladly work
with any men who will them
selves with open sincerity work for
these principles, provided that they
are men of such character as to justi.
fly confidence in their good faith. In
this spirit we ask all good citizens to
cooperate with us when, as here in
Pennsylvania, we hold aloft the flag OF
good citizenship in the fight to trans
late these sound and lofty principles
| fntn MI nj To- -,
fight IT is equally necessary both
to cleave steadfastly to a lofty ideal
ism and also to show hard-headed com
mon sense In trying to remove this
. idealism from the domain of words
into the domain of deeds. We realize
that mere material well-being is new
er enough in itself, but only as foun
: dation for higher morality, a moral
: ity of justice and fair dealing ant
spiritual aspiration; we realize alst
that material well-being is absolutely
essential because without 1t as a foun
dation, there will be nothing what
ever on which to build the lofty super
structure of higher life. We stant
for justice to all and therefore we fee
bound to work with heart and brali
for that material prosperity the IacI
of which will prevent our doing Jus
tice to anyone. We do not intend I,
let the business man of brains US,
these brains to the detriment elthe
. of the men who work with or undo
him, or of the men who are his rivals
or of the general public; but we wlsl
to shape conditions so that II he act
squareIy he will succeed, and this no
only as a matter of justice to him, blu
because his success Is factor o
prime Importance to the success 0
waae-worker and farmer alike. w
wish to pass prosperity around AM
; for that very reason we desire tina
there may be " existence prosperlt.
, sufficient to pass around.
? The present national administrator
Is pursuing course that prevents tn