The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-20

l WI itooseVelt declared tho r,o,, responsible for the management of 'Ne company insist on their so,esb anu autocratic rights to manaqe tbo o'S'ness E. as they seem best and that It 1ad been conducted exclusively for lneir profit without regard to tbe
 I-nls of the public or the waoe workers. ~ "'9e
 Referring to the violence accom. ianying the strike. "certairtv nm tbo part of the employees and nronabIv on the part of the agents of the e,n. pioyor,' he declared:
 such lawIessness and brutal vio. Ience must be put down bv the strono land of the law and obedience to tbe law must be eXacted not as q favor but as a right.
 Everyone should belong to tbo party of aw and order But there can be no permanent reign of law and order unless it is based on ano results on the reign of justice. If is 1he duty of the state. the duty of tba government to put down rioting. law iessness and violence, whether by rhe strikers, or agents of the corpora tions.
 The testimony taken before tho congressional committee shows that the managers and stockholders of Inc Colorado Fuel and Iron company have not the sli1htest sense of tboirI real obiieations to their employees and to the community at large. This testimony shows as clearly as the| exposures in connection with the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad the foly and worse than folly of those who believe that there must be no overseeing as our enemies call it-no policing of big industries or big business, by the government
 When employers show themselves as caIlous to public needs, as short siahted and as greedy of their own profit without regard to the welfare of the wage-worker or of the people lat large, as las been the ease in the Colorado Fuel and Iron company and the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railway company; it is essential that the people of the country shall be able through the exercise of their collective power 10 remedy dhe wrong doing."
 The colonel said he believed in full l recognition of the corporation as well las the trade union but did not bc .lieve in imposing responsibility upon unions. in such a way as to cause them 10 lose the power they have.
 II do not believe" he said, "in 1 trading power for responsibility, or if that form Of word seems objection l able. then to insist that with the growth of power there shall go hana in hand growth of responsibility 70 that. for example. the union that has the right to elect some of the dir tors in corporation (and l earnestly 1 wish that such provisions for the election Of directors could he brought about) or a union that has som" power in connection with shop dis cipline, must accept responsibilities ] to the government, 10 the capitalists. and to the public at large We ought not to be content with any solution which leaves labor all on one side and capital on the other'
 The colonel emphasized his heliaf that every wise employer or corpor ation should recognize the riaht of men working for wages to bargain collectively. whenever and so far a they desire, and in the form which they desire
 'I believe no less emphaticaiiy in the right of non-union man 10 wor'S side by side with a union man. he said. I will no more stand for tyran- Thy by labor union than for tyranny aeainst labor union But the go called open shop in which there is di crimination against union men is lone of the most vicious types Of closed shops.
 We must turn the laborer into a capitalist. giving him snare in the profits. and management of the in- dustry We must give, not nominal ly but genuinely. the wage workers the same right to combine which business men obtain through corHor- ations"
 Col Roosevelt. in touching on the tariff question. referring to the Ger man tariff commission as a real non-partisan business commission cf| continuing action concerned in husi nesslike fashion with the welfare of| the wage worker and of the farmer no less than of the business men He asserted that it was "a reflection upon the good sense and ability of our rolitical leaders that they do not now put through such a program
 
 Aeufe lndidestior.