Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-09-20
ROOSEVELT TALKS
To PROGRESS|VES
POINTED or COLORADO TROU.
PLIES AS pRoOF WILSON
~ 4 FAILURE.
DISCUSSES BIC BUSINESS
Calls Attention to Fact That Cundi.
tiOns Have Changed Greatly
Ia the Last Twenty.
five Years.

o. Associated prsss
WICHITA. Rhs. Sept 90 Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt addressing
q statewide meeting OF Progressive.
here today elucidated his position
on important subjects of legislation
lle discussed the relations OF capt.
tai and labor az some length. point
ing % the Colorado labor troubles
as illustrating the failure of nation
al and state governments To- enact
and enforce effective laws. aud point
ed 20 the New York. New Haven q
Hartford railroad scandal as AN CA-
ample of capital gone wrong iu Tue
absence of proper governmental COD.
troll
Business he assterted, o. entitled
20 It's profits. and We must learn
10 accept the principle of combina
tlOns OF capital as OF the highest
economic value. But this acceptance
he insisted. must carry with u a fair
share OF the profit 10 the employo
The industrial situation has greatly
changed In the last twenty-five years
he said. for whereas at the beginning
of the period mentioned only about
% per cent OF the people were cm-
ployes. AZ this time he said half OF
them live on their vases he quot
ed pooley' In illustration 'Iefier-
son was good man." said DooleN
hut ho lived before the days ~
open plumbing
congressman erred ip defeating
reform measures proposed by pro
gressiyes, the speaker asserted. men
iioning the Murdoch trust bills. Tho
tariff commission bill the federal
employment bureau bin and the bill
for the abolition Of child labor. Gs
measures which hc said were blocked
hy opponents of the progressive.
This opposition. ho said. omphasll
cd 'tho need nf our demand Tor 20
reform of the political machiuor.
notably the reform of tho prosidoU.
tial nominating system Expanding
the labor theme Col Roosevelt
said
There must br full participation
iu the industry of the three big fac.
tor. adequate capital. successful
management aud highly paid and
Mthly efficient labor There must
bo mIl and uuErudrius recognition
~ labor's rghis iu industry. and
or the other hand mo- less rcr1ru'-
tion hy labor ot its responsibility
io output and ii- share Boo tlr CO...
sponsibilIty 90 the public Tor sta.
hlliiy and peace iu industry
N0t only must we now insist ON
certain types OF Legislation hut No|
must take the lead 900 educating the
public BOO educating our people ls
whole because there can boo nu D..
li-Iation until We have au intelligent
and aroused public opinion often
fuC difficulties come not -O WU.|
from "a conflict between right aDI
wrong t. from conflict between one
rElt and another
ON tHe other hand Uc often Ha..
u face situation Boz which both
sides have done wrong although one
Ha done more wrong fIU rus other
lu such cases government HutIur'
fic should interfere doing impair
raI Justice to both and eAactiu
IH 'oe from both
iu relation 90 the latter. Col
Roosevelt cited thc case 1f conditions
m Colorado Zoo r0uucctiu with the
strike of the colorado Fuel and Iron
COMPANY
These condition.. Boo asserted
arc pr.mar.I, due to our failure a.
o. nation .foIowlnr the failure o.
tHo people of Colorado as state.
20 provide the kind OF remedy aus
t0 adopt the kind OF attitude that
adturat. and that all 0f us WuD
feel as d0 are endesv0rinE to briue
home tD tho uatinuaI conscience and
to tho national understanding lu
the case of the Colorado Fuel and
iron company 800 SEQ the aboslu'e
nslatiou of the principle of indus
trial democracy
col Roosevelt declared 'hc mon
responsible for ino management tf
tho company insist or their selfish
and 1uiurratir rights f1 manage rho
business as thoy seen best and that
b. had been conducted exclusively lnr
their profit without regard to tho
rights of tho public or the sage
workers
Referring 10 tho violence accom-
ranvInf tho strike certainly on the
part of 'ho employees and probably
on the part of tho agents Of 'Ie
employer" he declared
Such lawlessness and hruisl rlo
ieuce must boz puf down hy the sirone
hand of the law and obedience 90
the law must be oNacted not as a
favor hui as q right
Everyone should belong ~ tha
party OF Law and order but 'here
\ can DO no permanent reign of la
kind order unless u D. based ON ani
esulfs on the reign ~ Justice n De-
o dutv of the state the duty ~