The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-02

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
TO NEWARK AUDIENCE
In Ohasactcristtc Fashion, Tells Tlem
Deeds, Not Words, Are the
Things That Count.
Newark. N. j.. June l.-Colonsl
Theodore Roosevelt returning from
his Western trip. stopped OF at New
ark tonight and was given a tremsn-
dous ovation. He delivered an adj
dress to $4,000 persons In the First
Regiment Armory that was mainly
devoted to the tariff and reciprocity.
Text Of Speech.
Colonel Rcosevehs speech follows:
Il am glad to be able to speak ut
this Industrial exposition, which COM
memorates the 250th anniversary of
the founding Of Newark. For over q
century and a half after that date
this country OF ours was overwhelm-
ingly agricultural in character For
the last half century its industrial de.
velopment has grown by leaps and
Wounds. Newark typifles to a peculiar
degree what our country 10 growing to
be. Therefore. both the causes OF
hope and the causes of fear for our
national future are at work with full
strength in this city. When all ID said
and done as to how much other classes
contribute to our national welfare, IL
yet remains true that the whole struc-
ture rests on the men who do the
work OF industry and the men who do
the work OF agriculture. The farm
ers. big and little, and their hired
men, and the men engaged in bust
ness including those who furnish the
capital for. those who furnish the
management for, and those who for
wages do the actual work OF the fac
torres and the railroads and all other
industrial agencies--these are the two
great classes who compose the bulk
OF our people and whose welfare is
absolutely fundamental. not merely to
national welfare, but to national ex-
istence.
OF recent years we have grown
more and more to realize that as a
mere business population, while the
welfare of each is primarily his own
concern. yet 1t must also be to a large
extent the concern of all OF US. As
regards farming. for instance. II the
soii is exhausted. then the people who
draw their living from the soil will
become impoverished and then the
whole social structure will topple. 1t
is the business OF the whole COM
munity to see that the soil that has
been titled for fifty years is more pro-
ductive and not less productive at the
end OF that time. 1t is our business to
aeip the men who dwell in the open
country In such fashion that not only
shall their work be more productive.
but their lives. and especially the
lives of their women and children be
led In full and satisfactory fashion.
Applies ~ Well to Industry.
The same thing applies here in In
dustry. II is essential that industry
shall be In the highest degree pro-
ductive--that Is, that there shall be
great efficiency. and, as a necessary
,corrollary, the ample rewards for great
leadership, without which such eff
cheney cannot be achieved II is no
less essential that justice shall 60
hand In hand with the efficiency, and
that the great rewards paid 10 ths
captains shall be paid. not at the ex-
pense of those who work under them
or of the public which they serve. but
as q just recognition OF the fact that
their activities have been to the bene-
fit of the public, and that the reward
OF these activities has been. with a
measurable approximation to justice.
shared with and among the people
who work for them.
unfortunately. there are many OF
our people who have refused to con-
slider more than one side of this prob
lem. It can never be rightly apc
preached or satisfactorily solved I'm.
less full consideration Is given both
sides. unless there fs a real attempt
to combine common sense with a love
uf fair play, There are some men
who talk and act as IL all that is neces-
sHry Is that kind of efficiency which
Produces an enormous Immediate re-
suit and great prosperity for the few
without regard TO the fact that ii Gre
/ ates. among many others, ranking
sense Of injustice. which is bound in
the future to work harm. On the
other hand there are number O!
take advantage of Missionaries. and
both these classes both talk and act
as II men who did not receive their
fair share of prosperity could some
how be benefited by having the pros
perity destroyed. so that they would
receive no share at all.
Both types. the type OF prosperous
man who gains his prosperity by ex-
plotting his fellows, and the type oil
unprosperous man who seeks to graft.
| ~ his anger by wrecking the pros
perity of others. are equally unde.
sirable from the standpoint of the
public IS whole. Moreover. morally
they are really OF the same type Each
denounees the views OF the other. and
yet his own view Is merely that Others
changed in form, but Identical in es-
sence. The arrogance OF the rich man
who exploits and Expresses his fellow
who is less well off and the malignant
envy andshatred with which a certain
type of agitator regards the man who
Is better off. although In appearance
opposite views are fundamentals
merely diverse manifestations of the
same evil spirit.
THE arrogance felt by the unscrup-
uious. man of means toward his less
favored Brother and the envious ha-
tired felt by the INSCRIPTIONS man OF
poverty toward his brother who Ia bet
ter off are merely two sides Of the
evil shield. Arrogance Is paneled on
one side and envy on the other. bu,
the shield itself 10 the shield Of selfish
disregard OF his fellow
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