New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-02
MURPHY HELPS
T. R, in JERSEY
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where he was to speak. The Colonel's
progress was through lanes of applaud
ing humanity.
At the armory 10000 persons awaited
him, and it was with difficulty that Pc
lice and militia officers made way for
him TO the officers room of the 1st Reg
iment, where he was received by AdJu-
tant General John d. Frazier.
Greeting the assembled officers as
"men who are actually starting the
work of preparedness, Colonel Roose-
welt declared he did not believe in
weasel words or weasel deeds" and de-
clared universal military service as the
most democratic of institutions.
In the matter of preparedness he
said, 81 don't believe in letting George
do it. ! don't believe in letting the
patriotic employer do his duty by
sending his clerk to fight for him. If he
is not too old he can prepare as well
as the clerk. If he is too old his son
can prepare in his place, sharing the
same difficulties and the same dog
tent"
Speech in -Four Parts.
In the main auditorium the arrange
ment was such that but about one
fourth could hear the Colonel from
any one position on the bandstand. lie
therefore divided his speech in four
parts, which led Ex-Governor Murphy
to make the remark quoted above.
The Colonel's declaration for fair
play for both labor and capital and
his denunciation of the wealthy man
who void exploit his employees as
blood brother of the demagogue who,
because of malignant hate for the
well-to-.o. would destroy all prosper
itv. went well. So did his declaration
for an adequate tariff, but his great
est hit was when, repeating the argu-
ments used at Kansas City and 81
Louis, he touched on preparedness
The Colonel said. in part:
Il am glad to be able TO speak AT
this industrial exposition when com
memorates the 250th anniversary OF tne
founding of Newark. For over cen
fury and a half after that Date lnls
country of ours was overWhelming
agricultural in character. FOR the laSI
half century its industrial deVelopmeh'
has grown by leaps and bounds. New
ark typifes to a peculiar degree what
our country is growing 20 be. mere
fore. both the causes OF hope and the
causes of fear for our national future
are al work with full strength IN this
city .L
much other classes contribute to our
rational welfare, II yet remains true
that the whole structure rests on the
men who do the work of industry ana
men who do the work Of agriculture
The farmers, big and little, and their
hired men; and the men engaged IN
business, including those who lurhlsh
the capital for, those who turnlsh the
management for, and those Wno' IoI
wages. do the actual work OF the lac
tories and the railroads and all olher
Industrial agencies these are the great
classes who compose the bulk OF our
neople and whose welfare IS aDsolulel$
fundamental, not merely TO national
welfare, but TO national existence.
Warns of Exhaustion.
"Of recent years we have grown more
and more 10 realize that as mere
business population. while the welfare
Of each is primarily his own concern
vet II must also be TO a large extent
The concern of all of US. As regards
farming. for instance. If the soil Is eN-
bausted, then the people who draw
their living from the SOL VIII DecoW+
impoverished, and then the whole So
cial structure will topple. Ii IS the
business of the whole community 10
see that the soil that has been titled
for fifty years is more productive and
not less productive at the end - that
time. IL is our business 70 help the
men who dwell in the open country m
such fashion that not only their WORK
be more productive but their lives. and
especially the lives Of their women and
children, be led in full and satisfactory
fashion.
"The same thing applies here in in
dustry. IL is essential that industry
shall be in the highest degree produc-
tive. that is-that there shall be great
efficiency and. as a necessary corollary.
the ample rewards for great leadership
without which such efficiency cannot
be accomplished. 10 is no less essen.
tial that justice shall 90 hand IN hand
with the efficiency. and that the great
rewards paid 10 the captains shall b.
paid, not at the expense OF those who