The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-18
ROOSEVELT ST|RS UP
MONTANA PATRIOTISM
INSPIRING SPEECH AT BILLINGS
ROUSES HUGE AUDIENCE
TO HIGH PITCH
SQUARE DEAL FOR FARMER
Injustices Must Be Remedied, Declares
Former President, and Action by
State and Federal Governments
Needed.-Farmers Misled

Billings.-In speech vibrant witt
intense Americanism and filled witt
common "hoss" sense which he said
the American people must use tC
solve their problems, ex-President The
odore Roosevelt reused an audience OF
nearly 10000 persons at the Auditori.
UNI at Billings Saturday afternoon
October 5, to pitch of enthusiasm the
like of which has seldom been wit
messed in Montana. At almost every
sentence as the colonel drove home
the doctrines of 100 per cent Ameri-
canism, the applause was deafening
and at the beginning and end of his
speech the colonel was given an ova-
ton.
Among the telling points made by
the former president were that this is
to be a nation and not n polyglot
boarding house; that there is room in
America for only one flag and only
one language; that we must put this
war through quickly and to knock
out; that the way to avoid war is to
based not on sex but on service; that
the profiteer and the loafer should
both be put in the front trenches and
! that every man who breaches class ha-
tired, greed or violence is a traitor.
The Farmers Problems.
| Colonel Roosevelt discussed particu-
larly questions of interest to the farm
ers of the northwest, pointing out some
of their just causes of complaint and
the remedies which should be applied
which remedies, he said, must be
through state and federal action. Con-
tinuing, he said:
I'VE should have federal supervision
and control of elevators and FIGURING
mills, establish terminal elevators at
division points, and either federal or
state grading of grain samples. We
will extend the federal loan banking
system so as to make it possible for
the farmer to get money for legitimate
purposes at low rates of interest. Cap
plause.) I believe in industrial and
agricultural and not political co-opera
tions. Organization among the farm
ers themselves-the kind Illinois has
has resulted in the farmers owning
their own grain elevators-and they
own them by an association which has
got Democrats and Republicans and |
Socialists and everybody else in if. |
and it is not going into politics, and /
emphatically disbelieve in any party |
and most emphatically, if it calls it |
self a non-partisan party (applause), |
which organizes single class against |
other classes and seeks to appropriate |
political control in its own union. I |
would object just as strongly whether
such organization claimed to be in the
interest of townspeople or country
people, business men or working men
or professional men.
81 speak with feeling on this subject
because so keen was my uneasineSs
over the injustice and the discomfort,
even greater than the injustice in con-
nection with the northwestern farm
ers, that when the Nonpartisan league
first appeared j was inclined to well
come it, and believe in it, and | wished
20 cooperate with it. 1t was with
rare reluctance that 1 was obliged to
come to the conviction that the lead
crship that controlled it was of such
q character as to threaten this coun-
Try with evils analogous to those of
i,oshevism and 1. w. W.ism. Final
~, almost exactly a year ago, the
meeting of the league in Minneapolis
was turned into regular ghost dance
of the Huns within our own gates, and
it became evident to me that insofar II
rs they dared, the most prominent
leaders of the league were seeking to
acquire power by playing the game
of sedition and dislOyalty, by attempt
ing to inflame the spirit of greed ,
and of class hatred.
Good Men Miaied.
Nov, don't misunderstood me.
believe that there are many thousands, [
=, great majority of the men who have =
Joined the Nonpartisan league, and / I
i,elieve at least large minority of |
Inc |. W. w. who are good, well-mean- I
ing men, but who are misled, men who 2
feel they have been wronged and who /
feel that they have not anywhere else /
TO go to, and I am not content with c
the organization. and our 5
people here must not be merely con- n
ient with denouncing the organization c
They have got to actively see that the b
real wrongs that exist ARE remedied. S
Applause.)
"And the multitude Of honest and n
fDTlS0L men III Lue aNDHl'bfiiSdi iedSuc
md the many thousands of good mis- :
nformed. misled men In the /. w. w. 4
must have somewhere where they =
an go and believe that their wrongs :,
giII be remedied. ] say that as en- ;,
,hatically as possible, but ] also say :
nat under their present leadership .
ne two organizations can only bring :,
. this country damage such as Boil !,
lJevism has brought to Europe. Gap :,
sause.) :;
Now, When any man makes a state u
rent like that, he must he prepared to 81
s,ck it up. A. regards the l. w. W. "
have only got 10 refer you to the Al
erdict In Chicago, Of the jury of +,
americans, who found that the leaders ri
# that organization had preached and o,
'racticeA sedlfIon, nj
Here N Montana the l. w. w. be- is
anne a mApaea 10 mining and timber, IL
nd ! haye\beeH told by some of the 81
armers they became menace to tt
hem, md Vhs federal authorities b,
hould deal dfssdeaIly with such pro q
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