The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-10-28
Sayings of
theodore Roosevelt


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in the interest of the poor man as
such, nor yet in the interest of the
rich man as such; but in the interest
of the law-abiding man, rich or poor"
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The true friend of property, the
true conservative, is he who insists
that property shall be the servant and
not the master of the commonwealth;
who insists that the creature of
and not the master of the man who
made it. The citizens of the United
States must effectively control the
mighty commercial forces which they
have themselves called into being"
Capitalist and wage-worker alike
should honestly endeavor to look at
any matter from the others stand
point, with a freedom on the n
hand from the contemptib,e AFRO
gance which looks down upon the
man of less means, and, on the c;..or,
from the no less contemplate envy.
jealousy and rancor which hates IN
other because he is better off. Each
quality is the supplement of the otheI.
and in point of baseness there is not
the weight of a finger to choose be-
tween them"
1.-The worst foes of America are the
foes to hat orderly liberty without
which our republic must speedily
perish. The reckless labor agitator
who arouses the mob to riot and
bloodshed is in the last analysis the
most dangerous of the workingman's
enemies. This man is a real peril;
and so is his sympathizer, the legis-
lator. who to catch votes denounces
the judiciary and the military be-
cause they put down mobs."
We must rebuke with equal en-
phasis the men who can see nothing
wrong in what is done by capitalists
and corporations, and the other men
who can see nothing wrong in what
is done by labor leaders and trades
unions. Moreover. il means that We
must not permit ourselves to be mis-
led by bitterness concerning wrong
doing of the opposite type in the
present - for this is the road that
leads straight down to that bottom
less pit where the spirits of Robes
pierre and Danton find themselves in
the company of the high-born tyrants
whose bloody tyranny they denounced
and copied"
This is an era OF combination.
Big business has come to stay. II
cannot be put an end to-; and II Ii
could be put an end to, it wuald
mean the most widespread disaster
to the community. The proper thing
to do is to socialize it, to mike IL
more an agent for social good and
to do away with everything in /: that
tends toward social evil. To do this
control, a governmental contrc! that
will check the corporation when II
is doing wrong and check the labor
union when ii is doing wrong. and
hold each accountable and responsible
for it's deeds and misdeeds. but which
shall at the same time recognize that
the corporation ha its rights just
as the union has its rights, al that
each Is to be encouraged as long as
1t does well. No greit industrial well
being can come unless big business
prospers."
THE anarchist. and especially the
anarchist of the United States, is
merely n type of criminal, more
dangerous than any other because he
represents the same depravity in a
greater degree. The man who advo-
Gates anarchy directly or indirectly.
in any shape or fashion, or the man
who apologies for anarchists and
their deeds, makes himself morally
accessory to murder before the fact.
The anarchist is a criminal whose
perverted instincts lead him to pre-
fer confusion and chaos to the most
beneficent form OF social order. His
protest of concern for w%orkingmen
is outrageous in its impudent falsity;
for If the political institutions of this
country do not afford opportunity to
every honest and intelligent son of
toll. then the door of hope Is forever