The sun., 1919-02-10
ONE TRUE AMERICAN,
BEYERIDGE TRIBUTE
Ex-senator Tells Throng in
Brooklyn Of Col. RQosevelt's
Fights for the People.
NET CRISES VALIANTLY
Showed His Mettle When Suf-
fering From Bullet Aimed
by an Assassin.

Albert J. Beveridge, former Senator
from Indiana and one Of Col. Roosevelts
principal followers in the Progressive
movement, delivered the eulogy at the
Roosevelt memorial service In the
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, last night
The large auditorium was packed with
5000 persons. Justice Alnet +. jerks
OF the Appellate Division and Judge
Frederick T.. Crane of the Court of APP
peals presided Senator William NJ. Cal
der, Public Service Commissioner Kracke
and Borough President Riegelmann were
present.
speech of MIR. BeveridRe.
Mr.. Beverdse said:
2 The glory of Theodore Roosevelt Is
that he personified the American nation.
From his earliest youth he was an
American nationalist.
More than any other man of his
period his character and his life typiflei
the character and the life of the Amer-
can people as a whole. II all the men
and women of the republic were asked to
speak one word that would be synony
nous with the name OF Theodore Roose-
welt the unhesitating answer OF nine
tenths OF them would be 'Americanism.'
He OWNED the needs and the aspira-
tions OF the average citizen. This. per-
achievement. For 1t was purely intel
lectual
by sheer mental effort he acquired
n knowledge of his fellow countrymen
moro thorough than any other man In
our history. excepting only that man
who. springing from the common soil
Yet touched the stars. Abraham Lin
coin
'TIis powers OF mind and character
Of the most serious developments in
American history was under way. That
Development was the disappearance OF
public lands which. before the Roose-
rslt period. had been open to settlement
ny all, and practically without cost.
For this reason America had expert
enced little OF that industrial congestion
familiar TO older countries. For this
re1on, too, an abnormal individualism
had grown up in America.
Business Plan Lower Then.
''rhe maxms OF individualism were
applied to business: Let the pur-
chaser beware 'Everyman's business Is
nobody's business but his own Ameri-
can business was ruled by the class
OF maxims OF which these are illus
trations.
But the very necessities OF the peo-
NE created immense business organiza-
tons to supply those necessities; and
yet, in their dealings with the public.
these great concerns acted as though
they, too. were individuals. They claimed
and exercised the right 20 render such
service and make such charges as they
pleased. The struggle was delayed be-
cause free land afforded an outlet for
discomfort
almost precisely at the time when
Theodore Roosevelt came into his full
manhood this outlet was closed. Free
land no longer relieved Industrial pres
sure. The American people had reached
their last frontier. the Pacific Ocean.
and the human tide was turned back
upon itself.
. Almost in day the American people
woke TO a realization that they must
live together in a sense they never before
rad thought OF. They discovered that
they are a community and that the IN
dividualist ideas practised with success
for century had, under these new con-
oitions, become their worst enemy
Problems Faced BY Roosevelt.
These fundamental problem. faced
the American nation at the beginning of
the Roosevelt period. The solution in
volved recognition that great business
the wants OF the people and that those
concerns must not be allowed TO op-
press. but must be made to serve the
people.
simple and Just as this solution was
L resulted In a political warfare which
has not been surpassed In our history
The demagoGues OF conservatism de-
clared that regulation OF business would
destroy liberty: the demagogues Of rad
icalism proclaimed that TO permit the
existence OF what they called trusts
would destroy liberty.
Each side of this great controversy
declared the other was annihilating the
Constitution. But voicing sound eco
homie and social thought. and thus ex-
pressing tho real sentiment OF the ma
ton. Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the
true philosophy that the individual,stic
idea OF unrestraned and destructive
competition must yield to the social idea
of regulated and constructive coopera-
ton.
I'm order 10 prevent Government in
reference with their practices these or
PLANTATIONS went into politics. Their
agents thronged the capital. They often
wero able TO elect or defeat candidates
for Congress. Representative govern
ment ceased to be exclusively represent
tative of the people and became repre-
sentative OF non-public interests.
Upon these dangerous forces Theo-
dore Roosevelt waged renorseless war.
No drawer or wiser political conflict
BY both sides Theodore Roosevelt was
assailed with fury, but he held his
course. The struggle was not ex-
clusively economic-lt was moral also
TO Roosevelt the movement he led was
n cause-a sacred cause.-the cause OF
humanity. This truth is demonstrated
by the message he sent to the people
after he was shot during the campaign
of 1912.
sends Celebrated Message.
"As soon as Col. Roosevelt had been
taken from Milwaukee to the hospital
IN Chicago. the secretary OF the ma
tional committee telephoned to me TO
cancel all engagements and come TO
Chicago Immediately, When l went TO
his bedside he greeted me as though
nothing had happened and then said:
The meeting at Louisville to-mor-
row night must not be abandoned. One
Of my written speeches was to have
been made there. ] have sent for YOU
70 ask you TO fill that engagement. lou
ought not OF course to read my prepared
speech. Principally | wish YOU TO give
a message from me to the people. I am
rot strong enough to dictate It, but l can
outline the general idea"
May | not read TO you the words
which. III this fashion, the wounded
leader In Chicago spoke TO the nation;
IT matters little about me. bur IL
matters all about the cause we fight ,or
u one soldier who happens to carry the