The New York herald., 1921-01-24
ROOSEVELT MOVED
SOUL OF AMERICA,
COOLIDGE TRIBUTE.
Memorial Address at Town
Hall Delivered by Next
Vice-President.
RESTORED REPUBLIC
Tells How Colonel Broke
Menace of Monopoly in
Nations Business.
ROUSED COUNTRY TO WAR
Gov. Miller, Mrs. Hammond
and Mrs. Wood Are Other
Speakers of Evening.
ROUSED COUNTRY TO WAR

The debt the world owes the memory
Of Theodore Roosevelt was summed uT
last night in the Town Hall by Gavin
Coolidge What the Vice-President-elec
left unsaid was supplied by Gov. Miller
who introduced Mr.. Coolidge The meet
ing was held under the auspices OF the
Women's Roosevelt Memorial Assocla-
ton, and on behalf of that organization
Mrs. John Henry Hammond and Mrs
Henry A. Wise Wood told Of the WORK
OF endowing Roosevelt's birthplace-2s
Eaet Twentieth 'street--as national IN
stitution.
A crowd that filled the hall listened to
Mr.. Coolidge. and a throng almost as
large tried in vain TO gain admission.
The doors were closed long before the
speaking commenced. In introducing
Mr.. Coolidge Gov Miller likened the
yice-President-elect to Roosevelt and
evoked great applause by declaring that
the country needs to-day much of the
Americanism of the late President.
Mr.. Coolidge cited the commercial
progress of the United States and the
proportionate growth of the country. He
recalled the inevitable time when we
began to believe that business is su-
preme.' and then, in part, he said
This condition eliminated about
twenty years ago. 1t had gone on un-
formulated in mems minds, uncon-
sciously tending to monopoly i'll business
and by that means private control OF
government. substituting the age old
formula of private interests for the pub
lie welfare Logically developed it
ould have meant stagnation in business
through the loss of all initiative ana
bureaucracy in government through the
loss Of true representation of the pub
lic will.
The man who finally brought the
business men of the nation to see that
their course was economically unsound
and therefore TO be abandoned. and who
reused the American people TO the as
sertion again of their right TO control
their government for the public well
fare, was Theodore Roosevelt. No man
had done so much TO destroy an un-
sound economic theory and TO restore
his country to its true form of repre-
sentative government since the days OF
Abraham Lincoln And as with Lin
ooln, no one. whether formerly victor
or vanquished. would return 10 the old
order. He broke the menace of mo-
nopoly He made the sovereignty OK the
people again srcrA'ne.
'Tn all this he stood for a great prin-
ciple impartially applied. He declared
and enforced the supremacy OF the pub
lie law alike against those who opposed
II ia the name of capital OF in the name
OF labor In that he was the true friend
Of both, the benefactor of employer and
employee and the defender of the Re-
pubic of the United States. He found
IT nenaced, and he left II free
I'VE have seen that the reaction OF
public opinion went too far. 1t created
a condition in which men of large inter-
ests. no matter how innocent OF any Of
fence, have since felt they would be mis-
judged and their motives misconstrued IL
hey took part in public affairs. That
sentiment is wrong. and being wrong
works a grave public injury. The public
business has come to be the largest sim
gle business that there IL. Unless it can
have the benefit of the training and abil-
ity that is developed in great private en-
terprises. It cannot be conducted success-
hilly. and IL not successful the people
suffer. Innocence is not enough in Gov
ernnent administration. AS Theodore
Roosevelt we'll knew. there must be
added that character and ability that
comes only from graphing with the
great problems of life most usually
gained by Americans in great business
and administrative activities. lie did