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Show THOUSANDS CHEERJEDDK Thousands Turned Away From Convention Hall in Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Sept. 1. Eighteen thousand people stood up and cheered, reatucd and waved their Imndker-thb.is Imndker-thb.is as Theodore Roosevelt came upon the platform of Convention hall In thin city tonight. Thousands of people had been turned away from the doors of In big convention hall after nil seats and standing room had been occupied. Colonel' Roosevelt, coming to the Iront of tho platform. tood rigidly erect as he was given an ovation, his countenance fixed in sternness (iovcrnor Madley, appearing shortly short-ly afterward, was given an equally enthusiastic, en-thusiastic, greeting President William T. Ulnnd of the Kansas City Commercial club, which had Just entertained the colonel at dinner, then Introduced him. lie declared de-clared that the welcoming being given giv-en 'Roosevelt, tho man, was warmer than that which several vears had been given him as President of the United States. It Is, if possible, more affectionate, more enthusiastic, more wonderful to the man who dor things," said tho speaker. "It was Roosevelt." he continued, "who awakened the public conscience which had alrendy 3lpt too long. I might also pay he created public eon-science eon-science " Restless In waiting for Colonel Roosevelt's speech, the great audience audi-ence began shouting, "Teddy Roosevelt!" Roose-velt!" Insisting upon further compliments, to the guest of honor, Mr. Bland said: "The nation owes to him an Indefinite In-definite debt of gratitude." and when he referred to the colonels career in the Spanish war, shouts and cheers ugaln filled the big auditorium. Colonel Roosevelt being presented, the great audience aealn arose and cheered and thousands of handkerchiefs handker-chiefs ami hats were Trnved. "The American people, owe nothing to a man who hns been President of the United States compared to wluit he owes the American people," peo-ple," declared the colonel, referring to tho words of the speaker who had presented him At this point the doors of the hall were thrown open, and from the sidewalk men and women wo-men surged into the aisles, packed tlie last standing room that could he found. "I am very deeply touched by the size of my audience," said Mr. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and proceeded at once with his speech. While President, he said, ho had instructed his attorney general to proceed against any man who was corrupt, whether he was a Republican Republi-can senator from Oregon or Kansas, or a Democratic governor of Oklahoma. Okla-homa. "I think T value these men almost as much as I value the good will of honest senators, honest governors and other honest men with whom It has been my privilege to work," he said Speaking of corruption (n politics, the colonel added, amid applause: "Look tnt the corruption In my state of New York." His reference to his African hunting hunt-ing trip proved a signal for another demonstration. Then paying a trlb-vte trlb-vte to the American republic-, he reminded re-minded his audience that continental Europe was watching the American experiment in self government with the greatest interest. "If, here in America,"' he said, "we fail In our experiment of eelf government, gov-ernment, woe to ue, and woe also to other nations on the earth whom we will have robbed of the brightest hope they now have" As he concluded his remarks the great audience again cheered, and men scrambled to reach the stage to shake the hands of the guest of honor. hon-or. Colonel Roosevelt made his way through the surging crowd and was driven to the station. He left at a late hour for Omaha, where he will speak tomorrow. An enjoyable part of the day's en tcrUilnment was a Dutch luncheon, given by Colonel W. N Nelson at his home to the visiting newspaper men pud others of Colonel Roosevelt's party. KANSAS CITY, Sept 1 As the guest of the Kansas Cl'y Commercial club, Theodore Roosevelt today drank a toast to the president, was himself toasted as the "first citizen of the United States." and listened to a rollicking rol-licking song to the tune of "In tho (Jood Old Sunimer lime," which ran as follows: "At next election time. At next election time. Roaming 'round the woolly west. Getting things in line. For we like him and he likes ug, And that's a very good sign. That he will he our president At next election time." .. Responds to Toast to President. The colonel responded heartily to the toast to the president and looked "statuesque as references to him self were made. Later when he was called call-ed to speak he referred to the son;?, saying that "one of them was anxiously anx-iously seeking the knowledge of my whereabout s." Another song end ing with tho refrain, re-frain, "For he's insurgent through and through." he said could have Improved in technique accuracy If the word "pmcresslve" had been substituted for the word "Insurgent." "Don't get the bridle off," said the colonel amid cheers. Three hundred men attended the luncheon and gave Colonel Roosevelt a noisy welcome. Before the guests were seated, former for-mer Congressman William S Cowherd, Cow-herd, who was toastmoxter, said: It Is always the custom of the commercial com-mercial club to drink the llrst toast to the president of the United States." Join in Drinking Song Kvetybody Joined In drinking the toast. Among the guests were Governor Hadley of Missouri; Governor Stubbs of Kansas. Glfford Plnchot, .Tames B. Garfield. Colonel W. R. Nelson, proprietor propri-etor of the Kan.s City Star; Senator Brlstow nnd Representative Madison of Kansas. Colonel Roosevelt complimented tho people of Kansas City upon the extensive exten-sive Improvements that have been I made to their waterworks system Ho expressed his Interest In the imnrove-menbs imnrove-menbs of the waterways especially of the Missouri river. "When I began as prejddnf, the fight against rebates that were universally uni-versally given, the practice was so gencrai that the fact of giving and asking for them had become a purely conventional crime," said Colonel Roosevelt. No One Spoke of Rebates. "No one spoke of the giving of rebates re-bates as a crime and as that practice was freely Indulged in by the great mass of people, others were driven to commit the crime, having the alternative alter-native of being ruined by their competitors com-petitors If they did not get them The shippers demanded rebates of the railroads and the railroads granted rebates re-bates to certain shippers they got In a network of preferences from which they were unahle to extricate themselves by anv Individual action on their part. After sorno difficulty accompanied by the usual statement that it was ruining th business interest in-terest of the country, we got the rebate re-bate practice definitely stopped. Cannot Make a Change Without Suffering. "Of course, no greal change of that kind has ever been made without Incidental Inci-dental hardship being differed by many good people. You cannot make a chanee and not suffer from the dls location. Some good people and some communities did suffer and I think that Kansas City was the community that for a time suffered considerably. Kansas City had rebates that I think at times were as high as thirty-five per cent and I was quite prepared for an outburst of dissatisfaction from Kansas City. But It Is Immensely to your credit that I received unanimous approval Your people said that this rhanfte was right, that the thing ought to be done and that they were for It "I think it was as fine an cxempll-cation cxempll-cation as one could desire of tho willingness wil-lingness of your people to squarely face a moral issue." At the conclusion of Colonel Roose-velt'H Roose-velt'H speech, he was driven to the West port High school to make another anoth-er address. , Kansas City, Kan., Sept. 1. Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt delivered the follow-Inq follow-Inq address in this city today: There are certain matters which should never be treated as party ma'-ters; ma'-ters; nnd foremost among these is the great and vital virtue of honesty. Honesty should be treated as a prime necessity to our success ns a nation. The minute that n question of honesty hon-esty as against dishonesty Is involved, they we must all act together'as Americans, Am-ericans, without the slightest regard to party affiliations. Honesty Is not a party matter; and the first man to attack a scoundrel of any party should be the honest men of that party. When In office, I always proceeded pro-ceeded upon the theory that there would be no need of my opponents raising the cry of "Turn the rascals out." because I would turn them out myself Just as soon as. by vigilant nnd Intelligent Industry. I could discover dis-cover them. The present Senator Brlstow, for instance, was In the post office department when Information reached mo which convinced me that there was extensive rascality being practiced In tlie department This Information came to me through the then First Assistant Postmaster Gen-j Gen-j ernl, Mr. Wynne an admirable man whose honesty I knew to be beyond proof. The active work of tho in vestlgatlon was done by another post-office post-office official in whose honesty, courage, cour-age, ami energy I hail absolute confidence confi-dence the present Senator Brlstow. When he got through 1 knew that all rascals whose rascality could be de tecti d were out of office and that all tif them that had committed acts which we could proceed against as criminal were Indicted or imprisoned. As we dealt with the crooked public official, so we dealt with the crooked private, citizen; with the rich swindler In New York or Chicago as with tho horse-thief or homicide in Indian territory. ter-ritory. We never attacked a man because be-cause he was a man nf one political faith or another, because he did or did not possess wealth; and wo never) shielded him because he was poor or J rich, because ho belonged to any particular par-ticular church or to any particular I party. But I al90 wish you especially i to remember that we never hesitated to shield him and stand up for him once wo were convinced that he whs Improperly attacked. Thete Is no greater foe of honesty than the man who. for any reason. In any capacity, attacks, or seeks to attack, an honest man for a crime which he hns not committed. com-mitted. Falsely accusing an honest man of dishonesty Is an act which 1 stands on the same level of Infamy with that of the dishonest man him self, and it Is no higher duty to attack at-tack tho dishonest man than It Is to exonerate the honest man falsely accused; ac-cused; and I should be ashamed to hesitate the fraction of a second longer long-er In one case than In the other. Honesty Not Unilateral. Remember that honesty cannot ho unilateral. Good citizens should cordially cor-dially distrust the man who can never see dishonesty excepting ln men of the class ho dislikes. The reckless agitator who invariably singles out examples of dishonesty; and the equally equal-ly unscrupulous but no more unscrupulousreactionary unscru-pulousreactionary who can ser dishonesty dis-honesty ouly in a blackmailing politician poli-tician or a crooked labor leader; bih Ftnnd on the same plane of obnoxious-ness. obnoxious-ness. You will never pot honetdy from politicians until you wxact honesty from business men; on the other hand you brand yourselves as fools or as hypocrites if .vou puv lat the corporation cor-poration owner, or the employer. Is always the dishonest man. and the poor man never, that it Is only the wealthy man who corrupts tho pollti clan and never the politician win. blackmails the corporation. Any man In his senses knows that I here are plenty of corporations In this country who prosper by bribing lenlslaturea Just a thoy prosper by .swindling the public; and any man ,ln his senses ought to Know, In ad-'dlllon, ad-'dlllon, that there aro plenty of corrupt cor-rupt men of small means who, in log- ' 'slatlvo or other bodies, try to blackmail black-mail other people ag well. If they doubt this, let them look at the. revelations reve-lations of corruption In my own state New York and in yours, my hearers hear-ers here In Missouri; let them look at what has occurred In Illinois. In Illinois, for Instance, one of ih rascalities ras-calities developed by the recent In- (Continued on Pago Eight.) ' of tle public. I believe that the great Issue now before the people Is the doing away with apodal privilege in all Us forms; doing away with the power of the big corporation to control con-trol legislation In Its Interests and o Interfere In politics In order, to secure se-cure privileges to which It Is uot entitled. en-titled. Uut 1 regard the essential factor fac-tor In this campaign as being an aroused civic conscience which will unsparingly condemn dishonesty in every form, and In every man, high or low. The reckless, would-be reformer, reform-er, who. In speaking or writing, seeks to persuade us that we need pay heed to corruption only when H shows Itself In the rich man. Is doing a great a moral wrong as the rich man whose low moral standard .tends to lower ihe moral standard of the whole community. The people of this country coun-try will get justice from the corporations corpora-tions only If thoy both do Justice to them and rigidly exact It from them. Unless they do Justice to rich men they put a premium upon Injustice and dishonesty among rich men. I?t us bold them to the strictest accountability account-ability for any wrongdoing; but let us Insist upon honesffc In our own ranks, no less than their; let us war on crookedness of every kind in the man of small means. lt us Judge each man by his conduct, and not by his social so-cial or financial condition. THOUSANDS GREET TEDDY. I Continued from Page Five.) ves'iirotion was the existence of a combination of legislators who blackmailed black-mailed fishermen along a certain river, riv-er, forcing them to pay to prevent legislation which would have interfered inter-fered with their business. Now. scoundrels who do these kinds of things are. of course, the very in o n who. on the one hand, will blackmail a corporation. If 'they get a chance, and, on the other hand., will cheer fully. If the chance occurs, sell themselves them-selves to that corporation against the Interests of the public Their corruption cor-ruption is no more due to the action of the corporations than the corruption corrup-tion of the corporations Is due to their action; and evil, and not good, is done by the honest but misguided man who would persuade you that either fact Is true Oirr duty Is to war with equal sternness against the corrupt man or great wealth and tho small man who makes a trade of corruption; cor-ruption; our fight Is against both the swindling corporation and the black-nifilllnp black-nifilllnp or bribe-taking politician. Cannot Afford to Limit Fight. We cannot afford to limlt a cam" paign against corruption to those who happen to have a certain social status. We need laws which shall put the corporation out of business, so far as concerns corrupting the servants of lhj public and betraying the righta |