Show ROOSEVELT Will NOT NOTS CHANG HIS POLICY S l I i f i Announces His Determination to Persevere in Present Course During the Remainder of His Term Nashville Tenn T nn Oct 22 President Roosevelt Roos in his address at the Auditor Auditorium AuditorIum Auditorium ium said eald today There has been trouble in the stock market In the high financial world dur during durIng during ing the past few months The fhe statement I has frequently been made that the pol policies I ides s for which legislative and executive are responsible res for that trou trouble trouble trouble ble Now these policies ot o can be summed up In one brief sentence They The represent the effort to punish successful dishonesty dishonest I doubt if these policies have had any an material effect In bringing about the present trouble but if they have it will lU not alter in the slightest degree deree my m determination that for the remaining six sixteen sixteen sixteen teen months month of my term these policies shall be persevered in unswervingly Merely Turned on the Light If to arouse that typo type t pe of or civic man manhood manhood manhood hood In our nation it were necessary to suffer any temporary commercial depres depression depression depression sion I should consider the cost but small All AU we have done has been to unearth the wrongdoing It was not the toe fact that it was unearthed that did the damage All AH AHI AllI I I did was to turn on the light I am responsible for turning on the light but butI I II I am not responsible for what the light showed It is impossible to cut out a 1 cancer without making the patient feel for a few days das rather sicker than he felt before No Xo material save this nation if it it icse the lift HIt towards higher things I will permit neither the demagogue upon one side nor the reactionary re c on the other to drive me away from the course or policy which I regard most vital for the tho of this na nation nation nation tion And the thing most important to re member is that that policy poll C has two sides It would Indeed be an evil ell for this nation It If we ever er permitted to grow up upa a spirit which would discriminate against the honest man who achieves business success There is nothing meaner than the hatred 01 ot the man who prospers hon honestly honestly estly simply because he has prospered and I challenge the th spirit of every ever good American when I say lIay sayS that the honest railroad man the honest banker and the honest business man Who iho makes a for Jor fortune fortune tune tunc because his exceptionable business ability enables him to renders exceptional service to the community Cannot Be Swerved If ever eer there should be any an temporary gusts of popular feeling that demand what is wrong what Is unrighteous then the true servant senant of the people is the man maii who ho disregards that temporary tempora wish of the th thee people to do evil Great applause No man will stand more strongly than I will in the defense of property BO so long longas lon Ion lonas Ionas as it is honestly acquired and honestly used Cheers I will stand against crimes of brutal violence just as I stand against crimes of unscrupulous cunning There are certain gentlemen who say that I J have talked against men of or wealth as such These gentlemen are arc blind if they see the facts in that light I will pro every way in ny ry power honest prop erty ert I will protect the honest man of wealth to the extent of my ability and in no way can I ultimately ultimate I protect the honest man of or wealth so effectually as doing everything e in my power to bring to justice his dishonest brother of wealth Great applause Our whole movement Is simply and solely to make the decalogue and the golden rule of some practical moment In the business life of the community Great applause and cheers |