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Show ROOSEVELT " il IN SEATTLE 1 1 Thousands Struggle at H Station For Chance to See Progressive MM Seattle, Sept 10. "We are facing B the greatest criBls Bince the days of rBl Lincoln," said Colonel Roosevelt here BH today to ono of the largest crowds (' which he has addressed during his 9 present campaign. Mll "I ask ox-Democrats and ex-Repub- s Hcans alike to leave the old partlea, iBI both of them boBS-ridden and privi- fll lege-controlled, and come with us, (Bl for we stand for the eternal princi- Bl pies of righteousness " Hl Colonel Roosevelt said ho was mov- 'm ed by his reception In Seattle, which j 1 led him to lay aside the. concrete is- -V sues of the campaign wiwn. lie began . BH his address, and deliver what ho calls t H a "lay sermon." I'l "I- ask you to support us," he said. I M "in the name of morality, of honesty, BH of dislmorestedness. I .ask -you to sup- B port ub in the name ot religion, in tbe f II deepest and broadest sense. IJH "We have declared, and we are the I Mmm first party to declare, that the gov- 1 lH ernment shall hereafter-represent the H average man and the average woman ' B We havo declared that politics shall be ' RH put at the servico of economics and ' H economics shot through with moral- Bl U Colonel Roosevelt thon assailed the , HI Democratic party on Its dootrlne of , Hfl states' rights. 1 IBJI Democrats' -Look .Back. ' IBS "The Democratic party," he said. i IBjl "looks back to tbe dead exploded the- 4 mWm cry that the problems which affect HH all of U6 can bo controlled by the H states of the natioo, by states' rights. H Thero is only one entity which 1b able hH to control the big corporations and H that is Uncle Sam." nfl "Our opponents say that J wish to BH destroy representative government. H That is not ao. I want representative IH government that really, represents us, H I want representative government to M work for us in tbe op on, and not for 11 the invisible empire which works in H darkness." jBH Declaring for the abolition of child BH labor, Colonel Roosevelt oontinued: HI "Here again comes in tbe utter 'BH bourbonism of states' rights. We BEfl hope that the states tbemaelvos will PIH prevent child labor, but, if they do KH - not;, wo declare that the child is the FlH greatest asset of the nation and that kH the nation itself shall protect them," mWM Colonel Roosovclt said that tho H Panama canal should not hare been J built "unless we -had had the fore- J thought to fortify it." IH "I believe in peace," he continued, BB "but I don't want peace just because IH others don't think it worth while to jH kick us, but because they realize that ll while "we will do injustice to no one,--' IB we will suffer injustice from no one. H I passed through a good many years B In the cow country where It used to BB be said that you probably wouldn't IB need a gun at all, but If you did need H one you would need It dreadfully sud- ,H Seattle, Wash., Sept 10. Thou- sand's of people struggled at the rail- lH road station for a chance to get a H glimpse of Colonel Roosevelt when ho lB arrived. He entered an automobile ) 'H that led a long procession of automo- 'mW biles and marching men to Dreamland , W pavilion. The hall was crowded to ) B suffocation. Those who wero. unable WMm to get in waited for a possible over- WMm flow meeting. Sheriff Robert T. BB Hodge, Progressive candidate for gov- ernor, ' introduced Colonel Roosevolt, who seemed In exuberant spirits over tbe reception given hint aMml |