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Show I APPEALS TO I ALL VOTERS 1 Col. Roosevelt Makes m Final Plea For Pro- M gressive Cause Hl Oyster Bay, N, Y., Nov. -J. At the H end of the hardest campaign of his M career, Colonel Roosevelt iast night M made a final appeal to the voters of M the country on behalf of the progres- U ( slve ticket. M Except for two speeches today in his H home county, he has ended the strug- H gle which has kept him hard at work B since bo threw his hat into the ring H ' l?.Bt spring. He spent the day with H bis family, and was so far recovered H I from his bullet wound that his physl- H ' cian permitted him to go to church. M , Colonel Roosevelt gae out his H j statement under date of November 4, fl J ss his appeal day before election. He fl 1 urged etery voter to read the Pro- H RresBive platform before going to the H polls. His statement follows. M "I wish to appeal as strongly as I can to the men and women of this country, to all good citizens throughout through-out tho Union, and nsk them to sup-ort sup-ort this great progressive movement for rlghtoousness and for fair dealing. deal-ing. The progressiva movement Is in the lntei est of every honest man and ft'eman In the land, and therefore we have a right to ask that all good citizens, cit-izens, without regard to their past political affiliations, stand with us in this fight lor clean politics and for the square deal In industry. Faces Vital Issues. "Only the Progressive party has faced the real and vital issues of the duy. Not only are both old parties boss ridden and privilege controlled, but they show not the slightest conception con-ception of the needs of the day or llii: hteps necessary to take if grave disaeier to the nation in the future Is to be avoldcd. "During the life time of a generation genera-tion which is now In middle life, extraordinary extra-ordinary eocial and industrial chan ges have come over this land. The great forces now at work, social and Industrial, are such as were utterly undreamed of half a century ago. Yet the leaders of both of the old parties par-ties toda are attempting the futile feat of trying to meet these now conditions con-ditions by worn out governmental experiments ex-periments and by appeal to little formulas for-mulas and dogmas which had a certain cer-tain usefulness before the days of fiteam and electricity, before the days of concentrated Industry and tremendous tremen-dous economic developments, but which are now as utterly useless as tho flintlocks of the continental soldiers sol-diers would bo In modern warfare. Time for Chango. "Tho Progressives have seen that It is Utterly ubcIcss to hope that ;t .jreat people, living under the forms of a political democracy and skilled by universal education, will long continue con-tinue to toleiate in economic matters tho reign of an industrial oligarchy, the enthronement of prlvllogrt and a permanent and widespread Inequality of opportunity. 'Nellhci in thr platforms of the old purl ips nor in tho uttorances of their candidates and leaders do we Bee tho slightest slcn of an appreciation of this great fundamental Issue. The Progressive party thoroughly appreciates appre-ciates that this Is tho Issue, and with courage and comtc-on sense, and In a spirit of kmulnicGS to all our peo-I peo-I lo. has faced the probloin and outlined out-lined the necc?f.ar first steps toward Its scolution. "We Intend to use the forces" of government to secure justice and fair play between man and man, man and woman, not only In the political hut In tho Industrial field. "We recognize rec-ognize that it is tho duty of all of us to so shape conditions as to secure se-cure favorable economic surroundings for the average man who Is honest and industrious. We do not rogard economic eco-nomic well being as the all of life, but we recard It as the indispensable indispensa-ble foundation, the foundation which it is necessary to suciire for all our people, and upon It we Intend to raise the superstructure of a higher life. "Our opponents, Demociatlc and Republican alike, have not ventured to particularize as to whlrh they preferred. pre-ferred. "I urgently ask every voter In the United States lo read thut platform this very day and ponder oer It, and tomorrow to cast his vote, having in mind wlijit Is said In that platform It does not contain a promise which ought not to bo made. It does contain con-tain every promise which, In view of our situation, ought to be made. Every Ev-ery promise It contains can be kept. If we are given tho power, every promise which It contains will bo kept (Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT |