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Show said, and not what certain reports of the press have said I have saidj you will soe that I have tried to preach only the doctrine on which the republic was founded. ' "I am a radical, but I am a radical who mo9t earnestly desires to see a radical program carried out by conservatives. I wish to see great industrial reforms carried out, not by the men who will profit by them, but by men who lose by them; by such meri as surround sur-round me." Colonel Rooseevlt said he wished to see the hand of the state and the nation placed on the great corporations to regulate them. "The rights of man must be paramount in a republic, such as ours," he added. The colonel urged the passage of legislation to benefit labor. It was his criticism of ex-judge Baldwin's attitude toward such legislation which led to their controversy. In explaining his idea of the "square deal," Colonel Roosevelt said: "I want the prize in the race to go to the man who is not fast enough to win it. I want them to start even." Equal opportunity, he said, represented the idea upon which the republic was founded. "I care for the fact," he continued, "and not in the least for the form. You hear a great deal of national rights and of states rights. I'm for both." He explained this by saying that he was for national rights where they would best serve the welfare of the people and for states rights where their exercise was most benefioial, Colonel Roosevelt saM corporations should be treated with an exact ex-act measure of justice "Your grocer must make a profit or we won't continue to sell groceries," he explained, "but if you pay his bills without examining exam-ining them, you don't show that you have a soft heart. You show that you have a soft head." The government, he said, should deal with corporations on the same basis as" a man deals with his grocer, in giving and exacting justice. The colonel said there had been a "good deal of loose talk" about proposed changes in forms of government The effort to get more complete control over the agencies of inter-state commerce for the federal government, represents, he said, not an innovation which was not contemplated by the constitution, but a realization of the j purposes of the constitution. "A century and a quarter ago, no such legislation was needed," he said, "now it is imperatively needed, "The forces striving for social and economic betterment are certain to find an outlet," he said.. "The question is, will they go forward wisely? "Our fathers in this country have solved many great questions. To us in this generation, have come other great questions. It rests with men like you to determine whether they shall be solved wisely and soon, or, when they are solved, whether they shall bring with the good, untold evil to the country." ROOSEVELT DEFINES HIS POSITION. i.' Theodore Roosevelt made an excellent talk at the banquet table in New .Haven, Tuesday night. Among other things, he said : "It seems to me that nothing could be a better augury of the future of this country than that a Republican president should appoint an ex-confederate of opposing faith chief justice of the United States supreme court and receive the unanimous applause of his countrymen. With the premission of your president, I shall propose pro-pose two toasts : "First, to President Taft, and second, to that learned jurist Chief Justice White." Colonel Roosevelt said that during the last half of the last con-tury, con-tury, people had concerned themselves with the accumulation of material well-being, believing that its distribution would take care of itself. But the people had to come to see, he added, that they must concern themselves with an equitable distribution of wealth. "Bodies like this chamber of commerce," said the colonel, "have been industriously taught to regard me as kind of a modified anarchist. anar-chist. As a matter of fact I think that if you will read what I have |