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Show hOuuLVlL I nm He' Explains What His New Nationalism Means Bristol. Tenn., Oct. 7. In a speech hero today, former President Rooso-olt Rooso-olt defeuded his doctrine of new nationalism. na-tionalism. The crowd which greeted him wa- so great that Col. Roosevelt had to light his way from his automobile automo-bile to the grandstand. Girls from Biistol's female college. In their caps and gowns, presented him with n bonnet of rises. "Much obliged." Col. Roosevelt shouted. waln? his hat to them. "I am back among my own inople." said Col. Roosevelt "I've come back from Africa and Europe feeling that in spite of all our short comings there Is not another land where the average man hao such a chance as he does here. "All that I am trying to do is to keep this land as one in which the average man has a square deal. What I mean by the new nationalism is simply sim-ply the efficient application of the old moralities to new and (hanged conditions. condi-tions. "This country was founded for the purpose of trying to secure equality of opiiortunity for all men, and we must try measurably to realize that Ideal. "We must try to see that, in ioll-tlcal ioll-tlcal and Industrial life, there Is no special privileges. I am for the laboring la-boring man. but only If he Is a straight man. My critics say I attack only the rich man. That U not true. I'm against the little crook, but there is this distinction: "The neighbors of a little crook can take care rf him. but when It comes to a man with a hundred million, he's the neighbor of all of us. He's too big for his Immediate neighbors, and I want Fncle Sam to tackle him. ' He'd big euoush. "That Is not revolutionary, but counter-revolutionary." He added that such federal control would obvlato conditions which niUht bring a revolutionary movement. "Here are two cardinal principles of the nw nationalism." he said, 'in the first place, efficient honesty. In the second place, the right of the people peo-ple to rub. , "The men In Wall street have tried to make fortunes bv selling paper. S"me of It Is worthle.-s and the men who know tho worth of this s-tuff are right In dreading the new nationalism." |