The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore RooseveltRemey, Oliver E.
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The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Remey, Oliver E.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
"Now the other half is to the labor man himself. My appeal to him is to
remember that as he wants justice, so he must do justice. I want every
labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man to take the
lead in denouncing crime or violence. (Applause.) I want them to take
the lead (applause) in denouncing disorder and inciting riot, that in
this country we shall proceed under the protection of our laws and with
all respect to the laws and I want the labor men to feel in their turn
that exactly as justice must be done them so they must do justice. That
they must bear their duty as citizens, their duty to this great country
of ours and that they must not rest content without unless they do that
duty to the fullest degree. (Interruption.)
"I know these doctors when they get hold of me they will never let me
go back and there are just a few things more that I want to say to you.
"And here I have got to make one comparison between Mr. Wilson and
myself simply because he has invited it and I can not shrink from it.
"Mr. Wilson has seen fit to attack me, to say that I did not do much
against the trusts when I was president. I have got two answers to make
to that. In the first place what I did and then I want to compare what
I did while I was president with what Mr. Wilson did not do while he
was governor. (Applause and laughter.)
"When I took office as president"--(turning to stage) "How long have I
talked?"
Answer: "Three-quarters of an hour."
"Well, I will take a quarter of an hour more. (Laughter and applause.)
When I took office the anti-trust law was practically a dead letter and
the interstate commerce law in as poor a condition. I had to revive
both laws. I did. I enforced both. It will be easy enough to do now
what I did then, but the reason that it is easy now is because I did it
when it was hard. (Applause and cheers.)
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