AMERICAN POLITICS.
INDIVIDUALISAI V. SOCIALISM. NEW YORK, Tue-day. In a speech at Norfolk, Virginia, President Roosevelt said he earnestly hoped that the country's superbly self-reliant individualism would never be exchanged for deadening Socialism. He advocated legislation whereby the burden of compensation for workmen would fall on the employers, who by the increasing price of products would place it on the general public. There was no sound economic reason for a distinction between accidents due to negligence and thore that were avoidable. The law should make payment automatic.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 June 1907, Page 4
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