SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
INDIVIDUALISM AND SOCIALISM.
COMPENSATION TO WORKMEN,
Press Ae«ocistion—By Telegraph—Copyright
NEW V'ORK, June 11,
(Received .lime 11, at 10.57 p.m.)
I , resident .Roosevelt, in the course of a speech at- 'Norfolk. Virginia, said ho earnestly hoped the country's superbly self-reliant- individualism would never 1)D exchanged for a. deadening Socialism. He advocated legislation whereby the burden of coin|K>iisatii)ii to workmen would fall on the employers, who, by iiKTeasin;,' tlie price of products, would place it-on the general public. There was )in sound economic reason for the distinction between accidents due to negligence ami those that were unavoidable. The law should make payment automatic,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13927, 12 June 1907, Page 5
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