SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
NEW YORK, June 11. President Roosevelt, in the couree of » speech at Norfolk, Virginia, said he earnestly hoped the country's superbly self-reliant individualism would never be exchanged for a deadening Socialism. He advocated legislation whereby the burden of compensation to workmen would fall on the employers, who, by increasing the price of products, would place it on the general public. There was no sound economic reason for the distinction between accidents due to negligence and those that were unavoidable. The law should make payment automatic.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 26
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