PRESIDENT UNITED STATES.
'>"' Received June 11, 11.7 p.m. 9"] l '^ '^S^-«'New York, June 11. !*ln"a speech at Norfolk, Virginia, President Roosevelt said lie earnestly, hoped that the country's superbly self-reliant ™ '.individualism l^ would never be exchanged "forT deadening] Socialism. He advocated legislation whereby the burden of compensation fo r* workmen would fall on therein ployers, who by the increasing price I of products, would place it on the general public. Ihere was no sound economic reason for a distinction be-/ fcween 'accidents due to negligence ,md those that were avoidable. The law should make payment automatic.
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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11959, 12 June 1907, Page 3
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96PRESIDENT UNITED STATES. Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11959, 12 June 1907, Page 3
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