SOCIALISW IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1350, 12 June 1907, Page 5

SOCIALISW IN AMERICA.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S EARNEST HOPE

"United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.

NEW YORK, June H.- - President Roosevelt, in a speech at Norfolk Virginia, earnestly hoped the country's superbly self-reliant individualism would never be exchanged for deadening socialism. He advocated legislation whereby the burden of compensation to workmen should fall on the employers, who, by increasing. the price of their products, would place it on the general public. There was no sound and economic reason for distinction between accidents due to negligence iand those unavoidable, and the law should make payment automatic.