e people
themselves, and those bosses and the big special interests behind them
made up their mind that they would rather see the republican party
wrecked than see it come under the control of the people themselves. So
I am not dealing with the republican party. There are only two ways you
can vote this year. You can be progressive or reactionary. Whether you
vote republican or democratic it does not make any difference, you are
voting reactionary." (Applause.)

Col. Roosevelt stopped to take a drink of water and the doctors
remonstrated with him to stop talking, to which he replied: "It is
getting to be better and better as time goes on. (Turning to the
audience) If these doctors don't behave themselves I won't let them
look at me at all." (Laughter and applause.)

"Now the democratic party in its platform and through the utterances of
Mr. Wilson has distinctly committed itself to old flintlock, muzzle
loaded doctrine of states right and I have said distinctly that we are
for the people's right. We are for the rights of the people. If they
can be obtained best through the national government, then we are for
national rights. We are for the people's rights however it is necessary
to secure them.

"Mr. Wilson has made a long essay against Senator Beveridge's bill to
abolish child labor. It is the same kind of an argument that would be
made against our bill to prohibit women from working more than eight
hours a day in industry. It is the same kind of argument that would
have to be made, if it is true, it would apply equally against our
proposal to insist that in continuous industries there shall be by law
one day's rest in seven and a three-shift eight hour day. You have
labor laws here in Wisconsin, and any Chamber of Commerce will tell you
that because of that fact there are industries that will not come into
Wisconsin. They prefer to stay outside where they can work children of
tender years; where they can work women fourteen and sixteen hours a
day, where, if it is a continuous industry, they can work men twelve
hours a day and seven days a week.

"Now, friends, I know that you of Wisconsin would never repeal those
laws even if they are to your commercial hurt, just as I am trying to
get New York to adopt such laws even though it will be to New York's
commercial hurt. But if possible, I want to arrange it so that we can
have justice without commercial hurt, and you can only get that if you
have justice enforced n