ationally. You won't be burdened in Wisconsin
with industries not coming to the state if the same good laws are
extended all over the other states. (Applause.) Do you see what I mean?
The states all compete in a common market and it is not justice to the
employers of a state that has enforced just and proper laws to have
them exposed to the competition of another state where no such laws are
enforced. Now the democratic platform, their speaker declares that we
shall not have such laws. Mr. Wilson has distinctly declared that you
shall not have a national law to prohibit the labor of children, to
prohibit child labor. He has distinctly declared that we shall not have
law to establish a minimum wage for women.

"I ask you to look at our declaration and hear and read our platform
about social and industrial justice and then, friends, vote for the
progressive ticket without regard to me, without regard to my
personality, for only by voting for that platform can you be true to
the cause of progress throughout this union." (Applause.)

All through his talk, it was evident that his physicians feared his
injury had been more serious than he was willing to admit. That a man
with a bullet embedded in his body could stand up there and insist on
giving the audience the speech which they had come to hear was almost
incredible and it was plain the physicians as well as the other friends
of the colonel on the stage were greatly alarmed.

Col. Roosevelt, however, would have none of it. "Sit down, sit down,"
he said to those who, when he faltered once or twice, half rose to come
towards him. He insisted that he was having a good time in spite of his
injury.

Finally a motherly looking woman, a few rows of seats back from the
stage rose and said, "Mr. Roosevelt, we all wish you would be seated."

To this the colonel quickly replied: "I thank you, madam, but I don't
mind it a bit."

To those on the stage, who wished he would adopt the suggestion of
being seated, he said: "Good gracious if you saw me in the saddle at
the head of my troops with a bullet in me you would not mind."

The only time Col. Roosevelt gave up and took a seat was when he came
to a quotation from La Follette's weekly which paid him a tribute of
praise for his work as president. This was read by Assemblyman T. J.
Mahon, while the colonel rested.

At the conclusion of the reading Col. Roosevelt said that he was the
same man now that he was then. He had not been