Roosevelt To Offer 50-Year Programme.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 27, 1912:
New Doctrines He'll Advance at Chicago May Take That Long to Work Out, He Says.
AN ANTIDOTE TO ANARCHY
He's for a Big Navy, Minimum Women's Pay Scale and Diversification of Business Ownership.
Special to The New York Times.
    OYSTER BAY. N. Y., July 26.— Col. Roosevelt talked to-day about some of the new doctrines which he will advance in the address which he is to deliver before the convention of Progressives in Chicago on Aug. 5, and which be hopes to have included in the platform of the new party. He is out openly now for a minimum wage scale for women, the diversification of industrial ownership, and a six-hour day for workmen, with a maximum of eight hours a day in continuing industries.
    "Some will probably say it is socialism, some that it is anarchy," said he, and then added:
    "This document is really a corrective of socialism and an antidote to anarchy."
    These are the ideas which Col. Roosevelt frankly admits cannot be worked out in a year or two, and may take fifty years to develop, but he said that they were sure to come, and that he was not afraid to talk about them. He is anxious, however, to see how the business men will accept his new doctrines, as his speech will deal to no small extent with the problem of the control of corporations and other big business interests.
    He expressed the hope that the business men would not shy away from the "novel ideas" in his forthcoming Chicago speech, as they did from the address he delivered before the constitutional convention at Columbus, because of his reference to the courts then and his advocacy of the recall of Judicial decisions. The Roosevelt programme will
also include bitter attacks upon the platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Where Col. Bryan Fails.    Mr. Bryan, the Colonel says, is taking an active part in directing the legislation for the Democratic Party, but fails in his endeavors because of ignorance of how the problems should be worked out. That was plainly indicated, the Colonel points out, by Bryan's advocacy of the 53-cent dollar as a cure for all industrial ills. He says, too, that there will always be men in the Democratic Party like Thomas F. Ryan, who will be careful to see that conditions do not change to their detriment.
    The Republican Party, he declares, since the Progressive element left the organization ranks, consists mainly of bosses and politicians and people, who through folly and prejudice or both are following the bosses.
    Col. Roosevelt said that he would develop several ideas in his Chicago speech which he had not intended to bring up at this time, but conditions made it necessary to bring before the people some new doctrines. In referring to the platform of the Democrats, the Colonel said that whatever remedies it might propose were only temporary ones and did not deal with the real problems, as they should be dealt with. He talked also of the report of the Stanley Investigating Committee, saying that its attitude was an absurd one and futile.
    It could result only, he said, in long-winded suits such as those brought against the Standard Oil and other trusts.
    "They are now saying that if a trust controls 30 per cent. of manufacture it is guilty of restraint of trade," declared the Bull Moose. "It was not many years ago that the Democrats placed the danger line at 60 per cent."

Business Should Be Encouraged.
    Business should be encouraged, Col. Roosevelt believes, but it should also be the handmaiden of the people, and the general move should be toward the diversification of the industrial ownership.
    As an illustration of his beliefs, he said that we had all been taught that improved machinery brought about better conditions for the workers, but the present trouble was that the economic profits of labor-saving devices were not divided equably enough.
    In talking of political bosses the Colonel referred to Barnes as better than some of the others, but he said he didn't like Barnes's principles. He was told then that Mr. Bryan was reported to have referred to him as a reactionary and Hamiltonian.
    "I'm mighty glad," he said with a smile. "to hear that Mr. Bryan ever heard of Hamilton."
    Roosevelt attacked the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for refusing to adopt the two-battleship programme. He said:
    "When the Democrats vote down the battleships, if they are logical, they should also vote to abandon the Panama Canal. It is an understandable policy to abandon the canal and abandon building up the fleet and say that this Nation shall simply become the China of the Western Hemisphere. I do not believe in that policy, but at least it is understandable.

Dodging the Responsibility.
    "But the unpardonable thing is to incur responsibility and then decline to adopt the necessary means to meet that responsibility. It is an outrage from the standpoint of National honor and interest to go on with the Panama Canal at all unless we both fortify it and keep up an adequate navy. Furthermore, any talk as to what we intend to do about the Monroe Doctrine, the Panama Canal, the protection of Hawaii, or in any other matter, is not merely offensive but contemptible, if we abandon building up the navy and show that we really have neither the power nor the will, if the need should ever come, to make our words good by deeds.
    "Out in the cow country in the old days it used to be proverbial that the man who was most apt to get into trouble was the man who was always ready to draw but not to shoot. The man who never got into trouble was the man who never blustered, who never was offensive, who never wronged or insulted any one, but who, as everybody well knew, was entirely competent to hold his own if attacked. I believe in the upbuilding of the United States Navy as an insurance for peace.
    "The voyage of our battle fleet around the world was one of the greatest moves for peace that this country has ever made. I hope that our people will always act, not only with scrupulous justice, but with the utmost generosity toward other nations, both weak and strong. I also hope that this will make it evident that such action is due not to timidity on our part but to genuine love of justice. We will become impotent either to secure justice for others or to secure respect for ourselves if we abandon the upbuilding of the navy, for the minute we stop building up the navy the navy begins to go backward."