Mr. Beveridge said that the new party stood for "social
brotherhood versus savage industrialism." It was the child of years of discontent with the old parties. When Mr. Roosevelt appeared on Tuesday he was received with one of those demonstrations of organized frenzy of which the United States alone has the secret. The cheering continued for nearly an hour. Miss Jane Addams, the well-known social reformer, whose book on the " White Slave Traffic" we noticed recently, was carried to the platform, and the Con- vention sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers." But enough of the setting. We must summarize Mr. Roosevelt's speech. It was a carefully prepared declaration which will no doubt become the gospel of the Third Party. Mr. Roosevelt offers a mixture of " Lloyd Georgeism," as American Radicals are beginning to call Radical-Socialistic legislation, and Con- servative caution.
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