Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-11-08
ROOSEVELT ON
HIGH LIVING
CAUSES OF ADVANCES IN MAIN
INTERNATIONAL, THE COL
ONEI DECLARES.
IN FINAL SPEECH IN NEW YORK
Thinks Republican Party Can Effect
Some ReIief.-Election Of Stimson,
Enemy Of Trusts, Urged
as Panacea.

But1alO, N. T., NOV. In d cam
paign speech here, Theodore Roosevelt
said that the Republican party is not
responsible for the high cost Of liv'
ing.
THE causes Of high prices in the
main are international" he said. III
the people of New York wish to have
the state administration do what it
can to change conditions which made
prices high, they would elect the Re.
publican ticket"
Colonel Roosevelt said that in some
instances trusts have forced up prices
and he pointed to the record of Henry
l.. Stimson, Republican candidate for
governor, as prosecutor Of corpora
tions which had violated the law as
proof that II elected, he would do all
the governor of the state could do to
prevent artificial imitation of values.
Colonel Roosevelts assertions on
this subject, concerning which he has
said little previously during the CAM
paign, was made first at Niagara Falls
and at Buffalo at the close of his last
speaking tour over the state of the
present campaign. He spoke at AL.
bion. Lockport, Niagara Falls and Buff
falo. More enthusiasm was shown
than on almost any other day of his
campaign.
Reversal Of Complaint.
Fourteen years ago was in Buffalo
speaking in the campaign for Mr.. Nc.
Kinley against Mr.. Bryan and at that
time our opponents held the Republic
cans responsible because prices were
too low. You remember that Mr..
Bryan's great complaint was that we
never would get wheat up to the dollar
limit. Now, years after, the COM
plant is that prices are too high. Real
suffering has unquestionably been
caused by the fact that prices have
gone up, that the cost of living has in
creased. A demagogue in Harry Slim
sons place would have promised that
impossible results would follow his sue
cess and our opponents play the dema-
gogue part for they say we are to
blame for high prices, and that if they
are put in power prices will be made
low They know that what they pro-
mise they cannot perform.
As Mr.. Stimson pointed out the
other night there had been world.
wide movement toward higher prices
due to various causes, some Of which
undoubtedly will be changed by time.
It is not in it's essence movement
that affects only this country. 1t af.
fects other countries just as it affects
ours. Nevertheless there are one or
two artificial causes that in given
cases in our own country tend to make
prices improperly high, in ways that
it is possible that we can cure.
Trusts Fear Simpson.
who have been the people who at.
tackled me most violently? The plain
people or the men who represent the
trusts? 1t is the representatives of
great corporations, their representa-.
tives in the press, their representatives
in public life, their representatives in
private life, the big corporation law.
yers. and Harry Stimson is naturally
feared by the great combinations
which are either doing an illegal bust.
ness or who are SO close up to the
edge of an illegal business that they
are always afraid that they will be
hauled up for stepping over the line
"Stimson does not tell you that il
elected he can put stop to the high
cost of living; he cannot and no one
else can. But he does say that on Ger.
tain big necessities, by carrying out
the course of action that he has con.
sistently carried out in public life, a
certain improvement can here and
there be made as regards certain com.
modities controlled by great trusts.