The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-02
REPUBLICAN PARTY
 NOT RESPONSIBLE Roosevelt Defends G. O. P. in His Buffalo Speech PRAISE FOR sTIMSON Prosecution of Sugar Trust Is Taken as the Text to Accord Praise to
 the Republican Candidate
 for Governor st
PRAISE FOR sr1MsoN

Buffalo, N. r.. November 1.-The re- publican party Is not responsible for the high cost of living, Theodore Roosevelt asserted in a campaign speech here to- night. The cause of high prices in the main were international. If the people of New York, he said. wished to have the state administration do what it could to change conditions which made prices high, they should elect the republican ticket "
 Colonel Roosevelt said that in some in- stances trusts have forced up prices, and he pointed to the record of Henry L. Stim- son, republican candidate for governor, as Ia prosecutor of corporations which had violated the law as proof that if elected he would do all the governor of the state could do to prevent artificial imitation of values.
 Colonel Roosevelt's declaration on this subject, concerning which he has said lit made first at Niagara Falls this afternoon and at Buffalo at the close of his last speaking tour of the state in the present campaign. He spoke today at Albion. Lockport, Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
 The colonel spoke twice here tonight md then started for New York, whence he is to depart for Iowa three hours after his arrival there in the morning.
 The Cost of Living
 Tn his speech here tonight Colonel roosevelt said in part:
 "Fourteen years ago was in Buffalo ia the campaign for Mckinley against aIr. Bryan, and at that time our op- lonents held the republicans responsible because prices were too low. You remem- per that MT. Bryans great complaint was that we never would get wheat up to the dollar limit Now, II years after, the complaint Is that prices are too high. Real suffering has unquestionably been caused by the fact that prices have gone ID. that the cost of living has increased "A demagogue in Henry Stimson's place would have promised that impossible re- sults would follow his success and our opponents play the demagogue part, for they say we are to blame for high prices md that If they are put in powtr prices will be made low. They know what they promise they cannot perform.
 "As MT. Stimson pointed out the other night, there has been a world wide move ment toward higher prices during the last few years movement due to vari- ous causes, some of which undoubtedly will be changed by time. It is not in it's essence a movement that affects ours. Nevertheless. there are one or two arti- 1cal causes that in given cases in our own country tend to make prices improperly high in ways that 1t is possible that we can cure.s' ss E te strs,Fe.s
 Prosecution of Trusts
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke of Mir. Stim- sons prosecution of the trusts while he was United States district attorney in New York and said that as a result every big financial corporation of the type that we speak of as a trust is now doing all it can to back up MT. Dix and to oppose Mir. Stimson. If Henry Stimson were not menace to the big trusts he would not find every big trust controlled newspaper of New York city against him. If Mir. Dix was not wanted in office by the great corporations which have more effect in raising the high prices of living than any other agency of purely national as distinguished from international significance, you would not find them supporting MT. Dix as eagerly as they are supporting him in this cam paign
 .'It was not until I became President that the first really serious effort was made to enforce the antitrust law. And while, as was perfectly inevitable, In the beginning of crusade of that kind, we sometimes failed, and while 1t was phy- sically impossible for us to take up with the limited means we had at our dis posal more than small fraction of the cases that we would have liked to take up. we did accomplish a great deal. We fought suit after suit to a successful conclusion and we made both the in- terstate commerce law and the anti trust law realities and not shams.
 Who Makes AttacI<sf a
 '.Who have been the people who att tackled me most violently? The plain people or the men who represent the trust? Tt Is the representatives of great corporations, their representatives in pri- vate life, the big corporation lawyers. and Henry Stimson Is naturally feared by the great combinations which are either doing an illegal business or which are 50 close up to the edge of an H. legal business that they are always afraid that they will be hauled up for stepping over the line, and by the corporations which are not doing anything illegal. nevertheless are enjoying special privi- leges which ought to be made illegal.
 ''Stimson does not tell you that if elect ed he can put a stop to the high cost of living; he cannot, and no, one else can. But he does say that on certain big necessities, by carrying out the course of action that he has consistently carried out in public life, a certain improvement can here and there be made as regards certain commodities controlled by great trusts"