Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-02
CANNOT BLAME:
REPUBLICAN
PARTY
INCREASE IN LIVING
COST is INTERNATI I0NAL
Roosevelt RebukeS Democrats
for Seeking to Put Response
biIity in Wrong Place. viii
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TBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
Buffalo y. y, Nov. 1.-THE repub-
lican party is not responsible for the
high cost of living, Theodore Roose-
Welt asserted in q campaign speech
here tonight The causes Of high
piices in the main were international.
colonel Roosevelt declared that in
some instances trusts had forced up
prices and pointed to the record Of
Henry t. Stimson. republican candi-
date for governor as "A prosecutor Of
combinations which had violated The
law as PROOF that il elected, he
would do all the governor of the state
could do to prevent artificial infla-
lon Of values
Tnc colonel spoke here twice to-
night and then started for New York
whence he is t. depart for Iowa three
hours after his arrival
In his speech here tonight Colonel
Roosevelt said in part:
Fourteen years ago | was in Buff
falo speaking in the campaign for MIR.
Mckinley against Mr. Bryan and at
that time our opponents held the re-
pbuicans responsible because prices
were too low. You remember that
Nj Rryan's great complaint was thar
we never could get wheat up to the
dollar limit. Now, fourteen years af-
ten the complaint is chat prices are
toe high. Real suffering has unques-
tionably been caused because prices
have gone UP, but the cost OF living
has increased
"As Mr.. Stimson pointed out the
other night, there has been a world
wide movement towi rd higher prices
during She last few years a move
aeM d,fe 90 various taJsos. some OF
which undoubtedly win be changed
By time
Colonel Roosevelt spoke of Mr..
simsons prosecution OF the trusts
white he was United states district at
torney in New Yolk and said that rs
result every big financial corpora
tion Of the type we speak of as q
trust is now doing all it can to back
up MI. Dix and to oppose Mr.. slim
son. If Harry Stlmson were not q
menace 10 the big trusts you would
not tnd every big trust controlled
newspaper OF New York City against
him IL Nh Dix was not wanted in
office hy the great corporations which
have more effect in raising the high
prices OF living than any other agency
of purely national Us distinguished
nom International significance you
would not find them supporting MI
Dix es eagerly as they are support
ing him in this campaign
1T was not until I became president
that The first really serious effort was
MADE to enforce the anti trust law.
And while ass was perfectly inevitable
in The beginning OF crusade of thar
kind We sometimes failed and while
il Was physically impossible for us
10 take up moro than a small traction
of the cases, yet We did accomplish
a great deal We fought suit after
suit 10 successful conclusion and We
made both interstate commerce law
and The anti trust law realities and
not shams.
Who have been the people who at
tackled me most violently? The plain
people or the men who represent the
~ust' It s. the representatives Of
gr AL corporations. their representa-
tros in the press, their representa-
tivos in public lire, their rcpr esenta-
lives in private life, the big corpora
uon lawyers"