Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-29
STILL PUTTING.
La Toilette Lauding Him
self to Big Crowds.
Speaks, Thursday, in Norwalk
And Toledo, Ohio.
Pre- sident Taft VIII Also Visit Ohio
During Next Month.

Toledo, Dec. 2S.-In two more Ohio
communities Senator La Toilette has
told what Progressive Republieanism
has done for his home state, Wiseon-
sin, what the Progressives would do
for the country, if administering it.
how to control the trusts and monop-
olies, how the Progressive movement
would restore self government TO the
people and how the tariff should be
treated TO reduce the high cost OF
living.
In Toledo. tonight, he touched on
all these subjects because of impor-
tunities by members of the local Or
ganization. who said the community
wanted to hear his views of all of
them. The speech was made to as
many as the hall would hold.
The speech, tonight, was practical
~ a repetition of what he said at the
meetings in Cleveland, last night, al
though there was somewhat more dis
cussion of the trust question. The in
itiative, referendum and the recall is
topic the senator is discussing very
fully at all the meetings and, tonight
he pleaded with Ohioans to adopt it,
La Toilette said he found 90 men on
all the directorates OF all the trusts
"Chauncey NJ. Depew.' he said, was
on ~, and l found that he had nc
money inyested-he was only Gum
my Then | found that only II men
controlled and were back of all these
SO names.
"And back of all this found Stan
dard Oil and Morgan.
And these people have not over
looked the newspapers. Their organs
are poisoning the public mind-they
ARE not serving your interests when
they declare me to be menace to
business"
The senator declared that the will
Of the people shall be the law of the
land. When constitution, statutes,
courts and all the complex details Of
government which are but instruments
to carry out the win of the people
fair, they must be changed SO as to
carry out and express the well-for-
lnulated judgment and the will of the
people.
AND its going to be changed" de-
clared the speaker. 'Oh, you stand
patters, take notice, The people have
never failed in any crisis; you haven't
got a representative government III
state or nation. today"
Saying that self-government was
being ieopardized by the trusts, the
senator asserted a crisis was at hand.
He declared that so powerful had two
names become that they dominated
all business. They are Morgan and
standard Ql and every banker in the
hall knows it," he added.
NorWalk. Ohio, Dec. Ex-senator r. NJ
La Toilette of Wisconsin carried the Sec
ond day of his campaign for progressive
Republicanism farther into the state
making his first speech of the day her'
shortly after noon.
As In his previous speeches in the state
he explained at great length the tenet
OF the Progressives, going deepen into
what he hoped for from the initiative
referendum and recall, asserting that h'
would apply the latter to the courts.
Touching on the tariff, the speake'
said:
when conditions surrounding labor II
this and competing countries are in per
feet equilibrium, we should have FREE
trade. / have always stood for a tariff
that will measure the difference, wher,
there is difference, between the cost o.
production in this and competing coun
tries"
Senator La Toilette said the difference
between the tariff views of the Stand Pa
and Progressive Republicans is that "th'
former believe in keeping the tariff wal
as high as possible, notwithstanding tn,
growth of monopoly, while the latter rec
ognize the need of radical changes II
tariff revision due to a vast revolution
in economic conditions