Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-27
admits HE'S PLOT EXT0LS HIS STATE
George Bridges Arrested With Toilette Tells of Proqress
Dynamite in Possession. i've Movement in Wisconsin
WEAKENS UNDER PRESSURE PRAISES RESULT OBTAINED
Declares Others Will Have Take the Of
Medicine Along With Him Youngstown, Ohio.
PROMISES TO EXPOSE THEM SAYS NATION HAS PRoFITED
Sticks
and Brought
Monessen, Pa
La Toilette Tells of Progress
i've Movement in Wisconsin. /
PRAISES RESULT OBTAINED
Addresses the Business Men Of
Youngstown, Ohio.
SAYS NATION HAS PR0FITED
Asserts Dire Predictions Have Failed
and Regulation Has Brought
Stability.

hoI Ohio. December ~
me progressive movement and what il
mas done in Wisconsin was the tonic
discussed by Senator La Toilette fodav
before the business men of this steel
and iron community. He declared the
progressive movement is peoples
movement, peoples cause. and that II
TOOK root in the granger movement of
the northwest. asserting that today the
justice the wisdom. the economic sound
ness of every Wisconsin law to which
the progressive movement gave being
mas conquered opposition and compelled
the approval Of every American com
munlty The nation has profited by
Nlsconsin's civic evolution" the sem
ator declared. and continued:
Results Achieved.
1t Is not claimed for the progressive
cause In Wisconsin that IL has attained
It's mai destiny, that il has settled all
OF the questions that Vex and trouble
thoughtful people everywhere and cause
unrest even among the poor and rich,
but we do know that We have achieved
certain things. We know that govern
inent has been made REPRESENTATIVE
truly representative
We do know that the dire and
awful predictions which alarmed hon
est business in Wisconsin have proved
raise: that capital has not fed from
the state, but is more secure than else
where; that state banks. subject to
state regulation. are safe and failure is
unknown; that the street car the in
terurban, the gas. electric light and
water rates are undergoing regulation
and reduction. and yet, because we
have stability the bonds of all our
public utilities are selling higher in
the markets than those of other states:
that railroad rates have been reduced
the services regulated. the complaints
OF shippers adjusted. and vet the rail
roads OF Wisconsin are more prosper
Gus than i'm other states. because a
sense of security prevails everywhere
and every producer. every manufacturer
knows that his competitors within the
scope OF state regulation enjoy no
secret favor or advantage.
Confidence Replaces Mistrust.
The old feeling of class antagonism
and distrust is fast giving place to peace.
confidence and prosperity. IL was clearly
understood at the outset that We were
entering upon "A new era that the won
derful industrial development of the
country had outgrown our statutes and
Constitution: that the problems were
complex and intricate in high degree.
and that they required profound study
and research. and the application of the
best expert knowledge available.
Whatever success We have attained in
Wisconsin through the enactment of VIE
constructive statutes has been the result
OF clear and definite comprehension "f
the Importance of the work az affectin
not only the material interests of.,th
state. but the sociological welfare Of the
people in the broadcast application OF that
term The conditions which prevailed in
policies, government and business in Wis
consin fifteen years ago are those which
the people in most states and in the Ha-
ton are facing today.