Arizona republican., 1911-12-28
Senator La Toilette, of Wis consin, is Unable to See a Single Good Thing in Our Governmental Ali fairs.
TAKES UP THE
 TRUST QUESTION
Statesman of New School Breaches Straight Social ism in His Campaign for the Presidential Nomina- tion.
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 CLEVELAND. Dec. 27.-Senator Robert M LaFollette of Wisconsin. speaking in his campaign for the presidency here tonight arraisned the trusts. and gave an enunciation of Lis ideas for the cure of evils. result ing from the present system Of gov ernment.
 He then launched into a discussion of r.. H. Gary's plan for the federal regulation of trusts LaFollette said he had no patience with this method. In his analysis he went further. and said ultimately the government will have to fix prices of labor and hours of employment. and compensation of original producers in order to fix ac- curately the prices to be charged the consumer. Instead of the Gary plar or Taft plan Of federal license for in corporations. LaFollette proposed his own plan for a commission of re- Straint.
 Restraint of trade is to relieve the country of the condition in which he finds it. The senator saw great evil in the growth of trusts \ tremend- JUS power has grown up in the coun try in the past few years. he said Again and again it has demonstrated it is strong enough to nominate the candidates of both parties for presi- Gert IL rules in the organization of legislative bodies. state and national and of committees which frame leg islation. It's influence is felt in cabi- nets and policies of administration. It's influence is seen in the appoint ments of prosecuting officials and the selection of judges upon the bench In business it has crippled or de- stroyed competition. It makes prices and imposes burdens upon the con- suminE public at will In finance its power is unlimited. It has acquired large control of the public domain and monopoliZed the natural resources of timber. iron. coal and oil"
 Though the speaker made no direct reference to the presidency or his own candidacy, he denounced the Payne Aldrich tariff after praising labor or saniZatiOns and stating it as his opinion the Sherman law does not contemplate the regulation of them. He criticized the National Preserve association advanced in the Aldrlch monetary plan
 The greatest menace to COmpcti- tion at the present time is the con- trol of credit and the concentration of money in the hands of those who control the trusts" he said. '.Elas- ticity of our currency is imperative and must be secured. but any plan to secure it like that proposed by the National monetary commission. which puts control in the hands Of banks and moneyed interests, will strengthen the power of the trusts ad enable capital to keep competitors from get ting credit. Any such plan must be controlled by the people"
 The progressive movement. he de- cidred. has as its aim the restoration of government to the people. The real cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. he said. Most of what the struggle in Wisconsin. Cali fornia. in Ohio and Pennsylvania. New Hampshire. Kansas and every ether state in the union means. is that the government shall be brought back and committed into the hands oi the common people. It means they must be supreme over the legislature and over governments. over presi- dents. over constitutions and over courts, he asserted