Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-11
TAFT bLAMES
ROOSEVELT FOR
TREATY DEFEAT
President in Speech at Co.
lumbus Says Colonel's OPP
position Downed Arbitra-
ton Treaties. ...

his campaign manager, Senator Dixon
Of Montana, and democrats In the SEN
ate were responsible for the "emascu-
lation" of the arbitration treaties
with Great Britain and France ana
that in consequence of their action
the pacts were so changed as to be OF
doubtful utility. These treaties, the
president declared, would have made
wide steps toward universal peace;
would have signalized a movement Tor
a universal arbitral court and were as
progressive measures as ever were
suggested to the American people"
For some reason unknown to my
puzzle-witted BRAIN said the presi-
dent. "Mr. Roosevelt opposed these
treaties and by those men who sup
|ported that opposition, his manager,
Mr.. Dixon, and the democratic votes
I'm the senate. those treaties were so
|emasculated that it is diff to see
whether they contain anything Of
value which ought to be ratified into
a treaty. My idea of progress and OF
the highest progress possible was In
those arbitration treaties because
saw in them step toward universal
arbitral court to which any nation In
the world might resort in order to
solve controversy that it might have
with any other nation and until We get
such court, war will not disappear,
and this as decided step toward that
end, as progressive measure as has
ever been suggested to the American
people"
| Renews Attack on Roosevelt.
| Mr.. Tafts memorial hall address
was the last scheduled for his present
tour through his home state. He con
tinued his attack last night on Col
Roosevelt taking up more than dozen
subjects that Mr.. Roosevelt had re-
ferred to in his speeches against the
president Mr.. Taft openly accused
Mr.. Roosevelt of misrepresentation and
misstatement; said that in many &C.
lions for which his predecessor now
criticised him he had been Influenced
by Mr. Roosevelt's advice and asked
the people of Ohio to give him square
deal.
The president dwelt at length on the
Roosevelt charges that he was the
friend of the boss and the tool of the
| trust and special interests. He point
ed out the failure of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration to prosecute the steel
| trust and the harvester trust and con-
! trasted that with the attitude of his
own administration which has filed
suits against both. Although he care.
! fully explained that he did not wish to
charge Mr.. Roosevelt with anything
improper the president reviewed in
some detail the circumstances under
which the Roosevelt administration de-
cided not to institute proceedings
against these trusts or against any OF
the Morgan interests" The president
said that Geo. w. Perkins, "a director
Of the harvester trust and OF the steel
trust" was instrumental in preventing
the prosecutions in the Roosevelt days
and then went on to say:
| Perkins Contribution Cited.
! "Mr. Perkins is one Of the chief con-
! tributors to Mr.. Roosevelt's present
financial fund. Now I want to ask what
would have Mr.. Roosevelt said Of mo
IL I had not prosecuted the steel trust
and the harvester trust and 1t appeared
subsequently that Mr. Perkins was
large contributor to special fund ex-
pended for my use?
"Well what does he do In the face
of that? He charges me with being in
control Of the special interests, with
these facts staring him in the face.
5"I don't infer from these facts any
thing improper. On the contrary
don't believe there is anything improp-
er. but do say to him who is so pro-
| life in his suggestion Of suspicion and
so easy in his charges Of improper mo-
tives that for him now with the EVIL
dence before the public to charge me
with being an agent Of the special in
| terests. takes the audaciouS courage l
still believe him to have.'
oil Situation Reviewed.
| Replying to the statement that the
DEGREES Of the supreme court in the
Standard Oil and American Tobacco
Co cases were really of benefit to those
| trusts and that the Taft administra-
tons prosecution Of them had been In
! effectual because oil has gone up and
| the stock Of both companies has gone
| up, President Taft told why he beltev-
| ed these resulted from natural eco
| nomic causes.
"They say oil has gone up and they
say the stock of these constituent COM
! panies has gone up" said Mr.. Taft. IT
| is true that they have gone up and
why? Because in the dissolution ths
facts had to come out and the stock
holders who were holding stock down
l
| ally that they had great deal more
money in these companies than the
public had known. Secondly. they sag
that oil has gone up Well, 1t has, and
crude oil has gone up, too, and why?
Because under the Standard Oil COM
pany as it was they could control the
| purchase Of crude oil and they kept
crude oil down. know what 1 am talk
| ing about, because l had to approve
contracts down in the Indian territory
| in respect to oil. The price went down,
suppressed by the Standard Oil. so that
we did not know what to do with those
Indian lands. Now because competition
has come about and people are bidding
for that oil, crude oil has gone up and
the price Of oil generally has gone up.
| But you cannot get everything. II you
have trust you may have cheapness
but you will have absolute control: but
II you do not have trust you will have
competition, sometimes you will have
| cheapness and sometimes 1t will be
| high would rather have competition
and have it high and low instead of be-
| ing in the hands and control and grip
/ - s II