The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-31
Does not Know How He will
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Live Through West
ern Trip.
LAST DAY OF CAMPAIGN
N VERMONT BEFORE ELECTION
Colonel was up at $3.50 O'clock this
Morning and at O'clock was off in
an Automobile for First Point in
Days Itinerary.

st. Johnsbury, VT, Aug. 31.-"If the
crowds turn out on my western trip
as they have done in Vermont, l don't
know that I shall live through it," said
Colonel Roosevelt as he started out on
the last day Of his campaign in this
state prior to the state election next
Tuesday.
II don't need to keep my hat in the
ring now," he said. There are too
many bandanas."
Colonel Roosevelt was up at $50
o'clock for the days work and before
8 o'clock was in an automobile headed
for Barre. where he makes his first
speech. Randolph, Bellows and Brat
tleboroug completed the days timer
ary. From Brattleborough Roosevelt
will return to Oyster Bay which he
will reach tomorrow morning for a
brief rest before leaving for the west
Monday morning.
The Trust Problem.
Discussing the trust problem in his
speech at this point last night Colonel
Roosevelt said:
II call your attention to what our
platform says about business and the
trusts. In the national government
two methods of dealing with big busi-
ness have so far been tried; one that
of regulation through the Interstate
commerce commission, the other that
Of destruction by means of the anti
trust law. The first has been eminent
ly successful. the second has broken
down. The progressive platform faces
this fact. 1t states that the test of
true prosperity must be the benefits
conferred thereby on all citizens, not
the benefits confined to individuals or
classes, and that the test of corporate
efficiency must be the ability better to
serve the public. The platform de-
mands efficient and thorough-go going
national regulation of all those great
industrial concerns doing an interstate
business. The law is to be made def
mite so that honest men will not be
under continued threat of law-pro-
ceedings. Moreover, the antitrust law
Is to be kept on the statute books. and
instead Of its enforcement against the
big trusts being as now merely farcial.
1t Is to be the duty of the commission
to aid in seeing. that every trust guilty
Of bad conduct shall he really and not
merely nominally dissolved, and the
men guilty of the misconduct punish
ed.
This program is the only program
that offers the slightest chance of real
accomplishment We propose to give
the honest business man certainty as
10 WIlal lne law is anu is not, SO IndC
he will no longer be nervously unable
to tell whether he has made himself
subject to its penalties. We propose to
create an administrative commission
which shall superintend big business
in thoroughgoing fashion and stop ev-
cry species of wrongdoing precisely as
the best class of public utilities COM
mission now does in the states and
municipalities. precisely as the Inter-
state commerce commission will again
! do when we get rid of the mischiev-
ssspus commerce court. the creation of
which represented long step back
wards of benefit only to the trusts
themselves. The antitrust law by it.
self can never in any shape or way
solve the problem of dealing with the
trusts. AS at present enforced, and
still more as it would be enforced if
the recommendations of the Stanley
committee were enacted into law, 1t is
and would remain mere policy of
make believe strangle. a policy nomin-
ally against the interests of the huge,
swollen trusts but really in their favor.
and a menace only to honest business
men with businesses of moderate size. 1"