The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-31
ROOSEVELT
 IN VERMONT
coNrINuEp ERoM PAoe oNs.

long step backwards, of benefit only
 to the trusts themselves. The anti
 trust law by itself can never in any
 shape or way solve the problem of dealing with the trusts. As at pres
 ent enforced. and still more as it would be enforced if the recommenda-
 tions of the Stanley committee were enacted into law. it is and would re-
 main merely policy of make-believe strangle, a policy nominally against the interests of the huge, swollen trusts, but really in their favor, and menace only to honest business men with businesses of moderate size.
 Tt is curious to see how closely the old parties stand together in this matter, how eagerly the representa-
 tives of the big trusts and of their | tools and allies in the business world
 rally to the hope of either as against | the progressives. The recent action 1 of Mir Penrose and Mr Archbold is
 a striking illustration of the clearness with which the Standard Oil trust and
 it's creatures in politics see that their
 real foes, the foes whom they hate and
 dread, are to be found only in the pro gressive party; and against these foes
 they will do everything in their power
 in the interest of either or both of the old parties, with the old, corrupt
 machine organizations.
 "The democratic and republican plat | forms uphold the antitrust law as in
 itself sufficient panacea and the
 one is backed by the action of the l department of justice and the other by i the action of the Stanley committee of the house of representatives The
 big trusts cordially approve of both platforms; and they approve of the department of justice and the Stan ley committee. They draw no sharp lines between the democratic and the republicacn platforms in this natter l they draw no sharp line between the action of the department of justice at present and the action proposed by the Stanley committee. They are entire ly satisfied with both the democratic and republican platforms. They are
 entirely satisfied with the Stanley committee and with the present de- partment of justice. Some of them are supporting the republican candi-
 date; more of them are supporting the democratic candidates for every big financial magnate connected with crooked trust knows that neither the democrats nor the republicans
 menace him or his interests in the slightest degree, and that they have
 nothing to fear except from the pro
 gressiye party
 Now, friends, l wish that you would, for yourselves, carefully and 1 fairly compare the several actions and
 the several promises of the progress iyecs, the republicans and the demo
 cratic parties in this matter. You will find in the first place that we are sincere and that our opponents are ob- Iviously insinceFe. You will find in the lnext place that we understand what the problem is and that our opponents either do not understand it or delib- erately refuse to understand it; they
 have no proposals to make for really controlling them; all that they pro- pose, both of them alike, republicans
 and democrats alike. is to continue the policy of make-belieye strangle, to great law-breaking trusts at liberty
 to defy the law not only with impun- ity but with profit, as has just been
 shown in the case of the Standard Oil
 and the tobacco trusts, and yet, which keeps every honest business man or moderate means in a condition of per
 petual uneasiness lest he has unwit- tingly violated the law.
 ''Of all the blanks of the progress i've platform, and they are all of them good, the two which most go 10 my
 own heart are the one which deals
 with social and industrial justice and
 the one on country life. Not only the present republican and democratic
 platforms fail in any way to deal with
 these matters as our platform deals
 with them, but no platform previous
 to ours has ever shown an intelligent understanding of what social and in dustrial justice was. Our proposals are definite and concrete, and they are
 absolutely practical. We treat our whole platform as a covenant with the people binding upon ourselves and upon our candidates in state and in ' nation We pledge ourselves to legis
 lation looking to the prevention of in dustrial accidents and occupational diseases. We intend to deal with the problems of involuntary unemploy llCul anu Ol ONGi WBAhs w V lhAChh N { secure compensation for men or wom en who are killed or crippled in indus try; to prohibit sweated labor; to SC cure a minimum wage standard fol
 working women and living wage 1T all industrial occupations. We pledge r ourselves to secure one days rest 1T 3 seven for all wage workers, and ar
 eight-hour day in continuous 24-houi 2 industries, the prohibition of nigh ! work and the establishment of al ! eight-hour day for women. We pledge - ourselves to the abolition of the con !. vict contract labor system and the ap | plication of prisoners earnings to th' 1, support of their dependent families
 We recognize that in all matters sucl as these. women are as vitally con j. cerned as men. We recognize tha {. | tt..... -.....,t kn 41,ntffxs nf fttnaffav