The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-27
GOES OUTSIDE OLD
PARTY PLATFORMS
Lays Much Stress on Laws for
'Workingnen and Gives His
Views on the Corpor-
alton Question.

"copfessiou of faith" Of Colo
mel Roosevelt is now in black
and white. the finishing touches
having been made today. When he
has completed the recital Of his doc
trines in Chicago on the night Of Au-
gust 3, he probably will be called
socialistic or anarchistic, and may be
both, he said tonight. But he insisted
that the measures he advocated must
come.
sHTbey are corrective to socialism
and an antidote to anarchy" he de-
clared.
Two Of the more striking measures
favored by Colonel Roosevelt are the
fixing by law of minimum wage scales
for women workers, and a. guarantee
by law to workmen in what he calls
the Continuous industrials' of eight
hour shifts and one day IS rest in every
seven.
Although Colonel Roosevelt has taken
precautions to prevent the contents of
his speech from becoming known pre-.
naturely, he gave glimpse behind tho
veil tonight de aeals almost entirely
with bro, Z economic - problems, and
gave the impression that he will lay
emphasis chiefly upon subjects of this
nature, which he says both Democratic
and Republican platforms have ignored.
New Things Developed.
Colonel Roosevelt said he had not
wished at present to take up new
things, but had come to the conclusion
that he must develop some Of his doc
trines in his Chicago speech, and had
gone further than ever before in advo-
eating what might be regarded by his
opponents as radical measures. He said
he was curious TO see how his speech
would be received by largo business
interests.
The things he now has to say, he
added, he hoped would not frighten
these men, for if they were wise, he
asserted, they would sec that he was
acting in their interest.
Business should be encouraged IN
every legitimate way, he said, but at
the same time business prosperity
should be made the hand-maiden of
the people," and the tendency should
be toward diversification OF the own
ership Of property.
Corporation Ideas.
The lines along which business has
developed recently. as best illustrated
by the formation Of huge corporations,
should be recognized, he said, and the
effect should be to correct attendant
evils rather than to attempt to abolish
large corpora tions or to restrict their
size.
1t was in this connection that he
said he favored minimum wage for
women and he. added that later it
probably would be necessary to make
similar laws for men. The proposal
Of q guarantee Of SIX days work and
eight hour shifts he restricted to the
continuous industries like the
steel mills, in which work IS kept up
| twentyfopr hours a day and seven
| days week.
/ Colonel Roosevelt mentioned these
two measures merely AZ illustrating
| the kind OF legislation which he be-
lieves should be adopted to meet exist
ing conditions.
Criticlses Democrats.
The proposals of tho Democrats, Col
opel Roosevelt said, were futile. He
! cited tho Stanley congressional inves.
| tigatiou as illustrating his point. Re-
! ferring TO the recommendation that no
corporation be permitted to control
more than 80 per cent of any particu-
lar business, he declared such al arbi"
trary limitation foolish, The Demo-
Gratis some time before, he said. favored
the same plan, oply with different
| limit, and he. asserted that If ap at"
| tempt were made TO put it into effect
the only result would be a sories of
| lawsuits for four or five years, ter
Tninating in decisions similar to the
recent rulings of the supreme court in
| the American Tobacco and Standard
| Oil cases.
The Democratic party, he said, Of
| fered no solution of these problems,
and as for the Democratic platform. he
viewed it lightly. saying that IL was
written by William J. Bryan, who did
not know what he wanted. The he
publican party, now that the Mon in
| the national Progressive movement.
have left it. he asserted, is composed
largely of the bosses and the financial
| interaqfg