The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-17
ORIGINAL PROGRESSIVE AT TAcks THEODORE ROOSEVELT
 AND THE BULL MOOSE.
TEDDY FATHER OF TRUSTS
Senator Says There Were 14s When He Took Office and 10,o2o When He Completed Ills Second Term
 in Office.

Washington, Aug. 16.-In a pie turesque, spontaneous outburst dur ing debate of the presidents wool tariff veto in the senate, Senator La Toilette today attacked the new pro- pressiye party and swore new allegi- ance to progressive republicanism.
 The original insurgent," quivering with emotion, with clenched hands and strained voice, poured out a flood of impassioned oratory that kept the floor and galleries of the senate rapt and silent. Standing in the well of the chamber Senator La Toilette as- sured his associates that he intend ed to keep up the fight in the repub lcan party to make that party really progressive" and to keep on until the last bell rings and the curtain falls.
 After reviewing briefly the trust record of Colonel Roosevelt, Senator La Toilette declared that the former president was mot the man to find the way out now" He asserted that no obstacle dragged across the path of the progressive movement in the republican party can now stop the advance"
 He declared that when the repub lican party, through It's progressive assistants, had reached a point where il would respond to the purposes for which it was born, an attempt is made at Chicago to divert it.
 Senator Stone asked MT. La Fol lette whether he meant the nomina ton of President Taft or the nomina tion of ex-President Roosevelt
 T am awflllly surprised, began Senator La Toilette, that l left the senator from Missouri in doubt. hope I did not leave doubt in the mind of any one else"
 Then moving down the center aisle until his outstretched hands almost touched the stenographer's table, ho continued.
 "On the day that Theodore Roose- welt was made president there were 149 trusts and combinations in the United States. When he turned this government over to William Howard Taft there were 10O20 plants in com bination.
 When he became president these trusts had an aggregate capltallza- tion of three billion dollars, and when he left the presidency they had an aggregate capitalization of thirty one billions and more than 70 per cent of it was water
 Their power has gone on growing and spreading There has been no dimunition in the present adminlstra- tion. This administration has sought to enforce the sherman antitrust law more vigorously than its prede- cessors, but the time to have applied the sherman law effectively was in the infancy of these trusts, when there were only 149.
 T don't believe that the man who was president for seven years while the greatest trust growth occurred at the very time of all times in the history of the Sherman antitrust law when it could have been made potential in deterring trust organl- zation-l do not think that the man who was president tben is the man to find the way out now"
 Then turning to Senator Stone, Senator La Toilette bowed and in- quired:
 Does that answer the senator from Missouri?'
 That does fairly we'll" responded Senator Stone, amid the laughter or the senate
 Senator Pomerene inquired if Sena- tor La Toilette would tell how many of the 10,02O trusts were good ones and how many of them bad ones.
 q have no way to differentiate, returned Senator La Toilette, "be- cause none of the trusts are my friends. have no Geo. w Perkins and no Munsey supporting me. It IS l alone, practically single handed fight, have been waging for twenty five years and, MT President l am going to keep on until the bell rings and the curtain falls"
 Senator La Follette's outburst came without warning. He arose to make an analysis of the president veto message on the wool bill. but had spoken scarcely dozen words when the break came He saw many republican senators bad left thei seats as he began to speak, and with a bitter smile he turned to the presi dent of the senate.
 q note the fact he said. that on the republican side there are just fourteen senators present. am constrained to speculate a bit about this am impelled to questior whether that condition may not be sort of prophecy of what Is to come.