Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-31
LAMDASTS HIS ENEMIES
DECLARES "THE LORD HATH DE
LIvEItED THEM INTO
MY HANDS"
retain The Sherman Law
But Would Have IA Committee 10 See
That ID IL Really
Enforced,

ST. JOHNSBURY. VT. Aug. 80
Colonel Roosevelt struck up an intl-
mate acquaintance with the rural
sections of northern Vermont today
during his automobile campaign
through the state. He spent most OF
the day in motor car making five
speeches and received such a welcome
that he said he thought Vermant was
waking up.
Before a lively crowd in the court
house square here tonight, Colonel
Roosevelt made speech which
brought him cheer after cheer. He
assalled his critics and defended thf
peoples party. John ID. Archbold
vice president of the Standard Oh
company, and Senator ePnrose, wer,
attacked for their testimony befort
the senate investigating committee.
Il thought for time that they
would do damage to the progressive
party" he said, but the Lord hath
delivered them into my hands"
His Perfect Platform.
After declaring that 'the progres
siive platform Is the first platform
since the civil war which has fearless
y, fully and intelligently faced tn
needs Of our people, which has prom
ised everything that ought to be prom
ustd and has promised nothing thai
cannot be and ought not be fulfilled,
Colonel Roosevelt launched into dis
cussion of the trusts. He asserted
that in truth the interstate commerce
commission had been successful and
that destruction by means of the anti
trust law has broken down. The pro
gressive platform, on the other hand.
no said, demands efficient nationa
regulation by means of law that is
to be made definite, so that honest
men will not be under continued
threat of law proceedings"
Keep Antitrust Law.
THE antitrust law, however" saio
the colonel ''is to be kept on the
statute books, but instead Of its en-
forcement against the big trusts. as
now, II Is to be the duty Of the com
mission to aid in seeing that every
trust guilty of bad misconduct shal
be really and not merely nominally
dissolved, and the men guilty of the
misconduct punished"
The colonel declared that program
Is the only one that offers the slight
est chance of real accomplishment.
1--WE PROPOSE" said the colonel, ito
create an administrative commission
which shall superintend big business
in thorough going fashion and stol
every species of wrong doing precies
ly as the best class of public utilities
commission now does in the states
and municipalities, precisely as the
interstate commerce commission VIII
again do when we get rid Of the mis-
chievous commerce court, the creation
of which represented hong step back
wards, Of benefit only to the trusts
themselves. The antitrust law by 1t
self can never In any shape or way
solve the problem of dealing with
the trusts. AS at present enforced,
and still more as 1t should be en-
forced II the recommendations of the
commission were enacted into law. II
Is and would remain mere policy OF
meke- believe strangle, policy nom
inally against the interests of the
swollen trusts, but really In their ia
vor, and a menace only to honest
business men with businesses of
moderate size.
Everybody's Friend.
"Of all the planks Of the progress
sive platform, and they are all of
them good, the two which most go to
my own heart are the ones which deal
with social and individual 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
dividual justice Is. Our proposals are
definite and concrete and they are
absolutely practical We treat our
whole platform as covenant with
the people binding upon ourselves and
uron 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 inten1 10 deal with the
problem of involuntary unemployed
and of overwork. We intend to Sc
cure compensation for men or wom-
en- who are killed or crippled in In
dustry; to prohibit sweat shops; we