The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-26
MARSHALL CHARGES ROOSEVELT FASTENED IT ON THE PEOPLE
 IN IRON DEALS.
VIOLATED EVERY PRECEDENT
When He Sanctioned the Tennessee Coal and Iron Consolidation and Violated thy Constitution of
 the Country.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Sept 25.--Gov. ernor Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, was the principal speaker tonight at a democratic rally preliminary to the partys state convention tomorrow. The governor, who reached here to- night after an afternoon speech at Kalamazoo. will remain in Grand Rapids over night and address the delegates at tomorrow's gathering.
 Governor Marshall charged that Colonel Roosevelt. when president, violated every precedent of the repub- lic,p in the matter of the consolidation of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com
 pany with the United States Steel cor .poration, thereby further fastening the power of invisible government
 upon the people.
 The speakers address also contaif- ed caustic criticism of former Sen ator Beveridge of Indiana. and the progressive party.
 The invisible government is no
 new discovery for the democrats, he
 decIareJ. That is the government"
 he said, which the genuine democrat
 has been fighting for more than three Fdecades." He was fighting this men acc to righteousness and good govern ment during all of the years that Theodore Roosevelt and Albert ]. Rev.
 eridge did not know of it's existence.
 "'rhe democrat was alert, if power
 less, during the years that Senator Beveridge was standing in the United States senate and by vote and voice. fastening the power of this invisible government upon the toiling millions of America
 "The democrat knew that the 'in- visible government existed when Theodore Roosevelt violated every precedent of the republic, struck tlle constitution as though it were an un- ruly child, and by the very forces and power of his great office, aided and abetted in the consolidation of the Tennessee Iron and Coal company with the United States Steel corpora tion. thereby further fastening she power of this invisible government upon the people. The democrat knew during all the time of the campaign oratory of both Theodore Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge that though the voice might be the voice of Jacobs the hand was the hand of Esau
 s'It shall reveal an amazing Jack of on tbe' part of the American people if they choose as their agents to destroy this invisible government these gentlemen who aev- CT discovered it's existence until they had been retired from office.
 But the worst feature the progress sives' discovery of this invisible gov reveals Is their pretense that tucy udNt idfu but q tuuiHAltH " Ita v by they can capture and destroy 1t Let us. however reason together. No government of any kind can endure without the power not only to tax but also to collect taxes. When the con stitution of the United States was rat. flied by the several states, the vital spark in 1t which kept all the rest of il alive. and which has maintained 1t in greater or less vigor. was the right so tax and it's power to collect taxes.
 These gentlemen who are now as saulting invisible government are the gentlemen who gave 1t the power to collect taxes, and they do not now propose that this power of invisible taxation shall cease.
 You cannot destroy q government while you give 1t power to tax and collect taxes"