Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-09
ROOSEVELT CAUSED
RUIN Of PEACE
TREATIES SAYS
Mr.. TAFT
President Delivers Scathing
Speech Against Competitor
Who is Charged with Endan-
gering Peace Movements.
UNIVERSAL COURT
EXECUTIVES AIM

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wered; Morgan Interests Be-
hind Lion Hunter, 1t IS Said.
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Columbus, o., May S.-President
Taft charged here tonight in speech
In Memorial hall that Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt his manager Senator
Dixon of Montana, and democrats in
the senate were responsible for the
emascuaton of the arbitration trea-
ties with Great Britain and France and
that In consequence of their action the
paets were so changed as to be OF
doubtful utility. These treaties the
president declares, would have made
long steps toward universal peace;
would have signalized a movement for
universal arbitral court and were
as progressive measures as ever were
suggested to the American people"
"For some reason unknown 10 my
puzzle witted BRAIN" said the presi-
dent. "Mr. Roosevelt opposed those
treaties and by those men who sup
ported that opposition. his manager,
Mr. Dixon, and the democratic votes
I'm the senate those treaties We're so
emascuated that II Is difficult to see
whether they contain anything OF
value which ought to be ratified into
treaty. My idea of progress and or
the highest progress possible was In
those arbitration treaties because
saw i'm them step toward universal
arbitrai court to which any nation
In the world might resort In order to
sofve q controversy that II might have
with any other nation and until we
get such O court, war will not disap-
pear.
"This was decided step to that
end, as progressive n measure as ever
has been suggested to the American
people"
Mr. Taft's Memorial hall address
was the last scheduled for his present
tour through his home state. He con-
rluded his attack tonight on Colonel
Roosevelt, taking up more than
dozen subjects that Colonel Roosevelt
has refused to in his speeches against
the president.
Mr.. Taft openly accused Mr.. Roose-
welt OF Misrepresentation and mis-
statement; said that in many actions
for which his predecessor now criu-
cized him, he had been influenced by
Mr.. Roosevelt's advice and asked the
people of Ohio to give him square
deal.
The president pointed out the fall
ure of the Roosevelt administration
TO prosecute the steel and harvester
trusts and contrasted that with the
4, de- administration
which has filed suits against both.
He reviewd in some detail the cir
cumstances under which the Roose-
Welt administration decided not to in
stitute proceedings against these
trusts or against any of the "Morgan
interests" The president said that
George w. Perkins, "a director or the
Harvester trust and of the steel trust
was instrumental in preventing the
prosecutions in the Roosevelt days and
then went on to say:
"Mr. Perkins Is one of the CHIEF
contributors TO Mr.. Roosevelt's present
presidential campaign. | want TO ask
YOU what do you think Mr.. RooseVeit
would say Of me II | had not prosecute
ed the Steel trust and the harvester
trust and II appeared subsequently that
Mr.. Perkins was a large contributor
to a special fund for my useY Wen
what does he do on the face of thatF
He charges me with being under con-
troll OF the special interests with these
facts staring him In the face. l ooht
infer from these facts ANYTHING I'M
proper. on the contrary. l don't pe-
ileve there is anything improper but
7 do say TO him who is so prolific IN
his suggestion Of suspicion ana SO
easy In his charges of improper mo-
tives. that for him now. with the evil
dence before the public, TO charge me
with being an agent of the special In
terests takes that audacious courage
I stllf believe him 10 have"
Replying 20 the statement that the
DEGREES OF the supreme court In the
Standard oil and American Tobacco
Company cases. were really Of benefit
10 those trusts and that the Taft ad-
prosecution of them had
been Intellectual because oil has gone
up and the stock of both companies
has gone up, President Taft told why
he believed these resulted from natu-
raj economic causes
They say oil has gone up and they
say the stock of these constituent COM
panles has gone up" said Mr.. Taft.
1T Is true that they have gone up.
and why? because in the dissolution
the facts had to come out and the
stockholders who were holding stock
down low had to reveal TO the public
generally that IL had a great deal more
money I'm those companies than the
public had known. Secondly. they say
that oil has gone M. Well. 1t has. and
crude oil has gone up. too. and Why
Because under the Standard OH Com
pany as u was. they could control the
prices OF crude oil and they kept crude