Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
MT. Roosevelt Points to the Tariff, the Trusts and Minimum Wage Scale as Weak Spots of Democrat ic Candidates Position
HIS OWN, HOWEVER,
 NOT WELL DEFINED
Advises the Missouri and Other Progressives Not to Fuse With Repub- licans Whenever There Is a Chance to Win Alone
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ST. LOUIS, sept. 3.-Woodrow Will sons stand on the tariff and trusts and proposal for minimum wage scale were assaileG Dy Col Roosevelt in a speech here to-day. The colonel took as his tex democratic can didate's speech If yesterday at Buff falo
 He delivered his -,ddress before the Missouri progreSsi&e state convention The colonel saw n5ghing of Governor Hadley who renamed at the state capitol.
 Col. Roosevelt waa asked to advise the state conventior as to whether it should name fui state ticket.
 T feel that except ill the states in which we can over rome bodily either of the old parties, fe ought to run a straight progressive ticket"
 In his speech, Roosevelt said in part: When he comes to the tariff MT. Wilson attempt. to quote me but he is singular}y unsuccessful. He states for instance hat l am not con- cerned with the in rests of the gen eral tax payer and renerM public. If he would take th trouble to read what l have said, C read our platform, he would find tH the commission principle which propose and to which he and hi. Fartv ate hostile has for one d1f f~s pflAcipai 54y3cct5 the careful consideration of the needs of the general public
 GsyNo arc oIy-oaa+iDcr is-sioV system which has been tried in Ger many. and which has been one of the pieces of governmental and industrial mechanism that has been so eXtraor- dinarily successful in building up the great prosperity of the German em- pire.
 T believe in protection; I believe that if Wilson's free trade policy or tariff for revenue only policy in good faith and not merely treated as a campaign cry, were adopted wide spread disaster would result
 As to what Wilson says about the minimum wage, I can only say I dis agree with him in toto. We are only advocating what We are sure can be done, or ought to be done. Evidently Wilson has not studied conditions about the labor of women in many factories in the big cities Wilson comes out squarely against our pro- pOsal to regulate trusts He has not anything in it's place except the state ment that he stands by the great democratic thinkers who have made the democratic platform on that sub ject.
 MT. Wilson now governor of New Jersey has been such nearly two years. If the Baltimore platform really offers any hope for the trust solution. why during these two years has nothing whatever been done by New Jersey un- der Wilson's lead or even attempted by Wilson in New Jersey, for the reguIa- ton of the trusts. The answer is be- cause the states by themselves cannot meet the difficulty. It is pure toryism of the most backward kind to suppose that they can. Incidentally any such policy would have the grinning support of every law breaking trust.
 "Wilson seems to forget that part of our progress is to give to the people themselves direct control over our own government; that is, to put over the governmental system, their agents of government. When the people them selves thus effectively control their own government, the government, in turn, controls the big corporations It seems to me the veriest folly to express apprehension lest, under such a system the chief employers, as Wilson says. because they have this tremendous ap- thorlty behind them, may oppose the wage workers"