The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-17
BEVER|DCE SPEAKS FOR COL. ROOSEVELT Delivers Message Dictated by Leader While in Bed ALWAYS A LEADER Not Important Whether He Lives or Dies-Declares Country Stands
 Between Two Greeds-Those
 Who Have or Have Not
ALWAYS A LEADER

Louisville. october 1G.-Albert J. l Beverldge, former senator from In diana. brought b Kentucky tonight l Colonel Roosevelt's message to the na- tion, dictated from the colonel's sick
 bed in Mercy hospital in Chicago.
 Ut matters little about me- Colonel 1 Roosevelt told MT. Beveridge, but it
 matters all about the cause we fight
 for If one soldier who happens to
 carry the flag is stricken another will
 take 1t from his hands and carry
 1t on.
 You know that personally I did not
 want ever to be a candidate for office
 gain" the message from the stricken
 ex- President continues And you know
 that only the call that came to the men of the eos made me answer it in
 our day as they did more nobly in
 their day."
 Asked Beyeridge to Speak
 Colonel Roosevelt was scheduled to
 speak in Louisville tonight After hay
 ing been shot down in Milwaukee he
 cancelled all his gagements, but in
 sisted that the address he was 10 have
 made in Louisville be delivered. He
 called on Senator Beveridge to speak
 And now as then 1t Is not important
 whether one leader lives or dies," con
 tinues the message. Tt is important only that the cause shall live and win. Tell the people not to worry about
 me, for if 1 go down another will take my place. For always the army is
 there. Always the cause is there, and 1t Is the cause for which the people care for; it is the peoples cause"
 Senator Beveridge said; This is his message to all his countrymen. He gave it clearly and calmly; not reck- lessly nor with fever; not in the heat of battle; not in bitterness, nor yet in self pride, but with cool mind and kind ly heart"
 He bade me put 1t thus to the peo- ple," continued Mir. Beveridge We stand between two mighty greeds-the greed of those who have and the greed of those who have not We found the party to which all just men and women, | rich and poor, who want only justice can belong"
 | Colonel Roosevelt tonight would have 1 put to MT. Wilson," continued MT. Bev-
 eridge, "the questions about to follow, I none of which was devised by Colonel
 Roosevelt, but all of which were written | and sent to the colonel by the head waiter of a hotel.
 Submits Questions Tn forwarding these questions this man said that the people were confused as to | Governor Wilson's position on the trust | question, and to what his attitude has | been as to the trusts while governor of New Jersey. The head waiter said he and a friend would like to have Governor 1 Wilson answer three or four simple ques- tions, but they did not know how to get these queries before MT. Wilson. Here are the questions:
 |" Is 1t not fact that the laws of the state under which a corporation is organ ized prescribe its powers?'
 " Are not all the powers of the Stand ard oil and similar monopolies conferred by the laws of New Jersey Could not these powers be curtailed by amendments to the New Jersey laws? "Why has not MT. Wilson, as govern or of New Jersey. not recommended such amendments? '
 Quoting Colonel Roosevelt former Scna- tor Beveridge continues:
 Tn his inaugural, MT. Wilson explicitly stated that New Jersey had brought dis credit upon herself by failure to act about the trusts, that she ought to act, not only as regards new trusts but regards the old trusts already existing. He has again and again explicitly stated that the l question of the trusts is primarily a uues- 1 ton for the states themselves; and, of course, there are 10 times many trusts | and 10 times as important trusts and in- corporations in New Jersey as any other states. The democratic platform jeaiousy | insists upon the rights of the states to l deal with the trusts.
 Says Wilson Failed to Act Yet Mir. Wilson at the same time he ventured to attack me-although he must | have well known that I was the first President to deal adequately with the trusts-has while governor of New Jersey while possessing the amplest power, failed
 to take action of any kind, sort or de- | scription against the trusts.
 ''I ask Mir. Wilson," continues Colonel Roosevelts message, as delivered by Mr. | Beverldge, "to answer categorically and l specifically and not by loose general arguments just why 1t was that after making the recommendation he made in | his inaugural, and while insisting that | the trust question was state question, | and in view of the fact that in New Jer- 1 sey he had ample power to deal with | trusts, he nevertheless during the entire | time he has been governor has failed to take action of any kind, sort or descrip- | tion against the Standard oil, tobacco | sugar, beef trust, or any other trust. | He owes 1t to the American people" declared the former Presidents message, | Ito answer this question directly and l specifically and he cannot answer it sat | isfactorily He cannot answer 1t any | way that will show either that the prin- i ciples he has announced for dealings with | the trusts are the right principles or that his practices in these principles have been | correct"
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