Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-04
7. R, FINDS THIRD
PARTY POPULAR
IN THE WEST
Colonel Answers Governor VIII.
sons Attack on Moose Plat
form in st. Louis Speech.

Theodore Roosevelt eHleleu io"o "
dav for hard days campaigning that
included an address before the Pro-
gressive state convention. The colonel
was deeply interested i'll the Iowa sit
nation. and it was expected he would
refer to the statement of Senator Cum
Minis who will support Roosevelt, but
farrie. the formation of a third party
In the state.
After first hand observation of condi-
+ions in Missouri and Iowa, the colonel
has told his lieutenants here that it is
necessary 10 name Progressive tickets
I'm h states. His speecnes have taken
On something of the tang of those de-
t,yered in Vermont. where he demanded
support for the P oppressive state can
fidates as we'll as for himself at the
fall election.
The coloners Iowa itinerary today
includes Mount Zion. Eden, OttumWa
0skaloosa and Des Moines
The colonel is pleased with the out
look in the Middle West.
There is plenty of third party SEN
timent in the West" he said. The
fight has just started. BY November
the whole country will wake up to the
fact that we are to be reckoned with
at the polls
why Hasn't He Done Something?"
Woodrow Wilson's stand upon the
tariff. the trusts and the minimum
wage scale proposition was assaiied by
Colonel Roosevelt in st. Louis late yes
terday before the Missouri Progressive
state convention.
Taking up Governor Wilson's criti-
cism of the Progressive policy in re-
gard to regulation of trusts, Colonel
Roosevelt asked:
IF the Democratic platform really
offers any hope for the solution of the
trust question, why during the two
years that Mr. Wilson has been gov
ernor of New Jersey, has nothing been
done under MI Wilson's lead or even
attempted by Mr.. Wilson in New Jer-
sey for the regulation Of the trusts"
The colonel was asked to advise the
state convention as to whether it should
name full state ticket.
q felt that you ought to- he said.
~ feel that except in those states in
which we can take over bodily either
of the old parties we ought to run a
straight Progressive ticket"
Said the colonel:
Yesterday Mr.. Wilson, abiding to
the third party platform, asked: With
that program who can differ in his
heart, who can divorce himself in SYM
pathy from the great object of advanc-
ing the interests of human beings
wherever it Is possible to advance"
IT am very glad that Mr.. Wilson
should be with us in his heart; but if
his party synpathizes with US in its
heart why didn't they in their platform
make a program at least remotely re-
sembling ours? Our sympathy for the
program is not only within our hearts
1t is with our heads and our hands
also.
About the Tariff.
When he comes to the tariff Mr..
Wilson attempts to quote me, but he
Is singularly unsuccessful. He states,
for instance, that I am not concerned
with the interests of the general tax
payer, the general puDIlC.
IF he would take the trouble to read
what l have said or to read our plat
form, he would find that the commits
sion principle which we propose, and
to which he and his party are hostile,
has for one of its special objects the
careful consideration OF the needs of
the general public We are advocat-
ing the commission system which has
been one of the pieces of governmental
and Industrial mechanism that have
been so extraordinarily successful in
building up the great prosperity of the
German empire
Il believe in protection: | believe that
if MIR, Wilson's free trade policy or
tariff for revenue only policy is in
good faith and not merely treated as a
campaign cry. widespread disaster will
result to American life.
But I don't believe for minute
that a protective tariff by itself offers
In any way or shape the solution for
the economic and social injustice
against which we Progressives are
striving.
Let MT. wilson STUDY NHdt has II" y
pened to industry in England and in
Germany during the last forty years.
During that forty years England has
been under a free trade system and
Germany has adopted a high tariff
system During that forty years the
conditions of the labor world have
grown worse in England and better in
Germany Germany has advanced
relatively to England ell along the
me and especially in the standing Of
her people
AS to what Mr. Wilson says about
me minimum wage ! can only say that
disagree with him in toto We are
only advocating what we are sure can
Ne done and ought to be done. Evil
'ehtiy Mr., Wilson has not studied the
,ohaluons about the labor OF women
In factories.
The Trust Question.
MT. Wilson comes out squarely
"s"inst our proposal to regulate the
"USis He has not anything to put in
'N place except a statement that he
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