The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-31
COL. ROOSEVELT
CAMPAIGNS AT
ST. JOHNSBURY
Declares Progressive Platform Is
First Since Civil War to
Squarely Meet Issues
WANTS WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
Glad that Jane Adams Participat-
ed in His Nomination by Bull
Moose Convention
WANTS WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
Associated Press Dispatch.

ASSOClalGu PFeSS DlSpdlcH.
st. Johnsbury, VT. Aug. 30.-Col
Roosevelt struck un an intimate ac-
quaintanCe with the rural sections
OF northern Vermont today. He
made five Speeches and received such
welcome that be said he thought
Vernon was waking up.
Col. Roosevelt, in his address here,
tonight, assailed his critics and de-
fended the Progressive party. John
: D. Archbold and Senator Penr0e
We're attacked for their testimony
committee.
II thought for a time they would
do some damage to the Progressive
party" he said, but the Lord has
delivered them into my hand. II
have them on the hops. | have them
in the open will hew them rs
Israel hewed Ammon, hip and
thigh"
COL Roosevelt explained why i'll
was that he declared himself in
favor of woman's suffrage. He said
that he had not been influenced to
this view by the women who deyot-
ed their time to promoting the
cause of suffrage, but rather through
HIS acquaintance of women like Miss
Jane Adams, of Chicago.
He denounced the Stanley Con-
gressional committee, which investi-
gated the trust question as mere
sound and fury" and explained the
proposal of the Progressive party.
"The Progressive platform is the
first platform since the close OF the
Civil war which has fearlessly, fully
our people, which has promised
everything that ought to be prom
ised, and which has promised moth
ing that cannot be and ought not to
be fulfilled | call your attention
especially to what our platform says
about business and the trusts. In
the National Government two meth
DDS of dealing with big business
have so far been tried; one that of
regulation through the Interstate
Commerce Commission, the other
that of destruction by means of the
Antitrust Law. The first has been
eminently successful, the second has
broken down The Progressive plat
fnr ;u 20 ~ - hot
the test of true prosperity must be
the benefits conferred thereby on all
citizens, not the benefits confined to
individuals or classes, and that the
test of corporate efficiency must be
the ability better to serve the public
The platform demands efficient and
thorough-going National regulation
OF all those great industrial con
Germs doing an interstate business
The law is to be made definite so
that honest men will not be under
continued threat of law proceedings
Moreover the Antitrust Law is to
be kept on the statute books, and in
stead of its enforcement against the
big trusts being as now merely far
cical, it is to be the duty of the
commission to aid in seeing that
every trust guilty of bad conduct
shall be really and not merely nom
inally dissolved, and the men gu lty
of misconduct punished
Only Good Program.
This program is the only pro-
gram that offers the slightest chance
Of real accomplishment. We propose
to give the honest business man GER
tainty as to what the law is and is
not, so that he will no longer be
nervously unable to tell whether he
has made himself subject to its pen
alties. We propose to create an ad
ministrative commission which shall
superintend big business in thor
oughgoing fashion and stop every
species of wrong doing precisely as
the best class of public utilities
commission now does in the states
and municipalities. precisely as the
Interstate Commerce Commission
will again do when we get rid of the
mischevious Commerce Court, the
creation Of which represented long
step backwards of benefit only tc
the trusts themselves. The Anti
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