The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-20
.HIT BULL MOOSERSH HARD
LAFOLLETTE SAYS ROOSEVELT
HAS HAD HIS CHANCE TO
CURB THE TRUSTS.
BUT LET THEM MULTIPLY FAST
Senate Rapt and Silent as Wisconsin
Man Speaks His Mind About tne
Ex-President. Will Remain In the
Republican Party.


WASHINGTON, d. C.-In pict-
uresque, spontaneous outDurst our
ing debate on the presidents wool
tariff veto in the senate today Sena-
tor LaFollette attacked the new pro-
gressive party and swore new allegl-
ance to progressive republicanism.
The original insurgent," culver
ing with emotion, with clencheu
hands and strained face, poured out
food of impassioned oratory that
kept the floor and galleries of the
senate rapt and silent. Standing IN
the well of the chamber Senator La
Toilette assured his associates that
he intended to keep UP the hight
in the republican party, to make
that party really progressive, ana
to keep on until the last bell rings
and the curtain falls"
After reviewing the trust record
of Theodore Roosevelt Senator La
Toilette declared that the former
president was mot the man to fin0
the way out now" He asserted that
mo obstacle dragged across the path
of the progressive movement in the
republican party can now stop It's
advance"
Growth of Trusts.
He declared that when the republi-
can party, through its progressive
associates had reached a point
where it would respond to the pur-
poses for which it was born an at
tempt is made at Chicago to divert
it,"
Senator Stone asked Mr.. LaFol-
lette whether he meant the nomina-
ton of President Taft or the nomina-
ton of former President Roosevelt.
81 am awfully surprised" began
Mr.. LaFollette, that left the SEN
ator from Missouri in doubt. l hope
| did not leave doubt in the minds
of any one else"
Then, moving down the center
aisle until his outstretched hands
almost touched the stenographer's
tables, he continued:
con the day that Theodore Roose-
welt was made president of the Unit
ed States there were 149 trusts and
combinations in the United States.
When he turned this government
over to w. Fl. Taft there were 1920
plants in combination. When he
became president these trusts had
an aggregate capitalization of three
billion dollars and when he left the
presidency they had an aggregate
capitalization of thirty-one billions,
and more than 20 per cent of it was
water.
He Has Had One Chance.
Their power has gone on grow
ing and spreading There has been
no diminution in the present admin
istration. This administration has
sought to apply the Sherman law
more vigorously than It's predecessor,
but the time to have applied the
Sherman law effectively was in the
infancy of these trusts, when there
were only 149.
Il don't believe that the man who
was president for seven years while
the greatest trust growth occurred,
at the very time of all times in his
tory of the Sherman antitrust law
when it could have been made poten-
tial in lettering trust organization,
| do not think that the man who was
then president is the man to find the
way out now"
Then, turning to Senator Stone,
Senator LaFollette bowed and in
CURED:
Does that answer the Senator
from Missouri"
That does fairly WE'LL" replied
Senator Stone, dryly, amid the laugh
ter of the senate.