The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
COLONEL SLAPs
At GOV. WILSON
SAYS He Wants to Be Courteous and
Then Criticises Trust
Attitude.
SHOWS LACK OF EXPERIENCE

Los Angeles, Cal. Sept. 1s.-After pro-
testing that he wanted to be courteous
to Governor Wilson, my antagonist"
Colonel Roosevelt, in a speech here to-
night, proceeded to criticise the Demo-
cratic candidate as lacking experience"
and playing the game OF the bosses The
former President launched another vio-
lent attack upon Wilson for the Gov
ernor's elucidation in New York last
week of his theory OF governmental con-
troll of corporatins.
Roosevelt pitched into the New Jersey
Governor as rejecting sad lack OF
knowledge of the functions of the Amer
lean government in saying. as Roose-
velt repeated it, that the growth OF lib
erty means limited governmental power"
The coming of Col. Roosevelt here was
the occasion OF a violent outburst of
enthusiasm. The streets were jammed
with a dowling multitude as he was TAX
en- on parade for a mile or SO. before
speaking. in the afternoon. at the Tenn
pie Auditorium. No less than 5000 peo-
pie waved and yelled at him from the
curbs and the whole city apparently
gave itself over to a huge Roosevelt
demonstration.
The Auditorium throng OF 5000 went
fairly wild with frenzied cheers when
Roosevelt stepped to the stage. The
Bull MOOSE cry mingled Win a tnuIluci-
Gus I'VE want Teddy For fifteen min
utes the uproar went on.
Hits Wilson and Taft.
Roosevelt enunc!ated in his speech be-
fore the afternoon crowd and later at
the Shrine Auditorium tonight his
theory of the governments province in
the regulation of the trusts and his
doctrine on the judicial recall. Freely
h. af AGnv Wilson
and President Taft.
Mr.. Wilson's ideas as to the power
Of the government, as put forth in his
New York speech said Roosevelt in q
tone of sarcasm, shows that he has
been getting his information ont of dry
books. The governor finds from his
books that the governmental power is
lessened when the people take the
power into their hands.
"Now, the fact of 1t is that when the
people rule themselves they transmit
greater power to the government. The
government becomes then an immediate
reflection Of the will of the people. Only
in monarchies does II happen that when
the government takes over the power OF
the people the ruling power supersedes
the peoples will
THE only way We can control the
immense corporations that have taken a
upon Is "
power into the hands OF the government.
The people must do that themselves. 1t
is only when the people decline 10 use
the great instrument at their disposal
the government-that the liberty of the
barons of industry is uncurbed.
Wants to BE Courteous.
What Mr.. Wilson proposes as a rem
edy for the evils of our industrial system
is a national strai-jacket. Under his
proposal the governments power would
be squeezed down so the corporations
would have no restraint placed upon
them. That's exactly what the Rockefel-
lers, the Harrimans. and the other heads
of the immense corporations want.
II want to be courteous to Mr.. Wilson,
I want to be careful about that pro-
vested the colonel. I'm that spirit l say
that IL Mr.. Wilson were as we'll acquaint-
ed with conditions of modern life as I
am sure he Is sincere and intelligent, he
would know that he is taking the atti-
tude that every great crooked corpora
ton, the crooked bosses. every great
crooked newspaper controlled blythe evil
trust influences, wants the government
to take"
At the Shrine Auditorium the colonel
talked to a lively throns of 1900 He left
tonight for a trip through Arizona and
New Mexico.