The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-09-05
ARE GIVEN

Voters to High Pitch Of
Enthusiasm
Barre, Vermont.--As Roosevelt
was leaving the tsand here a man in
the crowd shouted through a mega
phone:
.In twenty minutes, John M. Har-
Ian of Chicago, son of the Late Chief
Justice Harlan, will speak here and
propose questions which Theodore
Roosevelt has never answered and
cannot answer in any state in the
unfon.' s
Roosevelt ran back to his place
on the speakers stand. s33sf5 ,4
81 haven't time to answer the
valiant creature who has just spok-
EN-" he shouted, the creature who
waited untilaI was going away be-
tore making his cowardly attack"
Then +. r.. wasiswhirled off amid
cheers. 94s@4i As
st. Johnsburg, Vt.r--Convinced that
his appeal will show results at 1.-The
state election Tuesday Roosevelt
was upawith the dawn, %preparingS for
the last lap of his, sweeping tout
through Vermont. ~ am delighted
at the reception accorded me and If
the attendance on the western trip
equals that at ST. Johnsburg, the
present tour will be a complete sue
cess" he said.
st. J%ohnsbury, Vt.-Col. Roose-
welt struck up an intimate acQuaint-
ance with the northern sections of
vermont during his automobile tour
Through the state. He spent most of
the day in a motor, car, made five
speeches and received such a well
come that he said he thought YER
mont was waking up.
Before a lively crowd in the court
house square here last night, Colonel
Roosevelt made Ia speech which
brought him, cheer. after cheer. He
assaiied his %criticsi and defended the
progressive party. John ID. Archbold
OF the, Standard Oil company. and
Senator Penrosea were attacked for
investigating committee. s''I thought
for a time they fwodfd do some dam
age to the progressive party" he said
but the Lordshath delivered them
into my hands. l have them on tile
hip. / hove them in the open.
Col. Roosevelt explained last night
why it was that he declared himself
In favor of woman suffrage. He said
that he had not been influenced to
this view by the women who devoted
Stheir time to promoting the cause of
u. 9 nut rather ihrough his ac-
\ quaintance with women like Miss
Jane iAddams,, of Chicago, whom he
had come to know through their in
terest in sociological work.
IN speaking or the trust question,
Col. Roosevelt declared that neither.
the democrats nor the republicans
had an effective plan and that 1.-THE
big trusts cordially approved of both
He denounced the Stanley investi-
eating committee which Investigated
the trust situation as mere sound
and fury" and explained the proposal
of the progressive party.
Col. ROosevelt's Address.
Col. Roosevelt spoke in part is fol-
lows: s
"The' progressive platform is the
first platform since the close of the
.,civil war which has efearlessly, fully
land intelligently faced the needs Of
our people, which has promised ev-
erything that ought to be promised,
and which has promised nothing that
cannot be- and ought to. be fulfilled.
T. call your attention especially to
what our, platform says about bust
ness and the trusts. In the national
government two methods 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 the
means Of anti-tariff law. The first
has been eminently successful, the
secQnd has broken down The pro-
gressive platform faces this fact. 1t
states that the test of true prosperity
must be the benefits conferred there
by on all citizens, not the benefits
confited to- individuals or classes,
and that the test Of corporate efic-i
iency mist be the ability better to
serve the public. The platform de-
manGs efficient and thorough-going
national regulation of all these great
industrial concerns doing an inter-
state 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 Instead OF it's enforcement aga-
inst the big trusts being as now
merely farciaY. it. Ii to be the duty
Of the commission to aid in seeing
that every trust guilty of bad conduct
shaH be really and not merely nom
inally dissolved, and the men guilty
of the misconduct punished.
This program is,the only program
that offers the slightest chance of real
Accomplishments We propose to give
the honest business ma certainly as
to what the law IL and is not, 30 that
he will no longer be nervotisly nm
able to tell whether he has made him
self subject to its penalties. We pro-
pose to create Observation-Disclosures 'Gnm-l