The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
Criticises Eliot

OfttitioNo lIiiOb
 After saying that he had not mentioned Miss Addams name, but had merely ex- plained his appreciation of having such woman second his nomination, Colonel Roosevelt added:
 If President Eliot really considers this allusion to Miss Addams as being spectacular and in bad taste, | should feel a mild curiosity to know just what he would regard as non-spectacular and in good taste.'
 The coloners first speech today was at St. Albans Then he sped on 70 Nor risville where he spoke at the Lamoille county fair
 During the afternoon Colonel Roose- welt rode through secluded section in which houses were rare enough to at tract attention, and the villages far apart. Pausing for a brief speech at Hardwick, he went on to Barton and thence to St. Johnsbury, where he spent the night. When he reached here he was welcomed by a marching club of 15O men who wore bandanas and sang Take little tip from father and vote for the old bull moose.''
 Bringing his Vermont campaign to d close tomorrow. he will speak at Barre Randolph. Bellows Falls and Brattle- boro.
 Colonel Roosevelt Speaks
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke In part as fol- lows:
 The progressive platform is the first platform since the close of the civil war which has fearlessly fully and intelli- gently faced the needs of our people, which has promised everything that ought to be promiserc and which has promised nothing that cannot be and ought not to be fulfilled I call your att tention especially to what our platform says about business 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, tho other that of destruction by means of the antitrust law. The first has been emi- nently successful. the second has broken down. The progressive platform faces this fact. It states that the test of true prosperity must be the benefits conferred thereby on all citizens, not the benefits confined to individuais or classes, and that the test of corporate efficiency must be the ability better to serve the public. The platform demands efficient and thor ough going national regulation of all those great industrial concerns doing an interstate business. rne law is to he 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 against the big trusts being as now merely farci- cal. 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 nominally dissolved. and the men guilty of the misconduct punished.
 Old Parties Stand Together Tt is curious to see now closely the old parties stand together in this matter, how eagerly the representatives of of the big trusts and of their tools and allies in the business world rally to the help of either as against the progressives. The recent action of Mir Penrose and Mir Archbold is striking illustration of the clearness with which the Standard oil trust and its creatures in politics see that their real foes. the foes whom they hate and dread are to be found only in the pro- gressive party, and against these foes they will do everything in their power in the interest of either or both of the old parties with the old, corrupt machine or ganizations. The promises or the demo- cratic and republican platforms can be tested by the performances of the repre- | sentatives of the two parties at the pres ent time: for instance, by Mir Wicker sham's final action in settling the suit against the Standard oil and Tobacco trusts and by the Stanley committees re- port on the proper method of dealing with these trusts. The only result of the suits against the oil and Tobacco trusts in the way they were finally han dled by the. department of justice was greatly to increase the value pf the hold ings of the big financicrs who were nom inally supposed to be punished, while small competitors were put in a worse position than before, and the cost of liv- | s--1 h. .t.f as the products were increased in prices. The recommendations of the Stanley com mittee do not deserve to be treated seri- ously If adopted they would probably