The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
"0riginal Insurgent" Swears Allegiance to Progress
 sive Republicanism
GROWTH OF TRUSTS
 UNDER ROOSEVELT
Outburst From Wisconsin Senator Came Without Warning During Debate on Presidents Wool
 Tariff Veto in the Senate

Washington. August 16-In pictur esque, spontaneous outburst during de- bate of the Presidents wool tariff veto in the Senate, Senator LaFollette today attacked the new progressive party and swore new allegiance to progressive re- pubicanism.
 The original insurgent," quivering with emotion, with cIenched hands, and strained face, poured out a flood of inn passioned oratory that kept the floor and galleries of the Senate rapt and silent. Standing in the well of the chamber, Senator LaFollette assured his associates that he intended to keep up the fight in the republican party, to make that party really progressive and to keep on un- til the last bell rings and the curtain falls"
 After reviewing briefly the trust record of Colonel Roosevelt. Senator LaFollette declared that the former President was mot the man to find the way out now"
 Will Not Stop Republicans
 He asserted that mo obstacle dragged across the path of the progressive move ment in tie republican party can now StOp US huNancer
 He declared that when the republican party, through it's progressive associates, had reached a point where 1t would 're- spond to the purposes for which it was born an attempt is made at Chicago to divert it."
 Senator Stone asked MT. LaFollette whether he meant the nomination of President Taft, or the nomination of ex- President Roosevelt.
 T am awfully surprised" began Sen ator LaFollette, that 1 left the senator from Missouri in doubt 1 hope I did not leave doubt in the mind of any one else"
 Then moving down the center aisle un- til his outstretched hands almost touched the stenographers tables he continued
 Roosevelt and the Trusts
 "On the day that Theodore Roosevelt was made President of the United States there were 14sstrusts and commissions in the United States. When he turned this government over 10 William Howard Taft there were 1oo2o plants in commits slon
 When he became President these trusts had an aggregate capitalization of s3,000.
 
 they had an aggregate capitalization of s31, GOO 100000, and more than 70 per cent of it was water.
 Their power has gone on growing and spreading There has been no diminu- ton in the present administration. This administration has sought to apply the Sherman antitrust law more vigorously than its predecessor but the, time to have applied the Sherman law effectively was in the infancy of these trusts, when there were only 149.
 Roosevelt Not the Man
 T don't believe that the man who was President Tor seven years, while the great est trust growth occurred, at the very time of all times in the history of the Sherman antitrust law. 1t could have been made potential in deterring trust organi- zation, l do not think that the man who was President then Is the man to find the way out now"
 LaFollette bowed and inquired:
 Does that answer the senator from Mssouri?'
 That does fairly we'll" responded Sem ator Stone dryly, amid the laughter of the Senate
 Senator Pomerene inquired if Senator LaFollette would tell how many of the 10,020 trusts were good" ones and how many of them bad"
 T have no way to differentiate," re- turned Senator LaFollette s'beeause none of the trusts are my friends I have no George w. Perkins and no Munsey SUD- porting me. It Is I alone, practically a single handed fight I have been waeing for 9 years, and Mir. President I am go- ing to keep on until the bell rings and the curtains fall"