The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15
ROOSEVELT MAKES
ATTACK ON WILSON
Declares the Democratic Can
didate Is Following an Out
worn Philosophy.
ASKS SOME QUESTIONS
Bull Moose Chief Reaches San
Francisco and Speaks at
the Coliseum.

the Coliseum.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept IA
Woodrow Wilson has advanced a pro-
gramme in relation to social and in
dustral iustice,' Colonel Roosevelt
said IN speech here tonight, which "is
either promise that is not to be kept,
or else 1t means the undoing of every
particle Of social and industrial advance
which We have made.n He declared
that Governor Wilson "sta.nds for
policy which necessarily means. if that
policy Is honestly put into effect, that
no must be against every single pro-
gressive measure
'tThe trouble with Mr.. Wilson, said
Colonel Roosevelt, "is that he is fol
colonel declared that Gin view OF the
Democratic platform and of the utter
ances Of Mr.. Wilson no man can claim
to be a progressive who supports Mr.:
Wilson On that platform and backed
by that party.'
Colonel Roosevelt's speech WAS deliv-
cred before a large crowd in the Col
1 W WuCn ue "CuD lUlluGuldlGly
on his arrival in San Francisco. He
was on the train all day except for
stop Of an hour In Reno, Nov, where he
delivered an address.
Basis of Criticism.
Colonel Roosevelt based his criticism
Of Governor Wilson on a recent speech
Of the governor before the New York
Press club.
1.-THE other day In New York Mr..
Wilson came out in sweeping assault
on the Progressive platform and pro
gramme and defined his own position
as to social and industrial Justice -
said the colonel "According to the
stenographtc report Of his speech in the
Tribune, Mr.. Wilson stated that there
| is no hope for social reform through
the platform Of the Progressive party,
saying: I'm tho very platform itself is
not serviceable instrument. They do
propose to serve civilization and hu.
manity, but they cannot serve civiliza-
tion and humanity With r that S,ltn kind Of Of
liberty is history of the limitation of
governmental power, not the increase Of
it, And he then continues to uphold
mnt' and representative assemblies as
against the platform that we propose,
and also to uphold the Democratic pro-
posals for dealing with labor and the
trusts RS against the Progressive pro-
posals.
Academic Doctrine.
"Ths key to Mr. Wilson IS position is
found in the statement / have quoted,
when he says that fthe history of lib
erty is history Of tho limitation OF
AL - tho ;pn Sa
Of it This is bit of outworn aca-
demic doctrine which was kept in the
school room and the professional study
for generation after it had been
abandoned by all who had experience of
actual life. It can be applied with
profit, if anywhere at all, only In q
primitive community, under primitive
United States at the end Of the
eighteenth century. To apply 1t now IN
the United States at the beginning Of
the twentieth century, with its highly
organized industries, with its railways.
telegraphs and telephones, means liter.
ally and absolutely to refuse to make
single effort to bette any one OF
Says Wilson Erred.
"Moreover, Mr.. Wilson Is absolutely
in error in his statement. from the his
torcal standpoint. So long as govern
mental power was exclusively for the
king and not at all for the people, then
the history Of liberty was q history Of
the limitation Of governmental power.
But now the governmental power rests
privileges are the kings Of the financial
and industrial world and what they
clamor for is the elimination Of govern
mental power, and what the people Sore
" need is the extension of government
tai power If Mr.. Wilson g statement
mems anything, it means that every
law for the promotion Of social and
upon the statute books, ought to be re.
pealed, and every law proposed should
be abandoned, for without exception
every such law represents an increase
Of governmental power.
"The interstate commerce commission
law represented great increase of gov
that it represents great increase Of
governmental power over the railroadse
| Let him take whichever horn of the
dilemma no chooses.
Some Laws Enacted
"Every progressive state In the
union has passed laws for factory In
spection, every such law means an in
crease Of governmental power rs Mr.
Wilson in favor Of repeating those laws7
The Fact is that his statement is Il mere
bit Of professional rhetoric, which has
not one particle Of foundation in the
| facts of tho present day
fAgain, we propose to limit tho
hours OF working girls to eight hours
day; we propose to limit the hours Of
workingmen in continuous industry to
eight hours n day, and TO give them
one days rest week. Does Mr.. Will
son mean that he Is against this e9ten-
sion of governmental power1
efThe trouble with Mr.. Wilson Is that
no Is following an outworn philosophy,
and that the history Of which he Is
thinking is the history of absolute mon
arches and oriental despotisms tt
Mr.. Wilson really believes what he
said then Mr.. Wilson has no idea Of