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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
SAYS PROGRESSIVES OFFER
ONLY RELIEF FROM TRUSTS
Geo. |. Record Declares Nothing Can Be Expected from Repub-
lican Organization and tn Democratic Stand Is Vague.
Asserts T. RS Plan Is to Take Away Privileges.

further extension of government
powers. He says that liberty has
been established by limiting the scope
Of government power, instead of by
extending 1t. This statement is OPP
posed to all history and is contrary
to the whole trend of modern de-
velopment. The marvellous progress
that we are now making is all along
the line of extending the powers of
government. We are enacting pure
food laws. setting up government in
spection of meat, building the Panama
Canal, regulating railroads, fixing gas
and public utility rates, limiting cap
~italization, building vast irrigation
reservoirs, redeeming immense tracts
of land, running lines of steamships
from Panama to New York, supervis-
ing national banks. running the post
office, to which we are now adding a
parcels post and a savings bank.
Again the Governor repeats Mr..
Brandeis's charge hat our policy of
regulating the trusts by a commits
sion means l~egalizing monopoly. This
is a pure assumption. Nc proof is
offered to support 1t. 1t is true that
some men in and out of the new party
think that big business is here TO
stay, because these huge units can
produce more cheaply than smaller
units, while others believe that these
huge trusts won their position by
privilege and not by efficiency. But
this is a mere opinion.
Neither Mr.. Roosevelt nor the plat
form anywhere says that If the con-
troll of the market by the trusts is
due to privileges that he or we favor
continuing that privilege. On the con-
trary, Roosevelt in his convention
speech directly declares that he will
remove privilege as fast as we find
it and wherever we find it, and the
| platform pledges the party to the
| same principle.
All we say is that we find big bust
ness here, with manifold and increas-
ing abuses, and we propose to control
it and its evils while we gather in
formation for further action. This is
| as far as we can see down the road.
Nor does regulation of trusts lead
logically to legalizing monopoly. On
the contrary, the inevitable result Is
just the opposite. Government con-
troll of trusts will disclose either that
the trusts are efficient and therefore
useful, in which event we will dc
away with their evils and preserve
the good; or that trusts W their su-
premacy to privilege.
We find a great and recent fact
the control of markets by trusts, and
there is no government agency in
existence equipped TO handle the con.
dition. We propose to create an ade.
quate and powerful agency. That il
all. Is 1t not plain that our plan Ii
superior to that of the Democrats
They offer more lawsuits. We Offer
a powerful government agency
created for the special purpose of To-
eating the reasons of trust contro
and preventing extortion In prices ant
destruction of competitors by unfair
or illegal means. One ia the policy
Of negation. the other the policy Of
! progress. GEORGE l.. RECORD.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
How the Campaign Progresses
Progressive Democratic Republican
SAYS 7. RS MOTTO
IS rule OR RUM
Chairman HiIles, of G. o. p, At.
tacks Record of Bull Moose
Leader.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.3Charles ID.
Hilles, chairman Of the Republican
national committee. in a letter made
public today, attacks the record of
Colonel Roosevelt. and gives what he
declares to be the real causes of the
formation of the Progressive party.
The motto of the Bull Moose party,
Mr.. Hilles says is: Destroy the Re-
publican Party" This, he declares,
comes from the personal animus of
the ~Progressives' leader.
Rule or ruin," is the way Mr.. Hilles
expresses Colonel Roosevelt's scheme
of action.
Mr.. Hilles reviews the public life
of the Progressive candidate from the
time he first blossomed forth as a
candidate for the Legislature in the
early SOS to the present moment and
says he finds little to praise.
Mr.. Hilles ends his letter as follows:
Misrepresentation, deceit, cunning
and the betrayal of a loyal friend
have married his later course.
"Why should Republican voters
turn to him now?
"A party formed to satisfy one
mans ambition cannot survive that
mans defeat. The Republican
party will outlive a thousand Roose-
velts, even on the field of Arranged
don, for in battling for Republican
supremacy, with all it means to the
United States. it is battling for the
Lords best land-America."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
MARYLAND
IS FOR WILSON
Democrats Confident of Big
victory-Harmony Is
Again Restored.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 14.-Governor
Wilson is expected to carry this State
by 10000 plurality. with Taft and
Roosevelt running close.
This Is conceded by leaders of all
three parties, and their contention is
backed III by the registration figures
for the State, which have just been
made public. In this city the reg
istry shows the Democratic party
has made remarkable gains since
1908, although tho total registration
figures are 5000 below what they
were two years ago.
The visit to Baltimore last week OF
Henry Morgenthau, of New York,
chairman of the finance committee
of the Democratic National Commit
tee, had a good effect. He brought
together the leading Democrats of
both the organization and the anti
organization forces in a conference,
the result of which is that the two
factions are on a more harmonious
footing than they have been for
months.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
THROAT TROUBLE
BOTHERS COLONEL
Many Speeches Cancelled Upon
Physicians Advice-Sweeps
Middle West.

CHICAGO, Oct. 14.-The Bull
entire Middle West. Colonel Roose-
welt is making great strides. and his
advisers say hal If the presidential
election came this week the former
President would carry three of the
four States he canvassed last week.
AS it is, the Roosevelt managers
think the colonel will surely carry
Illinois and Michigan. that he has a
good chance of taking Wisconsin and
that it is possible that he should win
Minnesota. This State is now be-
lieved to be inclined toward Wilson.
Today the colonel goes to Milwaukee
to attempt to undo the harm Senator
La Toilette has done the Progressive
cause in Wisconsin. The Progressive
managers wanted their candidate to
make a strong campaign in that State,
but when his physician stepped in
and insisted that the coloners voice
be spared the schedule which had
been arranged had to be curtailed.
kilograms have been sent from this
city to Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, New York and Connecticut,
where the colonel brings his present
trip to an end, informing the Pro-
gressive leaders that the colonel
would make no more than two
speeches in each State. In Ohio and
Indiana, which the colonel will visit
next week, it will be the same a
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
STRAW VOTES PUT 7. R.
FAR AHEAD in THE RACE

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Straw votes
still are being taken throughout the
country. They emphasize the cor
restness of earlier in the
campaign that Colonel Roosevelt is
leading his opponents. Those votes
have been east in tenement and busi-
ness districts, in cities, in factories
and in agricultural communities.
One received in Progressive ma
tional headquarters yesterday was
taken in 90 High street, Pawtucket'
r. l., the bailiwick of Aldrich, for
merly United States senator, n
practically the centre of stand-pat-
ism. The vote was taken on a Davis
voting machine, insurlng secrecy as
to the identity of the voters.
The vote resulted: Roosevelt, Ssl;
Taft. 2s9; Wilson, POI; Debs, IS;
Chain, ~. On the question of votes
for women thirty-seven ballots were
cast in favor and eight against.
In the plant of the Empire Bridge
Company, in Elmira, N. Y, a straw
vote was polled on Friday last. OF
the 2s7 employees who openly ex-
pressed their preferences 80 were for
Roosevelt, 81 for Wilson, SO for Taft,
SO for Chaplin and q for Debs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
7. R. FRIEND
Of BUSINESS MEN
Munsey Declares That Roose-
Welt Stands Between Them
and Socialism.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Frank A.
Munsey, financier. editor, and devotee
of the Bull Moose cause, has issued
a poster broadside in which he APP
pealed to the business men of the
country 10 insure the continuance
of the Republican policies under
which they have prospered by voting
for the election OF Colonel Roosevelt.
Among other things MIR. Munsey said
in this poster:
You want to see the Republican
economic policies triumph in this
election. and you want to see the Re-
publican party triumph in this cleo
ton. But you cannot have both.
You can have the triumph of Re,
publican policies. but you cannot
have the triumph of the Republican
party. 1t isn't possible this year.
The question for o to decide is
this:
Shall these policies be maintained
through Roosevelt, or shall the cleo
ton go TO Wilson, with the destruc-
ton of tese policies?
MIR. Munsey ended his appeal with
the declaration:
Roosevelt is the best friend you
have in the situation, Mr. Business
Man. He. more than any other man,
stands between you and Socialism
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
BY GEORGE L. RECORD

~ 4ISEN4- -
Consider the trust issue. Plainly
nothing can be hoped from the Re-
publican standpatters. Their leaders
are owned by and represent the
trusts, as Archbold's letters to Pen
rose show. The Democratic party
has offered no specific bill which can
be taken as an indication of their
method of treating the problem.
Their platform seems to promise only
more lawsuits. Governor Wilson's
utterances are extremely vague. he
SAYS that the Democracy proposes
to regulate competition; that the
trusts have destroyed competition;
that the directors of the Steel Trust
CORPORATION are the directors of more
than half the railways of the United
States: that the independent bust
ness man cannot remain independent,
and II is difficult for the new man
in any business to get ahead,
the new or Independent man cannot
get credit at the bank.
But the governor suggests no REM
pdy. How is the little fellow. Or
the independent, to be protected?
How is the man who needs credit to
be enabled to get it? How are the
directors of trusts to be prevented
from controlling railroads? How is
competition to be regulated? What
&c the difference between regulating
competition and regulating mo-
nopoly?
nh Governor and the Democratic
MIA form offer no answers. They de-
clare only in favor of Strengthening
tho sherman law and more lawsuits
,oder n But the Standard Oil and
tobacco cases were won under the
sherman law, and the outcome Vi
these victorious lawsuits has become
the Joke Of the country. 1t takes
wears to try these cases. as the law
now is. and when h sherman law Is
strengthened by new amendments
these provisions must be passed upon
NV the courts and further delays are
s,re Tt is plain that the Democratic
nlan RI handle the trusts is wretcneoly
inadequate and offers little hope.
Now consider the Roosevelt pro-
oressive plan. We favor keeping and
STRENGTHENING the Sherman law fci
u,batever it may be worth, but our
main plan is to establish a strong in
dustrial commission. with ample pow
ers to supervise and control big bust
ness. somewhat as the Interstate
commission is doing with the rail-
roads. viz: to enforce complete pub
,,oitv. to investigate the capital
prices and property values of big cor
norations, to prevent unfair competi-
ton, stock watering, rebates and az
special privileges.
There is no hope in this program
We will at least get from it the facts
which we need for the complete solu-
tion of the problem. We can find out
whether the big trust owns it's con-
troll of the market to efficiency, to the
control of credit, to some privilege az
a shipper, TO control Of ores or Other
raw materials. or to the tariff.
Two attacks are made on this pro
gram. Governor Wilson opposes any
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
Answers Mr.. Temple.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
AS an American l ask the privilege
to call time on Mr.. Frederick L.
Temple. of Cedar Grove, in relation
to his article of the 18th inst, in a
Newark evening paper. Our Canadian
friend seems very much stirred be-
cause he or his children are expected
to comply with the laws and rules
governing our schools. We have
thousands and thousands of children
foreign born and of foreign extrac-
ton in our schools. We are glad to
have them. They are welcome. They
are expected to and do comply with
the rules and laws regulating and
governing the same. Why should he
and his not do the same? Mr.. Tenn
pie insists that this attempt is the
same as trying to force religious
theories on one. Now, l wish to in
fern our Canadian friend that in
this country a man can accept or re-
ject n religious theories he pleases.
but in relation to our schools and the
laws governing the same respect and
obedience is expected and demanded,
Mr.. Temple and Mr., Broderick not
withstanding, and 1t may be they will
not find our Board of Education as
weakened as they think and
charge. Respectfully,
URIAH SEELY,
Patriotic Instructor Department Of
New Jersey, Grand Army of the
Republic.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
SAFETY DEVICES NOT WORTH TRYING?

TT IT OW many people have to be killed on a railroad before the
I'll public finds out what the company is doing, or is not
doing, to protect life? In the investigation of the cross
owe wreck on the New Haven road at Westport, one of three
almost identical catastrophes, in which twoscore persons were
killed and 100 injured, it comes out that the company never even
tried any of the devices, some of them suggested by the Inter
state Commerce Commission, to prevent this very class of acct
dents. Neither has that company, one of the richest melon
cutters in the world of dividends, done any experimenting with
automatic stopping mechanisms, such as are in successful oper-
alton on the New York subway and Boston elevated systems.
Experiments cost money, but, strangely enough, some of the
big railroad corporations fail TO remember that smashing up
trains and killing people cost more. $
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
MONDAY EVENING. o IA. 1912.
EFFECT OF A EUROPEAN WAR.

II F the dogs of war should be let loose in Europe, with the
principal nations involved, what would the effect be on the
interests of this country? There is hardly a possibility,
however remote, that the United States would be involved, even
If the whole continent of Europe should be enveloped in the CON
Migration. We are not mixed up in any way in European polltlcs,
and no nation of Europe engaged in the struggle would offer US
an afront or do a deliberate injury. But we would suner III
our foreign trade, for with armies marching and fleets blockad-
ing large markets would be cut off. There would be demand
for our cereals and meats and for munitions of war, for coal
and other supplies, which might be difficult to deliver at any
port. But the trade injury would be lasting. War destroys the
purchasing power of a nation, and after a general war in Europe
among nations already heavily in debt and heavily taxed 1t
would be years before impoverished populations would be able
to buy from us as extensively as they have done.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
CLOSING WEEKS OF THE STATE CAMPAIGN.

HU AvING blazed a path through the Western States as well
IHl as the South. Roosevelt is soon to appear in the East IN
a campaign in which will be concentrated all the vlgor
Of his Western speeches, with something added. The preslden-
tial campaign in New Jersey thus far has been almost spirltless,
though not because of any lack of effort on the part of mana,
gers. On Wednesday night the Republicans VIII begln | Ire
Ton a fighting campaign of two weeks, in which they Will bring
their heaviest guns in play. The Democratic State campaign
does not display the vigor of those of 1910 and 1908. Governor
johnson, of California, put new earnestness into the Bull Moose
campaign. which has been one of quiet propaganda. In a few
days Roosevelt will supply the fireworks, and his progress
through New Jersey will serve to show what the old parties
have got to contend with at the polls in November.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
TO TAKE A CENSUS OF RATS.

HILE there is no longer a scare about the bubonic
WV plague there is every reason for unsleeping vigilance.
And that is why Boston alone has spent $4,000 to
kill wharf rats. These creatures alone can bring the pestilence
ton of all rats everywhere in America would be a blessing
npart from the exclusion of the plague. These vermin destroy
many millions of dollars worth OF property every year. The rat
is n creature that has never been able to vindicate in any way
its right to live. So now the United States is going to take a
census of rats, to determine their activity not only as disease
carriers but as destroyers of property and Improbable con
sumers of the fruits of the earth. This will be one kind of
census in which the object will be to show a decrease at the
newt uoratj
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
SAY T. r. Is LOSING

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 14.-Reports
from Democratic county chairmen in
all parts of Nebraska show that
Roosevelt is rapidly losing strength in
this State. The reports were received
recently and were in answer to the
question: us Roosevelt losing or
gaining?"
OF thirty-seven W from as
many counties, thirty-one a the
Roosevelt sentiment is decreasing de-
cidedly in those counties. Five are
uncertain and only me of the thirty
seven says he Is gaining.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
A RJCE-EATTNG PROPAGANDA.

TIA AT more rice if you would reduce the cost of living is the
sIS advice that comes, naturally enough, from growers of
that cereal. They figure that the people of the United
States are spending four billions of dollars a year for food and
that they could knock a billion off this figure by adopting rice
MS a diet. Onethird of the human race makes this cereal its
principal food. Demonstration schools in rice cooking have been
established in several cities in this country, and fortynine ways
of preparing dishes from rice are claimed. The United States
is consuming only six and onethird pounds of rice per capita
annually. against twelve in Canada, thirty in Europe and from
100 to $50 in tropical and sub-tropical lands. The rice regimen
is worth trying, but when it is generally adopted watch the
nrica IN mi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
BUILDING AS A PROSPERITY INDEX.

eN IMIDITY of capital in a presidential election year may
account for the falling off in building permits issued last
month in seventyfour leading American cities as com
lared with the same month in 1911. The construction cost
called for is about $5,000000, a decrease of Z per cent. But
:,robably there is not much significance in this when we con,
slider that there we're gains in fortyone of the cities, including
Newark, which, with 29 permits taken out in September for
buildings to cost S70S,625, showed an increase of 80 per cent. in
HE latter item, and that the losses were mainly in places where
there had been a special boom last year. On the whole the
oiIding activities of the country are in line with the general
siorv of prosperity and confidence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
M'ADOO ANSWERS PERKINS

NEW YORK, Oct. 14-W. G. Nc
Adoo, acting chairman of the Demo.
cratic National Committee, received
a long open letter from George w.
Perkins, chairman of the executive
committee of the third party. Mr..
Perkins quoted a dispatch from Chi
cago to the effect that Governor
Wilson had protested against MAX
ing any more speeches in this cam
paign and was going to retire to
Princeton.
Mr.. McAdoo replied: Don't worry!
Governor Wilson will speak often
enough and say enough during the
remainder of the campaign to keep
his friends satisfied and his enemies
discounted"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
N lNVADES OHIO

COLUMBUS. o., Oct. 14-Governor
Hiram Johnson. of California, VICE
presidential candidate of the Progress
sive party. who spent the night here,
held a conference with Walter f.
Brown, Progressive State chairman,
this morning. Plans for his ~three-day
tour of Ohio were discussed.
Governor Johnson will leave Co
lumbus at 10:45 a. m. for Springfield,
where at moor he. makes his first
speech of the present tour IN the
State. He is to be at Toledo for q
meeting tonight.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
WORKS ~pENoUNcEs 7. r.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.-Uniteo
States Senator John. D. Works, OF
California, Progressive Republican,
who was swept into office on the
great reform wave which elected
Hiram w. Johnson governor of CALI
fornia, in a signed statement issued
he will work for Woodrow
Wilson for President. He importunes
all sincere" Progressives In the
United States to do likewise.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
ASKS WOMEN TO AID T. r.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IAN in
vitation to the women of this city TO
heir the work off the Washington
party and to join the women's com
mittee. which hasTbeen organized to
aid in every way possible in the
election of Roosevelt and Johnson
was issued by Miss, Mary H. Ingham,
organizer of the icommittee and pres
ident of the Equal Franchise League.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
TAFT NOMINEE FOR WILSON

MILWAUKEE. Wis, Oct. AT. NJ.
Thomas. of Ladysmith, will cast his
ballot as presidential elector for w.
II. Taft II the State goes for its Re-
publican national nominee, but as a
private citizen in the general election
will vote for Woodrow Wilson.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
TEW IN RACE FOR CONGRESS

JERSEY CITY, Oct. 14.-Robert s.
Tew, an old-iine Republican, of the
Greenville section, has been nomi-
mated by petition for Congress from
thea Eighth district in opposition to
Harold Bouton, the Progressive can
didate. Mr.. Tew is a Taft man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
MERCHANTS TO AID WILSON

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE e
tive committee of the National
League of Business Men. for Wilson
and Marshall, has approved the plan
for a committee Of 100 New York
business men to make. a tour as far
as Denver with a special train, pro-
viding there appears to be any po-
litical necessity for 1t.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
VOTERS VII BE IN THE ASCENDANT

cTa HOSE timid male voters who have feared that if women
should be given the franchise they would be able to out
vote the men may now be treasured. The census figures
show that there. are about three million more males than
females in the United States. Now, if it is estimated that on
some issue in which the sexes may divide one million of hen
uecked husbands will be unduly influenced to vote with the
women there will still be a safe margin of a million male votes
10 allow for all other possible OBJECTIONS,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
Peoples
PRSsE@

The star extends the privilege OF tness
columns to the public and invites signsS
ommunications of not more than Que
hundred words treating OF topics 0, the