The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-31
THIRD TERM PARTY

Monopoly as handled by it (the Roosevelt progran) is not to be pre- vented, but accepted. It is to be &C., cepted and regulated. All attempt to resist 1t is to be given up. It is to be accepted as inevitable. What up this very partnership between big business and the government What we need is the regulation Of competition and the prosecution, of what has created monopoly. If the special kinds of competition by which they built up monopoly had been restrained and prevented monopoly falo, Labor Day.
 If (the Roosevelt platforTn1 has two sides and two tones. It speaks warm sympathy with practically every pro- ject of-social betterment. to which men and women of broad sympathies are now turning with generous purpose, and on that side 1t is refreshing to read. It is a proclamation Of sympathy: $ @ The program lies else where, where the tariff is spoken of. and the trusts.-Buffalo. Labor Day.
 You have in this new party two things-a political party and a body of social reformers. Will the political party contained in it be serviceable to the body of social reformers? s Now, say * < that those who are hopeful of social reform through the instrumentality of that party ought to realize that in the very platform it. self is supplied the demonStrat ton that it is not a serviceab1e instrument. They do propose to serve civilization and humanity, but they cannot serve civtl- ization and humanity with that kind of government.-New York Press Club, Sept. g.
 Why Not Before?
 YoI1 have therefore this e1ztraor- dinary spectacle of two branches of the Republican party, both of them led by men equally responsible for the very condition which we are seeking to alter. Therefore to my mind it is a choice between tweedle-dum the whole country knows to be true these gentlemen deny The whole country knows that special privilege has sprung up in this land. The gentlemen, that it has been due chiefly to the protective tariff These gentle men deny that special privilege has the protective tariff. They deny what all the rest of the country has been. convinced is true, and after they, have denied the responsibility of the pro- tective policy for special privilege they turn about to those creatures of spe- cial privi1ege-which we call the trusts, those organizations which have creat-
 
 of living in this country-and deny that the tariff created them not only, but deny that it is, possible to reverse the process by which that monopoly was created, because in the very plat form of the third party it Is not said that they intend to correct the condi- tions of monopoly, but merely that they intend to assuage them, to rem der them less severe, to 1egalizel and moderate the processes of monopoly. So that the two things that we are fiehfine againSt-name1y. excessive tariffs and almost universal monopoly are the very things that these two branches of the Republican party both decline to combat
 There are some noble people, there are some people of very high principle who believe that they can turn in other quarters (than the Democratic party) for relief, but they do so sim ply because there is one of these par ties that blows beautiful bubbles for them to see float in the air of oratory, men who paint iridescent dreams of upIifted humanity, men who speak of going to the rescue of the helpless, men who speak to those who are over blirdened, men who paint a picture of the redemption of mankind--and do not admit who they are preaching this doctrine. They are men whom we have seen and tested, and. their con- version was after a time when they possessed the power to do these things and refused to do them-
 Is humanity burdened now for the first time? Are men in need of suc- cor now who were not in need of suc- cor ten years ago? kfe men BOW in need of protection Of the government