Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-15
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The Bull Moase party, which secede
from the Republican ranks. is now go
ing through a new process of division
The Pinchots and Jane Adams, it ap
pears, do not approve of the Perkins
Roosevelt ideas on trusts and thel
Regulation and appear to be organ
izing a new bolt, which shall leave tn
Bull Moose aggregation to one side
The Pinchots declare that the Perkin
ideas are not progressive" but ''reac
tionary.' in substance. and Colone
Roosevelt has put himself on recort
many times as siding with the Perkins
Beverage views. Mr.. Roosevelt ha
hastily betaken himself beyond th'
reach of these acrimonious dissensions
as is his habit under such trying con
ditiens. While the merry war wages
within the Progressive" ranks the sa
gacious Colonel will be in South Ameri'
ca.-Boston Advertiser.
Walter Wellman in the New Yorl
Sun reveals some of the inside history
of the new party and predicts an early
split in the ranks. He sees little hope
of reconciliation and declares ii is
coming over the trusts. The well
known fact that Roosevelt and Pinchot
no lerger agree upon the manner of
dealing with the trusts is made en-
phatic by the words of Mr.. Pinchot
himself.
Here is the big line of cleavage: Col.
w
bert ]. Beveridge against the Pinchots.
Governor Johnson and Jane Adams.
The latter faction asserts that privilege
must be fought openly; the former are
for regulation. They. say. according to
Amos Pinchot:
I'VE are the only true Progressives
with large p There are bad trusts
and good trusts. The thing to do is to
regulate them all. make the bad ones
good. and we know that our friends
are not in any but the good ones. And
along with that we must have lots of
social justice: stop child labor; raise
wages. settle strikes: regulate every
BODY and everything; improve the
courts: cut down the hours of work
for all hands: curb the bosses with di-
rect primaries; find another big stick
in the referendum and recall: have
woman suffrage; put bathtubs in all
the factories and flowers in working
mems yards and don't forget d whole
lot of publicity about everything and
everybody, especially US
On the other hand, Gov. Johnson. the
Pinchots and Jane Adams are made
to say.
We are tired of this social justice
chiid's play. this fakerish stuff. this
soft soapsng of the innocent. We want
to go at something of mans size.
Every holder of special privilege. every
exploiter of the people by means of a
private monopoly. every wallewer in
the pclf of the trusts in this country is
hoping and praying for the success of
our friends who are over there on that
other and wrong road. This is because
they know, every mothers son of them,
what regulation means-it means pro-
lection. recognition. legalization, per-
petuation. They know that the social
justice programme, while good in parts.
Is also full of contraptions, impracti-
calities, dreams and stuff and is to a
large extent mere bait. q trap an al
Turing lot OF bunk deliberately put
forth to blind the eyes ofthe people to
the real issue. which is abolition of mo-
nopo'y and privilege. The vital issue
Is economic justice-stop making so
many millionaires. stop making so
much property. Settle this right and
social justice will take care Of itself.
We are the only true Progressiyes.
And at a bend In the road they pause
look over toward the other highway
and with tears in their eyes and voices
exclaim:
Isn't ii shame? Why can't the
Colonel see that George Perkins is fool
ing him into playing the game for the
monopolists? Why can't he see that
all those fellows care about social lust
ice is to use it as means of keeping
their trust chestnuts out OF the fires OF
progress? And to think that the mo-
nopoi,sts have got our Colonel with
them Oh, 1t is too bad.
Some of the revelations by Mr.. PIN
chot, according to Mr. Wellman, are at
least striking If not sensational.
The moral is that the men who set
out in new boat denouncing. right
and left the character of former as
sociates. had not time to look for rocks.
The first one they hunted was Gistrust
OF each other. Even men ON the road
to Damascus are distrustful Of foot
mates who came from enc of those
rascally cities, Republicanism and De-
mocracy.