The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24
Not to Wait TN All the Eggs
Are Scrambled, He Says.
AVOID WAR ON EFFICIENCY
Points to Colorado Strike rs
Product Of Conditions.
Law Breaking Must Be Stopped
ut Its Beginning.

LEE 00O14Ac8s 4ass sept. "a MY
plea to you here in Iowa is that you
vote as you really think. and do not
permit yourselves to let loyalty to
names make you disloyal to principles -
Colonel Roosevelt said to his hearers at
q meeting of Progressfves here last
night.
As at present controlled and man.
aged. the Democratic and Republican
parties are as poor instruments with
which to work out the welfare Of the
country as were the Democratic and
Wing parties 60 years ago when the Re-
publican party was first founded. ABB
raham Lincoln was then a man Of mid
die age and all his life long had been a
Wing. He found that he could be true
to the principles which had made him
a Henry Clay Wing only by refusing
longer to lie fettered by allegiance to
a party name. He left the party with
which for quarter Of century he
had been identified and which had
elected him 70 Office. and joined the
new party-the Progressive party Of
that day.
For the first six years of the exist
Republican party, had to struggle with
all the difficulties with which the Pro-
gressive party today is now struggling.
There were foolish radicals who said
it did not go far enough and foolish
conservatives who said that it went too
far. Moreover, there were plenty of
well meaning men who wished the Pro-
gressives instead of standing by their
own men. to support near-Progressives
in both the old parties.
Abraham Lincoln'a flrst notable APP
pearance in public life; and his first
great public service occurred in the
great contest he waged for the senator
ship in Illinois against a near-Progres-
sive Of that day. Stephen A. Douglas.
The situation in Illinois in 1858 is
fundamentally like that in your own
state of Iowa now in 1914"
Mr. Roosevelt discussed the tariff
question at some length. criticising the
policies of both the Democratic and
Republican parties. Touching on the
trust question he referred to a plan of
units that no unit should have more
than Is per cent of the business Of any
given type. which he said had been ad-
vocated by both Democratic and Re-
publican leaders.
Trusts Not Only AIalefactors.
1.-THE slightest study of our indus
trial situation will show you that the
evils which. can properly Be charged
to the. trusts may also be properly
charged to. corporations which do not
and sometimes not & per cent of the
total business. The most striking ex-
ample is ,one that is before our eyes
at this moment. The corporation
which, has caused most industrial
trouble in this country during the
past year is the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company. 1t has long been singled
out by writer's on economic reforms as
showing all the peculiarities which
they most condemn in the work OF
corporations of the wrong kind This
corporation has brought civil war, So
cial war, on the state OF Colorado, and
has para1yzed the state government
which has had to appeal to the nation
to invoke the protection of the United
States army in order to restore the
ordinary conditions of orderly cfviliza-
ton. Yet this corporation has not rs
per cent-probably has not 10 per cent
of mass control over the cOmmodi-
ties in which it deals
Mr.. Roosevelt sounded note OF
warning as to the control of trusts in
that I'VE must not war against eff
ciency."
What is needed is an efficient ad-
ministrative commission which shall
take continuing control in these mat
ters," he said, which will give honest
men surety as to the law and encour-
agement while they obey the law, and
which shall stop law breaking at its
beginning. and not wait until all the
eggs have been scrambled before, by
lawsuit, the effort is made to I'M
scramble them. This is the Progress
sive doctrine"