The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-09-29
CALLS OLD PARTIES
"FOSSILIZED"
Roosevelt Sees Little but Inefficiency
and Incompetency in Their Pro-
grams Relating to Impor-
tant Questions.

Columbus, o., Sept. Embarrassing
an audience in Memorial hall here last
night, Colonel Roosevelt criticized the
old parties as "fossilized"; found little
save inefficiency and incompetency il
their programs affecting labor, comhina,
tions and the tariff, and pointed to the
Progressive platform as the only one
showing the way TO true reform.
The old parties, he said, cannot and
will not deal with new ideas in adequate
| fashion.
"They know that if they put the wine
OF the new idea into the old bottles of
their organizations these old organiza-
tions would burst asunder," he said.
The attitude of the present Democratic
administration on the tariff and trusts
he described as firing $50 to hit it If it
is bear and to miss it if it is a calf"
The colonel explained his opposition
to state ownership in most instances
because of the superior efficiency of most
privately conducted enterprises. The
distribution Of the mail, water and
light, he said, fall naturally within the
province of the state, but in general,
state regulation and supervision were
to be preferred TO state ownership.
my own recent experiences in travel
ing on a state-owned railroad in France,
and in using the stste-owned telephone
in England, impressed me with the
marked comparative superiority in serv-
ice rendered by our own private-owned
railroads and telephones; but / am in
formed that in Belgium the direct re.
verse obtains" he said.
In pleading for an untrammeled tariff |
the speaker declared that |
the Democratic revision was hampered |
in the same manner that the Aldrich- |
adjustment was by the conflict |
Of sectional and private interests.
'We are a great nation" he asserted, |
and we must think nationally and act |
Colonel Roosevelt pointed to the plac-
ng Of sugar on the free list as an ex-
ample of unscientific legislation and de.
,lared that the advance in sugar re-
iulted because, he declared. the Amer
can grower simply quit business, and
he law of supply and demand did the
est. He described the policy of the
Progressive party as one of wise and
DOL headed radicalism.
Under the Republican scheme few
nen prosper too much Under the
Democratic scheme nobody prospers
nough," he asserted. He remarked in
assing that the Democrats had failed
a repeated promises to provide presi-
entail primary, and characterized the /
mission as an outrage" II
On the subject of combinations, the I
ormer president said that the wartime 7
dvance in foodstuffs and the plight OF d
he cotton growers emphasized the need
properly regulated and supervised S
ordinations for the benefit of great t
nd small alike. The war, he added, I
as shown the need of combinations '
mong business men, especially small s
lsiness men. But, he said, they were il
by laws which prohibit all
I'M binations, good or bad h
Colonel Roosevelt took the decision in s
lie International Harvester case, recent e
handed down, as an Illustration of the f
I'll effect Of condemning all combina t
ons. I
"The court in the harvester case" said L