The sun., 1914-08-19
7. R. ATTACKS TARIFF
IN MAINE SPEECHES
Payne-Aldrich and Underwood
Bills Both Complete Fail
ures, He Asserts.
5000 IN PORTLAND CROWD
Colonel Advocates state Com
missions to Regulate Market
ing Agencies.

PORTLAND, Ne, Aug 1s--Col Theodore
Roosevelt formally opened the State Pro-
gressive campaign III Maine to-day,
speaking In Lewiston and Portland. He
was we'll received In both cities and ac-
corded demonstrations
At Lewiston he addressed 1000 people
In tho city hail and there were two over
flow meetings. This evening he spoke
brleny In Portland before a crowd OF
5000 10 the city hall The Lewiston
speech lasted for an hour and twenty min
utes.
Col. Roosevelt reviewed tarifY iegls-
lation IN the last few years and de-
clared that both the Payne Aldrich and
| Underwood tsrifr bills had been failures.
The latter he said had reduced the
schedules but "thc only affect this had
upon the trust question was to weaken
the smaller competitors of the trusts in
I the industries affected by the trusts. II
| did not reduce the cost OF living. but "
did reduce the capacity Of the average
man TO earn a living"
He added:
| THE one chance Of accomplishing re-
suits worth having is to adopt the Pro-
! gresslve platform as regards tho taria.
the trusts as regards both business and
labor. A tariff commission OF non -parti-
san experts. II as efficiently handled az
| the German tariff commission, will do
for this country what the German tariff
commission through decades has done for
| Germany. We are not asking you TO
| try experiments. we are asking you to
go into plain business proposition which
has proved its excellence.
There must be business combinations.
, The efforts 10 stop them all cannot be
successful and can only result In mis-
chief What is needed is control OF these
| corporations, thoroughsoing and far
reaching control. control that can only
come through the action OF the national
! Government.
This control should not be attempted
under the guise OF lawsuits undertaken
to punish people for what has already
been done II should he obtained through
! continuing supervisory control exercised
| By an administrative body.
This administrative body should in
advance tell honest business men what
! they cannot and what they can do. II
should exercise such control over the in
| cepton of business as TO put stop at
, the beginning 10 the mischievous activi-
ties of business that IL not honest.
"One OF the men whom II Is most de-
srahle and at the same time most ditil-
cult to help IN the farmer. Now IN all
, our country there is not more typical
American than the man In the country
districts of the United States who lives
Oh tho soil He does not want any special
favors. Above all he does not want to be
patronzed for the purpose Of keeping him
still or getting his vote
THE farmer wishes attention and rec
ogrition from the Government given from
his point OF view and not from the point
Of view OF political eXpediency or party
policy. He wants all the institutions with
which he Is primarily concerned---schoois
colleges. experiment stations. agricultural
departments--to be well supported, for he
takes pride IN these institutions.
"As yet he is not much interested In
coopsrGt'on. think he ought to be ar
more interested than he IN, But our
prime duty must be TO awaken him to the
need OF cooperation and not TO try TO rorce
II upon him from without.
"Fccnom prob'ep's can"ot he solve
by pa d an polit cal meth ds. The real
issyn Is NOT whether IN" t'rlr all be
revised upward or dcwnward. The relI
issue IS to make Il NJ the cnse. aid this
can only be done by a continuing stuAy
and modlfc ,tion by q competent. tndepen-
u,
"What is true of the tariff Is true OF
many of the agricultural questions. The
whole highway question should be taken
up from this point of view
Instead OF merely connecting towns
and providing automobile routes. neces-
sary though this also is, there should
be a study OF the whole State made for
; the purpose OF making II aggressive, ant
not only for the purpose OF developing the
resources Of the land for the farmer
himself. but also developing the resources
ofrered by the forests. the streams and
even the scenery
! "In the same way the marketing ques'
, ton, which Is important to every person
In every State, should be studied as =
whole nv a continuing body OF experts
which should be to this field what ths
public service commissions are to thel'
! fields We are surely coming to thu
regulation OF marketing agencies by non
political commissions other bodie.
that understand the question and tina
have power derived from the people"