Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-10
ROOSEVELT SCOLDS
 OLD LINE PARTIES
 AND LAUDS HIS OWN
Renews His Attack on Payment
 "BlaCkmaip to Columbia and Declares That Tariff and Anti
 Trust Laws Need Revision

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 9.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt delivered a pub lie address in the opera house here last night in which he urged that, .Tbis government. instead of paying s25. .OOa OOOO blackmail to alien wrong doers an dtheir heirs" as proposed in the dispute with Colombia over tho Panama canal property, should "use that 25.OOO 900 and the plant of the canal and as many scores of millions extra sare necessary, TO taKe con trol of the Mississippi and to develop all its possibilities of usefulness from the headwaters to the delta
 Colonel Roosevelt made a particu' lar point fthe fDod problem which he said must be met not only by lev ees. but great storage reservoirs up- stream. which would not only stop the floods but serve we'll for irrigation purposes. He reminded his hearers than he had been an advocate Of federal control O fthe river for long lime "I insisted upon it when ] was President he said "but neith of the old parties adopted it. It is only the progressive party that has seen the need of such a far reaching construct i've policy"
 He spoke warmly of the Progress ives in Louisiana There were no other members of the party, he said who more emphatically deserved well of the party than the Progressiyes or Louisiana. He spoke of the old Re publican party as having "a deliberate purpose to become the bulwark of Bourbou antagonism to advance throughout the nation" and said the Democrats were "wedded to outworn principles of government and dead and buried economic theories"
 The day was Labor Day, which led him to discuss the industrial and eco homie istuation. Both the old par ties are welded to their idols. The Republican party by every acton which it ha staken during the past two years has made it evident that it intends to see that the rank and file are shackled and put under the con trol of the great bosses of the stamp of Mir. Barnes and Mir |Penrose. On the other hand the Deu1ocratic party which has possessed absolute power in Washington for the last two years has not shown the faintest symptom of a real understanding of the needs of the people It has done nothing whatever for labor and its action Of the trusts and the tariff has shown that il is not fit to run the govern ment With the trusts they have adopted the policy of firing "so as tp hit if it is a bear and to miss it if it is a calf" He told his audience that the people of Louisiana were among those hardest hit by "the backward and reactionary policy which the government has adopted as regards the tariff. He asserted that the prom ise to break up the trusts and reduce the cost of living has not been real ized. He took up in detail the matter of sugar with which Louisiana is close lv Identified The removal of any duty ln this commodity, ne said, mao been big contributing cause to the present high prices for sugar not only seriously affecting the sugar industry, but causeing damage upon the whole plblic.
 "Germany's great economic develop ment during the 48 years preceding this lamentable war" he said "has been due largely tp the intelligent use of a tariff commission" The Pro pressive proposal along this line he held to be the only real hope for good business from the standpoint of all.
 He pointed to the disturbed business
 He pointed to the disturbed busi- ness conditions in this country today which emphasized d government com mission with power to tell business men what was right for them to do and what was wrong. In New York, he said. the small provision dealers had been anxious to come together for con- sultation as to how to handle flour during these war times. in order that made 1t practically impossible for the poor people might obtain it at as little expense as possible. Such decis- ions d sthat in the Harvester case had those dealers to come together flor even talking over an understanding that would be yitally necessary fin the interest of the community at large, without heinz liable to prosecution.