The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-10-02
old PARTIES
ARE F0SSILIzED
So Says Roosevelt In Speech
At Columbus.
Tariff On Sugar Called Misguid,
ed Legislation BY The
Democrats.

Columbus, o., Sept. 2S.-Address-
ing an audience in Memorial Hall
here tonight Col. Roosevelt criticized
the old parties as "fossilized;" found
little save ineffciency and in COM
potency in their programs affecting
labor, combinations and the tariff,
and pointed to the Progressive plat
form as the only one showing the
way to true reform.
The old parties, he said, can not
and will not deal with new ideas in
adequate fashion.
They know that If they put the
wine of the new ideas into the old
bottles of their organizations these
old organizations would burst asun-
der" he said. The attitude of the.
present Democratic Administrator
on the tariff and trusts he described
as firing, so as to hit it If it ID o
bear and to miss it il it is a calf"
The Colonel explained his opposf-
ton to State ownership in most in
stances because of the superior Of
flciency of most privately conducted
enterprises. The distribution of the
mails. water and light he said fall
naturally within tn province Of the
State, but in general State reguia-
tion and supervision were to be pre-
ferred to State ownership.
my own recent experiences in trav-
cling on State owned railroad In
France, and in using the State-owned
telephone in England, impressed me
with the marked comparative super
iority'in service rendered by our own
privately-owned railroads and tele-
phones; but l am informed that in
Belgium the direct reverse obtains"
he said.
In pleading for an untrammeled
tariff commission the speaker declar-
ed that the Democratic revision was
hampered in the same manner that
the Aldrich-vreeland adjustment was
by the conflict of sectional and pri-
vate interests.
1--WE are great nation" he assert
ed, land we must think nationally
and act nationally.
Colonel Roosevelt pointed to the
placing Of sugar on the free list as
an example Of unscientific legislation
and declared that the advance in sug-
ar resulted because. he declared the
American grower simply quit busi-
ness, and the law of supply and de-
mand did the rest. He described the
policy of the Progressive party, as
one of wise and cool-headed radical
ism.
Under the Republican scheme q
few men prosper too much. Under
the Democratic scheme nobody pros
pers enough" he asserted. He re-
marked in passing that the Demo-
Gratis had failed in repeated prom
ses to provide presidential primary
and characterized the omission as an
outrage"
On the subject of combinations,
he former President said that the
advance in food-stuffs and
he plight of the cotton growers en-
'hasized the need of proprly regu-
ated and supervised combinations
or the benefit of the great and the
mall alike. The war. he added, has
howed the need of combinations
.mong business men. especially small
BUSINESS men. But. he said, they were
'rohibited by laws which prohibit
II combinations.
Col. Roosevelt took the decision In
he international Harvester case. re-
emily handed down, as an illustra
ion of the evil effect OF condemning
II combinations.
"The court in the Harvester case"
aid the Colonel. decided that what
he Harvester Company bad done
Tas beneficial to the country as q
hole. but that It was Illegal"