Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-25
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welt in speech at the French opera
house decried the ''reactionary" policy
Of the government in handling the tar
III question, particularly as 1t affected
Louisiana sugar interests, and reiter-
ated his charges that paying $25,00O,-
900 to Colombia as result of the Pan
ANA Canal zone deal would be black
mail
Col. Roosevelt dwelt on the princi-
pies of the Progressive party, but laid
especial stress upon the tariff in so
far as it affected the sugar growers
CT Louisiana. He stood out strongly
for federal control of the Mississippi
river.
He spoke for a few minutes at a
Labor Day picnic in Southern park
There he said labor unions are all
right If led by the right men.
There are little crooks as well as
big crooks he said, "and the Pro-
gressiye party is after them all"
He'd Expand the Mississippi.
In his address in the opera house
Col. Roosevelt urged that this gov
eminent, instead Of paying $25,O0O,OOp
blackmail TO alien wrong-doers Tor
their heirs as proposed in the dis
mute with Colombia over the Panama
Canal property. should use that go.
O0O, 900 and the plant of the Panama
Canal and as many scores OF millions
extra as are necessary to take control
of the Mississippi and to develop all
its possibilities of usefulness from the
headwaters to the delta.
He spoke warmly OF the Progress
siyes in Louisiana. There were no
ether members of the party, he SAID.
who more emphatically deserved well
of the party than these men. he
spoke Of the old Republican party as
having a deliberate purpose TO De
come the bulwark of Bourbon antag-
onism in advance throughout the ma
ten" and said the Democrats were
welded to outworn principles OF gov
eminent and dead and buried eco
ncmic theories
The fact that the day was Labor
Day led him to discuss the industrial
and economic situation.
Beth the old parties are welded
To their IDOLS he said The RepuD-
lican party by every action II mas
taken during the past two years has
made it evident that it intends to see
that the rank and file are shackled
and are put under the control OF the
great bosses of the stamp or Mr..
Barnes and Mr.. Penrese.
ION the ether hand, the Democratic
party, which has possessed absolute
newer IN Washington fer the last two
wears. has shown not the faintest
symptom CT real understanding OF
the needs of the people. 1t has done
nothing whatever for labor and Its
action on the trusts and the tariff has
shown that it is not fit to run the gov
eminent With the trusts they nave
adopted the policy Of firing so as to
hit it ii it is bear and miss it II It
is a salt.
Dweit LONG on Sugar.
He told his audience that the people
Of Louisiana were among those hard
est hit by "the backward and reaction
airy policy which the government had
adopted as regards the tariff. He as
serted that the promise to break up
the trusts and reduce the cost Of living
had not been realized He took upthe
question Of sugar, with which Louisi-
ana is closely identified. The removal
Of duty On this commodity, he said.
had been big contributing cause Of
the present high prices for sugar. not
only seriously affecting the sugar IN.
dustry but causing damage upon the
whole public.
..GernaIy's great economic develop