New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-13
More than 1900 CeleA,..
Emancipator's Birthdss
by Dinner.
PERKINS ATTACKS
BOTH OLD PARnf,
"Old Bondage" He Says, Is s.r.
Name than New Freedom
Promised by Wilson.

More than twelve hundred Pror..
met AZ the Astor last night for
Day dinner. Theodore Roo,ev.I, -.
there, consequently the enthusiast,
not a. pronounced as usual. The 49,
were empty, or almost 50. and N, -
ing was forced rather than coandsr, a.
saw in II the stripping FOR ac,,o~
which the colonel has 50 often ~.
But. as one Of them put II, n A.
much more stripping therein 49,
nothing left 20 strip"
william Hamlin Chllds. the toa,,~.
drew the first applause In a ,o..,
President Wilson. which h. secons.d =.
one for the colonel, who has 6oss -.
than any one else 70 awaken IA. !.
science Of the country" Mr.. Perrin, -
first speaker. pleaded FOR are, -
in dealing with the problems Of Tia -.
try
"Our statesmen seem 10 have Ioe A.,
broad vision, that inspiring couras. ~.
deep-rooted faith that charact.n,,x !.
forefathers We have succeeded ~, a.
experiment Of a government On ~.
hemisphere on The centralized arx !.
operative plan. reducing DESTRUCTIVE a.
petition 70 a minimum. Business 4.
basis OF our material prospefty. "a I,
is Of the utmost importance te our -.
perity. therefore. that our bus,nss A.,
know exactly how TO conduct ityGf 4.
how II can expand and grow.
THE Republican party offered dr.
ton as a solution of the problem a \.
n handle business that Is national n
scope. and no greater fasco has evse ~
Witnessed.
The Democratic party. in its pr,sr.s
trust legislation. Is merely adding "a A,
already complicated legal machinery a.
clogs and thwarts a solution Of this N
ton.
THE Democrats have repeated!y ~
serted that our late tariff maintains 4.
trusts. This Is not true. The "a a
important cause OF the trusts has n.
the enormous growth in intercomnus1,
ton. II our present tariff and coswur-
policies are persisted in the rest Of q
world will give us all the competitrr ,,
want.
I'm the United States modern mssAss
OF business are regarded by our Nv.
makers as restraint of trade. IN Co.
many similar methods arc REGARDED
advance in trade. The industrial neh
Of Germany is Unite and Conquer.'S1
ours is Dissolve and Retreat
The Progressive party believes u
the great questions Of the day are msn
questions. We are told by the nrs
istration that We are 20 be given rs'
freedom which will he a return 10 III
old competitive methods In business ~
il is undeniable that the conditions Ert,
which our fathers did business caused "
sweatshop and child labor and ans
every other immoral practice knosn ,
the business world. 4 better name !g "a
freedom would be the old bondage
Senator Colby. OF New Jersey. SAD
didn't want TO talk on history Of w
party, as people who did much Of IA
kind of talking were usually the M
that would steal your watch aft6 M
had sufficiently impressed you
John VI. Parker. OF New Orleans w
was the last speaker, said the sA
would never forgive the Republican pSN
it's sins OF the reconstruction period ~
that honest Republicans from the N'''
have forever been driven from Their PsV
by the absolute iniquity OF boss CON-.
nominating candidates al attem7u
vitalize il, he said, were useless.