The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-01
FORMER PRESIDENT ARRAtCNS THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINS.
 TRATloN FOR CONDITIONS.
FAILED TO KEEP PROMISES
Have Not Reduced Cost of Livinu and Have Injured Manufacturer, Rusl. ness Man, Farmer and Wageearner, He Says, by the Wilson Policy.

Pittsburg. Pa. June 30.-Theodore Roosevelt delivered tonight his first political address since his return from Brazil. ls was divided into three parts-an attack on the Wilson administration, an indictment of bosses and an exposition of the progressive partys policies.
 The administration tariff laws Colonel Roosevelt hailed as a colos. sal failure, particularly hard upon the farmer, its antitrust program, he branded as an economic absurdity; its foreign policy he styled as 'wretched." The democratic tariff he insisted had brought distress upon the nation had not lowered the cost of living, and had chiefly benefited foreign rivals or American business. The solution rested, he argued, in support of the progressive move ment and the enactment of laws pro- viding for tariff revision by a non partisan commission.
 Of the bosses" Mir Roosevelt said they thwarted the rank and file of the republican party by the nomina- tion of Taft at Chicago, and in so doing deliberately put the demo- cratic organization and Mr. Wilson into power.
 In conclusion, the colonel sketched the needed legislation, contrasting such proposals with legislation now pending at Washington.
 Colonel Roosevelt came here to speak in support of the candidacy of Dean Lewis for governor and of Gif- ford Pnehot for United States sena- tor.
 The present national administra- tion," he said in part, lis pursuing a course that prevents the existence of prosperity and that does not offer a slngie serious or intelligibe plan for passing prosperity around, should prosperity, in spite of the admins tration's efforts, at some future time return to our people.
 This is true both as regards the trust and the tariff questions. As regards both, the only wise course to follow is that set forth in the national progressive platform. The nation should deal with both by continuing executive action through administra- tive commissions of ample power. One commission should shape our tariff policies so as, with thorough knowledge disinterestedly acquired, to give proper encouragement to our merchants, while also giNyng proper protection to our wage workers, our Iarmers and our business men. The other commission should exercise strict control over government busi- ness.
 As regards the tariff l especially cal your attention to the promises made by President Wilson and his supporters two years ago. They as serted their method of tariff reduc- ton would reduce the cost of living and thus solve the trust question, be- cause, as they said, the trusts were the creatures or tHe tdFlll. we uneu answered that their promises were empty words, that no such results could oi would follow from the course they advocated. Two short years have proved us to be right. Their promises have not been kept. Their performance has brought dis tress upon the nation. The cost of living has not been reduced. But the ability of the average man to earn a living has been greatly reduced. Not the slightest progress has been made toward solving the trust question. But the business community has been harassed and harried to no pur- pose, and the prosperity of the busl- ness man has been checked, exactly as the prosperity of the farmer and the wage worker has been checked. AS for the farmer, the present admin istration's tariff was so framed as to result in the sacrifice of his inter- ests. As for the wageworker, the re- suit of the tariff was that he suffered even more than his employer, for he was thrown out of employment.
 "As for the employer, sometimes