Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1914-07-01
The Speech of
Col. Roosevelt

but a moral issue, / mention the name
Of Senator Penrose merely because ne
typfies a class Mr.. Penrose stands IN
Pennsylvania as Mr. Barnes stands IN
New York.
Their political lives depend upon
their keeping politics 40 such condition
that decent men cannot succeed them.
Rather than see this control brok-
en-, Messrs. Penrosc. Barnes end their
associates deliberately put the Demo
cratic organization and Mr. Wilson
into power at Washington.
Concluding his indictment of the
bosses" he outlined what he styled
the specific performances'of the Pro
gressive party in the matter of state
and national legislation, and again
took up the tarin question.
I'VE progressives advocate the inn
mediate creation of a nou-partisan
commission" he said. "with power TO
propose revision Of the tariff rates,
schedule by schedule, treating each
case on an intelligent consideration of
it's merits. divorced from favoritism
and the fostering of special interests.
Our proposed methods would never dis
organize business by a complete
change In all the tariff schedules at
one time" OF the Progressive anti
trust program, he said:
1T is primarily an administrative
problem. To meet il, we must have
adequate administrative machinery
1.-THE Progressives therefore advo-
cate the creation Of a strong inter-
state trade commission and would give
such a commission, primarily three
powers:
First. the power of investigation
Second. the power directly to pro-
hibit all unfair trade practices within
It's Jurisdiction
Third the power to end the ex-
elusive control o ia factor necessary
to production by an order adapted to
the circumstances Of the particular
case.
"Conrasted with this program we
have the Democratic antitrust pro
gram now under discussion in the SEN
ate of the United States. That pro-
gram proves the inadequacy of the
Democratic party for the present and
the future Of the nation. It is, and
always viii be- the states right party,
the party opposed to federal action,
the 'party-afraid-o f-power'
1--WE cannot control our great ma
tional business without power, ma
tonal power But the Democrats dare
not use power themselves, nor let any
one else have IT, Their trust program,
as it stands today, is made futile by
this fear. Their official administration
bills propose a weak federal trade
commission, with no power except to
investigate and eport Progressive
congressman voted for the BILL not be-
cause it represents an adequate at
tempt TO deal with a great problem,
but in the hope that day viii arrive
when the so-called trade commission
will be given sufficient power TO make
il a real trade commission, such as
our national platform promises and
such as the bills we have introduced
would provide
"The House of Representative has
also passed a bin supplemental TO the
Sherman anu-trust act Many OF the
provisions Of the bin deserve com
mendation. Similar provisions win be
found in the Progressive antitrust
bills.
"But the Clayton bin goes hopeless
ly wrong I'm that it forbids specifically
any combination or agreement i'm i'm
terstate commerce, between any two
or more corporations, firms or even i'm
diyiduals, which i'm any way lessons
or restricts competition between them.
This is the hub of their whole posi-
ton They propose that two farmers
selling milk across a state line cam
cooperate; and that two men doing
any business across "a state line cam
not form a partnership or corpora
ton. They insist that there must be
no big business power concentrated
power or large enterprise anywhere,
and that our business must go back to
the period of not merely 1860 but
1850; to the cobbler's bench the grist
mill an dthe blacksmith forge.
"This Is economic absurdity Xxx
Unlimited competition has proved one
Of the greatest curses of modern civ
ilization The New Freedom is mere
ny the exceedingly old freedom which
permits each man TO cut his neigh
boris throat
"By long and disappointing eXper-
fences we have had several cardinal
facts hammered into ms.
"Fist we cannot and do moi want
20 destroy an corporations we must
have large units 10 DO our work
Second. we cannot make every
man compete with every other man
we cannot go back to 1850 still less
to 1850.
"Third, we cannot destroy monopoly
by attacking an forms of coucentra-
ton, whether monopolistic or not
Fourth we cannot destroy real
monopoly by attacking us legal form
We must find and take away the real
economic basis of monopoly
"Fifth. we can get no effective re-
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