Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-07-01
Roosevelt Opens Campaign
With a Speech at Pittsburg
Denouncing Administration

what he has heretofore-that they
/ thwarted the rank and file of the Re-
. publican party by the nomination OF
Taft at Chicago and in so doing, de
fiberately put the Democratic organ
ization and Mr. Wilson into power.
In conclusion, the colonel sketched
the Progressive idea of needed anti
g trust regulation by properly empow
: cred commissions, contrasting such
q proposals with legislation now pend
ing at Washington, which he found
: woefully inadequate. Such a pro
+ gramme alone, he contended, proved
l the inadequacy OF the Democratic
party.
ut is, and always will be-" he said,
2 afraid-of-power' /"
Yet the colonel warned those dis
! satisfied with the administration not
| through their resentment to throw
e their support TO the leaders he had
e attacked To do so, he said, would
only ensure continuation of "gov
) ernment by conyulsion, of a govern
/ mental see-saw between two sets OF
o policies"
n He spoke a word concerning those
[ whom the Progressives would vel
4 come to the party 1--WE will gladly
, work." he said, with any men who
n will themselves with open sincerity
!. work for these (Progressive) princi-
9 pies, provided that they are men Of
4 such character as to justify conf
dence in their good faith: In this
1 spirit he said, I'VE ask all good citi-
. zens to cooperate with us when, as
here in Pennsylvania, we hold aloft
the flag of good citizenship and fight
to translate those sound and lofty
principles into governmental prac-
tice."
Colonel Roosevelt came here to
speak in support OF the candidacy of
r. Dean Lewis for governor and OF
Clifford Pinchot for United States sen
p ator. Their qualifications he touched
upon at the opening of his speech.
l Thereafter he confirmed himself to
! the national issue outlined.
"The present national administra
tion," he said, lis pursuing course
Z that prevents the existence of pros
perity, and that does not offer sin
gle serious or Ineligible plan for
passing prosperity round, should pros
perity in spite of the Administrations
Or efforts at some future time return tc
III our people.
ID This is true botn as regards the
40 trust question and the tariff question
~ AS regards both, the only wise course
=, to follow is that set forth in the ma
- tional Progressive platform. The ma
=, tion should deal with both by con
tinuing executive action through ad
minstratiye commissions Of ample
" power. One commission should shap'
3 our tariff policies so as. with thor
!" ough knowledge disnterestedly ac
quired to give proper encouragement
to our merchants while also givint
- proper protection to our wage work
- ers, our farmers and our business men
70 The other commission should exer
le else strict supervision and contro
" over big business We should trea
s il with entire Justice, drawing thu
~ line not on size, but on misconduct
ne We should encourage the big bus
30 ness man who does well and who re
ny CARDS his great abilities as trus
IN to be exercised as such in the inter
est OF the public as in his own inter
hs ests. But we should check and pun
a ish him effectually and prompt
oo when he exercises these abilities 7
us the detriment either of the smalle
no business man with whom he con
as petes or the wage workers who shonl
no share with him the benefits OF hi
uii and their common efforts or OF IN
general public whom he serves.
"As regards the tariff, | wish esp'
eially to call your attention to tn
promises made by President Wilso
and his supporters two years ag'
They asserted that their method
II tariff reduction would reduce the COS
Il of living, and would thus solve tn
~ trust question because. as they SAT-
The trusts were creatures of the tarif
We then answered that their prom
ro ises we're empty words, that no sue
results as they stated could or woul
follow from the course they adyoca
ed. and that only by the method "
proposed could either the trust or II
~ tariff question be dealt with so as
oea ahate the existing evils and at u
~ N same time increase the general we
~ being. Two short years have prove
va va us 10 be right. Their promises hay
~ ~ not been kept Their performan'
' a, has brought distress upon the natio
a. The cost OF living has not been T
duced But the ability Of the averal
-. man To earn living has been gret
49, ~ reduced Not the slightest pro
=" =, ress has been made toward solviI
,,n the trust question. But the busine
~ community has been harassed al
q, harried to no purpose. and the pre-
- perity af the business man has be-
~ ~, checked. exactly as the prosperity
the farmer and the wage worker b
! 80 been checked As FOR the farm'
~ the present tariff. the administl
tinn's tarit. was SO framed as TO
suit IN the sacrifice Of his interes
lie had no spokesman. no frie
in high quarters and his welfa
I1h was contemptu0aaly sacrificed
every point where bis interest v
fof concerned he VAS made 20 sun
lher A. fos tho wage worker the res
slns ~ the tarin was that he suffer
u even more than bis employer
4 a he vas throWu out oi smplutms
slns and lost the naeans @ earn bis y
fbw ilhood
As fur the employer snmetin
Aet h. has been zsfs 20 siFusEie 90 "
~ me la@s ~ p4uhtS. sometimes ~
HAD Is t.ns. 81 ahep Ia hHsin'
and iB shirh any 81 thr BEG ifu
aere eahcefned d waa the sm
esnprtitnrs = the trusts Nha ~
Injured AND ln mAuY eases fuln
ING tsafs "a