Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-07-10
T.R. IN KEYNOTE TALK
URGES ELECTION OF PiNcHoT TO
SENATE AND LEWIS GOV
ERNoR OF PENNSYLVANIA.
WILSON ADMINISTRATION HIT
Colonel Asserts President and His
Supporters Have Utterly Failed to
Keep Promises OF Reducing Cost of
Living and Solving Trust Question.

Pittsburgh, Pa, July AT a FRO
gressive rally here on Tuesday night
Col. Theodore Roosevelt made the first
wholly political speech he has made
since returning to the United States,
and in it he struck the keynote for
the campaign. In the first place he
urged the election of Clifford Pin
chot as senator and Dean Lewis as
governor because of their personal
worth and as a rebuke to Republicans
and Democrats as well as to carry out
Progressive principles.
The colonel then paid his respects
to the Wilson administration, assert
ing that the president and his sup
porters had utterly failed to keep their
promises of reducing the cost of hv-
ing and solving the trust question by
their method of tariff reduction. The
administration is pursuing a course,
he said, that prevents the existence OF
prosperity and that does not offer a
single serious or Ineligible plan for
passing prosperity round should pros
perity, in spite of the administra-
tons efforts, at some future time re-
turn to the people" He declared the
only course to follow with the trusts
and the tariff is to deal with both
through administrative commissions
of ample power.
After expressing his well-known
opinion of the Republican bosses and
their action at the Chicago conven-
ton, Colonel Roosevelt discussed at
length the Administrations, antitrust
program and then set forth the Pro-
gressive view of the business prob
lem.
He said: "The ~Progressiyes are OF
the twentieth century. They face the
facts of today. They are not afraid
of power either in business or in gov
eminent. Their program will allow
business concentration in so far as
such concentration gives social and
economical efficiency and good serv-
ice. But it will also give the gov
eminent full power to g that bust
ness concentration does serve these
necessary ends, and that it is not used
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or for the unfair treatment Of labor or
for any other anti-social end.
"This is the only tenable position
on the trust problem, for it faces the
facts and does not try to turn back
the hands of the clock. BY long and
disappointing experience we have
had several cardinal facts hammered
into us.
First, we cannot and do not want
to destroy all corporations; we must
have large units to 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 monop-
oily by attacking all forms of concen'
tration whether monopolistic or not.
Fourth, we cannot destroy real mo
nopoly by attacking its legal form,
| we must find out and take away the
real economic basis of monarchy
which is a very different thing.
Fifth, we can get no effective re
suits through the courts with their
slow and restricted procedure.
Sixth, we must encourage honest
business and allow that business con.
centration which will give the power
necessary to serve Us. This policy
Of the encouragement of decent bust
ness is as important to the welfare
of our people as is u other policy Of
effective warfare against corrupt and
unfair business.
Seventh, there must be co-opera
ton among business men, among wage
workers and among farmers.
THE Progressive party is the only
party which recognizes these facts"
He extended the olive branch to The
Republicans and invited all good citi
zens, regardless of party, to join in de
feating the Democratic party.
Many in the large audience detected
a huskiness in the speakers voice. MI
Roosevelt also seemed to realize thu
weakness OF his vocal organs and re
trained from the vigorous deliver.
which has in the past marked his pub
lie u~tterances