Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-24
Tells lowans Democratic and
Republican Parties AIe
Poor instruments to Work
National Welfare,
COMPARES PRESENT TIME
WITH DAYS OF LINCOLN
Takes Rap at Cummlns, Who
He Says Is on Wrong Po-
IitlcaI Track IN Sticking to
G. 0, P,

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main plea 90 you here In Iowa IL that
vpu vote as you really think, and do
mot permit yourselves 10 let loyalty 10
names make you dlsloyal TO pflne'-
ples:" Col Theodore i,ooseNelt salu
10 his hearers at meeting ot pros
greaayes here tonight "As a, present
controlled and MANAGED, the demo-
cratic ana republican parties are as
poor Instruments with which 20 work
out the welfare Of the country as we're
the democratic and whig parties sixty
wears ago when the republican party
was FIRST founded abraham Lincoln
was then a man of middle age ana al
his life long had been whiHl lie
found that he could be true 90 the
principles which had made him
Henry Clay whig only by refusing
longer 10 be fettered by allegiance 70
"A party name. lie left the party with
which for quarter Of century ne
had teen identified and which hau
Ielected him 10 office and Joined the
inew party---,he progressive party OF
THAT day
''For the first six years of iis exist
lenca, the then progressive party, me
Republican party had 90 struggle Win
lali the difficulties with which the
progressive party today IS now
struggling. There wera foolish radi~
leafs who said II did MOI 80 far enough,
and foolish conservatives who said u
went loo far, Moreover, there we're
plenty well-meaning men who wished
the nf0gressiv.is instead of standing BY
their own men 10 support npar-pro-
lgresaves 10 both the old parties They
insisted. as we now see with entire
accuracy, that the old parties, becanse
OF their constitutions and traditions,
because Of the make up of the men
lin control Of them, were entirely uns
fit 10 meet the new conditions, ana
that 10 support near-Dr0gressive IN
one Of the old parties meant merely
10 throw back the whole movement
Cummins on Wrong Track.
Senator cummins and those whA
train with him tre On the wrong track
They cannot be- true ~ the old time
principles ~ Lincoln and ldDcoln@
day as long as they continue iheir as-
ISOLATION with The utterly reaetionary
ireDublicsD machine as Dow controlled
Ia the nation ana Ia the largest and
most u Duious stntes We must not
let our Loyalty 10 a name blind us %
existins facts. The lows progressives
shen. IN 1914 they oppose Mr.. cpm-
Minis, stand exactly WI ere the repub-
licans stood In 1863, when they op-
posed Stephen A. Douglas.
Mr. cummins and The republicans
who think as he does rr9lly stand in
alssol Jte alliance with thaae IN con-
strol Of the present democratic party
and with the national democratic ad-
minishaiion as regards both the tariff
1and the trust questions
+ Mr. Roosevelt discussed the tariff
Question al some length. criticizing the
policies OF both the democratic and
republican parties
Touching on the reform question he
lreferred 70 plan Of limiting the eapi-
talization " industrial tests that no
unit should have more than rs per
cent Of the business of any given type.
which he said had been advocated hy
both democratic and republican lead
ers.
Colorado strike Trouble
The slightest study Of our indus
trial situation he said "wil show you
that the evils which can properly be
charged to the trusts may also he
properly charged to corporations who
do not have 2b on even 10 per cent
or even sometimes not 8 per cent of
the total business The most striking
example is one that is before our eyes
at this moment Tho corporation
which has caused most industrial
trouble in this country during the past
wear is the Colorado Fuel a. Iron Co
Il has long been singled out hy writ
efs on economic reforms ~ ahowing
ali the peculiaritles which they most
condemn in the work Of corporations
luf the wrong kind This corporation
mas brought civil war. social war, on
lthe state Of Colorado, and has para
Nzed the state government when has
had 10 appeal 60 the nation and invoke
the protection OF the United States
army IN order 10 restore the ordinary
'Ieanditions Of orderly civilization Yet
this corporation has not 25 per cent
lprobahly has not o per cent---of mass
eontrol otter the commodities in which
Iiil deals"
] Air- Roosevelt said the progressive