South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-01

I to my support as we'll as the support
OF all progressives who allied them
selves with that party when it was
before the people for endorsement,
| in preference 20 the standard bear
er Of the republican party that
failed 10 give the people the remedial
legislation that they were demand
ing.
Now. in regard 10 our former
leader, Mr.. Roosevelt, he states that
one Englishman, not even one Ger
man, have been killed in Mexico be-
cause the English and Germans will
fight That 800 Chinese and 500
Americans have been killed because
they would not fight. And in his
Chicago speech he brands Wilson as
a yellow coward and in that same
speech said that he (ROosevelt).
would fight at the drop of a hat.
As actions speak louder than words
let US review the political situation:
II. II. Kills Antitrust Plank.
when he failed to get the repub-
lican nomination in 1912 he showed
little fight. got angry and said
many things unbecoming to an ex-
president of the United States.
Later he launched a new ship on
our political seas - the progressive
party. Exactly APO, 900 loyal Amer
lean citizens from the republican,
democratic, socialist and prohibition
parties left their former political af-
citations and cast their lot in all
sincerity with the leader OF the new
party. Had the 100000 voters
known that Roosevelt after the plat
form was adopted without authority
strike out the antitrust plank of the
progressive party platform, ii is to
be presumed that the progressive
vote at that time would not have
been 100000. The antitrust plank
referred TO was TO amend the Sher-
man antitrust law and was written
by the present supreme court judge.
Louis Brandeis and Sen. La Toilette,
and read as follows:
We favor strengthening the
Sherman law prohibiting agreements
TO divide territory or limit output,
refusing to sell to customers who
buy from business rivals; TO sell be-
low cost in certain areas while
maintaining higher prices in other
places; using the power of trans
portation TO aid or injure special
business concerns and other unfair
trade practices.
1t was the most drastic anti
trust legislation ever written and
had il been enacted into law would
have gone farther in reducing the
high cost Of living than all the anti
trust laws on the federal statutes.
Yes. Roosevelt will fight at the drop
OF the hat. but he wants 10 drop the
hat. select his own opponent, to
name the weapons and designate the
time. Now, he wants TO fight poor
bankrupt. starved Mexico. This spe-
cializing of political wrongs finds no
response in the heart of a true pro
gressive. BY striking out the anti
trust clause in 1912 he made a most
cOwardly retreat before the trusts
the most formidable enemy of the
nation. In 1919 he made a deal w!-h
George W. Perkins that in some
mysterious way the national pro-
gressive party was financed The
outcome OF the Chicago 1916 pro-
gressive convention, when Roosevelt
did not refuse the nomination until
the last hour Of the convention,
shows that the progressive party
was mortgaged 10 George W. Per-
/ kins in 1914 anG at the 1916 con-
vention said Perkins foreclosed the
mortgage and Roosevelt turned over
the party.
i. as one progressive, refuse 20
| DE delivered. as 1 do not feel that I
was covered by that mortgage. hav-
ing paid all my campaign expenses
in two candidates. for congress. I
am still a progressive. enrolled on
tie banner OF Woodrow Wilson. be-
heving that he is at heart a true
progressive.
r.. CLARENCE STEPHENS"