Show I Roosevelt Confession of Faith Mere Echo of Reform Promises of Others E trust that e every erv citizen or of Utah will read each word of or Colnnel Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- WE nel confession Roosevelt's confession of faith delivered deli yesterday to toI his followers follower at the Bull Moose convention in n Chicago and published published published pub pub- I this morning in full in this newspaper The discriminating reader read read- er will carl early observe that his exhaustive and exhausting address is the tho customary mass moss of glittering Roosevelt generalities except on those occasions occasions oc oc- oc- oc where he falls fall in behind President Taft and adopts as his own those corrective measures which the President has been advocating andI and which he has been endeavoring to put into effect I The most most- amazing ng feature of it is the definite and specific promise promise prom prom- ise isa he lie gives ives to the predatory predator interests which are arc financing his cam cam- campaign campaign t n that there will be no interference with them and his pledge to the thc people of trust reform which is to be accomplished by the creation of an nn industrial commission which shall have the sumo same authority over industrial concerns doing an interstate business that the interstate commerce commission commission commission com com- mission now has over the great transportation systems Inasmuch as this thiR latter r is c the policy of President Taft originated by him and ami made madea a part of his personal platform the former President can con scarcely confer confer confer con con- fer upon his brilliant idea the charm of originality In Colonel Roosevelt Roosevelt's 5 address will be found the key kev to the wealth of or love and affection which the trusts repose in him n and which is is all th the more significant when coupled with the tho fact that durin during his seven sc years as President the great combinations of capital reached their great great- greatest est sway over commercial activity in the United States The following significant sentence in the confession of faith stands forth above all alln of them as though limned in letters of fire and harmonizes n well with his denunciation of the Republican and Democratic platforms because they decree the d dissolution 1 of the trusts Wo We must utilize those forms of oC Industrial organization that are arc Indispensable to the highest Industrial productivity and nd effi ertl- The rhe i intelligent citizen who thinks as he reads and can understand understand the kings king's s English will readily comprehend that no more definite and specific promise of immunity ly could be made to the harvester trust the steel trust t the oil trust the lumber trust and all nil the other combinations combinations Lions of predatory capital that are determined to elect a President whom they own and whom they can control Mr lr Roosevelt Roose could have made it no plainer had he lie told them in as many words that if they secured him the presidency they could repeat repent the performances they enjoyed during the years that he was in the White hite House In many respects Colonel Roose Roosevelt's s 's confession of faith is is a disappointing disappointing disappointing dis dis- dis- dis appointing mass of words It is neither so sensational nor so interesting Cl which he loosed at Columbus Ohio at atthe atthe atthe js s s his Charter Chatter of Democracy the outset of his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination The socialistic and anarchistic ideas which he lie advocated ad there have been bean fumigated deodorized and their appendices remo removed ed they have been subjected to anaesthesia so often for various operations that the they are arc but weak and spiritless wrecks of their former former- robust selves The colonel says he fears that he be will mil be denominated as ns anarchistic he lie really means that he hopes these terms will ill be applied to him but none is likely to do so Mr Roosevelt's Roose former advocacy of the recall of judges has been modi modified until he lie hopes hopes some some means will be found of controlling the judiciary and making it responsive to the sentiment of the people His recall of or judicial decisions he lie coaxes put out of a bystanders bystander's hat and nud induces it to perform its tricks but he fails to indicate how this recall of or judicial decisions is to be accomplished He advocates a minimum wage commission in nation and state an idea which he has borrowed from Great Britain and which would Mould be totally inapplicable to this land landof landof of opportunity opportunity although although highly advantageous in a country where the son of a is destined from his birth to be a lT er also I He a advises l ise the copying o of German methods with reference to old age pensions and insurance and would submit the question of women suffrage suffrage suffrage suf suf- I frage to the vote of the tho women themselves The simple fact is that the colonel offers nothing that he has not offered many times before In the only two instances in his speech when he be presents definite methods for dealing with the great gleat questions of the day the day the trusts and the tariff tariff tariff-he he follows Mr rr Taft word for W word ld and line for line For the control of the thc trusts he lie offers an in industrial industrial industrial in- in commission commission which is is Mr Tafts Taft's idea and for the tariff a nonpartisan nonpartisan nonpartisan non- non partisan tariff commission which has been in existence for two years under Mr Taft raft and has but now passed out of existence because a Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- Congress refused to provide funds for its maintenance There is nothing spectacular lar sensational or diabolical in the the confession confession con confession con con- of ot fai faith h and Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt 5 published statement a few days das ago that hat he wished d the delegates to to understand nd his position before they r nominated him because the they might not wish to do so afterwards is nothing more tha than the method of the circus publicity publicity- man in promising a performance which he does doc not mean to give gi It is the ordinary pol pol- policy poli policy I i icy y of the m mountebank applied to politics Every citizen should should read the address carefully and then decide for I himself elf whether he wishes to support the man who delivered it t 1 I h. h fI rr J N a aa recent issue of an eastern newspaper of Absurdity I Ix reputable standing appears a communication to the editor II from A A Constant Reader Probably complaining g that he has and nod assiduously prayerfully prayer prayer- Is Due to fully read the editorial opinions of his favorite The Heat III paper laper as w well vell n ns as others and that instead of d getting etting some light on the current questions of the day he h adds to his confusion rather than to his understanding In casting about for the reason reason reason-he he takes the editor into his confidence a and alid d reasons with him the him the constant subscriber feels that the fault ma may be with himself rather than with the highbrows s who I elucidate for the newspapers and opines that the political situation may y be so involved that it cannot even by the most learned logician and publicist pub pub- heist be brought within the range of his intelligence But Bul he did lid not properly diagnose nose the situation The Tho fault probably lies with the heat The fhe tariff is a subject that requires cool and collected collected collected col col- reasoning on the part of those who wrestle with it a n condition impossible in the s elte sweltering n of the east cast and a serious discussion discussion dis dis- cushion of the trusts at this season would bring perspiration to the brow of the janitor of a cold storage warehouse Why then expect faultless logic and irrefutable argument from the pen of the suffering editor to whom the de devices ces of the ordinary man for mitigating tho the rigors of summer contribute rather than decrease the brainstorm Meteorology bears a much closer relation to literary output output even even if ono may move to amend by striking out the word literary than literary than than the average average average av av- av- av reader supposes The condition of which A A Constant Subscriber complains to the th-e ea eastern newspaper is among the ordinary ordinary- phenomena that are arc indigenous indigenous in- in to the thc soil of summer Heat inspires delusions and the quotations quotations quota quota- on ice observed in the thc market columns of the inspire inspire in- in newspapers V l 4 it i spire the A belief that the T t ft spire or of use editorial packs ice is rare not from choice but from necessity Soon the cooling breezes will blow and even Mr Brynn's Bryans Commoner Dla may replace its Household Hints column with something intelligible regarding the thc burning questions of the hour r t J c 4 X i ei OZi 2 q i 0 4 U i I E have no patience vatic with those newspaper I Perkins Is 3 I WE critics that wax indig indignant allt o. o over er the fact I I Entitled that George W. W Perkins Perkins financial cial and I political agent for J J. J P. P To Seat In Morgan Co re P PI resen- resen I to ti of half I v a a dozen trusts official and Convention j i financial t agent forthe Roosevelt campaign is I sitting as a delegate in the Bull Brill Moose tion nt at Chicago Mr Perkins has hns the best right in in the world to be there Tins Has he not paid for the convention and the colonel and are arc they not his 1 Is it not written in in the political Koran that one ma may do what he will with his own VIl 7 If those thos unfortunate victims ot of who paid 3 for a seat seal in the hope of enjoying all an unusual and peaceful s lumber are arc vested rested with kins ertain rights g in their allotted places es how much the thc more is Mr Perkins Perkins Per Per- 1 if ti indubitably i and indisputably u oi i- i entitled to ID a delegates delegate's s portion portion i ig it is alleged g that this ibis enjoyable political innovation has alrea already 1 cost Mr fir Perkins and aud his friends a n sum slightly in excess of five hc millions of dollars and will cost them twice that amount before the votes rotes 1 I c in N November vember W We c e hope hoe P Mr Perkins's seat is is well to the front are ara and an d equipped with a well-upholstered well cushion He certainly deserves deser it it t I I I I |