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Show I Roosevelt Has Harsh I Criticism For Placing I Sugar On Free List I Results ii Price Advance, He Says "Un- 9 Democracy Nobody Pros- I pers Enough" I Columbus, Ohio., Sept. 28 Addres- Ing an audience In Memorial hall to-I to-I night, Colonel Roosevelt criticised I th 0id parties as "fossilized"; found little savo Inefficiency and incompet-I incompet-I ency In their programs affecting In-I In-I bor, combinations and tho tariff, and pointed to tho Progressive platform I as the only one showing tho way to I true reform. I Tho old parties, ho said, cannot I and will not deal with now Ideas In I adequate fashion. I "The' know that If thoy put tho I wine of tho now Ideas into tho old I bottles' of their organization thesi; I old organizations would burst usun-I usun-I der," bo Bald. Tho attitude of tho I present Democratic administration on I the tariff and trusts he described as I firing, "so as to hit it If It is a bear I and to miss It If It Is a calf." I The colonel explained his opposl- tlon to stato ownership In most in-I in-I stances because of the superior cf-j B flclcncy of most privately conducted I enterprises. The distribution of tho I malls, water and light, ho said, fell I naturally within tho province of tho I state, but in general stato regulation and supervision wero to bo preferred I to stato ownership. H "My own recent experience In trnv- I eling on a stato owned railroad in H France, and in using the stato owned H telephono in England, Impressed mo H with the marked comparative Biiperi- orlty In Bervico rendered by our own H privately owned railroads and tele-I tele-I phones; but I am InTormcd that in H Ilelglum tho direct roverso obtains," H be said. In pleading for an unttammclcd I tariff commission the speaKer do- clnred that the Democratic revision I was hampered. Ja the saruo -manner. .n that tho Aldrlch Vrceland adjustment was by tho conflict of sectional and private Interests. "Wo are a great nation," ho asserted, as-serted, "and wo must think nationally nation-ally and net nationally." Colonel Iloosovelt pointed to the placing of sugar on tho frco list as an examplo of unscientific legislation and declared that tho advanco in sugar su-gar resulted because, ho declared, tho American grower simply quit business busi-ness and the law of supply and demand de-mand did the rest. Ho described tho policy of tho Progresslvo Pro-gresslvo pnrty ns one of wise nnd coolheaded radicalism. "Under tho Republican scheme a few men prosper too much. Under tho Democratic scheme nobody prospers pros-pers enough," ho asserted. Ho remarked re-marked In passing that tho Democrats Demo-crats had failed In repented promises to provide a presidential primary and characterized tho omission as an "outrage." "out-rage." On tho subject of combinations vtho former President said that tho wartime war-time advanco In foodstuffs nnd tho plight of the cotton growers emphasized empha-sized tho need of properly regulated and supervised combinations for tho benefit of the great and smn'l nl'k. The war, ho added, has Snowed tho need of combinations annus business men, especially small business men. But, ho said, they wero prohibited Ly laws which prohibit all combinations good or bad. Colonel Roosevelt took tho decision decis-ion In the International Harvester case, recently handed down, as an Illustration of tho evil effect of condemning con-demning all combinations. "Tho court in tho harvester cane," said tho colonel, 'decided that what tho harvester company had do'13 was beneficial to tho country as a whol':, but that It was Illegal." Addressing tho City club and Its guests at Cleveland today Colonel Roosevelt Indorsed the entire Progressive Pro-gressive ticket In Ohio, asserting thnt tho Democratic party Is "cither open, ly or covertly supporting tho liquor Interests nnd that the Republican party par-ty Is trying to dodgo tho Issue, yet, at the samo tlmo supporting It." |