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Show 'THOUSANDS HEAR COL. RJOSEffiT ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11 Theodore Roosevelt denounced the Democratic party In New York as "an unholy alliance between Wall street and Tammany Tam-many Hall" In a speech here tonight, and attacked rhe Democratic party in Missouri by calllnp it the party "that represents the special Interests and special privileges," Mr, Roosevelt also defended the present position of the Republican party in regard to the tariff. He did rot dizains the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, saying that be wished tho people peo-ple to look forward and not backward. back-ward. He said the party was united on the doctrine that the tariff shall hf such as to equalize the cost of production here and abroad, and that It should be regulated by a commission. commis-sion. He said thai un.'.or the present system it was impossible to obtain satisfactory results and added that, when the commission system was established, es-tablished, there should be governmental governmen-tal supervision to determine whether the workmen were getting the benefit bene-fit they were supposed to have from tho tariff. It was Mr. Roosevelt's first speech in the present campaign. The great Coliseum was crowded to the doors with a throng which cheered him frequently. fre-quently. He began his speech by commending Governor Hadley as an "upright and fearless public servant." In reference to the tariff Colonel Roosevelt said: ' As to the tariff. It seem3 to me 1 that the situation is much clearer than some people would have us believe. 1 fully admit that there was a time when. If our opponents had acted with reasonable wisdom, they could have made us trouble. But they lei the opportunity slip by and did not act with reasonable wisdom. "The Republican party Is united on the doctrine officially set forth In Its national platform two years ago that the platform shall be made to substantially sub-stantially equalize the cost of production produc-tion here and abroad. As the cost of production Is mainly labor cost, this means primarily that the duty should be great enough to coutlnue to give to our laboring men that higher standard stand-ard of wage which primarily distinguishes distin-guishes the American wage worker from the wage workers of all other countries. "Now. not only Is this the doctrine of the Republican party, but I believe 11 is the doctrine of the oerwhelmlng majority of the American people. I do not believe that any section of the American people at present seriously seri-ously advocates free trade or a taritf for revenue only, I most emphatically emphatical-ly do believe that If any such Issue Is raised there will be an overwhelm lng decision In favor of the policy ' of such measure of protection as that above outlined. "Now the question is, How to accomplish ac-complish the purpose thus explicitly declared? it seems to nie, and I think that more and more It seems to the people of this country, that the methods meth-ods hitherto obtaining In making all tariffs for a great many years past, are inelfectlve in conectly and just-' 1 applying the protective principle as outlined above. We wish to give pre per protection to each given business, busi-ness, and above all to the workmen in each given business, as ,h matter of right and justice, and not as a matter of favor or preference, and above all not give proper protection as a matter mat-ter of favor or preference obtained by log rolling. "Therefore we feel that there should be a tariff commission composed ol Impartial experts amply equipped for obtaining, not merelj from the statements state-ments of Interested parties, but by such investigation as will satisfy them that the farts are accurate, information informa-tion that will enable congress in eacli gien case to establish the measure of prdotection necessary to carry out the principles above set forth "Moreover, these investigations should form a program, each successive succes-sive report being treated on its mor-ita, mor-ita, so that each schedule can be revised re-vised by itself in accordance with the facts developed by this commission ol impartial experts, and without any heed being paid to any other consideration consid-eration than the justice of that particular par-ticular case. This will prevent log rolling and it will also prevent the far reaching distuibance ol business which necessarily comes when all the schedules are revised In a lump. "Finally, I f.-el that il should be th? duty of some government bodv at any time to investigate conditions in any particular industry lo see whether the woiknin do actually get thj henefit , that the tariff Is primarily created lo give; that i. to see that the la borer gets the full share of the benefit ben-efit of the protective tariff in accordance accord-ance with what I firmly believe to be the purpose of the American people. "By enacting into law such a policy as that above outlined we shall, oil the i no hand, do away with the danger dan-ger of injury to American industries which would follow if they were left wholly without protection from foreign for-eign competition, and on the other band, we make it sure that the lalor-ing lalor-ing man gets the benefit of the tariff primarily enacted in his Interest", do away with the favoritism and log rolling w hich under present conditions seem Inevitable in the process of tariff tar-iff making and make it certain that the amount of protection granted in each case is the amount actually necessary nec-essary to coer the difference in the cost of protection hero and abroad, and not so exclusive as lo represent Improper favoritism to'' any special group of men." |