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Show trust"? It la types of this kind, iheir rpreu,en'tatlvi. in the pres, their r preventatives In puldlc life, their toprefntatlv r ji In private Hie, the hl(j corporation lawyers." HOI RESPONSIBLE COST OE EIK DCFFALO. N. Y., Nor. 1 The Ke-puhllean Ke-puhllean party Is not responsible for the high cost of living. . Theodore Roosevelt asserted lo a campaign speech here tonight. The caues of high prices In the main, ho said, were International. Mr. Roosevelt declared that In some instances trusts had forced up prices and rolnted to the record of Henry L. Stimi-on, Republican candidate for i;ovcTnor, as a prosecutor of r-orpor-; lions which had violated the law as pi oof that If elected he would do all tho governor of the rtate could do t prevent artificial Inflation of values. Mr. Roosevelt's declaration on thl- nibject was made first at Niagara Falls and then at Iluffalo at the close of his la.st speaking tour in the present pres-ent state campaign. The colonel spoke twice hc-re to nkht amll much enthusiasm and then started for New York, whence he Is to depart for Iowa, three hours alter his arrival there in the morning. morn-ing. In his speech here tonight Colonel Roosevelt said In part: "Fourteen years ago I was In Duf-falo Duf-falo vpeaklng In the campaign for Mr. McKlnb-y against Mr. Bryan, and at that time our opponents held fhe Republican responsible because prices were too low. Von remember that Mr. Bryan's campaign cry waa'that we never could get wheat up to the I'ollar mark. Now, fourteen years after, aft-er, the eompbiint N that prices are ,1, ine c ollll'I'tJlIC x dial ."lues ilie t. o hisb. Real suffering ban umjues-tionahly umjues-tionahly been caused by the fact that prices have pone up. but the cost ejf I. vlng has Increase.!. " demaegu,. fti Harry Stim-onS place would have promised that Impossible Im-possible results would follow his sue-itss, sue-itss, nnd our opponents play the demagogue dem-agogue part, for they say we are to blarne for high prkes amj that If tbey are put In iwor prices will be, made low. They know that what they promise prom-ise they eannor perform. "As Mr Stiinson pointed out th ether nlfht. there has been a worldwide world-wide movement toward higher prlees In tbo Ian few jears, a movement du t various causes. ome of which un-dnut.tedly un-dnut.tedly will b changed In time " Colonel Koe-psevrli spoke of Mr. FtlmFon'B prosecution of the tmM while I'nlted States district attorney In New Y'ork. and said as a result j "every big financial corporation if ' the type that we t.peak of as a trust I now doing all If can to baek up Mr. Pix. and to tippoi-e Mr. StlmMui. If Parry StltDeon were not a roenaee to the Mg tusts you would nut find every ev-ery big I rust controlled newspaja-r of New Y'ork city agulnn Llm. If Mr. I1 wa not wanted In office by the great corporations ou would not fit d them supporting Mr. PU a eager-Iv eager-Iv a they are In this campaign 'It was not until) I became president presi-dent that tho firt rea'lj serious ef-f. ef-f. rt a made to enforce the nntl-truM nntl-truM law. And while, a, w., per-I'cth per-I'cth pic v lU'i'.le In the beginning of a e'ijad" of thai klrei. we .'.r..-l'D(-i fate-1 tund vblle It was phvneallv II. .l"slic. I",' us n tlo up n.ore Can a snjill fraction of fti r.i.- C a' r.i.'d b't- to fW- n;.. o' 'iij jcfili, pi h ,i grea' (..!. "V.'r.i t j i i.een t he j--e.;b wb-i at-teV.'d at-teV.'d ' - '- r. :. 'i-nl y ' Tl.e , opie or tb.- ie:i bo r-preeo:it tiie |