Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-02
WILSON DECLARES
STAND ON TRUSTS
Explains Plan TO Restore Com
petition-caIIs u. S. Senate
Citadel of Private interests.

ROCHESTER,, \. Y, Nov. A.
Greeted by an audience of over 5000.
composed largely Of Republicans, at
the Shubert Theatre. in the Repub-
licap county or Monroe, Governor
Wilson attacked the Senate Of the
United States and declared it to be
the citadel of private interests and
not representative of the people.
The governor pointed to Chauncey
N. Depew as an aid 70 the private
coterie that has ruled the Senate,
and said that Senator O'Gorman was
not of this kind.
For the first time in the campaign
the candidate made an explanation cf
his plan of restoring competition. He
presented his plan under three head
ings and wen into rather elaborate
details.
The Shubert Theatre was the Sec
ond meeting at which the candidate
spoke in Rochester. The first was at
Convention Hall and was by far the
largest in attendance. This meeting
seemed at the outset to be packed
with Bull Moose, for just before
Governor Wilson entered, and while
a local speaker was on the platform,
there vas a demonstration, not on
the program, for Colonel Roosevelt.
The Governors friends were fearful
that he might be interrupted, by the
Roosevelt admirers, but on the con
trary, the crowd gave the Governor
a fourteen-minute demonstration in
which everybody else seemed to join.
His speech, which was practically the
same that he delivered in New York,
was vigorously applauded. The
attack on the Senate was made
at the second meeting. No plans had
been made for a stenographic report
of this address and the Governor cut
loose His remarks were greeted with
tumultous enthusiasm. He said il
part:
1.-The Senate of the United States,
tainted by the purchase of seats to
the~shame Of the people OF the coun-
try, tainted by the point of view of
its lifelong members, has not in u
time responded to the impulses of the
people of the United States. If o
postpone reforms long you will
smash every party in the United
States, because there are things to be
done and we cannot wait. You win
have to wait for either branch of the
Republican party"
The Governor here took up the
question of regulating competition.
He said: 81 have talked about the
regulation of competition and men
have asked me what I meant. / mean
the stopping Of competition that is
not fair. II a great monopolistic COM
bination sees to it that you can't get
a start by underselling you in you
local market on such terms that they
are thus losing money there and can
do that only because they are making
money elsewhere, that is a case of
unfair competition. You can make
that kind of competition criminal A
thing that is criminal becomes incon-
venient.
Another thing. Suppose you start
up a mandatory and deal in certain
metal or manufactured certain ore
goods. You do not own a mine. You
have to buy the ore, some monopolis-
/ tic combination owns so or 20 or so
per cent. of the mine. You find they
make you pay more for the ore than
they make the combination pay.
Where do you stand? What are you
going to do about it2
II am not going to propose that
the government fix prices. but I do
suggest this is possible. This
try has TO use its raw material. Its
raw material must be accessible, and
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eminent to say, You can sell your
raw material at any rate 0 please,
but you have got to sell 1t to every
body at the same price
THAT is not interference with the
rights of property. That is inter-
ference with the rights of monopoly
and l stand absolutely on the sem
tence in the Democratic platform hat
private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. I pledge myself if ever
/ have power to do everything hon
orable to break private monopoly in
the United States. Then what will
happen?
sYou say big business win be dam
aged. Do you mean to say big bust
ness must rest on the basis of mon
opoly, hat it can't be successfully
conducted on a great scale except by
monopoly The men who have de-
pended on these methods will have to
depend on the character of the goods
they manufacture, the prices, the
efficiency with which they organize
their business and seek their mar
kets. and so far as I am concerned.
aev are welcome to grow as big as
they please by these means.