Little Falls herald., 1912-10-25
tempts to give partizan advantage
by stirring up the dying embers Of re-
ligious intolerance .. IL
/, WILSON AND THE TRUSTS
His Record as Governor Of the State Of
New Jersey
(From the Baltimore Sun)

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speeches in the campaign through 9TH
er mouths than his own, as he did at
Louisville through Mr.. Beveridge, Gov.
Wilson will have to revise his deter.
mination to remain quiet.
Mr.. Beveridge, speaking for the
colonel, repeated the latter's recent
attempt to show that Mr.. Wilson has
made a very inefficient governor Of
New Jersey because no change has
been made in the last two years in the
incorporation laws Of that state.
An inefficient governors It is to
laugh.
The man who, with q hostile Legisla-
ture, put through such measures as the
presidential primary and general elec-
tion laws, the corrupt practices act, the
public utilities law, workingmen's COM
pensation act, the cold storage law, the
commission government act and many
other good measures too numerous to
mention, constituting in all the best
of legislation which any governor Of
any state Of the Union has been en-
abled to put on the statute books in
the memory Of the present generation
to say that such man is inefficient
or incapable is to speak words Of
absurdity and foolishness.
Col. Roosevelt, it will be recalled,
apologized the other day for his failure
to do anything with the tariff while he
was president, saying that he bad other
matters of greater Importance on hand.
In view of the record referred to above,
| Gov. Wilson had he done nothing what
| ever with reference to the matter Of the
! incorporation laws, might justifably
have availed himself of that plea. In
suppressing "Jim'' Smith, the state s
chief representative Of big business, he
was doing a much more Immediately
necessary thing than revising the in.
corporation laws. In passing public
utilities law he was dealing with big
corporations vastly more powerful fol
harm than the industrial corporations
Those things necessarily came first.
But Gov. Wilson was most assuredly
not inactive in the other matter. He
has been, perhaps, the most wideawake
man in his state in appreciating the
evils of the New Jersey incorporation
| laws duu LII WV1h1uS W CudAS0 GAOAA
He dwelt upon this in his inaugural
address, and when the state convention
met in 1911 he drafted the plank that
I was put in the party platform demand
ing change in these laws. The legis'
lature of this year, being republican
failed to act, and in the state platform
| few days ago the democratic party
again led by Gov. Wilson, returned
once more to the attack. t.,
Gov. Wilson naturally does not want
the power of the states restricted in
any way, nor superseded by federal
authority. He has never, however, ex'
pressed the opinion that the states have
supreme control over the trusts, be-
cause. for one reason, if for no 9th
er, he has always believed that the
protective tariff is one Of the greatest
bulwarks of the trusts, and the states
have nothing to do with the protective
tariff. He has maintained, with re-
gard to this matter Of the incorpora-
tion laws of his state the same good
Judgment and clear thought that he has
displayed with regard to other mat
ters, and when those laws are finally
changed for the better it will be
recognized. we imagine, that Gov. Will
son had been more Influential than any
other one man in securing the change.