Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-19
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Gov. Wilson Says Roose-
velt's Federal Commission
Plan is One Broached by
Gary and Perkins.

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Gary and Perkins.
Minneapolis, MINI, Sept. 18.-How
the United States steel corporation
incidentally would benefit by the plank
In the third party platform proposing
regulation OF trusts by federal com
mission was discussed by Gov. Wood
row Wilson in his speeches from
Sioux City. Iowa, to Minneapolis and
st. Paul today.
It was at Sioux Falls, S, D., that the
democratic nominee first drew atten-
ton to the origin of the third party
plank for handling the trust problems.
Where was the method now pro-
posed Of regulating the trusts suggest
ed!" asked the governor. 1T was sug.
gested In the inquiry by the house or
representatives INTO the steel trust,
md 1t was suggested by Mr.. Gary and
Geo. w. Perkins They have thought
this thing out.
II am not interested to question
their motives 1t may be, for all |
know, that they think and honestly
think that that is the way to safe
guard the business of this country.
But whatever they think. this they
know, that it will save the United
States steel corporation from the nee
essity OF doing it's business better
than It's competitors.
e..For IL you will look into the sta
tfstics OF the business of the United
States steel corporation you will find
that wherever 1t has competitors, the
amount of the product which 1t con-
trolls Is decreasing, not increasing; in
other words, that 1t is less efficient
than it's competitors, and its control
Of the product is increasing only in
those branches of the business where
by purchase and otherwise it has q
practical monopoly.
Moreover, I have this to say to the
working men. Garry out the plan of
Mr.. Gary and Mr.. Perkins and YOU will
have given a control in the market for
labor, which will suit those gentlemen.
They don't want competitors to come
Into the market for labor, because new
competitors will mean new wages and
wage scales. These are the very men
md almost the only men who have
successfully opposed union labor in
the United States"
4, Wilson Discusses Food Law.
Sioux City, Sept. .18.-Firm support
for DR.. Harvey w. Wiley in his con-
troversy over the enforcement of the
pure food laws OF the country stood
out prominently in speech by Gov.
Woodrow Wilson at the interstate fair
here late yesterday.
The democratic, candidate drew at
tention to what he conceived to be
the ineffectuality of boards Of experts,
such as the board of chemists estab-
lished under the administration of
President ROOSEVELT He used it as
an illustration of his objection to a
commission or board of experts to
handle either the tariff or the trust
problems of the day
The governor turned early in his
speech to the pure food question.
everybody now suspects" said the
nominee, "and the suspicion is based
upon great many facts that can be
established by proof, that these pure
food laws are not lived up to.
Il suppose that most of you know
that great controversy arose because
DR.. Wiley, who was in charge of the
pure food administration, objected to
the use of benzoate of soda in certain
things that we're sold to you, particu-
larly in cans, for food Now a very
nice thing occurred.
1.-The gentlemen who wanted to use
lbenzoate of soda, persuaded the presi-
dent. Mr.. Roosevelt, that this was a
scientific question, and therefore he
ought to have board of chemists to
determine it. And sMr. Roosevelt
picked out some of the most eminent
and honest chemists in this country,
headed by personal friend Of mine,
the president of Johns Hopkins uni
versity, and submitted to them this
question, is benzoate of soda hurtful
to the human stomach or to the hui
man digestion when taken internally"
played Into Interests Hands.
"Observe that that was the only
question submitted to them, and that
was exactly what the people who want
ed to use benzoate Of soda for wrong
purposes wanted to limit the inquiry
to. Because these gentlemen had to
say that benzoate of soda in itself
was not harmful to the human sys.
tenn as / believe it is not.
"But they were not asked this, ques.
to conceal putrefcation, can 1t be
used in things that have gone bad to
conceal the fact that they have gone
bad and to induce people to put them
in their stoma chs after they have gone
bad?'
.oThey were not asked that question.
because If they had been, they would
have said. Yes, it can be. used in that
way and Dr., Wiley knew that 1t was
used in that way"
81 want to warn the people Of this
country to beware Of commissions of
experts. / have lived with experts all
my life and l know that experts don't
see anything except what is under
their microscopes They don't even
perceive what Is under their noses,
and an expert feels In honor bound
to confine himself to the particular
question uaaAsh ID asked him..