The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
Used to Be Campaign Con- tributions; Now It Is
 Legalized Monopoly
NO REFLECTION ON
 MOTIVES INTENDED
Colonel Roosevelt Calls on Demo- cratic Nominee to Prove or Re- tract tatements-Perkins Is
 Only One He Knows Of

Denver. october 7.."Is there a new deal?" >-sked Gov. Woodrow Wilson in speeches throughout Colorado today when he charged that the United States Steel corporation and other combinations ot capital were seeking to control the gov ernment by proposing that monopolies and trusts should be regulated by an industrial commission.
 "rhe old method was campaign con trlhutions; the new method is legalized monopoles. the governor said as he di- reeted his attack on the interests which he said were backing the programme of the progressive party.
 Calls Attention to Senate Probe
 The speaker drew attention to the Sen ate investigation by the Clapp committee and said the debate there was centered on which of the certain privileged groups had been more intimate with the eandi- dates of the republican and progressive parties. Referring at Colorado Springs to the preconvention campaigns Of Presi- dent Taft and former President Roose- welt, the governor said;
 "All the while I was trying to forinn- late just what 1t was they were de- batting with one another and as nearly as | could make out 1t was this: Which of the two had been the more implicated in the things which had discredited the republican party, and then asked myself, what was it that had discredited, or at any rate threatened to discredit the great party which has so long governed this country? It was perfectly obvious the gentlemen were debating which of them had been the more subjective to those in iuences which we are not aware have created most of the complications whicl we wish to correct in our economic de- yelopment.
 'rhe men who have promoted the great combinations of capital and the wide spread understandings amongst those who are conducting the Industry of this conn tsv. which hnve dominated not oii;v our business but our politics. are the men whose connections with the two cand- dates were being most debated, They are being debated yet in the investigation which is going on under the chairman ship of MT Clapp of the Senate commlt- tee In Washington. so that upderneath lies this feeling. This is. certain privileged groups have dominated the commercial interests of the United States. If not why should they be arguing for more Intimate connection with the system.
 Boards Interlocked
 For these gentlemen are not dlscon- neeted with one another. They are con nected with various branches of the priv ileged classes in this country and they are so interlocked in the directorates ol banks and railroads and mining com panies, and manufacturing enterprises and commercial houses that they consti- tute single controlling body. There are some men among them who are mem bers of at least 60 boards of directors Of the most important undertakings in the country and the gentlemen. about 30 l believe, who constitute the directors of the United States Steel corporation, arc so connected by being presidents or vice presidents, or directors in the railroad corporations Of this country thnt they control 55 per cent of the railways of the United States. These are the gentlemen who are now backing the leader of the third party.
 Mark you, l am not inpeachng their motives. I do not consider it my priv ilege to look into mems hearts and ask why they are doing these things These gentlemen may intend to do the United States no disloyal service, but my point is that they are likewise not intending to change in the least the system of con trol which has already been established, but are seeking to establish 1t by new method The old method was campaign contributions, the new method is legal ized monopoly and the superintendence by the government of the very processes by which they have established their pre- dominence over us. was saying to soiao of my newspaper company little while ago that if were a cartoonst l would draw a picture of the biggest monop- oies of the United States. drawn up in line and in front MT. Roosevelt en- deayoring to lead them In a halleluiah chorus
 The second struggle for emancipa- tion" was the way Governor Wilson characterized the present effort in the United States to solve the trust ques- tion in his speech here tonight before an audience that filled the Auditorium to capacity. He attacked the platforms of the two opposing parties particular ly with regard to the trust questions and declared that If the people of the Unit ed States had taken up the teachings of the democratic party years ago there would have been no trust problem to- day" He said neither the republican nor the progressive platforms offered any so- lution for the trust problem. The gov- ernor left at 10 o'clock for Kansas.
 Prove or Retract, Says T. K.
 Albany, N r., october 7--Coonel Roosevelt called on Woodrow Wilson to- night either ~ prove or retraet his statement today in Colorado that the United States Steel corporation is be- hind the third party programme in regard to the regulation of the trusts"
 "As far as know" said Colonel Roose- velt "the statement has not the slight est foundation in fact Mir. Wilson had DO business to make such statement un- less he has the proof, and if he has any eproof I demand that he make 1t public innrnediateIv If he has not lei him re-