The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

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Woodrow Wilson in One of His Char
acteristic Poses During His Speech
at the Topeka Auditorium Tuesday
Evening.
1.-The utterances of Taft and Roose-
welt on these matters are practically
the same said Wilson. "RooseveIt's
ispeech is an endorsement of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill just as much
as was Taft's Winona speech
1t was from here that the New
Jersey governor waded into the
Roosevelt plan of regulating the
trusts. He urged that this trust regu-
lation platform alone revealed the
weakness of the movement and that
anyone who was supporting the
Roosevelt Progressive movement was
| led astray because the fundamental
principles of the new party were
wrong.
"At every time it is the trusts who
are to do US good and not we our
selves said Wilson in characteriz-
ing the Roosevelt trust plan. And
right here I want to object being put
| into the hands of a trustee. I don't
want the trusts assistance nor the as
sistance they give at federal compul-
sion. I want you to ask yourselves
why the men who do not want con-
ditions disturbed are behind the
Roosevelt movement and why the men
who want conditions changed are not
behind it. And the answer is that if
the people can't get justice for them
selves, it is high time they got 1t
from someone else. For, II Mr..
Roosevelt is willing for Mr.. Perkins
to suggest how the trusts shall be
LIT &c he
take suggestions from the same source
as to the details of that regulation"
The Matter of the steel Trust.
ct understand that Mr.. Roosevelt is
greatly distressed" said Mr.. Wilson
minute later. TT is because I said tina
the steel trust was supporting him. He
seems to think meant 1T was support
ing him with money I lid not have
that in mind. I meant thai it was sup
porting him with it's thought. And 1ts
thoughts are not the peoples thoughts
and the kind of control it suggests
the kind of control that IS fr1endiy TO
the steel trust. I'm perfectly willing
that the corporations use fair means
IN the conduct of their businesS-but
know that there are likewise 1oul
means and I know that they can be
stopped by law. I consent to all the
fair competition you choose, but no I'M
fair competition in the conduct u
our government, we have an inside ?ni
an outside. Mr.. Roosevelt wants 70
patent the inside. Yet, do not want to
disparge Mr.. Roosevelt's motives That
decision is postponed until the Judg- |
nient day"
Roosevelt's theory that there are ~ood /
and bad trusts did not meet with the
former college professors approval. He |
called the crowds attention to the fact
that on at least a few occasions Roose-
' cit himself had been deceived IN MS
judgment of big business.
Mr.. Roosevelt says there are good |
and bad trusts said Wilson, land |
that he will guarantee all trusts.
don't believe he can play providen2 re !
t. the people 50 good as that. My pc |
lief is strengthened by the fact that
they have already fooled him and taken
him in on one or two occasions
Wilson had spoken nearly 80 minutes.
Ht. was due to speak in Kansas City at
8 O'Clock But before leaving his Ken
butte to the political situation in the
state. And he did it.
A Mixture in Kansas.
ST don't know how you voters n
Kansas can tell where you are" de-
CARED Wilson. There have been 50
many men removed and substituted
nc so many injunctions and court or
ders and such a bungling bunch Ct
litigation that the only safe way for the
Kansas voter to find where he stands |
is to vote the Democratic ticket in
November We know where we are 60 |
ing and will get there. And We will
get there by Kansas votes"
This sentiment brought another out |
burst of applause, but Wilson scarce |
halted in the closing of his argument |
for Kansas and national Democracy.
'T warn every Progressive Republi- |
can in Kansas that by lending his as
sistance to the Third party program, |
he is playing false to the cause in |
which he is enlisted. Some day you |
will wake uP and realize you have mis- |
placed your trust-perhaps not in an |
Individual, but in a program. And I |
have come to Kansas to urge you to |
test your program by fire and not BY
label. Weigh it in your conscience and
your knowledge of men. It If stands the
test, vote the Third party ticket, but if
not. beware.
set some men free" continued Wilson,
why not set everyone free? You were
born to keep slavery out Why not vote
to keep economic freedom within? Re
member the history of your state al d
challenge the right of any man to ever
ask again, What's the Matter With
Kansas? ="
Then Wilson and his party made a rush
for the door. But it was ten minutes be
fore the New Jersey. executive could
the Rock Island depot. He was taken on
special train to Kansas City, where ne
spoke last night
Had Exciting Trip.
Governor Wilson had an exciting trip |
through Kansas and one that he viii not /
soon forget. Over certain portions of the |
Rock Island, his special train was hauled /
toward Topeka a rate of nearly SO A