The Washington herald., 1912-09-27
BAY STATE CROWDS
GREET GOV. WILSON
Democratic Nominee Given Ovation
at Every Step-Hits at
Roosevelt.
QUOTES COLONEL'S MESSAGES
THAT TRUSTS ARE NECESSARY
Gov. Foss and Mayor Fitzgerald Ac-
company Party Leader to
Boston.

Boston. Mass. Sept. 2f.-Goy. Wilson $
tour Of Massa chusetts to-day was marked
l'y an almost continuous ovation from
The time he crossed the State line after
leaving New Haven at 1910 o'clock this
morning until he reached Boston at II
O'clock to night. Crowds surged about
lis private car at every stop and hIs
meetings were remarkably cnthUSIas site.
The Governor spoke at Springfield.
Earrc. where he visited the STATE fair
Fail River and at the fremont Temple
in Boston. He discussed a great variety
# issues of tn" campaign. including
trusts and monopolies, the tariff. the ne
Cessity of supplying farmers with in
formation about methods Of getting
produce L. the market, and. most i'm
Ortant, the candidate declared, that ne
had recently been reading some "f the
messages to Congress written by former
President Roosevelt. and that in almost
every instance he says, which, of course.
he still says, that the trusts have come
about through natural development, and
that is a mistake TO try to oppose the
processes by which they have been
built up.
Spriugficld CAV" the candidate a re-
markabl" reception. There was an auto
mobile parade through the principal
streets. The streets were lined on both
sides the entire length Of the parade.
The Governor spoke at the Court Square
Theater, which was crowded to the doors.
Jcincd by Fos~.
At Springfield the candidate was joined
by Gov. Eugene y. Foss, and later by
Mayor Fitzgerald. of Boston. Gov.
Foss assured the candidate that tn"
Democratic Presidential ticket would
carry MLssa Chusetts by big plurality.
Gov. Foss says the Republican vote will
he about evenly split between Taft and
Roosevelt
In his speech at Springfield, the Gov
ernor said:
Both the regular and the irregular
Republicans are regular upon this point,
neither OF them fails to stand pat on
the tariff. and neither of them proposes
to remedy tire evils which are credited
by the trusts; because on the one hand
there is no proposal of remedy of any
kind and on the other hand the remedy
perpetuates the disease.
81 have been reading recently some
parts of several of the messages which
Mr.. Roosevelt sent to Congress in which
he referred to this peculiar matter when
legislation concerning it was under con-
sideration. and in almost every instance
he SAYS what. of course. he still says
that the trusts have come about through
the natural development of the business
conditions in the United States: that it
is a mistake to try to oppose the
processes by which they have been built
up. Therefore the only thing we can do
is to accept them as inevitable and make
the best of them by regulation.
big Business Natural.
big business is necessary and nat
uraL The development of business upon
a great scale is inevitable. and let me
add, desirable. But that is very diff
ferent matter from the development of
the trust. because the trusts have not
grown. They have been manufactured, |
and they have been manufactured not
by natural processes, but by the will. |
the deliberate planning, and will of men
who were more powerful than their |
neighbors in the business world deny
and they claim. that the trusts are in |
And / want to urge every |
voter in this Commonwealth. and every |
voter in this country, to reject all rheo- |
torical assertions and get down to the |
hard pan of thinking