Graham guardian., 1912-11-01
TRUST BACK
OF T.R, TRUST PLAN
Charge Challenged, Gov. Wilson
Returns With Prompt and
Convincing Answer.
COUNTRY WAITED FOR CLASH
Wondered u u Was to Produce q
Parallel OF Parker Episods-Mors
Proof " II 10 Wanted.

proot w " 10 wanted.
When the country read on the morn
ing OF Oct the charge OF Woodrow
Wilson before his audience In Colo
RADIO that the steel trust IL back OF the
Roosevelt program Of trust regulation
and In the same papers Colonel Roose-
veits demand for proof Of the asssr.
ton It sat up and took notice. Would
this produce parallel of the famous
episode OF the 1904 campaign. when
the colonel called Judge Parker liar
for asserting (what has been SO re-
Gently Eroved) that the corporations
were contributing to the Roosevelt
campaign! t..-.., ........i.......
-rAere was eager waiting for Cover
Iaor Wilson's answer. II came prompt
ly the next day In his speech at Kan
sas City Concisely, convincingly and
diapassionately Governor Wilson met
the Roosevelt challenge. and should
the controversy be pressed further the
Democratic candidate will give the
Bull Moose all he wants. for the cor
roboration Whereof he spoke II abun-
dant.
Wilson's Charge.
At Pueblo the center of the western
steel indus,ry. Governor Wilson said:
Evidence OF what am about to say
comes 10 me by way OF corroboration
every day In forms that cannot Ques-
tion 1t Is Il very interesting circum-
= stance that the United States Steel
~, rpUra'icn is behind the third party
Nprcsram with regard to the regulation
or the trusts,
Now 90 not say that to prejudice
,ou am perfectly ready to admit
that tho officers Of that corporation
may think that the third party 10 the
beat thing for the United States That
Is not my point, My point is that these
strlsmen have grown up In the At
mcsphare Of the things they them
Selves have created and that the laws
oi tho United States 50 far have At
a'ptrd TO destroy the things that
t"cy have created and that they now
Is \ government which will perpst-
3@ the things they have created.
You therefore have to choose now .
government such AZ tho United States
Steel corporation thinks the United
States ought to have or . government
such as We used to have before these
gentlemen succeeded In betting mp pr
yate monopoly"
= Roossvelt's Challenge.
The same night at Albany, N. 7,
Colonel Roosevelt upon reading rsport1
Of Governor Wilson's speech said:
"As far as know the statement has
not the slightest foundation In fact.
Mr. Wilson has no business to make
such statement unless he has the
proof. and II he has any proof d.
mand that he make It public imms-
diately II he has not let him retract
his statement AZ the only manly and
honorable thing to d."
Wilson's "Retort Courteous"
: The next night Governor wilsos
hyxde this reply before the great a.
dience that greeted him In KansaA
City: !
81 understand from the Newspaper
reports that Mr.. Roosevelt was dis
tressed by my suggestion the other day
that the United States Steel corpora
tion was back of his plan for contrSl-
ling the trusts He interpreted my re-
mark to mean that they were support.
ing him with their money. I was not
thinking about money.
II do not know whether they sro
supporting him with their money oe
. not II does not make any difference.
What ] meant was that they are sup
porting him with their thought, and
their thought II not our thought. I
meant and I say again. that the kind
Of control which he proposes II the
kind Of control that the United States
Steel corporation wants.
IT am perfectly willing to admit that
they think It 10 the best for the soua-
try My point 10 that this II methoA
conceived from the point of view Of the
very men who are to be controlled and
that that is just the wrong point Of
view from which to conceive II.
"If Mr.. Roosevelt 10 willing to have
Mr.. Perkins suggest how the corpora-
tions ought to be regulated why viii
he not be willing to take suggestions
fri5m the same quarters - to the d.
tain OF the resulationi Mark you. L.
Hes and gentlemen. am not discuss-
ing individuals. know Mr.. Georrs
Perkins have no quarrel With any.
hing except his Judgment. He does
not look at these things in the way
men who do not wish to accuston
their minds to monopoly look at thsm.s