Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-21
HIGH LIVING COST
THE REAL ISSUE
WILSON SAYS HIS OPPONENTS
EvADE SUBJECT
Both G. 0. P. and Third Party Have
Abandoned this Issue Because it
Involves Big Business" Interests
and the Tariff.
Associated Press.

\ Columbus O., Sept. 20.-Governo
Wilson participated in the forma
opening Of the democratic campaign
in Ohio here today.
He had luncheon with Governor
Judson Harmon and the state leader:
and held series of receptions ant
made several speeches.
Hen <started back to Seagirt to
night after his first week of conse.
cutive campaigning.
The governor made speeches on
education, as well as politics. In
one he drew attention to the spec
ialties and distractions OF university
prominently his criticism of a board
life. In another there stood out
Of experts to handle the tariff and
trust problems
Also he made his first reference
to the present currency sytem, and
characterized ! it as stiff, antiquated
and inelastic.
At Columbus today Governor
Woodrow Wilson's speech in greater
part, was devoted to high prices and
their cause. He said the leaders OF
the republican and progressive par
ties were abandoning this issue
which is the central one, Of the cam
paign. An analysis Of big busi-
ness" as assisted by the protective
tariff was made by the speaker, who
said in part:
"The leaders Of the republican
party and the leaders of the third
party have astonished the whole
country by practically abandoning
any serious attempt to meet thu
main issues Of the campaign. Th'
leaders of the third party, in par
ticular, interest US anew every da-
by seeking new issues and shiftin'
the ground of debate. At the out
set they declared that the real issu'
of the present contest was the higl
cost Of living, but they have lai(
less and less amphasis upon that, be
cause they have seen that they ca
not seriously attack that question
without attacking the question o
the tariff and of the trusts in a ver'
different way from that in whicl
they are actually approaching them
Both the republican party ant
the third party subscribe eXplicitl'
and ardently to the principle of pro
lection. They admit that there arr
defects in practice, that some dutie'
are too high, that some extortation'
have resulted from some schedule
Of the tariff, but while they arC
are ready to tinker, they are no
ready to alter in any essential par
ticular the system which special ad
vantages and privileges in industry
have been built up in this country
They stand for the system, and il
their embarrassment declare tha'
the tariff is not the cause of higf
prices, at any rate not the chic
cause
''They are very vague about wha'
the chief cause is, because as a mat
ter Of fact the chief cause is thf
manipulation of prices by the truts
And they are tender also toward
the trusts. They know that tn
trusts practice monopoly, that mo
nopoly was the object of the trusts
but they throw up their hands il
despair when it is suggested thai
monopoly may be destroyed, and re
ply, NO, it is very unfortunate, but
it has come to stay. Business now
adays must be big. 1t can't be BIZ
in any one industry without con
trolling and control must mean mas
terry of the markets. This is tho
only way of efficiency, and we viii
not stand in the way of efficiency
in modern business.
"The railroads, we all admit, are
in their nature monopolistic. W.
accepted that fact when we begar
to regulate them. Every economlsi
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