The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
WHAT | DID WHEN
| WAS PRESIDENT
Colonel Roosevelt's Chicago Speech
Has This Title and Refers to
y Action Against tho
Trusts.
WILSON IS BACKWARD
Comparison Of Administrations Of
President and Governor
on the octopu.
Question.
WILSON IS BACKWARD

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Oct 12.-Declaring that
while president he had done every
thing possible against the trusts"
and that Wilson, as governor of New
Jersey had done nothing, Colonel
Roosevelt made bitter attack on the
democratic candidate here tonight.
Roosevelt cited his own action against
the Northern Securities Co., the South
ern Pacific, the sugar trust and the
meat trust and dwelt on his victory in
the rebate cases. He contrasted the
democratic plan of dealing with trusts
with the progressive program and he
put Wilson and Taft in the same cate
CORY as advocates Of do-nothing
policy.
"Mr. Wilson's proposals are for moth
ing but a repetition of the work OF
Mr.. Taft" he shouted. Each puts
his faith in succession of law suits.
Mr. Wilson's proposal is to continue in
national matters the do-nothing policy
of Mr.. Taft"
Roosevelt also quoted from speech
of Mayor Gaynor of New York in
which Gaynor denounced the policies
of Wilson.
Defending the support of George W..
i Perkins, Roosevelt said that no man
could criticise him any more on this
account than Mr.. Wilson could be
criticised for the support OF men like
Mr.. Cleveland H. Dodge.
The bull moose candidate said in
part.
THE other day Mr.. Wilson stated
that during my administration I had
done nothing against the trusts. In
the national field he has himself pro-
statements can be made to contain
any commitment whatever to any
policy, they commit him to continu-
ance of Mr.. Taft's policy as regards
dealing with trusts by the national
government and they especially insist
on the duty of the states to deal with
(, the trusts.
AS he now attacks my own record,
! and as he thus commits himself defin-
itely to the duty of the states | shall
ask you to compare my record as
president to his record as governor Of
New Jersey.
/ Mr. Wilson says l did nothing with
the trusts while | was president. The
answer to that is that | did every
thing. found the antitrust law a
dead letter and the interstate COM
merce law wholly ineffective as re-
CARDS the evil of rebates, The rail-
roads were acting with practically
entire disregard of the interstate COM
merce commission and the supreme
court of the United States had declar-
ed that the antitrust law did not af-
feet great industrial concerns engaged
/ in manufacture, a decision which rem
dered the antitrust law of little or
no use.
we struck at the two biggest trusts
/ in the country, the Standard Oil and
! the tobacco trusts The governments
case was practically made before the
end of my administration / secured
good solution of the railroad prob
| lem made the biggest men in the
: land yield obedience to the antitrust
| law
Now compare this record with Mr..
Wilson's record as governor of New
Jersey.
"Mr. Wilson's record Is blank.
He did nothing. If his own doctrines
! as to the duty of the states to deal
Z with the trusts Is correct, his failure
! to act is inexcusable. The same trusts
against which did act were incor-
porated under the laws Of New Jersey,
and it was perfectly simple for him
! to act against them but he never dis
! turbed them.
For nearly two years now Mr. Will
son has been the head of this state
government If the Standard Oil
company or the tobacco trust had been
guilty of gross frauds or attempts to
monopolize. or of working unwhole-
some mergers or stock issues, their
state charters can be readily amend
4 ed, altered or repealed.
Mayor Ga!S.or Of New York, in an
address before the national demo
cratic club February 8, last, said:
'Four-fifths of the trusts of this coun-
| try are organized and exist under the
| New Jersey statute. If the people
want the trusts broken up or prevent
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