The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-29
STEEL TRUST BACK
or T.R. TRUST PLAN
Charge Challenged, Gov. Wilson
Returns With Prompt and
Convincing Answer.
COUNTRY WAITED FOR CLASH
Wondered II II Was TO Produce =
Parallel Of Parker EpIsods--Mors
Proof u II ls Wanted.

When the country read on the morn
Ing OF Oct 8 the charge of Woodrow
Wilson before his audience In Colo
rado that the steel trust is back OF the
Roosevelt program of trust regulation
and in the same papers Colonel Rooss-
velt's demand for proof of the asssf-
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 80 re-
Gently provsd) that the corporations
were contributing to the Roosevelt
campaign!
There was eager waiting for Cover
nor Wilson's apxFer. It cams prompt
~ the next day n his speech ct Kan
Sas City. Conoiteiy. convincineiy and
dispassionataiy Governor wilsob met
the Roosevelt challenge, and should
the controversy be pressed further the
Democratic candidate wiil give the
Bull Moose all he wants, for the cor
roboration whereof be spoke IL abun-
dant
/ Wilson's Charge.
At Pueblo, the center of tbs western
steel industry, Governor Wilson said:
Evidence of what am about 70 cay
comes to me by way OF corroboration
every day in forms that cannot 0ues-
uon. It is 3 very interesting circuEn-
stance that tho United States Steel
corporation ID behind the third party
program with regard to the regulation
Of the trusts.
Now. I do not say that to prejudice
you. am perfectly ready TO admit
that the officers OF that corporation
may think that the third party Ia the
best thing for the United States. That
Is not my point. Ny point is that these
gentlemen have grown up In the at
mosphere OF the things they them
selves have created and that the laws
of the United States so far have at
tempted to destroy the things that
they have created and that they now
want government which will perpet
uate the things they have created.
You therefore have to choose now Q
, government such as the United States
, Steel corporation thinks the United
States ought to have or government
| such as we used to have before These
, gentlemen succeeded In setting up pri
vate monopoly
Roosevslt's Challenge.
The same night at Albany. N. Y.
Colonel Roosevelt upon reading reports
Of Governor Wilson's speech said.
"As far as know the statement hal
7 not the slightest foundation In fast
Mr.. Wilson has no business to make
such statement unless he has th'
: proof, and II he has any proof de
I mand that he make 1t public imme
diately. II he has not let him retrac
! his statement as the only manly ant
honorable thing to do"
Wilson's "Retort Courteous"
Q The next night Governor Wilson
e made this reply before the great au
i. dience that greeted him in Kansa
/ City:
c Il understand from the newspape
S reports that Mr. Roosevelt was dia
3 tressed by my suggestion the other da,
r that the United States Steel corpors
e ton was back of his plan for control
= ling the trusts He interpreted my n
= mark to mean that they we're support
ing him with their money. was no
thinking about money.
/. "I do not know whether they ar
supporting him with their money 0
not. 1t does not make any difference
4, What meant was that they are SUI
" porting him with their thought, an
their thought is not our thought.
meant, and say again. that the kin
, Of control which he proposes is th
II kind of control that the United State
It Steel corporation wants.
Il am perfectly willing to admit ths
they think 1t is the best for the coul
t. try. My point is that this is metho
o conceived from the point Of view of tn
e very men who are to be controlled an
.e that that is Just the wrong point {
70 view from which TO conceive 1t.
r "If Mr.. Roosevelt Is willing to hav
h Mr.. Perkins suggest how the corporl
tions ought to be regulated why wi
be not be willing to take suggestion
s. from the same quarters as to the d
le tails OF the regulation! Mark you. i
o. dies and gentlemen. | am not discus
ID Ing individuals. know Mr.. Geors
Te Perkins. have no quarrel with an
of thing except his judgment. He dos
not look at these things In the wa
men who do not wish to accustol
,r their minds to monopoly look at them
Shere should be an immediate rev