The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-21
Charges Republican Factions Have
Tried to Evade Issues Of
Present Campaign
BOTH FAVOR PROTECTION
Presidential Nominee Opposes La.
Dor be Subservient to Forces
Of Monopoly
Associated Press Dispatch.

NOiumUuS, VI, soepL' GO'--l hSlft
hours were spent in Columbus today
~ Gov. Wilson, but In these We're
crowded the formal opening of the
Democratic campaign in Ohio, a
luncheon with Gov Harmon, Con-
gressman James M. Cox, Democratic
candidate for governor, and state
leaders and series of speeches and
receptions. it was strenuous
wind-up to the nominees first week
of consecutive campaigning.
AS he started back to Sea Girt, to-
night. he said he was more than sat
isfied and pleased, both in the thrill
of campaigning and the enthusiastic
gatherings he had received.
Governor Wilson's speech in great
er part was devoted to high prices
and their cause. He said the
leaders Of tho Republican and
Progressive parties were aban-
doning this issue which is the
central one of the campaign. An
analysis of "big business" as as
sisted 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 the
main issues of the campaign. The
leaders of the third party, in par
ticular, interest us anew every day
by seeking new issues and shifting
the ground of debate. At the out
set they declared that the real issue
Of the present contest was the high
cost of living, but they have laid
less and less emphasis upon that,
because they have seen that they
cannot seriously attack that ques-
ton without attacking the questions
of the tariff and of the trusts in a
very different way from that in
which they are actually approaching
them.
Both the Republican party and
the third party subscribe explicitly
and ardently to the principle Of pro-
lection. They admit that there are
defects in practice, that some duties
are too high, that some extortions
have resulted from some schedules
of the tariff but while they are
ready to tinker, they are not ready
to alter In any essential particular
the system by which special advan-
tages and privileges in industry have
been built up in this country. They
stand for the system, and in their
embarrassment declare that the tariff
is not the cause of high prices, at
any rate not the chief cause.
Vague About Cause.
They are very vague about what
the chief cause is, because as mat
ter of fact the chief cause is the
manipulation of prices by the trusts,
And they are tender also towards
the trusts. They know that the
trusts practice monopoly, that
monopoly was the object of the
trusts; but they throw up their
hands in despair when it is suggest
ed that monopoly may be destroyed,
and reply: No, it is very unfor-
tunate, but it has come to stay.
Business nowadays must be big,
1t can't be big in any one industry
without controlling and control
must mean mastery Of the markets,
This is the only way of efficiency,
and we will not stand in the way of
efficiency In modern business
THE railroads, we all admit, are
in their very nature monopolstic,
We accepted that fact when we be-
| gan to regulate them. Every econo-
mist knows the familiar proof that
competition Is not often feasible and
Is some times financially wasteful in
The field of transportation, when
railways have been developed along
| the shortest and most servicable
lines; but they also know that this
class of natural monopolies' is CON-
paratively small, and that there Is
no analogy between the regulation
Of railways and the regulation of
artificial monopoly created by delib-
srate combination and agreement,
based not upon efficiency but upon
control of a particular product and
/ onrf,tdod IN Third paro