Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-10-13
Bull Moose Devotes Speech at
Chicago to Showing Short
Comings Of New Jersey Gov
ernor Regarding Corporations,
PERKINS AND MUNSEY
HIS RICH HACKERS
Rough Rider Candidate Says
His Messages Stirred Repub-
Iicans to Act Against Law
less Combines in 1908,

lBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire.
i Chicago Oct. 12.-Coluncl itonsc
| Welt. in an address az the Coliseum 10
! night. attacked Woodrow Wilson roc
ord in The New Jersey governors chair
| on the trust question. and declare,
| that if the democrats were successful
| in \ovcmb bcr the great trusts of tn,
country would find Governor Wilson
n most delightful ana harmless com
panion.'
Colonel Roosevelt further insistco
that New Jersey was above any other
commonwealth. "the trust state OF
the country and while il had laws
which could he used with great effec,
against trusts, Governor Wilson had
pursued do nothing policy in this
regard
While sketching his own record on
the trusts while president. Colonel
Roosevelt said
II made SO much impression hy my
repeated messages ana addresses that
the republican platform in 1908 did
definitely promise action along the
lines | had ndicatcd-although the
promises was broken by those in
charge Of the republican party as soon
as left the presidency.
Mr.. Wilson during his term as gov
ernoi Of New Jersey has not done one
least little thing Of any shape sort
or description toward dealing With the
trust problem.
ct the opportunity has been ann
pie. And if his own doctrines as to
the duty OF the states to deal with the
trusts are correct. then his failure
TO act has been ineNcusablc. The same
trusts against which | actually did act
were Incorporated under the laws of
New Jersey and ii was perfectly simple
u t, n !, "A
never followed my example. The big
owe their license to the
nadeunacy of state laws or their non
Anforcement
The democratic platform denOunces
he effort to deprive the states of any
# their rights in connection with deal 1
ng with the trusts insisting thar no
ederal action shall be substituted for
tate remedies. for the prevention of
private monopoly that is, of trusts.
1T appears that MIR Wilson explicit !
y recognizes the theory that il Is the |
'rime duty Of the state governments I
ather than OF the national govern
nent to deal with trusts.
For the most part the modern I
american trusts have been incorpor
ted in the state of New Jersey and (
re subject to its laws. They depend
pom the state government for their
overs and their life, both Of which
nay at any time be cut off if the
tate government sees fit to take such
elton. For nearly two years Mr..
wilson has been the head of this state
oVernment. + the Standard Oil com
any or tobacco trust has. in Mr.. Will
ms opinion, been guilty Of gross
'auds or attempts to monopOlize. or
working unwholesome mergers or
ock issues. their state charters can
T. readily amended, altered or re-
called
There is criminal statute in New
arscy applying to corporations which
ffords ready at hand simple remedy
the kind which Mr.. Wilson and his
ippcrters have repeatedly stated
ould be the most effective to meet
lc eNils of the present situation. !
Yet, although his power is unlim- ,
ed under the provision of the law :
+. Wilson while governor of New .
'rseN has not urged or attempted to
cure the amendment. alteration or f
peal Of single corporation char !
+ of NeW Jersey, Nor has he at I
npted to secure the Indictment nr j
~ officer, director or emplONe of v
Oh corporation under the act of O
05.
When Mr.. Wilson thus utterly fails I
governor Of New Jersey to come up a
what he himself says a governor n
ght to do, IT Is not 80 he wondered !
that his criticism of the progressive G
oposals for dealing with .Fe trusts u
ould be futile in their uftrl un-
undness.
"All of this throws a curious In u
Mr.. Wilson's statement. report, 4 !,
the New York papers as having II
en- made in Denver the other day, ="
the effect that there was a halle
ah chorus of the trusts in my fa ~
r. | hope that the quotation is not 80
rurate. for. of course. there is no -
rticle of foundation for any such :,
tement The only man that Mr..
lson can refer to among my sup N
rters as representing any trusts. is D
. Perkins, unless. indeed he in
des Mr.. Munsey. These Two men.
. Perkins and Mr.. Munsey, are men
means precisely as Mr.. Cleveland
Dodge and MIR McAdoo and Mr..
ane. Mr.. Wilson's intimate asso- vs
ties. are men of means III
So far as I know of his associates 4
these corporations one or two are W
jporting no one and all the rest ht
supporting Mr.. Tart or Mr.. VIII Of
l."