The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
IeIIlna Blows.

orator who depends upon rhetoric.
He is not a progressive" who de-
ponds upon buster and billings
gate to catch the interest of the
mob. But in a dignified manner
he is striking some telling blows
as the campaign proceeds. He will
not fail to impress sensible per-
sons by such statements as his
speeches in the West in reply to
Col. Roosevelt.
A good example of polite effec-
tiveness is the following:
Il understand from the newspa-
pers," said Gov. Wilson in his
Topeka speech, THAT Mr.. Roose-
welt was distressed by my sugges-
ton the other day that the United
States Steel Corporation was back
of his plan for controlling the
trusts.
He interpreted my remark to
mean that they we're supporting
him with their money. / was not
thinking about money. / do not
know whether they are support
ing him with their money or not:
it does not make any difference.
What 1 meant was they are sup
porting him with their thought,
and their thought is not our
thought. l meant, and ! say again,
that the kind of control when he
proposes is the kind of control
that the United States Steel Cor
poration wants.
Il am perfectly willing to admit
that they think it is best for the
country.
MY point is that this is metil-
cd conceived from the point of
view of the very men who are to
be controlled, and that that is just
the wrong point of view from
which to conceive it."
As Gov. Wilson says, the ques-
ton of whether Col. Roosevelt's
policy as to the Steel Trust and
others is the policy the Steel Trust,
and the others, desire to see adopt
ed is good deal more important
than the somewhat aged, and pref
ty thoroughly threshed out ques-
ton of who furnishes the funds
for the recurrent Roosevelt cam
paigns. Even if the cash were
contributed in the form of widows
mites, a programme satisfactory
to the interesto to which Gov.
Wilson refers would not be salts
factory to a majority of the people
of the United States. 1t would
not be progressive"
In his abundance of courtesy,
Gov. Wilson does not blame Pres
ident Roosevelt for having, as he
expressed it, been taken into
camp" by the Steel Trust when he
was told that a panic would be
averted if he sanctioned the alb
of the Tennessee Coal &
Iron Company, and that a panic
would bring universal catastrophe
if he didn't sanction that act of
lawlessness. The wisest rulers seek
and accept disinterested advice be-
fore taking radical action. II
President Roosevelt really believed
what the Steel Trust representa-
tives told him he might have learn
ed that they were not telling the
truth if he had been willing to dis
cuss the matter with disinterested
parties. Gov. Wilson, however,
avoids acrimonious criticism and
points out that President Roose-
welt was taken into camp" and
that he will not admit it, and would
be in a fair way to be taken in
again If opportunity should offer
Gov. Wilson pitches his cams
paign upon a high plane. He does
not find it necessary to speak of
an opposing candidate as THE
most humiliating character in the
United States" Both the Presi-
dent and the former President are
treated with all due personal con-
sideration. The Wilson speeches