Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-18
REBEL FORCES Join RATS SAYS WILSON
Commands of ojas and SaIa Rdces the Idea That Trusts
Ear Combine Near Ell Tgre. Are Necessary.
PREPARE TO RETAKE TOWN HITS PROGRESSIVES' PLAN
Quarrel Chieftans Will Not Pre-
vent Joint Attack and Gary Originated It.
MAY RELEASE PRISONERS OPPOSED TO COMMISSION
c Captured Monopoly and Give Control
Americ of Labor Market
RidicuIes the Idea That Trusts
Are Necessary.
HITS PR0GRESSIVES' PLAN
Democratic Nominee Claims Perkins
and Gary Originated It.
TO COMMISSION
Asserts That It Would Create q
Monopoly and Give Control
of Labor Market.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, September 49,
Rats! Go tell that to the Marines wa
the answer Gov. Woodrow Wilson gave t
those who thought trusts necessary TO
| economy and efficiency.
The democratic candidate for the presi
dency was discussing the trust problem
at Sioux Falls, S. D., on his way here
How the United States Steel Corpora
ton incidentally would benefit by tn
plank in the progressive party platform
proposing regulation of trusts by fed
eral commission was argued by Gov. vii
son in his speeches as he passed from
Sioux City. Iowa. to Minneapolis and st
Paul today.
1t was at Sioux Falls, S. D.. that th'
democratic nominee first directed atten
ton to the origin of the progressives
plank for handling the trust problem.
Origin of the Plank.
"The method now proposed of regu
lating the trusts was suggested in the
inquiry by the House of Representatives
into the steel trust, and it was sug-
gested by Mr.. Gary and Mr.. George w
Perkins," he said. They have thought
this thing out. 1t may be, for all
know, that they honestly think that is
the way to safeguard the business OF
this country. But whatever they think
this they know. that 1t will save the
United States Steel Corporation from
ter than it's competitors. For if you
will look into the statistics of the
United States Steel Corporation you
will find that wherever it has com
petitors the amount of the product
which it controls is decreasing: in Other
words. that it is less efficient than
its competitors. and its control OF
product is increasing only in those
branches of the business where by pur-
chase and otherwise they have a prac-
teal nnonoro ly.
Would Control Labor.
Moreover, I have this to say to the
workingnen. Garry out the plan of Mr.
Gary and Mr.. Perkins and YOU will have
given a control in the market for labor
which will suit these gentlemen perfect
ly. They don't want competitors In the
market for labor, because new competi
tors will mean new wage scales, anc
these are the very men and almost the
only men who have successfully opposed
union labor in the United States, anc
shut it out of their shops and bribed II
to be content to the shut out by all sorts
of benevolent schemes of profit sharing
which a man would forfeit if he Joined
union
Busy Day in Twin Cities.
A busy day in the Twin cities was thu
outlook for Gov. Wilson when he arrived
in Minneapolis today. 80
At 1890 he was scheduled to make al
Armory, and at 2:3O o'clock to speak a
an open-air meeting on the parade
grounds, or in case of Indictment weather
in the 1st Regiment Armory.
After the address he planned to attend
a private luncheon and confer with Min.
nesota party leaders. and then go to st
Paul, where he makes the principal ad
dress in the Twin cities in the st. Pau
auditorium tonight.
Wilson Warns Against Experts.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, September 1s.-"l
want to warn the people of this country
to beware Of commissions Of experts
said Gov. Woodrow Wilson in discussing
the pure food question at the fair ground:
here yesterday afternoon. II have lived
with experts all my life and l know thai
experts don't see anything except wha
eye. They don't even perceive what Ii
under their nose, and an expert feels iL
honor bound to conf1ne himself to the
particular question which you have asked
him.
Suppose you wanted to settle tn,
liquor question by asking a body of ex
perts whether alcohol was poison or not
/ believe they would have to tell yol
that 1t is not poison.
But does that settle the liquor ques
ton? There are great many things tina
you can take into your stomach that ar,
not poison that will make you crazy"
Gov. Wilson voiced for the first tim,
his objection to the tariff board idea, al
contained in the republican as we'll a
in the progressive platforms. declaring
it would mean " q postponement of tariff
legislation
Pure Food Laws Handicapped.
He turned early in his speech to tn
pure food question.
Everybody now suspects" he said
"and the suspicion is based upon a grea
many facts that can be established b.
proof, that these pure food laws are no
lived up to, that the inspection Is not al
ways what it ought to be- and that
great many things are permitted to b.
done which nullify the pure food laws
II suppose that most Of you know tina
a great controversy arose because DR.
Wiley, who was in charge of the pure FOO
investigation, objected to the use of ben
Zoate of soda in certain things that wer
sold to you. particularly in canned food
Now. a very nice thing occurred. Tn
gentlemen who wanted to use benZoat
of soda persuaded the President, Mr.
Roosevelt, that this was a scientific ques
ton, and therefore he ought to have
board of chemists to determine 1t. an,
Mr. Roosevelt picked out some of tn
most eminent and honest chemists In thi
mine. the president of Johns Hopkin
University. and submitted to them thi
question: is benzoate of soda hurtful t
the human stomach or to the human di
gestion when taken internally?
Question Decided by the Board.
observe that that was the only ques
ton submitted to them. and that was ex
actiy what the people who wanted to us
benzoate Of soda for wrong purpose
wanted to limit the inquiry to. Thes
gentlemen had to say that benzoate o
soda In itself Is not harmful to the hu
man system as l believe it is not. Blu
they were not asked this question: Cal
benzoate of soda be used to conceal putre
faction? Can it be used in things tina
have gone bad to conceal the fact tina
they have gone bad and to induce peopl
to put them in their stomachs after the.
had gone bad?
"They were not asked that question, be