New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-07
REPLY TO GOV. WILSON
Dixon and Cochems Take Up
Cudgels for Roosevelt.

Senator Dixon, campaign manager or
the Progressive party, and Henry +.
Cochems, chief of the Progressive speak
ers' bureau. issued a joint reply yester-
day to the criticisms made by Governor
Wilson Of Roosevelt at Indianapolis on
Thursday night.
This reply was in part as follows:
After persistent attacks upon Colonel
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson at lndianap-
oils charged him deliberately with re-
sponsibility for the existence of the
trusts and mOnopolies in this country.
Prior to this in a left-handed assault
at Sioux City and Minneapolis, he had
charged by plain implication that. as
President Roosevelt in the benzoate or
soda matter had protected the Gamers
Of purified foods by deliberate fraud.
Later, at Syracuse he minated that
because of campaign funds Roosevelt
had been q creature of the United States
Steel Corporation. and then Mr.. VII
used that basis to assert the United
States steel Corporation was non-union
corporation, seeking thereby to prove
Roosevelt was an enemy TO the principles
Of unionism.
For two years Mr.. Wilson has been
Governor of the State Of New Jersey
ard boasts Of his control Of a reform
Legislature. Ninety-hVe per cent of the
predatory trusts and monopolies Of the
United States, including the Standard
oil Company. the sugar trust, the Amer
lean Tobacco Company and the United
in the State of New Jersey and enjoy
from New Jersey the charter which
alone permits them 10 carry on their
business in forty-eight states OF the
Union. Their factories and business are
not In New Jersey. Every day OF the
last two years Mr.. Wilson has had in
his hands more power TO control these
trusts that all the state and federal
courts Of the United States combined.
Every day since Mr. Wilson has been
Governor ne and his Legislature have
had the power under the law TO drive
every dishonest trust from New Jersey.
10 compel an amendment to It's charter
or 10 qualify its articles of organiZa ton
under this provision OF law. During
those two years he has not uttered a
word in public or private. He has not
raised a finger.
What is the reason7 II is because. as
shown by the State Treasurer's report
OF the State of New Jersey, these trusts
and monopolies pay into the treasury Of
New Jersey more than 100000 a year
In fees for the privilege Of deriving their
right to do business and TO prey upon
the other states OF the Union;
velt's interest in union labor in this
country. For whatever II may be worth.
the record OF Woodrow Wilson discloses
him to be the most inveterate enemy Of
union ldpOT VINO mas ever SOUGHT tHc
Presidency. AS late as 1909, in address,
ing the young men leaving Princeton
University in his commencement adj
dress. he said:
The tendency Of the modern labor
union Is to give employers as little labor
as possible for the amount they receive
No one is suffered to do more than tho
average workman can do-no one may
work out of hours at all, or volunteer
anything beyond the minimum. / need
not point out how economically disas-
trous such regulation Of labor is. II
is SO Improbable to the employer that
In some trades IT will presently not be
worth while to attempt anything at all.
Our economic supremacy may be lost
because the country grows more and
more full of Improbable service.
There is another as formidable an
enemy to equality and opportunity as the
capitalist-the labor organization and
leader. quite as monopolistic in spirit as
the capitalist, and quite as apt to cor
rupt and ruin our industry by their mo-
nopoly."
The principle of unionism has not
changed since 1909. One thing only has
occurred. Mr.. Wilson is a candidate for
the Presidency now. lie was expressing
his real views when he attacked union
country are hungry for real things.
They are weary Of artificial and high
brow sentiments.
1t was announced at Progre ssive ma
tional headquarters that Oscar S. Straus
would reach Illinois on October 2l for a
three days speaking tour of the state.
1t is probable that Mr. Straus will re-
main IN Chicago for two out Of the three
days, delivering number of speeches.