The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-18
WITH WILSON
IN MINNESOTA
Continued from page L.

lis progressive to take the bit in your
teeth and bolt, or to lay about you-
to conduct yourself as if you We're at
Donnybrook fair, taking crack at
every head that showed itself. They
seem to think progressiveness Is
matter of speed and OF weight III
matters not how fast you are travel
ing; whether you are a progressive I
depends upon the direction in which
you are COINS ?
/ Governor Wilson's new statement o.
his antitrust program was:
There is one proposition upon
which this campaign turns. That
proposition is that monopoly is newt I
able That is what deny. II monop-
Ioly is inevitable then the thing to Go
lis for the government to take hold OF
monopoly and regulate 1t. If monopc +.
loly is not inevitable, then the thing
for law to do is to break it up, and
prevent it's forming again. l believe
that monopoly can be broken UP.
81 understand that the leaders OF
the third party start with this propo-
. sition that the loig combinations which
now control business are inevitable,
and that the best we can do is to
establish an industrial commission
which will take charge of them and
see that they are good to us.
: 81 deny the fundamental PROPOSE
ton. 1 deny that these big combina-
lions are inevitable, and l can prove
that they were not inevitable by the
:. processes by which they were estab.
:. lished.
t Where was the method now pro-
t posed of regulating the trusts sug-
+ gested? 1t was suggested In the IN,
L Iquiry by the house of representatives
n into the steel trust and it was sug-
L gested by Mr.. Gray and Mr. George
w. Perkins. They have thought this
thing out | am not interested In
t. their motives. 1t may be, for all !
n know, that they honestly think that
e is the way to safeguard the business
At Of this country but even If they hon
r estly think, this they know, that it
r. will save the United States steel cor
IS poration from the necessity of doing
ir its business better than its compel
Is ors."
Governor Wilson declared the stee
trust--and other such combinations
had failed in their theoretical purpose
es TO be efficient and economical, because
lie the fact that it is monopoly relieved
~, that necessity and then he said:
In when these gentlemen say tina
re- these combinations are necessary TO
by economy and efficiency, the only ar
M swer | can think Of that meets tn
ire situation is: rats! Go tell it to tn
ZEN Marines but don't venture to tell
to anybody who knows the circun
stances by which these combination
were made.
ain "Now the alternative is to regulat
led competition--to say that to go I'M
rim a community and sell below cost II
no other purpose--for it can't be tt
purpose of proft-than to squeei
out a competitor shall be an offens
ore against the criminal law of the I'm
on ed States and that anybody that a
a tempts it will have to answer at II
ing bar OF crlminai lrlnunai. - Won
OBJ make any difference whether he is b
in or little
ass 1--WE have been having trials and
use yestigations by congress and we kno
the processes by which these ms
have accomplished the setting up
their monopolies, and II we dor
RI know how to stop them, then the la
a+ yers of this country have lost the
ingenuity.
81 know scores of lawyers who ha
been the intimate counsel of gre
+ho corporations and have never adyis
,oo, them to do anything illegal but the
and are great many legal things tn
you can do now that will put the Hit
man out of business. And that is t
reason / want to change the law, n
the lawyer You can change the IL
Jk and then the whole atmosphe
will clear. The lawyer will
, Is Obliged to say yes, my dear sirs, tn
is a very fine scheme, but if you I
low it, you will get into the penite
ti,r,. Wv, have baen fnuDu out : -