The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-26
WILSON. KEEPS
LIVE ISSUES
TO THE Front
Tour OF West Shows Nominee Face
Problem Of Trusts and
Living Cost
RIDDLES ALL His RIVAL.
Declares High Tariff Is at Bottom
Of Monopoly Which Crinds
the Workers

Special to The Bulletin.

Special to The Bulletin.
New York, Sept. 25.-The brie
tour of Gov. Wilson in the ives
last week has proved one thing, con
clusively and that is that the Demo
cratic candidate for president is no
to be led aside from the great issue
Of this campaign, either through
vacillating mind Or a deliberate in
| tent to divert the attention of tn,
people from those questions.
While the third term candidat,
| himself, and the spellbinders speak
ing Oh behalf of President Taft, havt
been discussing every subject--eX
cept the important ones~~-Gov. vii
son has confined himself largely K
a consideration of the two grea
problems Of the day--the trusts ant
the cost OF living. The third tern
candidate has thundered and roaret
across the country, trimming hi.
speech always to suit the locality II
which he found himself and alway!
| 'sidestepping' these two great ques
tinns. The republican orators HAY;
been equally elusive in their refer
ences to the tariff and the trusts.
But Gov. Wilson in his speeches
at Sioux City, Minneapolis, Detroit
and Columbus has defined his posi-,
tion upon these two great issues
frankly and clearly outlining his
policies in respect to them, placing
his finger with unerring accuracy
upon the causes which have brought
about the trust problem and the
high cost Of living and pointing out
the remedy which he, as leader OF
the Democratic party, will advocate
when elected president of the United
States.
Tells How the Trusts Grew.
Listen to his discussion of th1
trusts in his speech at Minneapolis
where he said in part:
"The special interests are lodged
in what we call the trusts. Don't
deceive yourselves into supposina
that the trusts naturally grew biz
by being efficient. They didn't
They grew big by crushing little
fellows that would have been big
If they hadn't crushed them, and by
buying up those who had already
got big and couldn't be crushed. And
they spent SO much money buying
up those whom they couldn't beat
in competition that they have tc
charge us high prices in order tc
pay the interest in their investment
In other words they bought efficiency
out of the market, instead of Great.
ing efficiency by their combinations
Now, the third patty programme
Is this, not to retrace a single step
not to prevent a single pregentable
thing in the processes by which
these monopolies have been built UP
but to take charge of the monopolies
and regulate them. The government
in other words, is going to enter in.
to closer partnership than ever with
the trustees who have been running
this government. l am going tc
state this thing perfectly fairly,
believe that that is the inevitable
result of that programme. And
these same trustees were the men
who have consistently fought the in
terests of organized labor as we'll as
every other interest that resisted the
processes by which they have built
up their monopolistic power. The
government under this programme
would promise us that they would
see to it that these men were kind
to us. But suppose that these men
who ought to be kind to us are them
selves more influential than anybody
else in choosing the very men who
are going to regulate them, what
will happen then?
Who Will Hold the Stakeholder
IF the government is going 10 be
the stakeholder who is going to hold
the stakeholder? If you deposit all
your capital of independence and oi
free enterprise with the government
then you will have to sit up nights
with the government to see that
somebody doesn't get to it while you
are asleep. And you know that the
very men whom they are going to
regulate are the men who now have
the ear of the government, and have
long had the ear of the very gentle
men who are proposing this pro
granime. Therefore. in this @year
when you come to vote you have got
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