Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-10-11
GOVERNOR WILSON
TALKS TO KANSAS
PEOPLE OF BOSSES
Candidate Denouuces Those
Who Seek TO Cypress People.

Who Seek TO Cypress People.
Pa,d Ills Respects to the Sui MOSS
/ Party ss Il Does Not PROPOSE to
Give people Free eeVernmsnt--Aiso
Tells About the Vested interests
and What They are Doing,
NORTON. Kan, Oct. S-Governor
Woodrow Wilson. Democratic eandi.
date for President delivered a speech
here today that fairly bristled with
brilliant epigrams from first 20 last.
( Speaking Of the political boss he
said What am amazed at in the
political boss, is not his subtloty but
his stupidity. He is perfect Bour.
bon; he never changes his mind. he
never learns anything, he never for.
gets anything"
Another Characteristic epigram was
For the men engaged in the interests
of big business to see that nothing is
done by way Of reform, politics is
business, and for the politician whom
he uses, business Ia politics"
Later on in his speech the Demo.
cratic candidate declared that the
pygmy hasn't any chance in America;
only the giant has The laws give
the giant free leave to trample down
the pyemy What ! am interested In
is laws that win give the little man
start, that will give him a chance
TO show these fellows that he has
brains enough TO compete with them
and can presently make his local
market a national market and his ma
tional market world market. and
put them 10 their mettle TO do the
business more intelligently and eco
nomically and systematically than he
can"
The candidate paid his respects to
the Bun Moose party IN the following
language: ANY party that can give
you free government and will give
II to you. can give you all the rest.
How does the new third party pro-
pose to give you a free government?
So far as ] can discover Il doesn't
propose TO do 1t at nil For 1t pro.
poses not to protect the little fellow,
but to adopt the big fellow. | I'M.
derstand that the leader Of the third
party has recently said that he dill
not suggest this. just the other day.
that he had suggested II while he was
President in one Of his messages 20
Congress, during that same term OF
the Presidency. In which the trusts
grew faster and more numerously
than in any other administration we
have had; and his conclusion was
this. he does not say this explicitly,
but IL is the obvious inference that
the trusts had come 10 stay, that u
wasn't possible to put them out OF
business. was not possible 70 check
their supremacy; that all you could
do was to accept them as necessary
evils and appoint an industrial com
mission which would tell them how
they were to do business, not, OBJ
serve, an industrial commission which
should tell you how other men should
be admitted to the field Of competl-
ton. but an industrial commission
who, | wonder is going to be the
of the United States through the
trusts, saying to the trusts, now, go
easy, don't hurt anybody We be-
lieye that when you are reminded OF
your moral duties you are not male
violent. you are beneficient. You are
big, but you are not cruel, and when
you show an inclination to be cruel,
here Is a government agency that VIII
remind you what are the laws OF
Christianity and of good conscience.
"Wh, wonder. is going TO be the
keeper OF the public conscience in res
pect to the reformation Of our affairs
through the trusts? For that Is the
program. Why, this same govern
ment which has adopted the trusts,
this same government which Is per
petuating the partnership, which Is
now at the very root Of the evil which
we are now fighting? Because the
moment you legalize the trust, the
moment that you say the evil they
have done cannot be undone, you have
chrystalized the very conditions which
now hold American industry as II in
straight. jacket. The means would
propose to deal with the trusts IS 70
put them to the test and see whether,
in a free field, they can carry thir
over-capitalization without topping
down. II a business is worth hun
dred million. and is capitalized at five
hundred million, and somebody else
comes In with a hundred million and
does that business In competition
with the five hundred million concern
he can do it at an overwhelming adj
vantage. merely suggest that we
establish the conditions which Will
prove whether by genius and inyen-
tion and economy in administration
they can make decentralization
watered institution pay All that
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