The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-01
STEEL TRUST BACK OFT.R. TRUST PLAN
Charge Challenged, Gov. Wilson Returns With Prompt and
 Convincing Answer.
COUNTRY WAITED FOR CLASH
Wondered If 1t Was to Produce a Parallel of Parker Episode-More Proof If 1t Is Wanted.

When the country read on the morn ing of Oct. the charge of Woodrow Wilson before his audience in Colo rado that the steel trust is back of the Roosevelt program of trust regulation and in the same papers Colonel Roose- velt's demand for proof of the asser- tion it sat up and took notice. Would this produce a parallel of the famous episode of the 1904 campaign, when the colonel called Judge Parker liar for asserting (what has been so re- gently proved) that the corporations were contributing to the Roosevelt campaign?
 There was eager waiting for Cover nor Wilson's answer. It came prompt ly the next day in his speech at Kan sas City. Concisely, convincingly and dispassionately Governor Wilson met the Roosevelt challenge, and should the controversy be pressed further the Democratic candidate will give the Bull Moose all he wants, for the cor roboration whereof he spoke is abun- dant
 Wilson's Charge.
 At Pueblo, the center of the western. steel industry, Governor Wilson said:
 Evidence of what am about to say comes to me by way of corroboration every day in forms that l cannot q1es- tion. It is very interesting circum- stance that the United States Steel corporation is behind the third party program with regard to the regulation of the trusts.
 Now, do not say that to prejudice you. I am perfectly ready to admit that the officers of that corporation may think that the third party is the best thing for the United States. That is not my point My point is that these gentlemen have grown up in the at7 mosphere of the things they them- selves have created and that the laws of the United States so far have at tempted to destroy the things that they have created and that they now. want a government which will perpet- uate the things they have created.
 You therefore have to choose now 8 government such as the United States Steel corporation thinks the United such as we used to have before these vate monopoly"
 RooseveIt's Challenge.
 The same night at Albany, N. Y., Colonel Roosevelt upon reading reports of Governor Wilson's speech said:
 ''As far as know the statement has not the slightest foundation in fact. MT. Wilson has no business to make such a statement unless he has the proof, and if he has any proof l de- mand that he make 1t public imme- diately. If he has not let him retract his statement as the only manly and honorable thing to do."
 Wilson's "Retort Courteous"
 The next night Governor Wilson made this reply before the great au- dience that greeted him in Kansas City:
 q understand from the newspaper reports that MT. Roosevelt was dis tressed by my suggestion the other day that the United States Steel corpora tion was back of his plan for control ling the trusts. He interpreted my re- mark to mean that they support ing him with their money was not thinking about money.
 q do not know whether they are supporting him with their money. or not It does not make any difference. What I meant was that they are sup porting him with their thought, and their thought is not our thought. meant, and I say again, that the kind of control which he proposes is the kind of control that the United States Steel corporation wants.
 q am perfectly willing to admit that they think 1t is the best for the coun- try My point Is that this is method conceived from the point of view of the very men who are to be controlled and that that is just the wrong point of view from which to conceive it.
 "If MT. Roosevelt is willing to have MT Perkins suggest how the corpora tions ought to be regulated why will he not. be willing to take suggestions from the same quarters as to the de- tails of the regulation? Mark you, la dies and gentlemen, I am not discuss ing individuals. I know MT. George Perkins. I have no quarrel with any thing except his judgment. He does not look at these things in the way men who do not wish to accustom their minds to monopoly look at them"
 There should be an immediate reyi- sion of the tariff downward It should %I,1 ok J,,1-