Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-20
GOV. WILSON PUT
IN ANAN|AS CLUB
BY ROOSEVELT
Not a Particle of Truth'in State
ments About Moose and the
Trusts, He Says.

sizzling speech here today Colonel
Roosevelt hammered back at Governor
woodrow Wilson for his attack on the
Progressive platform at Sioux Falls. in
which the governor charged that ii
naved into the hands of the steel and
harvester trusts. The x-president
angrilv asserted that the two trusts are
supporting Mr.. Wilson and that the
democratic and Republican platforms
rather than that Of the Progressives
cater to the crooked corporations
MT. Wilson should be- above mis- :
stating facts in order to bolster up mis-
arguments. Mr.. Wilson has an entire
right to defend his own platform If he
feels bold enough to do so, and an en-
fire right to assail the Progressive
platform. but he should conf1ne himself
"a telling the-f facts as they are" said
Roosevelt.
In his speech yesterday he stated
that the method now proposed by the
suggested by Messrs. Gary and Perkins
before the committee of the house Oi
representatives to look into the steel
trust. And he suggested that it was
done to save the United States Steel
CORPORATION from the necessity of do
ing its business better than its cont
petitors.
o. -. IS Trnth
Neither of these statements is in
accordance with the facts and five min
utes' inquiry on Mr. Wilson'S part
would have taught him that there was
not one particle of foundat ton for the
truth of what he was saying
Not once only. but again and again.
In messages to congress and in speech
after speech, when l was president. |
advocated the methods advocated by
the Prog esslves for handling the trust
question, which is practically to apply
the principle applied in the Interstate
commerce act
81 wish to call attention at this time
TO the fact that as far as | know the
overwhelming majority of the men who
controlled both the Steel Corporate
and the Harvester trust are supporting
either MI Wilson himself or Mr.. Taft
They are certainly opposing me.
Indeed, as far as / know, the only
man connected with either organiza
ton who is supporting me is M
Perkins himself. Everywhere I wen,
IN Minnesota and North Dakota | was
informed that the Harvester trust wa
supporting Mr.. Wilson, and the Steel
corporation so far as the nearly unsni :
nous majority of its people are con-
cerhed' IS supporting either Mr. Taft or
Mr.. Wilson
Taft ard Wilson Alike on Trusts
i haven the slightest criticism to
make OF either the Harvester trust or
the Steel trust in this matter. do NOT
question that they are sincere in SUM-
porting Mr.. Taft or Mr.. Wilson. but
also wish 10 point out that Mr.. Wilson
ana Mr. Taft occupy substantiallv tn.
same attitude toward the trusts and
lhls attitude is Of such proved harm
IeSshesS that | am not in the least sur
pfsed that any trust which objects to
honest and effective regulation should
support either or both of them indiffer-
emily as against me.
Inc only result that could possibly
lolloW from any action of the kind
heretofore advocated by Mr. Wilson as
lesaFos either the Steel trust corpora :
tlon or the Harvester trust would be to
put them just where the STANDARD OIL
trust and the tobacco trust have al
'eauV been put by following out the
very policy he indicates
Such being the case. I do NOT won
ger that all four trusts confine tbair
OPPOSITION to the Progressive party and
70 me and are seemingly entirely will
10 nave either Mr.. Wilson or Mr.
IaIt come into, power"
IF Wilson Really Knew"
continuing, Mr.. Roosevelt said.
MT. Wilson further said that under
''e progressive plan the corpora tons
"ouu control the market for labor and
states that the only chance for labor
j. IN competition. II Mr.. Wilson were
man with a personal and working
''o" Ieose OF the conditions and sur
,oululngs Of labor; If he knew at first
"'ho now workingmen live and what
''elf needs are, such a statement on his
part would be wholly inexcusable.
BUT Mr.. Wilson's statement is evil
o7"'iy based only on abstract reason
's rom what certain class of laissez
are political economists have written,
anu II is made without even consider
'"s the workings of the laws now on
F statute books He says that the
Fs'slatlon we propose would put the
Do'Nlngman in the power of the big
Industrial concerns.
mere Is very simple way of test
lug Ihe worth Of this statement. Has
"e interstate commerce law put the
mo,Nlngman more in the power of the
''ioads? Let Mr.. Wilson answer this
s1eS'lon. If it has, then it is his bust
,SS 10 advocate the repeal of the in
state commerce law
Mr.. Wilson is championing the cause
me Dig crooked trusts when he OPP