The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
TRUSTS WILL BE CRUSHED

- UuAs 49,
President Woodrow Wilson makes a declaration Of his attitude
toward monopoIes and indicates what is believed by many to be the
course the administration will pursue to secure a possible remedy
by the terse but specific statement, "we propose to prevent private
monopoly by law" in hi. fourth article on the "New freedom,
which appears in the current issue of Worlds Work"
The article, subheaded "Benevolence or Justice declares
Colonel Roosevelt attempted to effect a benevolent partnership be-
tween "Big business and the Government"
The President declares that under such a partnership the re-
suit upon the people would depend entirely upon the benevolence
of the contracting parties, whereas the people want justice, not
philanthropy.
Wants Free Government
"Benevolence never developed man o r a nation" he says. ave
do not want a benevolent government We want a free and just
government"
President Wilson deals at length with the Roosevelt or third
party programme regarding the regulation of trusts as outlined in
the platform of that party in the last Presidential election.
The President says in part:
1.-THE new party platform legahzes monopoles. You cannot
use monopolies to serve a free people. The Roosevelt platform is
very long but very tolerant The Roosevelt doctrine admits that
monopoly is inevitable.
81 absolutely protest against being put into the hands of trus-
tees. I do not want to live under a philanthropy. Shall We try
to get the grip of monopoly away from our lives, or shall we not?'
The phrase "the national administration having for 16 years
been virtually under the regulations of the trusts" indicates clearly
cessors.
The article in part is as follows:
"our purpose is the restoration of freedom. We purpose to
prevent private monopoly by law, to see to it that the methods by
which mOnOponeS ave Deen Dultu up are legally Impossible
We desire that the limitations on private enterprise shall be re-
moved so that the next generation of youngsters as they come along
will not have to become proteges of benevolent trusts, but will be
free to go about making their own lives what they will
Taft and Roosevelt Idea
Mr.. Roosevelts conception of government is Mr.. Tafts concep
ton that the presidency of the United States is the presidency of
a board of directors. 1 am willing to admit that if the people of
the United States cannot get justice for themselves, then it is high
time that they join the third party and get it from somebody else.
"The justice proposed is very beautiful; it is very attractive;
there were planks in that platform which stir all the s~ympathies of
the heart They propose things that we all want to do. But the
question is: Who is going to do them? Through whose instru-
mentality? Are Americans ready to ask the trusts to give us, in
pity, what we ought, in justice, to take?
THE third party says that the present system of our industry
and trade has come to stay. Mind you, these artifcially built up
things, these things that can't maintain themselves in the market
without monopoly, have come to stay, and the only thing the Gov
eminent can do, the only thing that the third party proposes should
be done, is to set up a commission to regulate them.
Don't you realize that this is a blind alley? You can't find
your way to liberty that way.
"Shall we try to get the grip of monopoly away from our lives
or shall we not? Shall we withhold our hand and say monopoly
is inevitable; that all we can do is to regulate it? Have we come
to a time when the President of the United States, or any man who
wishes to be President, must dof his cap in the presence of this
high finance and say You are our inevitable master, but we will
see how we can make the best of it.
81 do not care how benevolent the master S going to be. I
will not live under a master. That is not what America was created
for.
When I am fighting monopolistic control, therefore, 1 am fight
ing for the liberty of every man in America and I am fighting for the
liberty of American industry.
1--WE have a great programme of governmental assistance ahead
of us in the cooperative life of the nation; but we dare not enter
upon that programme until we have freed the Government. That
the point. Benevolence never developed a man or a nation. We
do not want a benevolent Government. We want a free and just
Government. Every one of the great schemes of social uplift which
are now so much debated by noble people among us is based, when
rightly conceived, upon justice"