The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-04-05
HOW WILSON WILL
COPE WITH TRUSTS
f..
PRESIDENT WILSON DEFINES HIS
ATTITUDE TOWARD COR.
PORATloNs.
TO STOP PRIVATE MONOPOLY
Will Use Law For This Purpose
Calls Attention to the Bull
f. Moose Party and
Platform.
TO STOP PRIVATE MONOPOLY

DOM defines his attitude toward the
trusts and the remedies he will at
tempt to apply.
Mr.. Rooseveit's Plan.
The article contends that other
plans looking to a solution of the
monopoly question, notably Mr..
Roosevelt's, involve "a partnership
between big business and the govern
ment.' the effect of which, on the PEG.
pie, would depend on the benevolence
of the contracting parties, whereas
the people want justice, not philan-
thropy.
"Benevolence never developed a
man or nation" says Mr.. Wilson
I'VE do not want benevolent govern.
ment. We want a free and just
government"
The most specific statement intro.
ducing the intentions of the admins.
tration is this:
1--WE purpose to prevent private
monopoly by law"
To Restore Freedom.
The president sums up his attitude
as follows:
"Our purpose is the restoration Of
freedom.
eve purpose to prevent private
monopoly by law, to see to 1t that the
methods by which monopolies have
been built up are legally made impos.
sible.
I'VE design that the limitations on
present enterprise shall be removed
so that the mex: generation of young.
sters 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; so that we shall taste again the
full cup, not Of charity, but of liberty
the only wine that ever refreshed
and renewed the spirit Of people. !"
The president devoted much atten.
ton to the Roosevelt, or third party:
program for the organization Of trusts.
Says monopoIies Are Legallzed.
THE new party program legalizes
monopolies," Mr.. Wilson says. "You
cannot use monopoly to serve a free
very long, but very tolerant"
The Roosevelt doctrine, Mr.. Wilson
finds, is that monopoly is inevitable
and all that can be done is to submit
to it, and regulate it.
81 absolutely protest against being
put into the hands of trustees" Mr.
Wilson adds. II do not want to live
under philanthropy" The problem
the president finds to be: "Shall we
try to get the grip of monopoly away
from our lives or shall we not?"
What the president thinks about
the relations Of former administra.
tons with "big business is summed
up in the phrases, "The national ad
ministration having for sixteen years
been virtually under the reign of the
trusts"
Other extracts from the presidents
article follows:
Like Glasgow Tenement Problem.
What | want to do is analogous to
what the authorities Of the city oil
Glasgow did with the tenement
houses. l want to light and patrol
the corridors Of these great organiza
tions in order to see that nobody who
tries to traverse them is waylaid and
maltreated.
III you will but hold of the ad
versaries, if you will but see to it tina,
the weak are protected. will ven
ture a wager with you that there are
some men in the United States nov
economically weak, who have brains
enough to compete with tsese gentle
men and who will presently come into
the market and put these gentlemen
on their mettle. And the minute they
come into the market there win be q
bigger market for labor and q differ
emit wage scale for labor"