Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10
ABOUT DICTATORS.

ABOUT DlCIAIONS.
Senator Sherman of Illinois says
President Wilson is a dictator and
nsurper. These are days of free,
fierce words.
Senator yardaman of Mississippi
says that eight corporations control the
production, distribution and prices Of
anthracite coal in the United States
That represents the REAL United
States dictatorship. Private individ-
uals, hiding behind the names of cor
pOra tons, dictate to the people what
they shall pay for what they must
have And in. the case Of the coal
monopolists, they hold back from in
dustry and from the government itself
great culm banks that would have
ended the shortage. --Chicago Herald
Examiners.
Senator Sherman is manifestly
wrong in saying that President Wilson
is dictator if he means the president
dictates to the big trusts and corpora
tions. The president could bring these
eight, corporations of which Senator
Vardaman complains to book were he
SO disposed. Just listen to Woodrow
Wilson talk on page 172 in his book,
"The New Freedom"
II take my stand absolutely. where
every progressive ought to take his
stand, ON the proposition that private
monopoly is indefensible and intolera-
BILE. And there i will fight my battle.
And 1 know how to fight it. Every
body who has ever read the news
papers knows the means BY which
these men built up their power and
created these monopolies. Any decent
ly equipped. lawyer can suggest to you
statute by which the whole business
can be stopped, What these gentle
tmep Do not want is this: they Do; net
want to be compelled to meet all
corners on equal terms. / am perfect
~ willing that they should beat any
competitor by fair means; but / know
the foul means they have adopted, and
1 know that they can be stopped by
law"
1t is quite evident from the fore
going effusion from the virile, pen of
Woodrow Wilson that he knew just
how to. stop the Vaccinations of the
trusts and malefactors of great wealth.
Why, if he didn't know himself, amy
decently equipped lawyer can suggest
statutes by which the whole business
can be stopped" Then why in the
name of c0rlmon sense hasn't Presi-
dent Wilson consulted some 'decently
equipped lawyer and asked his demo-
cratic congress to Join him in ways and
means to put quietus upon the trusts
which Senator yardaman says control
the prices Of anthracite coal in the
United States, and which, according to
the Chicago HeraldExaminer, REPRE-
sents the real United States dictator
ship
Now that Woodrow Wilson is presi-
dent and has the power to put some of
his book theories about ways and
means to smash the trusts into opera
ton he fails to make good and failed
during the four years he was in office
before the country found itself involv-
ed in war and when he had ample time
to give these matters due cOnsidera-
| ton.
His Chicago friend, to whom Tu-
multy sent Fluctuations not many
weeks ago, says that private individ-
uals, hiding behind the names OF cor
porations, dictate to the people what
they shall pay for what they must
have" There you have it, Mr. Presi-
dent, from one of your most steadfast
and loyal friends. You said in your
book that private monopoly is indie
feasible and intolerable. And there l
will fight my battle. And know how
to fight it."
There is great difference between
professions and performances.
Saratoga Briefs.