| Show I Dr Wilson on the Warpath J 2 of Dr Wilsons Wilson's chief characteristics seems t O 0 ONE to be he a r readiness to threaten those whom nhom he be fancies to be in disagreement with him and another is his faculty for keeping his own counsel Whether the tIle latter laUa- is due to a fi fixed ed purpose not to reveal re until inaugurated what his policies are arc to be or whether he himself is as undecided as i is the country country coun coun- i I tr try that is curiously observing ng him only the future futuro f can demonstrate Ono One incontestable fact however can be gleaned from his unique address to the business busl- busl I ness men of Chicago on ou Saturday night and that i ithe is the President elects firm belief that competition cannot be Pc restored by legislation that legislation that the captains of industry who have fostered Monopoly must be bo I induced by threats or cajolery to remove their tightening grasp The Chicago address was a remarkable mixture J of veiled menace and anti disguised wheedling At one moment ho he was mak making it clear to his astonished i hearers thai that he had not shown his hand nond and that thaI I the terrible things thing'S h ha hc might do all unannounced unan unan- at another he was appealing to their patriotism patriotism patri patri- j II ami ani their sense of justice Devoting De one part t of his bis ure k-ct-ure lecture for for it assuredly merits no other name name to to sketching the turmoil towards to-n-ards which cornI com corn I mercial America is rapidly traveling and to advising I his auditors to flee from the wrath to home come ome he ho I employed the other in an effort to bring his audience industrial situation a to a a. proper understanding of the tho I that they might themselves supply the tho remedy without with with- I OU out t governmental go interference I It was indeed cl a singular lar gathering that Dr I 1 Wilson lson faced Amon Among mon his bif guests fellow-guests were tho the thoI I I leading men of Chicago indeed of the United States With him hini sat the men who control the packing Int industry In- In ui- ui t aud and who not noL long ago were acquitted of criminal crin crim crim- crim I inal violation m of the tha antitrust act others of his hearers bearers were t men bi high h in the coun counsels ls of the milI railroads rail mil I roads and still others other's had played star roles in the creation n of f tho e C monopolies against which Dr TilI Wilson Wit Wil I son soil Oll looted the flood of his invective in It is perhaps 1 true that never Cr before in the tho history of the nation lid did a i President or a President discuss before men 11 so vitally interested the thc subject of which tho they would woud least lea t care to hear from such a source It is not easy to predict or treat intelligently the probable effect of his address Those who were cra in the tIit thc banquet hat halt should be he able to judge much better than we c for from the countenance of the speaker mc can enn often determine more definitely his attitude I I than from what he sa says The country generally which rends only the l' l report pod of or his actual words word I m must 1st cof confess that thai it is as much in the dark as heretofore heretofore here here- as to what lat Dr Wilson Vilson means to do 10 One can cm r but hut dismiss it wi with h the thought that even en he lie docs does I not Pot know kno knoor or may IDay assume that he has lIns surprises in store that will wilt be sensational when exposed r t tr |
