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Show AS GOVERNOR Col. Roosevelt Reviews Work of Wilson In New Jerser j Oyster Bn, Nov 2. Theodore Roosevelt Issued a statement todny I devoted largely to answering Governor Wilson s remarks on the trust question ques-tion in his speech last Thursday nitwit at Madison Square gaidon "In view of Mr Wilson's insistence upon the Importance of the trust problem." prob-lem." sas Colonel Roosevelt, M do slro to call attention to Mr. Wilson's iccoid on the trust question as governor gov-ernor of New Jersej , and to his previous pre-vious attitude." Colonel Roosevelt quoted from Mr. Wilson's speeches when running for governor and later "In his first message to tho legislature, legis-lature, January 17, 1911," the statement state-ment continues, "Governor Wilson 10-newed 10-newed with emphasis his promises to deal with the New Jersey trusts He described some aB having 'slipped out of control of the very law that gave them leave to be, and can make and unmake them at pleasure ' " 'We have now set oursolvos to control them oborly and regularlv and to bring thorn within control of the law There lb a great oblUa- 1 1 iim tii ii in " iimi t A lion, as wpll as a great opportunity i an Imperative obligation, from which , we cannot escape if wo would No man who wishes to enjoy the public confidence dare hold unci., and it he is wlbe ho will not resort to subterfuge subter-fuge ' Never Lifted Hand. ' "The supreme court of the UniteJ , Stales has solemnly declared that the Standard Oil and tobacco trusts have j been guilty of fraudulent and unlaw- I ful conduct, which the New lersey I law savs to be a misdemeanor," says 1 Colonel Roosevelt. "Mr llton now J snys that he wishes to proceed against ' the directors and managers of these trusts Individually For twenty-two months lie nas had, as governor of Now Jersey, ample opportunity foi thus proceeding against thorn, but he has never lifted his hand to tako It, "Mr. Wilson has declined to cive tho legislature a lead in this matter, j and when these members of the legls-i laturc gac him a lead he still declined de-clined to lift a lingci in their aid. I And nuturally. In view of this attitude .of passive opposition on his part, the I legislature fallod to act Asked Wilson Questions. "Through Senator Bevoridgo, 1 asked ask-ed Mr. Wilson certain questions, as follows: j '' M, Is it not a fact that the laws of thp state under which a corporation corpora-tion is organized prescribe Its pow- I er? i ' "2. Are not all tho powers of I Standard Oil and similar monoplics confened by the laws oi N'ew Jer-1 sey''' " 3 Could not these powers havo been curtailed by amendments to the New Jersey lawB9 I " '4 Why has not Mr Wilson as I governor of Now Jersey recommend- j ed such amendmente'' I ' In respouse to these questions Mr. I Wilson telegiaphcd to one of his sup-' sup-' porters as lo'lows 1 " 'I authorise you to say that the j Republican majority In the leijislature I made a revision of the corporation I laws Impossible, and no New Jersey I official could prosecute or propose u . dissolution for breach of federal statutes.' stat-utes.' No Answer Given. 'This is no answer at all. Mr Wilton Wil-ton hlmsplr stated that the legisla- tuie itself did with surprising ease ' what he asked nnd that Republican I and Democratic members actually in-' in-' traduced bills such as wore demand-I demand-I ed by Mr Wilson's explicit piomlses. ' "The New Jersey legislature of 1911 1 stood House, 42 Democrats and IS I Republicans, senate. 11 Republicans , und 10 Democrats. Therefore there j was onl one Republican majorltj ' against him in tho senate and one I Republican senator, Mr Colgate, actually ac-tually intioduced an anti-trust bill . '"In the entire legislature there was I no opponent of tjust legislation who J rossesF.ed one-thousandth pai t of influence in-fluence which, while I was president, was overclsed In Senator Aldrich in j tho senate and Speaker Cannon In tho I house. But I never made nu excuses I nnd by a succession of the hardest kind of hammering fights I forced through congress a mass of vitally 'important tiust nnd corporation leg-! leg-! islatlon i "No wonder that Mr Wilson was iablo to mention In his Madison Square garden speech with modest prido 'that tho gentlemen in Wall street arc smiling smil-ing and complacent' because of thcii hope for his election and that lho I are betting heavily on him I ask I that Mr. WMson's proposals now be ' tested b his actions as go.ernoi of New Jersey. -We Progressives prouose n leal, thoroughgoing and efficient control of the trusts. Mr Wilson and Mr. Taft nationally propofco the same old remedies, rem-edies, that is, to put their faith In a continuation of the present policj, which is to allow the c-?gs to be scrambled and theu, after the dam-ago dam-ago has been done, to proceed by a law suit lasting several years to tr partially to v nscramble them. '"Our pioposal, on the contrary, is to create a commission like the interstate inter-state commerce commission and through this commission to supervise super-vise the big Industrial concerns doing do-ing an interstate business just as the govornent now supervises the railroad rail-road und banks ' Tnder these circumstances It is nn wonder that a great majority of the trust magnates aro supporting one or the other of the old parties |