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Show oo J WILSON HITS 1 STEEL TRUST I H Federal Regulation $9 Would Be Benefit to Gary Corporation 13 Minneapolis, Sept. IS. How tlw &U United States Steel trust corporation rfel Incidentally would benefit by the jli plank In tho third party platform pro- $5jt posing regulation of trusts by a fed- ri$ff eral commission was discussed by $!! Governor Wilson in his speeches as III he passed from Sioux City, Iowa, to wMi Minneapolis and at St. Paul today. LCy It was at Sioux Falls, South Da- Ml kota, that the Democratic nominee iA first drew attention to the origin of R the third party plank for handling- Bl the trust problem. S "Where was the method now pro- (flH posed of regulating tho trusts sug- ffl, gested?" asked the governor. "It was B suggested by the house of represn- J tatlveB in the investigation of the tl steel trust and It was suggested by I,, Mr. Gary and Geo. W. Perkins. They K have thought this thing ouL if "I do not intend to question their T motives. It may be for all I know K that they think, and honestly think, IjF' that is tho way to safeguard tho bust- KKp noss of this country. But whatever W thoy think, this they know, that It will f savo the United States corporation i' f from tio neceasity of doing Its uubI- b; i ncss better than Its competitors. B 1 "For If jou will look into tho ata- 1- tistlcs of the business of the United v States Steel corporation you will find u'z, that wherever it has competitors, the K'; amount of tho product which it con- K.( , trols Ib decreasing,, not increasing In E'j other words, that it haB been less ef- i, V ficient than its competitors, and. its fi' J control of the product Is increasing In w those branches of the business where j by purchaso and otherwise it has a practical monopoly. , "Moreover I have this to say to f" the workmen Carry out the plan of Mr. Gary and Mr. Perkins, and rg you will have given a control in the ft market for labor, which will suit those i gentlomen perfectly. Thoy don't want " competitors to come into the mar- It ket for labor, becaause new compctl- t: tors will mean new wages and new p wage scales. These aro the very men $ ' f and almost the only men who have j successfully opposed union labor in r tho United' States." Jft .on- llllliH |