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Show Great Peri!s, Wh:ch Faee People of This Country New York. Aug. I. Trusts and the tariff are the chief perils of the United Unit-ed States In the opinion of Benjain.n Ide Vv'heeler. president of the University Univer-sity of California who Is in New York on hl wav back to the Pacific coast from Germany where he filled the Roosevelt lectureship in Berlin university uni-versity this year. "People abroad' say that the chief matter for concern about tills country is the way that trusts are increasing." increas-ing." he declared to his Interviewers on his arrival here. "They think that we cannot control them, that the opportunities we have given them, especially through the tariff, have endowed en-dowed them w.tu power we cannot overcome No doubt tbe tariff is the thing we have got to tackle earnestly and quickly. It has built up an artificial falsework which some day w'ill have to fall, and the trouble on that day will be very serious. The tariff has encouraged the making of money by Individuals here and there, in enormous enorm-ous sums, but this money has not been distributed among the people." |