Show THE TRUST legislation the most important public event ot of the week in washington was president wilsons Wil sons message to congress of january outlining his program of the promised trust legislation says a bulletin from alve at washington tile alis message message was received with great enthusiasm by the democrats and with no little commendation from republicans the progressive view of the presidents propositions was admirably ey pressed by victor murdock floor leader of the in the house ot of representatives in the following statement tile the plan proposed by the president tor for a solution of 0 the trust evil Is inadequate like P all 11 inadequate plans it will render the trust evil evill more acute it will not remedy for twenty five years we have been attacking ta the form of vicious combinations not their substance we spent a quarter of 0 a century hailing the standard oil company before the court ot of last resort and in tile the end we changed nothing but the form of the trust we did not change it in fact at all it will do no good to continue this attack upon the form of things the president is well intentioned but so 60 long as there aro are reactionary forces in his party he cannot gt got results in this problem the three trust bills which I 1 introduced for or the progressive party have no compromise with the reactionaries only billy a new party could enact them and it if enacted and administered by a new party free from the embarrassment of reactionary elements they would do the business until that time we will continue to flounder vastly more significant than any of the democratic or republican praise of the message was the unanimous and heartfelt shout of 0 praise and thanksgiving that went up from wall street the moment that big business received the message it recognized that at last it had got w what hat it had wanted so long business on the stock exchange was practically illy suspended I 1 while the brokers gathered around the tickers and followed the reassuring declarations of the president word by word |