Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1912 — WILSON AND THE TRUSTS. [ARTICLE]

WILSON AND THE TRUSTS.

Governor Wilson, if elected President, whatever he may now say, will think several times before taking action that will shut the gates of trust factories. Governor Wilson has permitted himself to become infected with the disease, whose symptoms are loose talking and loose thinking, but has attacked publie men ever since the big corporation came over the horizon. Nothing could be more suggestive of> the fraudulency enveloping the political discussion of the trust question than to have a Governor of New Jersey arise and reproach other persons for the existence of trusts. Think of it! The chief charterer of the trusts, whose lax laws have encouraged trust organization, finds fault with national administrations, because they are trusts. Not since Satan solemnly rebuked sin has there been anything more palpably Incongruous. But it may be said that these things happened in Jersey before the rise of Wilson. He was a citizen of the state, occupying a place of large influence during practically all of the period. No one heard of him protesting very loudly. Nor since he became Governor has hdytaken any steps of which the public is informed to drive the trusts out of New Jersey and to prevent the organization of new ones. The corporation laws of New Jersey are as they have been. Governor Wilson has shown his ability to but through reforms, but he has let the New Jersey corporations alone, so far as their organization is concerned. It is a most magnificent exhibit of assurance that Governor Wilson presents when he calls the roll of the big corporations and shows how they increased in number during the Taft and Roosevelt administrations.