Ours was the only programme to which they objected, and they supported either Mr.Wilson or Mr.Taft against me, indifferent as to which of them might be elected so long as I was defeated.

Mr.Wilson says that I got my "idea with regard to the regulation of monopoly from the gentlemen who form the United States Steel Corporation." Does Mr.
Wilson pretend that Mr.Van Hise and Mr.Croly got their ideas from the Steel Corporation?
Is Mr.Wilson unaware of the elementary fact that most modern economists believe that unlimited, unregulated competition is the source of evils which all men now concede must be remedied if this civilization of ours is to survive?
Is he ignorant of the fact that the Socialist party has long been against unlimited competition?
This statement of Mr.Wilson cannot be characterized properly with any degree of regard for the office Mr.Wilson holds.

Why, the ideas that I have championed as to controlling and regulating both competition and combination in the interest of the people, so that the people shall be masters over both, have been in the air in this country for a quarter of a century.

I was merely the first prominent candidate for President who took them up.

They are the progressive ideas, and progressive business men must in the end come to them, for I firmly believe that in the end all wise and honest business men, big and little, will support our programme.