If Mr.Wilson's promises mean anything except the very emptiest words, he is pledged to accomplish the beneficent purposes he avows by breaking up all the trusts and combinations and corporations so as to restore competition precisely as it was fifty years ago.

If he does not mean this, he means nothing.

He cannot do anything else under penalty of showing that his promise and his performance do not square with each other.
Mr.Wilson says that "the trusts are our masters now, but I for one do not care to live in a country called free even under kind masters." Good! The Progressives are opposed to having masters, kind or unkind, and they do not believe that a "new freedom" which in practice would mean leaving four Fuel and Iron Companies free to do what they like in every industry would be of much benefit to the country.

The Progressives have a clear and definite programme by which the people would be the masters of the trusts instead of the trusts being their masters, as Mr.
Wilson says they are.

With practical unanimity the trusts supported the opponents of this programme, Mr.Taft and Mr.Wilson, and they evidently dreaded our programme infinitely more than anything that Mr.Wilson threatened.