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just how many, and has three - country homes and a town house in the exclusive Back Bay district J of Boston. . And how has Wood huilt a granite-hard trust on the founda tion of a wobbly woolen concern? - Bjr paying the maximum for his mechanical equipment and the minimum for his human equip ment In other words, by depriv- ing all the other little William. . Woods of their heritage. 0 Walk through the wool trust town of Lawrence. Little boy- ' and-girl-faces are pinched; man-and-woman faces are pinched; the bodies of all are cramped and a'Stooped. .Every one in Lawrence c looks as if he had never drawn a full breath and never had time to look up at the sky. 1 , And perhapsihey haven't. Far "all'day long they stoop over whir 9 ring looms. And pay days never : bring en6ugh, no matter how f great the toil has been. 1 "Has William Wood really for gotten those days at New Bed- 5 ford? Could he remember "and c still not play fair with those who work for him now just as he used to work for his boss years ago? THE BULt MOOSE There's a lot of good in this K old world after all. ? While the politicakparties and job-hunters are abusing one an T other afid calling names, we no- tice that more and more they are getting it into their heads that it isn't so easy to fool the people as 2 it used to be, and hence are try ?ing more and more to please the people with their platforms and promises. Parties and politicians are now advocating things they couldn't see a few years ago. It is becom ing more dangerous all the time to represent the people while real ly secretly serving Special Privi lege. f Even the Standard Oil crowd, the most powerful group of finan ciers in the world, is being smok ed out, and'its method of corrupt ing government and the courts exposed. And the men 'who are really trying to help humanity and make the world better for every body who's on the square, are coming to the front politically. .Some of the new reformers have bad records to be sure, but they are in the minority. Why, we're willing even to have Per kins, Munsey, Bill Flinnand a lot of more millionaires get in the game if they'll help push that Bull Moose platform along. For it's the platform we're interested in more than we are interested in Teddy or anybody else who is running on it or supporting it. If any of these big guys waver, why' the crowd can push 'em to one side and get on without them. The movement is bigger than Teddy or all of the 6ther Bull Moose leaders who are trotting along with them. If it isn't bigger than its leaders it isn't much of a party. But its out in front of the stage now where we can all look at it.' If it doesn't perform right, we can shy a brick or fake a swift kick at it,