Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — Wilson’s Faith In Publicity. [ARTICLE]

Wilson’s Faith In Publicity.

At all times and places, says a writer in Success, Woodrow Wilson has counselled opening our governmental processes to the light Thus at Minneapolis: “Every community is vaguely aware that the political machine upon which it looks askance has certain very definite connections with men who are engaged in business on a large scale, and the suspicion which attaches to the machine itself has b£gun to attach also to business enterprise just because these connections are known to exist If these connections were open and avowed, if everybody knew just what they involved and just what use was being made of the alliance there would be no difficulty in keeping ah eye upon affairs and In controlling them by public opinion. But, unfortunately, the whole process of law-making in America is a very obscure one. There is no highway of legislation, but there are many byways.” At another dme he paid this humorous tribute to publicity: “There is one very disturbing quality in man, and I have experience! it myself and I dare say you have. When you are a long way from home and see no neighbor from near your home you give yourself an extraordinary latitude in your conduct, but if you Were on the desert of Sahara and met one of your immediate neighbors coming the other way on a camel you would behave yourself until ha got out of sight.’*