Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — What Wilson Promises. [ARTICLE]

What Wilson Promises.

We may expect readjustment, but not revolution. That is the key-note of the whole —-“a new point of view and a new method and spirit of counsel,” but no “excited change." Governor Wilson is for meeting the changed conditions of our life candidly. and with new laws—radical laws, if you please —but not with a new and strange form of government. We may expect the one great reform we have fully discussed and resolved on —tariff revision downward — made, indeed, without vindictiveness or violence; but, nevertheless, “unhesitatingly and steadily downward." We may expect a policy with the trusts and other great industrial combinations and confederacies equally firm for justice, yet equally free from any impulse of mere destructiveness; laws to prevent and punish unfairness and wrongdoing, but none against mere bigness, none to arrest the natural course of ecofiomic development. We may expect a conservative policy which will conserve without mere hoarding; which will prevent waste and robbery of our natural wealth, but permit and encourage the proper use of it. We may expect a revision of our laws of currency and banking, to make our system more elastic, more modern and scientific, and more responsive to all the needs of business. We may expect, if we ourselves have the virtue to play our part in ■ the change, the proper working of representative government—the true “rule of the people” through public servants brought again Into a right sense of loyalty to the entire public And in the highest place of all, we may expect a leadership at once res olute and entirely democratic; ready to learn and to be advised, but of good faith and courage; a leadership by consent and counsel, but nevertheless an authoritative and fearless spokesmanship of the people. That is what we understand Governor Wilson to have resolved and promised when he accepted the nomination for the and the headship of his party.—Harper’s Weekly.