Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — Page 4

Woodrow Wilson’s Message to the American People

Sea Girt, N. J., Oct. 19, 1912. To the Voters of Airerica: I am glad to have an opportunity to state very eimply and directly why I am seeking to be elected President of the United States. I feel very deeply that this is not an ambition a man should entertain for his own sake. He must seek to serve a cause, and must know very clearly what cause it is he is seeking to serve. The cause I am enlisted in lies very plain to my own view: The Government of the United States, as now bound by the policies which have become characteristic of Republican administraA tton in recent years?, is not free to serve the whole people impartially, and it ought to be set Cree. It has been tied up, whether deliberately or merely by unintentional development, with particular interests, which have used their power, both to control the government and to control the industrial development of the country. It must be freed from such entanglements and alliances. Until It is freed, it cannot serve the people as a whole. Until it is freed, it cannot undertake any programme of social aijd economic ' betterment, but must be checked and thwarted at every turn by its patrons and masters. In practically every speech that I make, I put at the front of what I have to say the question of the tariff and the question of the trusts, but not because of any thought of party strategy, because I believe the solution of these questions to lie at the very heart of the bigger question, whether the government shall be free or not. The government is not free because it has granted special favors to particular classes' by means of the tariff. The men to whom these special favors have been granted have formed great combinations by which to control enterprise and determine the prices of common i es. .They could not have done this had it not been for the tariff. No party, therefore, which does not propose to take away these special favors and prevent monopoly absolutely in the markets of the country sees even so much as the most elementary part of the method by which the government is to be set free. '* ■ c The control to which tariff legislation has led, both in the field of politics and in the field of business, is what has produced the most odious feature of our present political situation, namely, the absolute domination of powerful bosses. Bosses cannot exist without business alliances. With them politics is hardly distinguishable from business. Bosses maintain their control because they are allied with men who wish their assistance in order to get contracts, in order to obtain special legislative advantages, in order to prevent reforms which .will interfere with monopoly or with their enjoyment of special exemptions. Merely as political leaders, not backed by money, not supported securely intrenched special interests/bosses :would be entirely manageable and comparatively powerless. By freeing the government, therefore, we at the same time break the power of the t>oss. He trades, he does not govern. He arranges, he does not lead. He sets the stage for what the people are to do ; he does not act as their agent or servant, but as their director.’. For him the real business of politics is done Cunder cover. The same means that will set the government free fro® influences which now constantly’

YOUR GROCER BILL AND YOUR BALLOT.

It Costs 25.59 For Week's Necessenes; 24 in 1904 The housekeeper and the wage earn er can see ar a clance from these tlx ures vhat the • "high cost of living"’ means under a monopoly-tariff: ACTUAL RETAIL GROCERY PRICES. BEING THE AVERAGE PAID IN NEW YORK. JERSEY CITY AND NEARBY CITIES IN 1904 AND NOW:

o 2 ® u 2 u ?= u S x-c°» C»3— - « E * §~ g g£S 5 S - 191 - O’ ;J ’ J 1904. 1911 Butter .... 27c 37c 7 lbs’ $0 54 SO 74 ,2c - >se 4> lb 06 jib Coffee .... 17c 30c. p* ibs. .25 45 Tea *'Oe 30c. lib. 50 30 Eggs 29c 50c 3 doz 87 150 Sugar ®‘*.c 05fec. 5 tbs. 28 28 Cheese .... 14c. .lie 1 lb .14 20 Prunes .... 08c 12c. 1 th .08 12 Flour (KJtjc 03%c. 1 ibs. .24 1 26 Potatoes .. «0e Jse. 1 pk. 30 3, Codfish ... :oc. He, 1 ib. .10 44 Milk use. lie. 8 qts 64 .88 MOO $5 50

£1904 figures from United States bureau of labor; 1912 quotations from averaging current prices of a score ot retail stores.) Can strict economy reduce the quantity of these staple articles required for a family of live who wish to maintain Cite boiisted "American standard of living?' Let the high protectionists try to do with less if they will. But let them reflect that it is costing them SI 50 a week more than it did eight years ago for S 4 worth of necessaries for the table —37% per cent increase in the span of two presidential terms of Republican '‘prosperity.’' Have YOUR wages. Mr. Voter, kept pace with this advance? Do YOU see any reason for.paying a tariff tax of 35 per cent on eggs or 23 per cent on beef or 63 per cent on sugar? •lood—food alone—costs the average family now 42% per cent of the total family expanse The average cost of food per family in the United States has risen as follows: 1900.......... $314 1904 347 M 2 485 . President Taft vetoed bills reducing the tariff on all such necessaries ot life. \ A vote for Woodrow Wilson is a vote to insure an honest revision of the tariff and a reduction of your grocer bills The whole business of politics is to bring classes together upon a common platform of accommodation and common interest Woodrow Wilson.

YOUR SPOKESMAN, NOT YOUR MASTER.

Elere are the closing words of Woodrow Wilson’s address which brought to their feet the great audience in Carnegie ball. New York, on the night of' Oct. 19: It Is. hot merely a matter ot candidates. 1 should be abashed if 1 supposed that it was a mutter of the wisdom or the. discretion of individuals. 1 do not believe in government that depends upon the ability and discretion ot a few individuals. (Applause, j If i am tit to be a president It Is only because I Understand I you. (Applause. J And if 1 do ’ not understand you I am not tit If lam not expressing,ln this speech tonight the aerations and the convictions of the men j who sit before me I beg that they will not vote tor me. 1 Do NOT WISH TO BE THEIR MASTER. 1 WISH TO BE THEIR SPOKESMAN I rejoice to say that as I Waited for your gracious applause to cease I realized that in that sentence I slimmed my whole philosophy and my whole desire 1 thank you for your attention.

[From Die New York Times. Oct. 23. NOT ELIGIBLE.

Gov. Wilson lias n<»t Joined the Knights! ot Coin minis Gov Wilson will not Join the Knights'of t niuitibns Even if he wished to join tli.it orgnni zation he could not Lie is hot We say this for the information .Tud comfort of Thomas E Watson of At lanta. Ga. 111 its issue of Oct 1." The Times said that Gov Wilson joined the New York Chapter of the Knight's of Columbus at dinner in celebration of Columbus Hay on Saturday evening Joining the Knights at a dinner com memorating the discovery of America is 'not exactly the same thing as en tering the membership of the organiza tion. If Mr Watson of Atlanta, being invited to dine at ,a friend s house, should linger with the gentlemen at the dinner table for cigars and con ‘ versation. he might thereafter join the ladies, but.that would not make him one of them. Yet Mr. Watson, totally misiiuder standing and misinterpreting the re port of the Columbus Day dinner, per miffed himself to lie scared quite out of his wits at the' notion ilnir Gov Wilson had become a Knight oi Co lumbus. with ail that that implies and he thereupon made tin* important announcement that lie could no longer support th? Governor’s candidacy. We hope he will i» e reassured tie calmed, soothed, and quieted when he learns that his worst fears cannot be realized. We suppose that it is only in wholly pagan countries that political cam paigns are free from these little inci dents.

Nothing is more unfortunate, noth ing is more unwarranted than to think of politics as a contest of classes, as made up of interests in competition with one another and in hot opposition to one another Woodrow Wilson.

control it would set industry free. The enterprise and initiative of all Americans would be substituted for the enterprise and initiative of a small group of them. Economic democracy would take the place of monopoly and selfish management. American industry would have a new buoyancy of hope, a new energy, a new variety. With the restoration of freedom would come the restoration of opportunity. Moreover, an administration would at last be set up in Washington, and a legislative regime, under which real programmes of social better-’ went could be undertaken as they cannot now. The government might be serviceable for many things. It might assist in a hundred ways to safeguard the lives and the health and promote the comfort and the happiness of the people ; but it can do these things only if its actions be disinterested, only if they respond to public opinion, only if those who lead government see the country as a whole, feel a.deep thrill of intimate sympathy with every class and every interest in it, know how to hold an even hand and listen to men of every sort and quality and origin, in taking counsel what is to be done. Interest must not fight against interest. There must be a common understanding and a free action all together. The reason that I feel justified in appealing to the voters of this country to support the Democratic’party at this critical juncture in its affairs is that the leaders of neither of the other parties propose to attack the problem of a free government at its heart. Neither proposes to make a fundamental change in the policy of the government with regard to tariff duties. It is with both of them in respect of the tariff merely a question of more or less, merely a question of lopping off a little here and amending ~ a little there; while with the Democrats it is a question of-principle. Their object is to cut every special favor out, and cut it out just as fast as it can be cut out without upsetting the business processes of the country. Neither doe either of the other parties propose seriously t disturb the supremacy of the trusts. Their only remedy is to accept the trusts and regulate them, notwithstanding the fact that most of the trusts are so constructed as to insure high prices, because they are not based upon efficiency but upon monopoly. Their success lies in control. The competition of more efficient com petitors, not loaded down by the debts created when the combinations were made, would embarras and conquer them. The Trusts want the protectlo of the government, and are likely to get it if either the Republican or the so-called ’ ’Progres sivej ' party prevails. Surely this is a cause. Surely the question of the pending election, looked at from this point of view, rise into a cause. They are not merely the debates of a casual party contest. They are the issues of life and death to a nation which must be free in order to be strong. What will patriotic men do?

WHY NOT ELECT WOODROWWILSON

Chicago Pes!, Influential Republican Fspsi, Asks Its Readers a Lea-ling Question.

FRAUDS OF PREStiil REGIME

Says the Tariff Has Been Too High For a Generation and Must Be Lowered. The Chicago Post, an influential in dependent Republican newspaper. propounds this question to Republicans: “Why not Wilson? "This question is addressed particularly to Republicans. “Governor Wilson suits the Democrats down to the ground, suits all Democrats who are worthy to be called Democrats But in an emergency like this, why should not Wilson suit a large part of the Republicans as well? 1 . “Why not Wilson? "Governor Wilson is a thoroughbred American gentleman, not only in the accident of birth, but in his every ideal, impulse and principle. That should be the first requirement of every presidential candidate "Governor "Wilson is a tried and trustworthy executive. His brilliant record as governor of New Jersey proves that Governor Wilson is an eminently sane and sensible man. He is an eminently honorable man. He has dignified every place which he has held. He hns performed a splendid public service by lifting the present campaign out of the riot of mudslinging with which Roosevelt began it “In every personal characteristic. Governor Wilson is equipped to be any man’s president, without regard to vv hether that man is a Democrat or a Republican What then, of his political qualifications? Governor M 11 son is and always has been a sensible Democrat but he is not aud never has been a silly, violent partisan. Governor ilson stands for honesty and efficiency in federal administration. So do all save those who profit by graft and inefficiency. “Governor stands for the curbing of trusts and monopolies. So do all, except monopolists and their defender, Theodore Roosevelt “Governor Wilson stands for a prompt and steady downward revision of the tariff. So do nine-tenths of the people of the United States. “Governor Wilson believes in a more radical tariff revision than do a large number of the rank and file of ReRUbllc§ns. B<it.£lQvernor Wilson is

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the only candidate who if elected will perfnit the revision of the tariff at all “The tariff has been too high for a generation, is it not better to take a chance at getting it too low—according to Republican standards—than to let the known frauds of the present regime continue for another four years to rob the public? “Why not Wilson? He will give an honest, a dignified, a capable administration. He will respect the constitution. He will see that the tariff is revised downward. He will curb trusts He will serve the people. • “Why not Wilson?"

AMERICANS TAXED FOR ENGLISH PROFIT.

Enormous Dividends of Thread Trust Go Abroad. Cotton thread pays an import dutv equivalent to 47 per cent. This tariff was levied originally to build up an infant industry' in America and pro tect American capital? It happens however, that practically ail the < api tai in the thread industry in the Unit ed States is foreign capital, and that the dividends of tlie thread trust are nearly all sent abroad. The American Thread company, in corporated in New Jersey in 189.8. has $16,290,473 of capital, and its net prof its in 1910 were $2.4-11.844. Lyman R. Hopkins, president, i testifying in 1901 before the United States indus trial commission, said that the money to bin up the fourteen concerns included in the New Jersey consolidation was furnished by the English Sewing Cotton company. Tlie thread trust’s principal competitor in this country is the J. & I’. Coates concern, which maintains'jts English organization and English factories to manufacture thread for the world, and its American factories to manufacture thread for Amer leans In order to reap the extra profits from manufacturing within the Amer ican tariff wait As far back as 1901 the thread trust according to its president, was employ Ing “one-quarter to one-third” of foreign labor. Recent industrial investigations have disclosed that the proportion in New England textile industries is now nearer four foreigners to one American. Here we have “protection” for for eign capital and for foreign labor at the expense of every sewing woman, every householder, every man. woman and child in the United States.

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