Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — WILSON PUN WISE [ARTICLE]

WILSON PUN WISE

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE THE APOSTLE OF REFORM, NOT OF REVOLUTION. HE SEES MONSTROUS ABUSES Would Correct Them by Cutting Off the Vicious Tariff Favors Which Have Built Up Monopolies and T rusts. Gov. Wilson is the apostle of reform, not of revolution. Gov. Wilson believes that the constitution of the United States has been misconstrued and perverted, not outgrown. Gov. Wilson is the only candidate before the people today who at once realizes that reforms are necessary, and who proposes ratldhal and constitutional means for effecting these reforms. There are great, there are monstrous abuses, even In this free land. The government of the United States has done many things that It ought not to have done; and has left undone many things which It should have strained every nerve to do. The government of the United States has built up bloated fortunes, and granted to favored manufacturers the power to tax the people; and at the same time, the government has failed —as every government always falls —to keep in proper subjection the monopolies it has created.

What shall be done to get rid of these abuses? -- President Taft says in substance that nothftig much need be done, and that whatever Is done need not be done in a hurry. Next century will do quite as well as now. Mr. Roosevelt says in substance that everything must be done, and that the only way to do it is to throw the constitution in the scrap-heap; and make him practical dictator of the land, with the trusts and monopolies as his associates and counselors. Gov. Wilson makes neither of these blunders. Gov. Wilson says that the first thing to be done in correcting abuses is to cut oft the favors which nourish those abuses —the vicious tariff favors which have built up monopolies and trusts. There is nothing revolutionary about that. But from the way every trust in the land is rallying to the support of either Taft or Roosevelt, you can see that the trust magnates think Gov. Wilson’s plan is likely to be effective. ftov. Wilson says that competition is a better regulator of prices than a dozen government bureaus. He proposes to restore competition by smashing the Illegal combinations which have killed competition. '■ Again, here is nothing revolutionary —but listen to the way the sugar trust, and the steel trust, and the woolen trust, and all the other trusts are screaming against Wilson! Gov. Wilson knows that the general form of our government peeds no changing. The agencies of government need to be changed in spirit. They need to be taken out of the hands of the Interests and put in the hands of the people. Gov. Wilson offers himself as the people’s agent. Gov. Wilson has proven in New Jersey that an earnest, clear-headed man

at the head of a government can get reforms without upsetting business or destroying constitutions. Gov. Wilson is the bearer of reforms which make revolution needless and impossible. Elect Gov. Wilson.