The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-09
DEMOCRATS CHANCE
Woodrow Wilson Speaks Words
of Cheer to Democratic Voters.
IS NOW

Inc lOuOWhug speech was utllN-
cred by President Woodrow vii
son of Princeton at the dollar
dinner of the Democratic execu-
tive committee at Elizabeth, New
Jersey, March %:
The Republican pa,tg has
sought to serve the nation by
showing its confidence in those
who are the most c~onspicous lead
ers of the country's business and
of its economic development.
Whatever their thought may have
been their action has shown that
their confidence was not in the
views and desires of the people as
a whole but in the promotion Of
the interest of the country at the
hands of those chiefly control its
resources. 1t has been their first
thought to safeguard property
and establish enterprise. Our posi-.
ton, l take it, is not in the least
hostile to property or establish en-
terprise. No wise man or right
minded statesman would think OF
pu lg these in unnecessary jeop.
ardy. The affairs of the nation
stand fast in proportion as every
interest is safeguarded and one
interest is not bettered by attack
ing another.
But our fundamental law OF
constitutions themselves afford a
bundant protection to property
everything that rests upon vallc
title or legal contract. The struct
ure of the Government and the
fibre of our institutions are firm
and stiff and enduring. We neeC
not fear to strain them by press
ing forward to secure the thing
which are meant to serve tn
people as a whole rather than pa:
ticular vested interests. 1t is gu
privilege and our duty to shoN
our faith in the people by servinI
them, not in groups and section
but as a whole.
In the second place it is on
conviction that the interests, b
which | mean the men whose Ell
ergies are concentrated upon pal
ticular enterprise, established III
der the conditions of the exist
ing law, cannot see the welfar
of the country as a whole or /
the true proportion or perspectiv
They stand too near their ow
affairs, are too much engaged VI
. on particular interests to see tn
peoples interest in its entirety Q
to hold anything off at arm
length and see how it stands +,
lated to the affairs of the natio
as a whole.
A third fundamental princip.
upon which l believe Democrat
, party action should rest is th'
the individual, not the corpor'
p. ton, the single living person, nj
the artificial group Of persons e,
isting merely by permission of t
= law. is the only rightful posses
or alike of rights and Of priv
eyes. The corporation is a conve.
fence, not a natural member
society. Society must be organ
zed 50 that the individual will n
be crushed, will not be %unnecess
rily hampered. Every legal
strumentality created for b
convenience, like the corporate
must be created only for his co
venience and never for his 60
; eminent or suppression.
We are a party Of law and
service only within the law. y
y believe that our constitutions a
IL sufficiently liberal and elastic
serve every legimate purpose
e' public policy. We do not belle
u that the policy of the moment
" the convenience of the none
e. would ever justify us in demar
OF ing of that fundamental l
"a something more than elastic.