Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-01
TELLS DEMOCRATS THEIR
TIME HAS NOW ARRIVED
Wilson Shows How Party May
Again Come Into Its
Own

NEW YORK, March 3O.-That the po-
litical tide is now turning Democratic,
and the day when the Democratic party
must take charge of this country's af-
fairs is almost at hand, were declara-
tions made by Woodrow Wilson, presi-
dent of Princeton university, in
speech at the Democratic dinner in Eliza
beth, n. j., last night. Mr.. Wilson out
lined the character or legislation which
the Democrats should give the country
to meet the present economic prob
lens. In this connection he said:
In the first place, we should wish
not merely to curb the trusts, and above
all, we should not wish to regulate them
In such a way as will make Them either
partners OF creatures of the government
itself. We should wish to square their
whole action and responsibility with the
general interest regarding them not as
objects in themselves, but merely as con-
veniences In our economic life and devel-
opment Recent proposals of regula-
ton have looked too much like whole
sale invasion by government itself of the
field of business management.
"Our regulations of public interests
must be legal regulation and not di-
rect management.
MUST REMOVE PATRONAGE.
I'm the second place, it is clearly our
duty 10 take the government out the
business of patronage, the business Cf
granting favors and privileges, of ar
ranging the laws so that this, that
or the other group of men may make
large profits out oft their business and
draw it back to the function of safe
guarding rights, general, not particular
I'll ,.aly. aAE
much for the prosperity which enables
small groups of individuals to pile up
enormous fortunes, as for a general
stimulation, a universal opportunity for
enlightenment and justice, l am think
ing. of course. of tariff legislation.
Whatever may be our views with re-
gard to the policy vaguely called the pol
icy of protection, 1t is clear that in fact
ii has long since, as dealt with by con-
gress, ceased to be a policy of protec-
ton and become a policy of patronage.
DUE TO MONOPOLY.
I'VE are told that the present extraor-
dinarily high price of commodities is due
not to the tariff, but to the fact that we
are not producing enough to keep up with
the daily demand and that is particularly
true with regard to the things we eat
and have daily need of. Take meat for
example, and see what the truth is. The
truth is that the meat trust has been
able to control the meat market to such
an extent that scores of ranchmen have
been driven out of the cattle raising bust
ness because 1t was Improbable. The
short supply of meat is due to the mo-
nopoly created by the meat trust. 1t is
true, therefore, that the supply is short
compared with the vast demand, but ii
has been made short by the operation of
a trust unquestionably fostered by the
legislation of the government.
In the third place, it is one of the
chief duties of the Democratic party to
introduce such reforms in local and fed
eral governments as will secure economy
responsibility. honestly, fidelity.
I'm brief, our program should be a gen.
erel revival of popular politics, of com
mon counsel, OF responsible leadegship
We must supply efficient leaders and
eschew all the lower personal objects of
politics. 1t is a case of must as well as a
case of may, a case of necessity as well
as a case of privilege. new day has
come. Men and measures re being scru-
tinized as never before. or myself l YER
itably believe we are upon the eve of a
new era of political liberty, when more
literally and truly than ever before We
can realize the ideals of popular govern
ment and of individual privilege"