Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-01
WILSON BEGINS LAST
WEEK OF CAMPAIGN
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Dor is helpless. The two things belong
together, and the ruleuwhieh shall gov
ern everything which I shall try to do
will be the rule of the common inter-
ests not only, but, the motto Get to-
getber.'
"Don't let us discuss these things
as If we were forming hostile camps
against one another, but let us discuss
them on a true basis upon which every
public question should rest, that is to
say the common interest. Now, you
have got to take a very broad view
when you discuss Questions on the basis
of the public interest. The public it
goes without saying, is composed of all
of us, not of some part of us.
"Men cannot be happy, men cannot
be successful when they are seeking
selfish advantage, one over another.
They can be happy and successful only
when they are trying to do something
which is for everybody's good. Now,
why is it that we have a labor ques-
ton at ala 1t is for the simple and
very sufficient reason that the laboring
man and the employer are not init
mate associates now, as they used to
be in an age now so far past that we
have forgotten it.
"Most of our laws were formed in
the time when the employer and the
employee knew each other, knew each
others characters, were associated with
each other, dealt with each other as
man with man. You know that is no
longer the case. You not only do not
come into personal contact with the
men who have the supreme command in
these corporations, but it would be out
of the question for you to do it. Our
modern corporations employ thousands,
and in some instances hundreds of
thousands of men. The only persons
that you see or deal with are local rep
resentatives or local superintendent of
a great big association, which is not
like anything that the working men
in the time that our laws were framed
knew anything about.
"You know that one of the things
that we are interested in Is an employ
ers' liability act. Now, when you speak
of an employer, and think Of some vast
corporation, like the STANDARD Oil Com
pany, for example, who is your employ
err The president of the Standard Oil
Company9 I should say no to that
question. It is the persons who have
invested their money in the Standard
Oil Company, whom the directors and
president of the Standard Oil Company
represent. 1t is exactly as if you were
employed by the State of New Jersey.
Who employs youq The Governor7 No.
The members of the Senate and the
House Of Assembly, No. You are en-
ployed by someone authorized to act
for the government of New Jersey
and the government Of New Jersey that
employs you consists of the persons
who compose the State Of New Jersey.
In other words, il consists of all of us.
81 hear about violating the interests
of private property. 1 don't consider
the property of q corporation private
property; it is property in which any
member of the community may become
a partner and the whole community is
interested in this changing section of
society.
"There is a sense in which every
corporation is a public thing and not a
private thing, since it is made up, by
permission of the law and Of society,
of q, changeable number of parts.
"Suppose you 60 back in your fancy
to dealing with the individual employer
for instance; but You are not dealing
with the individual employer, and there
fore the law is justified in going into
factories and obliging those who are
managing them to conduct them in a
proper way, by insisting upon proper
ventilation and proper conditions for
doing the work of the factory.
Large artificial corporations are en-
ploying large numbers of men upon
whose health and strength and moral
ity depends the health and strength and
morality of the community itself. Nine
tenths of every community is made
up of men who do the work.
"I get impatient hearing them talk
about laberers, as If laborers were some
body set off by themselves, to be pa
raded and looked at. Four men out of
every five I meet, and probably more,
are laberers; they are doing the work
of the world; they are put in their
hands to crude instruments that are
difficult to handle and are producing
the work of the world.
81 don It like to cut society up into