Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-29
PEOPLE TO RULE
is PREDICTION
At Newark Banquet Governor
Tells of His Hopss.

Newark, n. j., June 29.-Political
conditions in the state were discussed
chiefly by Governor Wilson at the
Woodrow Wilson Democratic league
banquet here.
"There has in recent months been a
great clearing of the field In politics,
and nowhere has this been more up
parent than In New Jersey" he said.
Public opinion has at last found Its
a feeling on all hands that the people
have again taken control of their own
affairs.
But some men put a false interpre-
tation upon this. There Is a certain
unreasonable fear in the air, as If the
process we have been going through
was in some degree vindictive, as If
there had been bitter feeling In 1t and
the intention to discredit those who
opposed it. Men have spoken of party
splits and divisions and factions and
have talked as If 1t were warfare
among persons rather than among
ideas.
"For my own part, 1 regard this as
an entirely false Interpretation. There
need be no fear connected with these
things except the fear that those most
Intimately concerned will not under
stand. The crush of organizations has
been only the crush Of those that did
not comprehend, but resisted when
there was no right reason.
my own hope is that the men who
have withstood these reforms will not
be crushed, but converted; that they
will see that they were fighting
against their own interest in fighting
against the interest of the public,
which has once again intrusted them
with its confidence.
New Jersey is In the very front
rank of the great Industrial states of
the Union. The welfare of her people
Is involved in a very intimate fashion,
with the industrial welfare of the
country. What DISCREPANCIES industry
or checks credit or brings any dis
temper into the conduct of business Is
sure to work serious hurt upon her.
Her life and happiness and progress
are involved at every turn, and the
people of New Jersey are not radical
they are not touched with any revolu-
tionary temper; they are not hot with
any thoughtless passion. What those
who are holding back from the pro
cess Of reform do not understand is
that reform is now going forward upon
u basis of genuine interest to the com
p~rehension of the things that are
wrong and of some of the methods
which must be used to right them.
THE problem of government in the
state Is different from the problem OF
government In the United States be-
cause the machinery of state govern
mem is more complicated than the
machinery of the national government.
| wish that those who are in love with
the older forms of political %organiza-
ton could think a little more clearly.
a little more quickly. l wish that they
could see that they are sacrificing
power by resisting progress and that
If they want to rule they must lead
In thought rather than in strategy, by
opinion rather than by organization,
and it seems to me that the center of
all reformation of this sort is in the
states, because there organization cen
tiers, and there lies greatest danger
that mex may confound the control of
organization with real power. One way
to vitalize the government of the ma
ton is to purify and simplify the
government of the states"