The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-30
HIS KANSAS IDEAS
Build Progressive Policies ON
Big Plans, Says Wilson.
Declares Men Are Needed to
Fight for Convictions.
NEW, STRONG BLOOD.
Governor Asks for Those That
Are Tolerant Fighters.
just Such as Kansas Produces,
He Pleads i'm Speech.

New York, Jan. 30.-The address
of Woodrow Wilson,. governor of New
Jersey, at the banquet of the Kansas
society of New York at the Waldorf
Astoria was full of epigrams. Some
of Governor Wilson's pointed say
ings follow:
Il wonder if you remember Kansas
and your early training? If you have
not you're of no use to New York.
What New York needs is constant in
fusion of new and strong blood.
Progressiveness, then. is an inves-
tigation of the anatomy of societies
Our industries and public affairs have
grown SO rapidly they have become
complex and need explanation. Twen-
ty-five years ago conditions were diff
ferent. Not much explanation was
needed then.
A Need for Fighting Men.
There are new questions of public
welfare to be decided and we need
men in public life who have convic-
tons and will fight for their convic-
tons There is not any big idea worth
holding that is not worth fighting for.
I'VE say about a conservative that
he is man who won't go far enough
And the reactionary is the one who
wont go at all. As result of this
sincerely hope ] am one OF the latter
class-I mean a man who adjusts
facts and policies to new conditions
az they arise.
Il believe in commissions to reg
ulate public service corporations. For
all the people want to know is wheth-
er or not they are being treated fairly
The American people do not care very
much what they pay for transporta-
ton, ETC., when they know the price
is fair.
What 1 call progressiveness, there
fore. Is rehabilitation of the tissues
OF society, which now are so inter-
laced that it is almost impossible to
untangle them. About twenty five
years ago things were easily explained
because things then We're simple
They're not simple today. So
"Send Forth Tolerant Fighters
What You Kansans are going to
stand for in these changes is what
Kansas always stood for-you at least
will be unafraid to open your hearts to
the truth and then fight for the right
1t will not do to get excited; just be
tolerant. In this new country let us
settle things as Kansas always set
tied them, by sending forth tolerant
fighters to fight for the right We
should all say with Harry Hotspur
File upon this settled life. Let's go to
Kansas
is no Satisfaction IN states
manship that is merely patching up
things, and Sd that which is progressive
ought not to be based upon concession
for concession means compromise. and
that i'll turn only passing maKeshift.
You have got to make the new adjust
ment upon some stable basis. The pro-
gressive policy must be based on some
thing that we do not have as yet; that
is, frankness as to the things we want
to change.
LAS 1 am a progressive myself, I will
have to tell you what I understand I'M
der that term. A progressive is, for
instance, one who does not want to
legislate now for the year 1900, but
looks forward into the future with con
structive thoughts. You can't make
progress unless you know where you
are bound for, and therefore, progress
i've policy must necessarily be built UP
on big plans, it must have the idea of
building living issues of the social body.
Il believe some of the most vital blood
and the return flow of this blood
ought to fertilize the east.
His Definition of Business.
MY definition of business is that ii
| is an economic service of society for
| private profit. and the profit is not
| legitimate unless society is served
| There should be more publicity about
| the affairs of the big corporations
| against which the public has to an ex-
| tent become embittered.
Publicity in my opinion will prove