Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-17
PROGRAM OF
GOVERNOR
IN ADDRESS
Woodrow Wilson Tells the
Legislators the Greatest
Need of the Hour.
SEVEN POINTS CLEARLY
BROUGHT OUT

Trenton, Jan. 17.-Governor Wilson
delivered the following ina<gural ad
dress today:
Gentlemen OF the Legislature-I as
sumo the great Office of governor OF
The state with unaffected dihidence
Many great men have made this Of
fee illustrious. A long tradition o1
honorable public service connects each
incumbent OF 1t with the generation
of men who set up our governments
here In free America to give men per
petual assurance Of liberty and Justice
and opportunity. No one dare be sure
that he is qualified to play the part
expected OF him by the people of the
commonwealth In the execution of this
high trust. 1t is best for him as he
sets out to look away from himself
and to concentrate his thoughts upon
the people whom he serves, the sacred
interests which are tntrusted to his
care and the day In which he is to
work. its challenge, It's promise, Its
energies Of opinion and of purpose, its
sustaining hopes and exciting expec.
tations The scene win inspire him
not thought of himself.
The opportunity Of our day In the
field Of politics no man can mistake
who can read any, even the most su.
perficial, signs OF the times, We have
never seen day when duty was more
plain, the task to be performed more
obvious, the way in which to accom-
plish 1t more easy to determine The
air has in recent months cleared amaz.
ingly about us, and thousands, hun
dreds of thousands, have lifted their
eyes to look about them to see things
they never saw before, to comprehend
things that once seemed vague and elii-
sive The whole world has changed
within the lifetime Of men not yet In
their tbirties, the world of business and
therefore the world of society and the
world of politics. The organization and
movement OF business ere new and
upQn a novel scale Rusipa has
chauged sn a. i, - -
We were confused alarm ed a, s ~ n tn
ed, in sort Of terror of the tffnsr u,
had ourselves raised up. We talket
about them either In sensational arti
cles In the magazines which distorted
every line of the picture, or iii cor
servative editorials in our newspapers
which stoutly denied that anything at
all had happened or in grave discourses
which tried to treat them as perfectly
normal phenomena, or IN legislative de
bates which sought to govern them
with statutes which matched them nei-
ther In size nor shape.
A Word on Corporations.
But II only by sheer dint of talking
about them, either to frighten or to re-
assure one another or to make our
selves out wiser or more knowing than
our fellows, we have at last turned
them about and looked at them from
almost every angle and begin to see
them whole, as they are. Corpora
tions are no longer hobgoblins which
have sprung at us out of some mystic
rious ambush, nor yet unwholy inven'
tions of rascally rich men, nor yet the
puzzling devices by which ingenious
lawyers build up huge rights out Of Q
multitude of small wrongs, but merely
organizations of a perfectly intelligiblt
sort which the law has licensed fol
the convenience Of extensive business
organizations which have proved yer,
useful, but which have for the time
being slipped out of the control Of the
very law that gave them leave to be
and that can make or unmake them al
pleasure. We have now to set our.
selves to control them, soberly, but eff
fectively, and to bring them thorough
ly within the regulation of the law.
There is great opportunity here; fol
wise regulation, wise adjustment, viii
mean the removal of half the Difficult
ties that now beset us in our search
for justice and equality and fab
chances of fortune for the individuals
who make UP our modern society. And
there Is great obligation as well as 9
great opportunity, an imperative obli
cation, from which we cannot escape
If we would. Public opinion is at las
wide awake. 1t begins to understand
the problems to be dealt with. 1t be
gins to see very clearly indeed the OBJ
Jects to be sought. It,knows what hal
been going on. 1t sees where resist
ance has come from whenever efforts
at reform have been made and knows
also the means of resistance that have
been resorted to. 1t is watchful, In
sistent, suspicious, No man who wish
es to enjoy the public confidence dar'
hold back, and II he is wise he will no
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