The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-14

time zealously enthusiastic workers
who have come into active control OF
the state mainly or largely because
of the lead he has given them. We
can now. at least in many cases, look
for leadership to Wisconsin when We
desire to try to solve the great prob
lens of the present and the future.
1t is only in Wisconsin, 80 far as |
know, that a really serious and thor
ough effort is being made to find out
how to frame measures which shall
give the people control over the big
corporations without going into wild
extravagances. After my visit I felt
much more like congratulating the
country as a whole because it has in
the state of Wisconsin pioneer
blazing the way along which We
Americans must make our civic and
industrial advance during the next
few decades
The Iowa Homestead does not be-
lieve that Theodore Roosevelt hav-
ing virtually made VIM. H. Taft pres
ident three years, would thus have
openly praised Senator La Toilette at
this time did he not believe that he
is deserving of still greater honors at
the hands of the people he has served
so we'll and long.
The ranks of democracy likewise
hold a man whom the people have
trusted and can trust still farther.
Governor Woodrow Wilson is the
best example of the scholar in politics
this nation has ever seen. His ad-
vent into the political arena is the
best sign of the publication and the
elevation of politics that the country
has witnessed in many decades. Gov
ernor Wilson was educated for the,
law, but college work claimed him
for many years. He became presi-
dent of Princeton University and
made that splendid institution OF
higher learning place where the
poor boy has the same opportunities
as the rich. He stamped his imprint
on the minds of thousands upon
thousands of young folks, whom he
sent out to do the work of the world.
And then the marvel came. This
man who acknowledged no master
was made governor of the state of
New Jersey, state ruled by bosses,
the home of the nations biggest
trusts and corporations, state
where the word of the few was the
political rule of the many. What did
he do? He sent the bosses about
their private business, he reformed
the corrupt practices of an enthrall-
ed state, he gave to the people the
most democratic rights of good gov
eminent enjoyed by any state, with
the single exception of Oregon. To
a state formerly ruled by trusts, he
gave laws compelling primary cleo
tions, placing the reins of govern
ment in the hands of the people, CIV
ing to the working man that protec-
ton against capital which is his due,
holding the politics-dominating rail-
roads down to the task of transport
ing the people, rather than govern
ing them. Woodrow Wilson looms
larger, day by day, in the ranks of
democracy, for he is man of the
people and serves his fellows we'll.
y, In the contest that is coming to
the country The Iowa Homestead de-
Votes itself to the cause of good gov
eminent, rather than political par
tisanship. It hopes that the fortunes
'of men and parties may SO shape
themselves that the republicans will
choose Senator La Toilette as their
standard bearer and the democrats
will choose Governor Wilson. 1t be-
lieves that in the hands of either man
the government is secure. 1t be-
lieves that each man is sincere, de-
voted to the peoples interests,
pledged to the nations continued
welfare. Not in many years has the
issue been so clearly drawn; the
greatest good of the greatest number
against the selfish interests of the
entrenched few. In such a time the
lovers of good government and of
patriotic loyalty to a united country
can afford to discard party letters,
put aside personal prejudices and
forget personal ani1nosities, uniting
to bring about return to the funda-
mental principles of equal rights to-
all, special privileges to none"-
Iowa Homestead.