The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-18
WILSON TAKES
UP NEW DUTIES
NEW GOVERNOR STATE OF NEW
JERSEY TOOK SEAT YES
TERDAY.
HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Delivered to the Sweep.
ing Reforms in Legislation
Strongly Advocated
BY Wilson.

Trenton, N. j., January l-.-Goyer-
nor Woodrow Wilson today assumed
the duties of chief executive CT 'aw
Jersey, and delivered his inang4r
address.
Sweeping reforms in legislation,
mot the foolish ardog ofrtco slagaine
or TOO radical reform" tae G0verncs
says, "but merely the tasks that are
evident and pressing" are urged.
Chief aHong them are the ena trent
OF an employers LIABILITY law prcyid-
ing for compensation 10 injured and
disabled wcrkman; the perfection and
the extension OF the direct primary
law to all elective offices. and to party
nominations law restricting the Is,
slance of charters to corporations
an, providingNfor close scrutiny and
regulation Of existing corporations;
the enactment of conservation law
and revision of the existing metsoi
of taxation He said, in part:
"The opportunity OF our day in tNe
field OF politics no man can mistake
who can read any, even the ost SIT
perficial signs OF the times We have
never seen a lay when dirty was more
plain, the task TO be performed more
obvious, the way in which TO accom-.
plish 1t more easy 10 determine. The
wnole world has changed within IT,
lifetime Of men not vet in their thir-
ties; the world Of business and, there
fore, the world of society ana the
world OF politics. The orga aiz?tipp
and movement oil business are row,
and upon a novel scale. Business has
changed so rapidly that for long
time we were confused, alarmed, be-.
wilderei In sort of terror o. the
Things we had ourselves ra' SGD UP.
Ccrpo. atoms.
But corporations are no longer
hobgoblins whica have sprung at Us
out Of some mystic ious ambush, nor
vet unholy inventions Of rascaIly rich
men, nor vet the pulling devices by
watch ineeniors lawyers build up
huga rights OFT of a multitude or
small wrongs; but merely organic ,.
tons Of a perfectly ineligible sort
which the law has licensed for the
contenlence Of extensive business:
organizations which have proved very
useful hit which have for the tire
beng slipped out of the co7tFol OF
he ye~y law that save thtm leave to
lie and that can maize o. uamake
mem AT pleasure We have now to
set ourselves TO control them. soberly
but effectHally, anil to bring them
thoroughly within the regulation ot
the law.
Employer ard EmpIoye.
''ln the first place ii is plain thet
our laws with regard to the relation
of employer and employee are in many
respects alolly antiouated and I'M
possible. They were framed for an.
other age which nobody now living
remembers. which Is, indeed, 50 re.
mote from our life that it would be
difficult for many of us to rnder
stand II If it We're described to US
1--WE cali thege questo OF employ
e-s' liability ard workingmen's COZ
pensation, but those terms do nc
suggest quite the whole matter There
is something very new, very big, and
ye.y complex about these new reg0-
lations of capital and labor A new
economic society has sprung up, and
we must effect a new set of adjust
ments. We must not pit power
against weakness. The employer is
generally, in our day, powerful
group OF individuals, and the work
| ingman Is still, under our existing
law, an individual when dealing with
his employer, in case of accident, for
example. or Of loss, or OF illness as
well as in every contractural rell-
| tionship. We must have a wo king
mans compensation act which will
not put upon him the burden Of fig, t.
ing powerful composite employers tc
obtain his rights, but which will bive
| him his rights without suit, directly
and without contest. by automatic OPP
Grafton of law, as in case Of a law Of
| insurance.
"This is the first adjustment need
| ed, because II affects tie rights, to
happiness, the lives and fortunes "
the greatest number, and because il
is the adjustment. for which justice
cries loudcst.
| New Jersey Charters Too Easy.
1--WE are mrch too free with grants
of charters TO corporations in New
Jersey. a corporation exists only ~
license of law, and the law is res
ponsib,e for what 1t creates. 1t ca,
never rightly authorize any kind Q
fraud or imposition. II canont right.
eously allow the setting up OF bust
ness which has no coun1 basis Or
which follows methods which In an,
way outrage justice or fair dea.ips
or the principles oil honest industry
The law cannot give Its license t
Itliags OF that kind 1t thereby al.
tEenticates what II ought to forbid,
! Il would urge the imperative obli-
cation of public policy and public hon
I, esty we are undef To eject such