Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-11
WILSON SOUNDING
 SLOGAN OF REFORM
New Jersey Governor Declares We Must Supervise
 Capital

DENVER, Colo, May Ex-Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey was the principal speaker at the banquet of the chamber of commerce here before his departure. He said in part:
 The country is to be congratulated upon the fact that the atmosphere of politics has changed within the last few years, for a few years ago there was danger that reform would be the source of continual uneasi- ness, because it all seemed negative in character It's object was to correct, to restrain. to punish. The talk of marauding corporations and great combinations of wealth intend ed to crush the common man; Of the abuse of their power by rail roads; of rebates and secret rates and privileges given to the big ship per against the small one; of the mOnopolizing of the markets by gi- gantic trusts and combinations. These things still trouble US, Of course. and are still in the back ground of Q great deal that we talk about, and our motive in great deal that We do is still to correct hN these means, but happily the whole program of reform has become less negative and more constructive. It is becoming evident that we shall not be satisfied with merely pro hibitive statutes and penalties i'm posed upon those who do not suffi- cienuy regard the public interest in the conduct of their business. We see that what we are really after is a reconstruction of our methods of action. not only in the field of busi- ness, but also in the field of politics The picture Is very much enlarged before us, and We are seeking larger ends by inVigorating constructive means.
 Rearrangement Necessary.
 A great people cannot afford to be merely on the defensive. It Is not the genius of America to be sat isfied with safeguards and prohibit tons. We are therefore looking our selves over from top to bottom in order to find what encouragement of our statutes and practices is neces- sary in order that We may go for ward in a happy and effective life We are going about now to enact a thorough program of popular reform and we know very definitely the ob- jects at which we intend to aim.
 In the first place, we mean to open up all the processes of our politics. We find that they have been to secret, too complicated. too roundabout; that they have consist ed too much of private conferences and secret understandings of the control Of legislation by men who were not legislators. but stood out side and dictated, controlling often times by very questionable means, which they would not have dreamed of allowing to become public, and so we have determined that the whole process must be altered-that We must take the selection of candi dates for office, for example, out of the hands of small groups of men. of little coteries, out of the hands of machines working behind closed doors, and put it in the hands of people themselves again by means of direct primaries and elections to which candidates of every sort and degree may have free access. We have begun to build up a new sys- tenn by which to substitute public for private machinery.
 To Make for Publicity.
 We have determined, in the sec ond place, to give society command of its own economic life again by