The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-14
WILSON SAYS FIGHT FOR PEOPLES CAUSE Sets Forth Object of Demo-
 cratic Party HE ASKS FOR ACTION Woodrow Wilson Thinks Now Is the Time to Start the Campaign Against Concrete Forms
 of Privilege
HE ASKS FOR ACTION

Indianapolis, Ind. April 1S.-Urging tho democratic party to state it's creed in tn: concrete and define clearly the especial form of privilege it declares against 1T general campaign flor the rights oi the people," Governor Woodrow Wilsod of New Jersey, In an address to the National League of Democratic Clubs here today, set forth the objects of the party as he believed they exist and should be stated. Governor Wilson said in part:
 We are fond of speaking of ourselves as the party of Jefferson and Jackson not because we are a party of old men, reminiscent of things gone by and m love with what has been, but because we are a party touched with the sleals which made these men great, whose names we recall with such reverence and enthusiasm, because the breath of our party's life is it's utter faith in the prin- ciples of democracy. It is its devotion to the rights of the people of whatevef class or degree as against all claims of privilege, as against all selfish vested in terests which seek control instead of free- ly serving the life and development of the nation.
 Ut is so far from being a party of mere reminiscence, party which tries to draw the country back to policies which belong to another time, to the circumstances of another age, that it is, above all others, young mans party, because a party of movement, of read tustment a party that presses toward the future with unshaken faith, with un- wavering confidence and ever renewed hopes and aspirations for the principles of freedom which are none other than | the principles of opportunity, the prin- ciples of men not male, but on the make struggling from achievement to achleVe' ment in a free exercise of their powers "These things are embodied in Jeffer- son, the thoughtful, philosophical, pen etrating thinker for mankind, and In the rugged Jackson, who seemed to cut ms | way toward the right by rough instinc' | and the mere energy of an honest, ln' | donlitable nature and so we see em' | bodied in them the two sides Of democ- | racy. Its thoughtfulness, it's vision 2, hope, its confidence in the progress ahc liberation of mankind, and linked witf | these its force as of the common peo' ple. it's abounding energy outside as wei as within the field of cultivated thought | "It behooves us to ask ourselves Wha' our creed is, and to answer the question without sublety or serphistication, In the plain terms of everyday life. We mus' state our creed in the concrete, not 1T the abstract Our thoughts run back of course to the great Declaration of In dependence which Jefferson gave us, pu' we cannot stop with that. The Deciara' ton of Independence did not menc.on the
 t- f,ln rC ing point for our thoughts. Tt is of nc consequence to us unless we can trans late it's general terms into examples O. the present day and substitute them II some vital way for the examples 1t it self gives, so concrete, so intimately in | volved in the circumstances of the daS i'll which it was conceived and written It is an eminently practical document meant for the use of practical men; no a thesis for philosophers, but whip fol | trvants not theory of government, pu' | A programme of action. Unless we car translate it into questions Of our oWr day we are not worthy of it, we are no sons of the sires who acted In response to it's challenge.
 ''yVe say that we are against privilege and for the rights of the people, but privilege has worn many forms. Wha' is the especial form of privilege we now fight? How does it endanger the rights of the people, and what do we mean t( do in order to make our contest agains
 1t effectual? What are to be the items Of our new declaration of independence
 By privilege, as we now fight 1t, w' mean control of the law, of Legislation and of adjudication, by organizations
 which do not represent the people, by
 means which are private and selfish anc
 worthy of all condemnation. We mear
 specifically the conduct of our affairs ana
 the shaping of our Legislation in the In
 terest of special bodies of capital ant
 those who organize their use. We mea. the alliance for this purpose of politica
 machines with the captains of organized industry We mean the exploitation O
 the people by local and political means We have seen our governments unde these influences cease to be representa- tive governments, cease to be govern ments representative of the people, and be come governments representative of thu
 special interests, controlled by machines ! which in their turn are not controlled by the people,"
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