The Cairo bulletin., 1911-05-01
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR AN
NOukcES PLATFORM IN AD-
DRESS AT NORFOLK, VA.
NEW CONSTRUCTIVE AGE
People Should Have Idea Of Prob
lens OF Government Want
Remedy and Readiust-
ment Programs.

Norfolk, Va, April 30.-" "Responsi-
BILE business AMI genuine representa-
tinn Of the people in government is
our program, and item by item we
shall carry 1t out declared Gov.
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey,
guest OF honor at the banquet of the
Pewter Platter Club here tonight,
classifying himself as liberal and
setting forth the liberal platform.
Men OF courage and understand
ing must undertake the task" he con-
tinued. "An age OF reconstruction
calls for high gifts and men OF in
domitsble purpose. We nave come
upon a new constructive age, as criti-
cal. perhaps. as the age In which our
government was set up, and we shall
meet its tasks as deliberately, as
calmly and as successfully-like the
masterful people we have shown our
selves to be- Such tasks are typically
American II has always been our
privilege and our happy capacity to
show how this can be done-without
revolution. without strife or hatred
or injustice, without the necessity OF
drawing in Ne Tocqreville's memora.
lie phrase, "A single tear or a sing.o
drop Of blood from mankind
Have Vision of Problems.
"a now temper has come into our
affairs. Only a little while ago tae
whole country seemed deeply as,
turbed as if with sense of incalcu-
liable changes. So many things in
tits life seemed awry, there was SO
widespread an impression of condi-
tions that were unjust, iniqultens
even, based upon selfishness and
wrong and greed--that few saw
nothing but agitation ahead--agita-
ton that was likely to make business
impossible. There was dread Of
what was TO come.
"By imperceptible and very happy
changes of temper and point of view
we have come out of that state or
mind and have begun to get some
thing like a complete vision of our
problems and OF the policies that
must solve them.
1--WE are no longer in the temper
Of attack. We are ready for remedy
anu adjustment and begin to see
where to begin and in what direc7
tion to move. A promise OF states
manship follows a threat OF revolu-
tion. There can be no mistaking
this. Programs are taking the place
OF philipics, and programs can be
soberly examined and assessed, as
unqualified criticisms and denuncia-
tons can not be. We are not all OF
one mind. But we have ceased to
be divided into alarmists and defend
ers of society and begin to redivide
ourselves into workable groups.
Liberals and Tories.
1T is customary to speak of this
new classification as division into
progressives and reactionaries, but
after all 1t Is the old division be-
tween liberals and tories.
There have always, fortunately for
the stability Of society, been tories
who stood fast for the existing order
and feared nothing so much as
change, and there have always, for.
tunately for human progress anu
human liberty, been liberals who
pushed on from hopesui change to
change in the slow process of alter.
Ing things as they are into things as
they ought to be. There are tories
still in abundance. In both parties
hut there are also liberals in still
greater numbers. We look beneath
the label to the man and his thoughts
WUlCHeNcf pully pioFSo hAont - ~
conceive and put through wise pro
gressive program will become the
liberal party of the nation. Tories
will be welcomed to resort to the
other and enjoy the privileges of a
minority.
.lne liberal program (Which con-
ceiye to be the Democratic pro-
gram) Is growing clear enough item
by item. 1t does not represent a
revolutionary temper or state OF
mind. ITS purpose is not to upset
things, but to set them right. 1t Is
not impatient OF existing constitu,
tionaL safeguards. It holds no brief
against any essential institution. On
the contrary, Its object is to restore
them to their first purpose. and sim,
plicity,E 10 purify them, to recover