Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-01-18
HIS POLICIES OUTLINED
He Denounces the Corpora
tion Laws Which Have
Made His State Famous.
Direct Primary and Other
Reforms Suggested.

Trenton, y. j., Jan. 17-GOvernor
Woodrow Wilson today assumed the
duties of chief executive of New Jersey
and delivered his inaugural address.
Sweeping reforms in legislation.
not the foolish ardor of too sanguine
or too radical REFORM" the governor
says, but merely the tasks that are
evident and pressing" are urged Chief
among them are the enactment of an
employers liability law providing for
compensation to injured and disabled
workmen; the perfection and the ex-
tension of the direct primary law to
all elective offices. and TO party nom
nations; law restricting the issuance
of charters to corporations and pro-
viding for close scrutiny and regula-
ton of existing corporations; the en-
actment of a conservation law and re-
vision of the existing method of taxa
ton. He said in part:
The opportunity of our dav in the
field Of politics no man can mistake
who can read any, even the most su-
perficial signs of the times. We have
never seen a day when duty was more
plain. the task to be performed more
obvious, the way in which TO accom-
plish it more easy to determine. The
whole world has changed within the
lifetime of men not yet in their
thirties; the world of business, and.
therefore. the world of society and the
world of politics The organization
and movement of business are rev. and
upon a novel scale. Business has
changed so rapidly that for long time
we were confused, alarmed. bewildered
in sort of terror of the things we had
ourselves raised up.
But corporations are no longer hob
COLLINS which have sprung at US out of
some mysterious ambush, nor vet I'M
holy inventions of rascally rich men.
nor yet the puzzling devices by which
ingenious lawyers build up huge rights
out of a multitude of small wrongs:
but merely organizations of perfectly
Ineligible sort which the law has
licensed for the convenience Of extern
sive business; organizations which have
proved very useful but which have for
the time being slipped out of the con-
troll of the very law that gave them
leave to be and that can make or I'M
make them at pleasure. We have now
set ourselves to control them, soberly
but effectively. and to bring them
thoroughly within the regulation of the
law
In the first place it is plain that our
laws with regard to the relations of
employer and employe are in many re-
spects wholly Anticipated and impossi-
BILE. They were framed for another
f1f,
Ders. which is, indeed, so remote from
our life that it would be difficult for
many of us to understand it if it were
described to us.
we call these questions of EN-
DlOyers' liability and workingmens
but those terms do not
suggest quite the whole matter. There
5 something very new, very big and very
complete about these new relations of
'apital and labor. A new economic So
'iety has sprung up. and we must eff
ect a new set of adjustments. We
must not pit power against weakness.
rhe employer is generally. in cur day.
/ powerful group of individuals, and
he workingman is still, under our ex-
sting law. an individual when dealing
or example. or of loss. or of illness as
veil as in every contractual relation
hip. We must have workingman's
act which will not put
lpon him the burden of fighting power
al composite employers to obtain his
lights. but which will give him his
lights without suit, directly. and with
'ut contest. by automatic operation of
aw. as if OF law of Insurance.
Il would urge the imperative obuga-
ion of public policy and public honesty
We are under TO effect such changes
n the law of the state as will hence
orth effectually prevent the abuse of
he privilege of Incorporation which
las in recent years brought so much
liscredit upon our state 1t will be
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