Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-31
WOODROW WILSON HAS
 IDEAS OF DUR NEEDS
New Jersey Governor Goes to Bottom of Defects in
 Government

In the current issue of Harpers weekly appears an interview with Governor Wilson of New Jersey by Charles Johnson. The executive dis cusses principally the needs of gov ermenr and the need of leadership,
 To my mind, said the governor of New Jersey the great question Is one of adjustment We have the ee- onomfc problems of today. We have public opinion. We have our systems of legislation. The problem is. 10 ad- just these three factors. We have hrst 10 instruct public opinion on the economic problems. Then We have to bring public opinion to bear on legis- lative action. At present there are too many barriers between Public opinion is checked and thwarted, and cannot make itself immediately efee- tive
 Here Is an illustration of what l mean. If you made complicated ma chine, say a motor car. and so Ses- structed it that in order to exercise control over it you had to control each part separately, to get your hand on each part in order to control it and once again to get your hand on each part separately in order to stop 1t you could do nothing with it. simply because you have only two hands. What you need Is a single lever to con trol the whole complicated machine, so that you can start it by single motion or start it by single motion. Then you have it under your control.
 Lack of Control.
 We have done something very like this with our government We have made a great complicated machine and each part separately answers to our hands. But there is no one lever to control the whole machine, there fore 1t is not controlled at all We fancy that when we have elected whole series of officials. each one of whom is answerable. each one of whom may be rejected when he stands for reelection, we have a government machine which is answerable and un- der cur control; but it is not SO; we are mistaken. For no one really know who ali the different officials are who are responsible for the running of the parts Of the government machine; nor can we bring them all to book at once. since their terms are not concurrent. So we cannot even control them at all at the same time when they stand for reelection
 We need the single lever to control the several parts of the complicated machine. It is for that reason that the country fs deusanding a leader in the eye of all. chosen by all answefable to all, as it does in the case of the president. The call of the day is for leadership; the people demand and will support the men who rightly in terpret public opinion and who inter preting public opinion, are ready tc make that opinion operative.
 Issue in New Jersey.
 When l was running for governor ] said very frankly that. if elected l should take my election as mandate to lead; declaration by the people of New Jersey that I was required tC lead in the state, the single lever, eff feetive for the control of its govern ment My opponent said that if cleo ted he intended to be a constitution al governor; that he would make re concentrations to the legislature and D then let legislature alone to decide whether his recommendations should be carried into effect. I said that if that ; was what was meant by a eonstitu , tiona' governor, intended. fl elected to be an unconstitutional governor; ! for ! should hold that had a mandate from the people of the state not onil ? to recommend reforms, but to us' every honorable means in my powel