Arizona republican., 1911-05-06
THE WORLD
MOVES ON
Governor Woodrow Wilson
Moving With Il
PEOPLE AS LAWMAKERS
He Favors Direct Legisla-
tion, but Recall of the Ju-
dietary a Different Matter.
Guest of X. G.. Knife and
Fork Club.

Kansas City, Mo. May 5.-Governor
Woodrow Wilson Of New Jersey was
the guest OF the Knife and Fork club
at its banquet this evening He said
in part:
There can be no mistakng the fact
that we are now face to face with
political changes which may have a
very profound effect upon our polit-
icaI life. Those who do not under
stand the impending change are afraid
OF it. Those who do understand il
know that ii is not Il process Of rev
OlutiOn, but process of restoration,
rather. in which there is as much
healing as hurt. There are strain
and peril, no doubt, in every process
of change, but the chief peril comes
from undertaking it in the wrong
temper. 1t lies not i'm the change it
self so much as in the method Of
some OF those who promote it, Ii is
a noteworthy circumstance that in
proportion as the people Of the coun-
try come TO recognize what it is that
renders them uneasy and what it is
that is proposed by way of reforma-
tiOn they lose their fear and take on
certain irresistible enthusiasm.
The American people are naturally
| a conservative people. They do not
wish to touch the stable foundations
of their life; they have reverence
for the rights of property and the
| rights Of contract which is based up
| on a long experience i'm a free life i'm
| which they have been at liberty to
| themselves by such contracts as suit
ed them. No other people have ever
had such freedom in the establish
ment OF personal relationships or
property rights. They do not mean
to lose this freedom or to impair any
rights at all. but they do feel that
great many things in their eco
nOmic life and in their political ac-
| ton are out of gear They have
been dominated by the very instru-
mentalities which they themselves
created in the field of Industrial ac-
tion. The liberty OF the individual is
| hampered and impaired They desire.
| therefore. not revolution. not a cut
| ting loose from any part of their
past. but a readjustment of the ele-
ments of their life. reconsideration
of what it is just to do and equitable
to arrange in order that they may be
indeed free. may indeed make their
own choices and live their own life
undominated. unafraid unsuspicious
! confident that they will be served by
| their public men and that the open
processes Of their government will
bring to them justice and timely re-
| form.
What we are witnessing now is not
| so much a conflict Of parties as a
| contest of ideals, a struggle between
those who because they do not un-
| derstand what is happening, bindly
| hold on to what is and those who
because they do see the real ques
! tiOns OF the present and of the flu
| ture in clear, revealing light know
| that there must be sober change:
| know that progress. none the less ac-
! tive and determined because ii is So
| ber and just, is necessary for the
! maintenance of our institutions and
! the rectification of our life In both
| the great national parties there are
| men who feel this ardor of progress
and of reform. and in both parties
| there are men who hold back. who
| strugge to re. train change. who dc
1 not understand it or who have reason
to fear it. Undoubtedly the present
moment offers a greater and larger
| opportunity to the democratic party
but this is not because there are not
men in the republican party who have
devoted their whole intelligence and
| energy to necessary reform. but be
cause the democratic party as a whole
| is freer to move and to act than tht
republican is and is held back by q
smaller and weaker body of repre-