The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

row Wilson to the American people was read to a large and enthusiastic audi ence yesterday morning in the chamber of the third division of the city court.
 Robert q. Bell chairman of the dem- ocratic executive committee of Jefferson county, read the message. He displayed a great deal of dignity in the reading. and showed that he felt the effect of the power of the message.
 Every seat in the chamber was occu- pied There was a great deal of enthusi- asm displayed. The reading of the mes sage was frequently interrupted by ap- plause, and at the conclusion, following the reading of Wilson's petition that God might make the party worthy of success, there followed a storm of applause.
 The special message was dispensed throughout Jefferson county by Chairman Bell, and was read in every precinct. According to the plans of the national committee in every precinct of the United States the massage was read. It was the hope that sufficient enthusi- asm would be aroused to bring out all the voters Tuesday and make doubly sure the Ol udiiOAidl QCulOSldllC success.
 Governor Wilson's Message
 The message of the presidential candi- date follows:
 Friends and Fellow citizens-We stand face to face with great decision, a de- cision which will affect the whole course of our national life and our individual fortunes throughout the next generation. We must make that decision on Novem- Der 5. It cannot be postponed. We can not vote without making it. and if we do not vote those who do will make it for us.
 "The next four years will determine how we are to solve the question of the tariff the question of the trusts, the question of the reformation of our whole banking and currency system, the con- servation of our natural resources and of the health and vigor of our people, the development of our means of transporta- tion. the right application of our scien- tific knowledge to the work and health full prosperity of our whole population, whether in the fields or in the factories or in the mines, the firm establishment of foreign policy based upon justice and good will rather than upon mere commercial exploitation and the selfish interests of narrow circle of financiers extending their enterprises to the ends of the earth, and the extension of the as sistance of the governmentto those many programmes of uplift and betterment to which some of the best minds of our age have turned with wise hope and ardor.
 There is much to be done, and 1t must be done in the right spirit and in the right way, or it will deepen our troubles, not relieve them. The tariff question must be solved in the interest of those who work and spend and plan and strug- gle. those who are finding a foothold and working out career, those who touch the sources of strength and are quick with the pulse of common life for the sake of 'the power that tills the fields and builds the cities and not for the sake of special groups of men who dominate and control their fellows and regard the toll of millions of men merely as an opportunity to make use of their established advantage. It must be han died very prudently, so that no honest toll will be interrupted, no honorable or useful enterprise disturbed; must be dealt with by slow stages of well considered change-change whose object shall be to restore and broaden opportunity, and destroy nothing but special privilege and unwholesome control. Those who handle 1t, therefore, must be men who understand the general interest and have devoted themselves to serving it without fear or favor.
 Trust and Banking Questions
 "The trust question must be dealt with in the same way with this distinct and single. programme, to destroy monopoly and to leave business intact, to give those who conduct enterprise no advantage except that which comes by efficiency. en- ergy and sagacity, those only fountains or honorable wealth, every man rewarded according to his insight and enterprise and service, his mastery in an open field Currency and banking questions must be discussed and settled in the interest or those who use credit produce the crops, manufacture the goods and quick en the commerce of the nation. rather than in the interest of the banker and the promoter and the captain of finance who if set off by themselves in the man. agement of such things, too easily lose sight even of their own intimate and in- separable relation to the general needs and interests of the rank and file For ests must be renewed, and mines and water courses must be husbanded and preserved, as if we were trustees for all generations, not merely for our own, for the sake of communities and nations and not merely for the immediate use of those who hasten to enlarge their enter prises and think only of their own prof it's The government must employ its powers and spend its money to develop a whole people and a whole continent, and at the same time keep them free and alert and unhampered, its eye always on the common use and purpose, its thought constantly of what will happen to the average man and of what will be pre- pared for the next generation.
 we must consider our foreign policy on the same high principle We have be- come a powerful member of the great family of nations. The nations look to us for standards and policies worthy of America. We must shape our course of action by the maxims of justice and lib erality and good will, think of the prog ress of mankind rather than of the prog ress of this or that investment, of the protection of American honor and the ad- vancement of American ideals rather than always of American contracts, and lift our diplomacy to the levels of what the best minds have planned for man. kind. We must devote the power of tEe government to the service of the race and think at every turn of men and wom- en and children, of the moral life and physical force and spiritual betterment of those. all of those for whim we pro- fess to have set government up.
 Government of Special Favors
 None of these high things can be done, because none of them can be conceived. from the point of view of those who at of n