The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-02

The following message has been
received from Woodrow Wilson by A.
P. Richie, chairman of the Demo-
crate county committee The same
message has been sent to Democratic
committeeman all over the country
to be read at Democratic meetings
today. The message:
Friends and Fellow Offensive
stand face to face with a great de-
cision, decision which will affect
the whole course of our national life
and our individual fortunes through
out the next generation. We must
make that decision on the fifth of
November It cannot be postponed.
We cannot 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
conservation of our natural resources
and OF the health and vigor of our
people, the development of our means
of transportation, the right applica-
ton of our scientific knowledge to
the work and healthful prosperity of
our whole population, whether in the
fields or in the factories or in the
mines, the firm establishment of a
foreign policy based upon justice and
good will rather than upon mere
commercial exploitation and the self
ish interests of narrow circle of
financiers extending their enterprises
to the ends of the earth, and the ex-
tension of the assistance of the gov
eminent to those many programs of
uplifs 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 it
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 struggle, those who are
finding a foothold and working out
a 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. 1t
must be handled very prudently, so
that no honest toll may be interrupt
ed, no honorable or useful enterprise
disturbed; must be dealt with by
slow stages of we'll considered change
change whose object shall be to re-
store and broaden opportunity, and
destroy nothing but special privilege
and unwholesome control. Those
who handle it, therefore, must be
men who understand the general in
terest and have devoted themselves
to serving it without fear or favor.
''The trust question must be dealt
with in the same way with this dis
tinct and single program, to destroy
monopoly and to leave business in
tact, to give those who conduct enter
prise no advantage except that which
comes by efficiency, energy and sag
acity those only fountains of honor
able wealth, every man rewarded &C
cording to his insight and enterprise
and service, his mastery in an open
field. Currency and banking ques-
lions must be discussed and settled in
the interest of those who use credit,
produce the crops, manufacture the
goods, and quicken the commerce of
the nation, rather than in the inter-
est Of the banker and the promoter