The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-31
Tells Farmers at County Fan
They Should Hold Free
Quent Meetings
TALKS OF TARIFF
AND ITS EFFECV
Governor Wilson Will Make
Labor Day Speech at
Brauns Park in Buff
falo Monday


SEA GIRT. y. J., Aug. 30.--t1ovef4s
nor Wilson divided his time today be&s
tween the annual Monmouth countJ
fair at Redbank. y. J.. and the con1A
peting Of his first campaign speeca1
! In Buffalo on Labor Day.
The governor addressed huge
crowd of farmers at the county fairyS
devoting his remarks to agricultura1s
topics and the tariff as it affects the
farmer.
The farmers OF the United Statss,M
said the governor, have not playexS
as great part as they might IN the
/ affairs Of the country
| one Of the reasons of it. Ii seems
10 ma, that our farmers have not used
/ the means of public agitation, which,
/ lay just at their hands.
There is one thing in which I hayMa
| been very much interested in recent
Years in this country. You know
] used to be schoolmaster and tina
| interesting thing about the schoolA
/ Of the United States is that the
! schoolhouses are scattered all
| through the countryside, standing
/ here. there and everywhere In the
I cities, and they are closed for the
! most part between the school ses-
sion of one day and the school zes4
| sion Of the next day.
They are public buildings. They
! belong TO the communities. They fur~s
! nish ideal places in which to assem-
( bic and discuss public affairs. They
are Just what We need for neighbour
J hood conferences of every kind. And
/ yet 1t was reserved for a recent date
/ for somebody to suggest that thef
/ sehoolhouses be made social centers.
] that they be used for every kind Of
legitimate conference, land just so
soon as they began to beruscd for cos1~s
ference some politicians began to get
! very uneasy
There Is a certain class OF poiiti-
| clans that breads nothing so much al
/ the neighbors should get together and
! talk things over. because the min
! ute you begin to talk things over you
/ begin to make that most powerful ir-s
struinent that exists In any free cogn-
! try. I mean public opinion. -
/ Primaries viii Mean Same Thina.
/ . Just SO soon as the people Of this
/ country begin to have weekly town
meetings, weekly neigh borhood meet.
+ tngs weekly meetings for discussions
( whether in the schoolhouse or in the
church. then the primaries will begin
/ to maan something E
"A man has not exercised his poiitf-
. cal power when he has merely voted.
/ because the processes that prcccdN
( voting are very much more Important
than the voting itself. the process ~
opinion by which you give notice III
: all concerned that you will vote for
only one Kind OF man. and that y
I kind who will support the things thafl
. you believe in. Then the politicfam
knows what his job is when 1t come
! To determining whom he will supporf
because il he goes one way and yoae
go another he will go lonely to the
! polls and you viii go by the huns
dreds and by the thousands and NJ
. will wonder where the wind sits tha&
he has misseiadt SO i'll trimming hi9
sails.
Must get Together.
Now the farmers OF this countryd
can agree upon anything they pleas
but it will have no effect until th&61
get together and draw citizens OF 9th
or kinds together with themselves n
! frequent conference Ia the buifdinS~
! that belong TO us and begin to ma1ES(
/ public opinion, This country can haviS
anything that public opinion conce1ysi
! trates upon, and it cannot have any
thing that public opinion does MOI
| concentrate upon S;;
Whenever / see company Of peoptG
1
Use of a country fair for examples
What's the use Of neighborhood gath
ering OF any kind. il you don't r.
| together and talk about things? X0x
read the newspaper i'll the mOrnl0T
and ii makes "a certain impreAa3MI
, upon YOU, and you go about all a.
thinking you are. carrying an 0ptnf01
around with you. You aren't. you al
s4nply carrying around somethl
somebody else told you. You ara
leading strings to whatever happ4
to be the news of the morning, 6%
just as soon as two. three. four. h6
b dozen, a dozen. intelligent men r.
together and begin to match Views 45
compare opinions, then there bcgfuG
make the power Of the neighbOrhoG
and dozen anen who agree can
any neighborhood movement win 6
against 500 men that have never co..
together and agreed upon anythin&A
Believes In Another World.
You know the trouble about y
ton is that it has only this wor11S
which to vindicate Itself. Most c&
believe; I do most deyoutty bell
myself; that there is another W&
for the Individual, but there ISN'T
other world for the State Of
Jersey and there Isn't another -
for the United States Of AmericAsS
got either To succeed or co. 6N1
this world, ard therefore Its own
walton and its own damnAtiOR
to be played out on this platforms
this platform OF the fair ear9
SELF
Frank r. Walsh. we'll knoW
former OF Kansas city. Mo-, anGS
Sanders chairman OF the -
Democratic league. called on f&4
ernor today and told him ~
woaad surely come back into thM
ocrafic told this year.
Suggests Way IL Let M1S1
I Colonel Robert l.. Ewing, A.
in charge OF the press contribM4{
-reau of the Democratic xa9l
committee, stopped st Sea 0iEe
the governor ON HIS way u "a