The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-08-16
WILSON IS NOTIFIED
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR ~
FORMED HE IS NOMINEE FOR
PRESIDENT ~ DEMOCRATS.
ACCEPTS HONOR IN SPEECH

CIves His Views on way Ns'0"
Should 30 0overned-wouid Rave
Tariff Revised Downward ano
Trusts Controlled.
Sea Girt, N. j., Aug. Tine noun
cation committee named by the Dem
ocratic national convention To-Day
called upon Gov. Woodrow wilson az
his home and oficially told him nc
had received the nomination for the
presidency. ollie James. chairman OF
the committee. made the notificauon
speech.
In reply Governor Wilson. aite.
thanking the committee. commented
ON the unusual nature OF the coming
campaign In which the candidates
must address an awakened nation. I'm
patient Of partisan make-believe n
never more susceptible to unseinsn ap-
peals or to the high arguments OF
sincere justice. The forces OF the ma
ton, he said, are asserting themselves
against every form OF special privi'
lege and private control. and are seek
ing bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
Two Great Things to DC.
How do We expect to handle each
81 the great matters that must be
taken up by the next congress n the
next Administrations" said Mr.. VII
son, and he answered his wi query
as follows:
What is there to do? II Is hard to
sum the great task up. but apparently
this is the sum Of the matter: There
are two great things to do. One Is
to set up the rule Of justice and OF
right In such matters as the tariff.
the regulation OF the trusts and the
prevention of monopoly. the adapta'
ton OF our banking and currency laws
to the varied uses to which our peo-
pie must put them. the treatment OF
those who do the daily labor In our
factories and mines throughout all our
great industrial and commercial un'
dertakings, and the political lie OF
the people OF the Philippines. for
whom we hold governmental power In
trust. for their service. not our own
The other. the additional duty Is the
great task OF protecting our people
and our and OF keeping
open to the whole people the doors OF
opportunity through which they must.
generation by generation, pass II they
are to make conquest Of their fortunes
In health, In freedom. In peace. and In
c%ontentment. In the performance OF
this second great duty W are face
TO face with questions OF conservation
and OF development. questions Of for.
ests and water powers and mines and
water ways. Of the building OF an ade-
quate merchant marine. and the open
Ing of every highway and facility and
the setting up OF every safeguard
needed by a great industrious. expand
Ing nation.
These are all great matters upon
which everybody should be heard.
We have got into trouble in recent
years chiefly because these large
things. which ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with as
large q number Of persons as possible.
because they touched every interest
and the life OF every class and region.
have in fact been too often handled
In private conference. Our difficulty
Is not that wicked and designing men
have plotted against us. but that our
common affairs have been determined
upon too narrow a view. and by too
private an initiative. Our task now
Is to effect a great readjustment and
get the forces OF the whole people
once more into play.
Revision Of the TarIn.
Coming to the tariff question. the
governor said the schedules have
been made up for the purpose OF keep.
ing as large a number as possible OF
the rich and influential manufacturers
Of the country in a good humor with
the Republican party. which desired
their constant financial support. The
tariff has become a system OF fayors.
which the p~hraseology OF the schedule
was often deliberately contriyed 10
conceal"
Reasserting the Democratic copv,c.
ton that the only legitimate object
Of tarif duties Is to raise evenue for
the support OF the government. he
continued:
There should be an immediate rev,.
sion. and 1t should be downward nm.
h~esitatingly and steadily downward I,
should begin with the schedules which
have been most obviously used TO kin
competition and to raise prices In the
United States, arbitrarily and without
regard to the prices pertaining elso.
where In the markets of the wor,d.
and It should. before 1t Ia finished Or
intermitted. be extended to every itar
In every schedule which affords anv
opportunity for monopoly, for spec,a,
advantage to limited groups OF ban.n.
Charles. or for subsidized control .,
any kind In the markets or the en,.r.
prises OF the country: until specia,
favors Of every sort have been sh.o.
lutely withdrawn and every MARI =,
our laws Of taxation shall have ham