The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-08-09
Here is Summary Of Gov.
Woodrow Wilson's Speech
Accepting The Nomination

stated in all the primers of eco
nomics, but by private arrange
ments with regard to what the sup
ply should be and agreements
among the producers themselves.
Those who buy are not even rep
resented by counsel. The high
cost of living is arranged by pri-
vate understanding.
eve naturally ask ourselves,
how did these gentlemen get con-
troll of these things? Who handed
our economic laws over to them
for legislative and contractual al
formation? We have in these dis
closures still another view OF. the
tariff, still another proof that not
the people of the United States,
but only very small number OF
them have been partners IN the
legislation.
"The so-called labor question IS
a question only because we have
not vet found the rule of right IN
adjusting the interests of labor
and capital. Here, again, the sense
of universal partnership must come
into play if we are to act like
statesmen, as those who serve, not
a class, but nation.
"The working people of Ameri-
ca, if they must be distinguished
from the minority that constitute
the rest of it, are, of course, the
backbone of the nation. No law
that safeguards their lives, that
improves the physical and moral
conditions under which they live,
that makes their hours OF labor
rational and tolerable, that gives
them freedom to act in their own
interest and that protects them
where they can not protect them
selves, can properly be regarded
as class legislation or as anything
but as measure taken in the IN
terest of the whole people, whose
partnership in right action we are
trying to establish and make real
and practical. 1t IS in this spirit
that we shall act if we are genuine
Spokesman OF the whole country.
"There is another duty which
the democratic party has shown
itself great enough end close
enough to the people to perceive
= the duty of the government to
share in promoting agricultural,
industrial, vocational education in
every way possible within It's con-
stitutional powers. No other plat
form has given this intimate vision
of party's duty. The nation can
not enjoy its deserved supremacy
in the markets and enterprises OF
, the world unless its people are
given the ease and effectiveness
that come only with knowledge
and training. Education is par,
OF the great task of conservation,
part of the task of renewal and OF
, perfected power.
/ GA presidential campaign may
: easily degenerate into a mere per-
) sonal conflict and so lose its real
: dignity and significance. There is
no indispensable man. The gov
ernment will not collapse and &C
t to pieces if any one of the gentle
5 men VINO are seeking to be en-
5 trusted with its guidance should
5 be left at home. But men are in
struments. We are as important
! as the cause we represent, and il
! order to be important must really
, represent u cause. What is our
cause? The peoples cause. That
4 is easy to say, but what does it
! mean? The common as against
any particular interest whatever
/ Yes, but that, too, needs transla-
) ton into acts and policies. We
: represent the desire TO set up an
! unentangled government, a gov
; eminent that can not be used for
private purposes, either in the
field of business or in the field OF