The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29
STRUGGLE FOR
 BREAD VITAL
 ISSUE--WIL SON
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Governor Wilson said in part:
 ] It is strange we should have put off so long looking into our govern ment to see whether it is in fact run according to the rules we originally laid down for it. but it is certain that we are now looking into it very sharp ly indeed and without the least dang CT that we shall be deceived again as to it's character. Our idea of it has been from the first that it was a gen iline partnership and that all of us were partners and that there was no ranking of junior and senior partners that nobody had any preference over anybody else in the arrana cement but that all were upon one footing and were to share alike. But a very in teresting thing has come to light. That is not in fact the way the gov ernment has been administered in our time, but something very different. It has been in the hands of se1f-consti- tuted trustees and the partners have seldom been allowed a real governing voice in it's administration
 We had supposed that we were con- ducting the national business along the lines laid down by Jefferson, but we find that as matter of fact we have been conducting it along the lines laid down by Hamilton Hamil- ton believed that the common run of men had little qualification for such business, that it could be really com prehended and wisely directed only by those who led in commercial and in- dustrial enterprises and owned the chief bodies of property in the coun- try And in our time the leaders of the Republican party have conscious ly or unconsciously adopted his notion. At any rate whether they have adopt ed the notion or not they have adopt ed a practice which exactly fitted it for they have called into 'consulta ton 11I y1r1Nn had the biggest material stake in the economic development of the country
 These men financed party campaigns and were always on the inside when party policy was to be determined. Tariff schedules. the foreign policy of the country the chief expenditures of the government everything went as they suggested while the rank and file of us Jared as we might and were happy if we had any small share in the prosperity which they organized for themselves. They were the trus- tees, We were their wards and took part in the common life as they plan ned and directed. What went on in !, the trustee meetings we were very sel
 dom allowed to learn,-learned indeed
 only by impertinent inquiry, only by Congressional investig ations or trials
 in court, which the trustees complain
 ed sadly interfered with the regulal
 course of business.
 We have not yet got to the end o the inquiry, but we have found ou enough now to make it certain tha , we shall change the whole method and spirit of conducting our govern nent. We shall insist upon being ac tual partners again, upon knowin, show our business is being conducted
 and in whose interest. upon main
 taining a system Of law which vii
 put all classes upon an equality o . privilege. It isea big enterprise bl : it becomes more and more easy as VI s comprehend just what 1t involves
 We were confused for a little while
 but now we know what we are about
 Probably nobody has been deceiVet s by the trustees under this method o management which is to end on tn f0aaEkA aS &axGh RAx& naasa than 4h