The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-02
WOODROW WILSON'S MESSAGE

Friends and Fellow Cftizens-we stand face to face with a great de- cision, a decision which will affect the whole course of our national life and our individual fortunes throughout the next generation. We must make that decision on the 5th of November. It cannot be postponed. We cannot vote without making it, and if we do not vote those who. do will make it Tor us. The next four years will de- terHine how we are to solve the ques- tion of the tariff. the question of the trusts the question of the reforma- ton of our whole banking and cur rency system, the conservation of our natural resources and of the health and vigor of our people. the deveI opment of our means of transporta- ton, the right application 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 foreign policy based upon justice and good will rather than upon mere commercial exploitation and the selfish interests of a. narrow circle of financiers ex- tending their enterprises to the ends of the earth, and the extension of the assistance of the government to those
 many programs of uplift and better ment 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 or strength and are quick with the pulse of common life, for the sake of the power that tills the fields and builds the c1ties'' 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. It 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 interest and have devoted themselves to serv- ing 1t 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 intact, to give those who conduct enterprise no advantage except that which comes by efficiency, energy and sagacity, those only fountains of honorable wealth, every man rewarded according ice, his mastery in an open field Cur rency and banking questions 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 interest of the banker and the promoter and the cap tain of finance, who if set off by them selves in the mana cement of such things, too easily lose sight even of their own intimate and inseparabIe re- Eation ito the general needs and inter estS of the rank and file. Forests must be renewed. and mines and water courses must be husbanded and pre- served, as if we were trustees for all generations, not mere1-- for our own, for the sake of communities and na- tions and not merely for the immedi- ate use of those who hasten to enlarge