The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-30
WILSON MAKES
AN ADDRESS AT
farmers RALLY
Talks of Their Share in Prosperity
With the Existing Tar
if Laws 4
COMMENDS WORK OF HOUSE
Says Congress Democrats Had Old
Fashioned Ideas and Wanted
Equal Benefits
c0MMENDs WORK OF HOUSE
Associated Press Dispatch.

Williams 0Iofc, - o., A"5' -
Governor Wilson In a speech at a
farmers rally here today talked OF
the farmers share Of prosperity with
existing tariff laws.
He said in part:
'lt is strange that we should nave
put off so long looking into our gov
ernment to see whether it is in fact
run according to the rules we orig
inally laid down for it, but it is
certain that we are now looking into
it very sharply indeed and without
the least danger that we shall be
deceived again as to its character
Our idea Of it has been from the
first that 1t was genuine partner
ship and that all were upon ore foot
ing and were to share alike.
but very interesting thing has
come to light. That is not in fact
the way the government has been
administered in our time. 1t has
been In the hands of self constituted
trustees and the partners have sell
dom been allowed q real governing
voice in it's administration.
Hamiltonian Manner.
we had supposed that we Were
conducting the national business
along the lines laid down by Jeifer-
son, but we find that as matter Of
fact we have been conducting il
along the lines laid down by Hamil-
ton. Hamilton believed that thc
common run of men had little quail
ification for such business, that il
could be readily comprehended and
wisely directed only by those who
led in commercial and industrial en-
| terprises and owned the chief bodies
Of property in the country. And In
our time the leaders of the Republi.
can party have consciously or un-
consciously adopted his notion.
"These men financed party cam
paigns and were always on the in
side when party policy was to be
determined Tariff schedules, the
! foreign policy of the country, the
chief expenditures of the govern
ment, everything went as they sug
gested, while the rank and file of Us
Jared as we might and were happy i
we had any small share In the pros
perity which they organized fol
/ themselves. They were the trus
tees, we We're their wards and tool
part in the common life as they
planned and directed What wen
on in the trustee meetings we were
very seldom allowed to learn
learned indirectly by impertinent in
miry. only by congressional investi
cations or trials in court which thu
trustees complained sadly il.terfere(
with the regular course ot business
Who Supplies Plunder?
Mr.. Roosevelt has proclaimed him
self a convert to the protective pol
icy--I say convert because he a
one time cry frankly avowed a diff
ferent opinion and has said tha
while we admitted that, no doubt
some duties were too high and Gugh
to be lowered on the whole polio,
pursued by Republican administrl
tions had been the right one, ant
he thought the prize money whicl
had been received under tha. System
by the manufacturers of the countr,
was legitimate booty.
"The analogy is very interesting
one. Prize money Is generally ac
quired by capture and not by an
| process of earning, but Mr.. Roose
welt is always frank and says tha
This only objection to the system
that too much Of the prize money re
mains in the hands of the officer
and too little is distributed to tn
crew. His own object, lie avows t
be to see to 1t that more Of the priz
money gets into the. pay envelopes d
those whom the free hooters employ
The interesting point | wish to rails
now Is who supplies the plundel
from whom is the prize money TAX
I en-?
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