The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-10
WILSON TALKS
Ee Tells lie New York ResId Hhsre
Es Stands 60 Big Questions
THE PEOPLE MUST 2l)LG
Discusses Various Public Matters
Now Before the Country, But
Holds That the Tariff is the lead
inc Issue to Be Settled in the Com
inc Presidential Election.

i,.s Presidential Election.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson, Of New
Jersey, was recently interviewed b.
a reporter of the New York World,
and he talked freely on the questions
now up for settlement by the people.
When asked what is a Progressive
Democrat" the former President OF
Princeton University paused for a
moment, unlocked his eyeglasses
from a little gold catch OF mis- vest
and, holding them in his hand to en-
phasize his reply, said:
"I can best answer that question
bv first trying to define a Republ-
can. do not mean progressive
Republication progressive Re
publican is only Republican in a
way to become a Democrat-but an
orthodox Republican, still dominated
by the older standards Ct his party.
can orthodox Republican is a man
who really believes that the Govern
ment Of the country ought to be a
sort Of trusteeship; that those who
have the biggest material stake IN
it's industrial affairs should be the
trustees, and that all policy should
be made to conform to their judg-
ment and interest, IN the expectation
that, as trustees, they will hand on
to those whom their enterprise con-
trolls a fair and reasonable share Of
the prosperity Of business.
''Now, a progressive Democrat is
man who sees, what ought to be
patent to everybody, that these self
constituted trustees have been both
blind and selfish; that a dangerous
and ineQuitable system Of business
has been built up and that changes
must be affected which will square
the commercial and industrial meth
DDS of the country with the general
interest, the interest Of the people
themselves and not by special cote
ries. When the representatives OF
big business think of the people,
they do not include themselves. u
What policies characterize pro-
gressive Democracy? All those poll
cies whose object is to wrest gov
ernment from the control Of special
groups of men, and restore it to the
control of the general opinion Of the
country. All the policies that re-es-
tablish the connection between repre-
sentatiyes and the people. All we'll
considered measures that Will tend
to re-establish general opportunity
and freedom of enterprise.
ct will need wide common coun-
sci to work such policies out. No
one class or group of men can work
them out alone. The man Of affairs
and the politician must come into
conference with the student and the
ardent reformer."
DO you not think that there is
everywhere manifest very great dis
content with existing conditions?'
was the next question.
Most assuredly. It is discomfort
with the trusteeship and its re-
suits"
rs the demand of business men to
be let alone reasonable in the cir
cumstances
The demand does not come from
tie rank and file; it comes from
those who have created the very con-
ditions we wish to correct. They
wish-so far as l can make their
programme QUITO have the Govern
ment accept the consequences OF
what they have done, legalize them,
arc assume contro! Of them, without
the least effort at correction.
There is nothing the matter with
the mass of business in this country
II is as sound as it ever was. No
change contemplated need touch or
dir ary business men at all, except to
set them free Of some Of the tram
mels and disadvantages under which
they now labor. IEe very oD1ect ID
view is to set business free-fcee
from the control Of the few-and
then let it alone to follow its own
right laws.
s.Who are the business men Of the
country? Are not the farmers busi-
ness men? Are not the small trad
ers business men? Is not the sub
contractor q business man as we'll as
re contractor-in-chief; the man who
is building up enterprise as we'll as
the man who has built it up? Is not
the man whose credit IS small and
'on the make business man as well
a. the man whose credit is unlimited
and established? Is not every en-
p!oyer Of labor, every purchaser OF
! material and every master OF any en-