Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
The Depth and Breadth of
Wilson's Democracy

When Governor Wilson said Carnegie hall in New York I
the ruler the people spokesman
the people the great audience cheeed then heerd
cheered again The speaker had intended But there
need He stopped short He had uttered the most intimate
Democratic faith that binds him the electorate
In Wilson the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson revives and
breaths again thorough goes the the
matter believe that born saddd
brdled and others booted and spurred.
Democratic according Wilson, is elective
desposm tempered by timemt the organized energy
intelligence the whole people 1t does abide in apitols
pervades society like the nerveyem of the human body The
Democracy Wilson every
governmental power.
Wilson insists that this campaign is eanddeath struggle
for that stand the parting of the He
Roosevelt both
that of the
people He kind government aways-h
the best word-enslaved impoverished
people.
Wilson understands that this age different from the age of
Jefersontha the supreme question the question of
economic liberty in face of the tariff and the
Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt to live under the illusion that
tariff privileges and monopoes be
ing kept eye good Washington
Wilson insists that privileges utterly abolished and
that private monopoles absolutely ntoerable.
Wilson says he is striving anything
remotely resembles free trade because impossible away
with mposts the expenses
be raised by indirect taxation object
protection that makes life easier in America but only the tariff
privileges that make life harder He would clean the tariff sched
ues of all the lobby arcene and the subsidies of and soth
Wilson is of big business the kind that grows big be
big behind it. He abhor the kind of that
hatulen and dropsca with fraudulent finance He thinks and
thinks rghyhat many this country
big because the behind them le-and
pied to do puslanimous things
Mr. Wilson said Psburg that of these small men
should be ocb secluded that they quiet
think larger thoughts This spokes
The regulation of competition for which Mr. Wilson contends
that sharp distinction should be very
different kinds of competition 1t all right that private persons
should compete with each other for the public
all that they should compete with other for power
tax the public.
Governor Wilson speaking language familiar Amer
people when he reminds that the fluent going of
democracy depends upon the competition individuals
to excel in the service of the commonwealth
1t principle that vast highly or
gained and efficient business they in the natu
industrial evouon-are to be broken ND into warning
factions On the contrary the that such concerns
should be treated if they practical effect public ns
buttons.
They should be recognized such basis that their
and find increased profit personal promotion
only in improving the services they o public
The system of egazed monopoly proposed by Mr.
George Perkins oense peril democracy because it
would leave the gigantic industrial organizations private in their
motive and private the method of operation They would
have interest adverse public interest and they would have
power that public power could permanently withstand
This newspaper has steadily maintained prices cease
to be regulated by competition they should be limited by law that
where business risks have been eliminated dividends should be cut
to the cost of working capital corporation
be competitive to be private for the on