Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
WILSON IN LINE
FOR PURE FOOD
Governor Also Attacks Tariff
Again in Series of Speeches
in New York.

NEW YORK. Sept. lot was a
busy day for Governor Woodrow Will
son. The Democratic presidential nom
inee attended pure food conference
at the Colony club, the most exclusive
| Women's organization in New York,
where he delivered a speech promising
to make pure food live campaign is
sue; opened the Democratic tariff ex-
hibition at 10 Union square with a
speech on the tariff; delivered another
address on the same subject in the open
AIR in Union square, conferred with a
number of national leaders at national
headquarters upon his future speaking
program, and delivered a long tariff ad-
dress before the New York Press club
At thetariff exhibit Governor Wilson
advanced the new thought that Ameri-
can manufacturers in demanding high
tariff barrier for their own protection
are really taxing themselves. This puts
United States industries a a disadvan-
tage in trying to compete in the worlds
markets abroad, he said.
We are pampering our industries"
said the presidential nominee, and we
are pampering them at the very time
they should be getting free American
industry is now in a strait Jacket, and
what we are fighting for in behalf of in
dustry is freedom"
1t is Notifying Governor Wilson
SAID that tariff exhibit should be
necessary. Such an object lesson, the
speaker declared, is like sending grown
ups TO the kinderga rten. The governor
continued his attack by saying that the
manufacturers were really robbing
themselves He pointed out that a sew
ing machine may be purchased in Mex
leo for $1S that costs $40 here.
How much greater" ne cried. would
the market for these machines be if
they were sold for SIS here as well as
in Mexico"
In his Press club address the gov
ernor assailed the Republican party
and remarked the impotency of the
new Progressive party.
/ Spokesman for the People.
The governor said, in part:
| - nave come here for the purpose of
discussing just as candidly as possible the
polltlcal situation, and | hope that in
oolng so shall. do injustice to no one
| am not one of those who believe that
the right tactics in politics is to depreciate
the men you are opposed to and to belittle
and misrepresent the forces with which
you have to content 1t ought to be a
frank, straightforward and fair determi-
nation OF what tits we are to agree upon
ana 90, and how we are to do it in the
great field of our common action.
MY feeHng about my own candidacy
ior the presidency is that If l can not
be the peoples spokesman I don't want to
feel, If l am elected to the office of pres
ldent, that | am speaking the purposes
and impulses and judgment of the people
of the United States. We are not; we are
not politicians. We do not live our lives
at the polls. We are interested in poIf-
tics only as it is means of ADJUSTING
the law to serve our life as il should be
served
Il want to discuss the three parties
now seeking your support I know there
are morezkhan three parties in the United
States, o. it is not out of any disre
spect to the parties that have com
manded only small number of votes in
the past that l leave them out of the
reckoning for the present
Afraid Of Man Who Doesn't Know
| Let us consider, first, the Republican
party. There is g great deal of differ
ence between the Republican party and
certain groups of gentlemen who have
been allowed to lead and direct the Re-
publican party. The Republican party, as
represented by these men, is the very
party which has got us into the difficulties
we are now trying to get out of.
| Mark you. | am not saying that the
leaders of the party knew that they
were doing us an evil or that they in
tended to do us an evil. For my part |
|
who does bad thing and does not know
| 1t is bad than of the man who does a
bad thing and knows it is bad, because [ ,
! think that in public affairs stupidity
! is more dangerous than knavery because
harder to fight and dslodge These gen
! tlemen, whatever may have been their in
| tentions, linked the government of the
| United States with the men who control
| the big finances of the United States.
| They may have done it innocently, or they
may have done it corruptly
The Men He's interested In
| THE men ! am interested in are the
men who never have their voices heard.
| who never get a line in the newspa pers.
who never get moment on the plat
| form, who never have access to the ears
| of governors or of any body who is re
! sponsibe for the conduct of government
! but who go silently and patiently to their
work every day carrying the burden of
the world. How are they to be under
| stood by the masters of finance if only the
masters of finance are consulted? The
masters of finance ought to be consulted.
! because they are part of the people
Of the United States, but they ought to
| be consulted only in proportion as they
are part of the people of the United
| States
! There Is large body of Republicans |
now in open rebellion. And what inter- |
| ests me about them and draws me to /,
them Is that they are in revolt because
| their consciences could not stand what
was going on. That third party deserves
your careful consideration when you are
debating the question which party You |
are going to support. | would be ashamed
of myself If l did not realize and admit !
| that some of the sober and finer forces |
| of this country are now devoted to the !
promotion Of this new movement and
! party. / have known the insurgent Re