Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-08-10
WILSON GIVES
HIS POLICIES
Outlines Ideas at Notification
at Sea GIrt

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Informally accepting the Democratic
nomination for the presidency. OF
which he was officially notified by a
committee including many governors
and other leaders OF his party at Sea
Girt. ~ j., Governor Woodrow Wilson
discussed the principal issues OF the
| campaign aud gave his views as to
the measures etessary in his opinion
to met the problems which confront
| his party.
The address had been awaited with
considerable interest as affording him
an opportunity. as the standard bearer
OF the Demo racy. TO tell where he
stood on the leading political ques-
tions of the day. and the crowd that
assembled at the Little White House."
as IL is called by the governors ad
mirers. listened intcntly to catch the
import OF his words.
| From the broad vcranda OF the
white.coated house the nominee deliv-
cred his speech. Grouped beneath
wide-spreading willows and elms were
the more prominent guests. hedged In
BY clumps OF ferns and bushes The
governor read from his manuscript.
The platform. he said, was not
| program. but practical document In
| tended TO show that we know what
the nation is thinking about and what
II Is most concerned about" The peo
pie. he added. were about to be asked
not particularly TO adopt platform.
| but to entrust the Democratic party
with office and power and the guild
ance OF their affairs" and their desire
now was TO know what translation OF
action and policy he intends to give to
the general terms of the platform.
| should he be elected"
An immediate downward revision OF
the tariff. amendments to the Sherman
antitrust law. and more adequate leg
islation. both civil and criminal. look
ing to the control of monopolies: legis
lation to prevent the interlocking of
directorates OF big corporations that
| tends to place the finances of the
| country under the control of few
men: legislation that will safeguard
the lives and improve the physical and
moral conditions OF the working peo
pie: a close inspection of the political
life of the people OF the Philippines;
the adaptation of banking and curren.
| cy laws TO the varied uses TO which
our people must put them: conserva
| tion OF natural resources: develop
ment OF merchant marine and wafer.
ways; presidential primaries and the
direct election OF United States sena-
| tors, were some OF the important rec
concentrations which the governor ad.
vocated.
Governor Wilson holds the present
| high tariff responsible for the high cost
OF living and the rapid growth OF mo-
| nopolies, and denounced the Payne
| Aldrich tariff act "as the most con
country OF the special favors and mo.
| nopolistic advantages which the lead
ers OF the Republican party have So
often shown themselves willing to ex-
tend to those to whom they looked for
campaign contributions"
High wages yield us no great com.
| fort. We used TO be better OF with
less because dollar could buy so
much more. Prices climb faster than
we can push our earnings up. The
| high cost OF living Is arranged by prl.
vate understanding.
He declared himself in favor of an
| immediate revision. and said: III
should be downward. unhesitatingiy
| and steadily downward" In order not
to disturb the business interests OF
the country he advocated proceeding
with caution and prudence like men
who know what they are about and
not like those In love with n theory"
He declared that the trusts. instead
OF belonging TO a period of infant In.
dustries. were the product of very
sophisticated age when men knew
what they wanted and knew how TO get
II by the favor OF the government.
The present antitrust law, he said,
had apparently proved Intellectual. and
while he did not hold anyone respon-
sible. he declared that II will be neces-
sary to supplement the present law
with such laws. both civil and crimi-
nal, as will effectually punish and pre-
vent the methods by which trusts have
established monopolies. adding such
other laws as may be necessary to
provide suitable and adequate judicial
processes. whether civil or criminal. to
disclose them and follow them to a
final verdict and judgment.
A problem that he considers greater
than the trusts Is what he termed the
"vast confcderacies" OF banks. rail
ways, express companies. insurance
companies. manufacturing corpora
tions, mining corporations. power and
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