Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-16
Wilson FIRST To
OPEN CAMPAIGN


a'N N'NN NH'll w NHlHh lNhlt iH'H
every mothers son Of M is tied 10
the apron string Of the old grand
mother sitting Ia the capitol at wash
ington.
"liut ! want AT every turn Of every
argument that ! make Of this nature
20 say that tho legitimate business
enterprise ~ this country has abso-
lulely nothing TO fear provided they
win stand on their own bottoms but
that they have everything 10 fear II
all they have under them is the prop
of u tax which everybody IL Obliged 10
pay IN order that they may be able
10 conduct their business, and | be-
~ government.
There In another matter In which
I am deeply Interested. There are
only three lines devoted to II In the
! democratic platform, but there are no
| lines devoted Ia II In the republican
platform, and there are 80 many lines
| IN the bun moose platform that I
have not found II YETI hut In thu
democratic platform there are three
| lines, In which the party declares
| II Ia bo ITS duty TO devote such funds
~ the national government aa II may
constitutlonally devote 10 such pur-
/ poses 10 the promotion of industrial
agricultural vocational education"
The governor explained that the
platform In this connection meant
/ system of university extension to the
/ fnrmer. making scientific knowledge
| available 10 the farmer lie referred
to a pending bin to promote agricultu-
raj development In that way you
scr." he remarked, the men in the
house are not waiting until you elect
national officers on their platform,
they are going ahead with their duty
now because our platform is not mo-
rsscs 10 catch flies; II means bust.
ness.
~ prosperity is not to be checked
borders and make conquests of the
markets Of the world. That is the
reason that America is so deeply in
tcrcstod In the question of which
have already spoken, the merchant
marine, and that Is also the reason
why America is so much Interested in
breaking down that dam against
which all the tides of our prosperity
have banked up. that great dam that
runs around all our coasts and which
we call the protective tariff, ! would
prefer to call IL the restrictive tariff.
would prefer to call II the tariff that
holds us back. ! would prefer to call
1t the tariff that hens us in, the tariff
that chokes us, the tariff that smoth-
crs us. because the great unmatched
energy of America is now awaiting for
IA field greater than America itself IN
which to prove that Americans can
take care OF themselves
There was n time not many years
ago. when | would have uttered senti-
mcnts like these with certain de-
gree of heat. because would have
known. | would have felt at any rate,
that ! was against an almost irresist-
able force. But | don't feel the least
heat now. We have got them on the
run now, and the resistance is very
little. The friction Is going to come
when they try to put on the brakes
and try to stop. There Is no heat in
the business now. there is hopeful con
fidence that the people of the United
States at last realize their opportun
ity, know what 1t is they want ana
are out to get II. | have never known
anything like the awakening that has
occurred in the United States In re
cent years. II Is just as If we had
been taking long and comfortable
sleep with sometimes very disturb
ing dreams we should awake once In
awhile In II nightmare and say: Who |
is this sitting on my chest and then
we would turn over and 20 to sleep
again and at last we walked up and |
found therc was somebody sitting on
entirely to the consciousness of the |
new day. There is not going to be any
more nightmares. 1t is going to be
daytime all the time and somebody is |
going TO be on the lookout all the time
to see that this thing does not happen |
again and what we are trying for N
this campaign is merely this: Who of |
you, how many of YOU, which of you,
have enlisted for the fight, | believe |
that it is going to be one of those
general rccruitments when you don't
need to have recruiting officers
Il believe that there is going to be
great handsome, peaceful. hopeful
revolution on the fifth day of Novem-
her, 1872, and that after that royolu-
tion has been accomplished men will
go about their business saying: What
was it We feared? We feared chains
and have won liberty. We feared to
touch anything for fear We should mar
It and no wevcrything wears the bright
shade of prosperity and we know that
the right is also the profitable thing
and that nobody can serve nation
without serving also himself"
Horse ShuCrs win Picnic.