Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-12

APRIL II, 1912.
of revolutionary haste, but merely be-
cause we ought always to recognize
that it is of the very essence of con-
structive craftsmanship that we should
think and act temporarily, wisely, just
ly, in the spirit OF those who recon-
struct and amend, not in the spirit of
those who destroy and seek to build
from the foundations.
PARTY'S GREAT TASK.
"The American people are an eminent
ly just and an intensely practical peo-
pie. They do not wish to lay violent
hands upon their own affairs, but they
do claim the right to look over them
with close and frank and fearless scru-
tiny, from top to bottom; and
they do hold themselves at liberty, at
lacking one point at a time, to read
just, correct, purify, rearrange; not de
stroying or even injuring the elements,
but filling their altered combination
with a new spirit This is the task OF
the Democratic party
In later speeches Governor Wilson
has elaborated upon the points by which
he first astonished the country at Har-
risburg.
TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY"
Said he of the tariff:
"The worst feature Of protection is
the Generalization of our political ideas.
We have based government upon pat
ronage and privilege instead of justice
and equality. That's the cancer that
eats at the hearts of ALL 1t is likely
that for an indefinite period we shall
have to pay our nationaI bills by duties
collected at the ports. Though am
not for drastic changes, wish saw
some ultimate escape from it. At pres
ent I do not Therefore, what we have
to ask ourselves is not the principle
upon which we are to act, for that is
plain. We are to act upon the funda-
mental principle of the Democratic
party, not free trade, but tariff for reve-
nue., and we have got to approach that
by such avenues, by such stages and at
such pace as will be consistent with
the stability and safety of the business
of the country.
''The tariff question is at the heart of
every other economic question we have
to deal with. and until we have adjust
ed that properly, we can settle nothing
in way that will be satisfactory and
lasting. The tariff is the one central
issue of the coming campaign"
AS TO RECALL.
said he of the initiative referendum
and recall:
The initiative, referendum and recall
are to me merely C means to an end
that end being the restoration of the
control of public opinion Where opin
ion already controls, where there is now
actual, genuine representative govern
ment as believe there is in the south
in general, they are not necessary. Each
state must judge for itself. L do not
see how it could be made a subject Of
national policy The people will. in NV
opinion, demand these measures onIv
where they are manifestly necessary 70
take legislation and the control of adj
illustrative action away from special.
hopelessly entrenched interests. They
are not general or universal panaceas!
Inc recall OF the judges am abso-
Iutely against, and always have bean
1t is remedy for symptom. NOT for
a disease-the disease being the control
or the system by influences which gem
eral opinion has ceased to control"
AS TO MONEY TRUSTS
And said he of the money trust.
FWhat was IT that they proposed To
investigate in congress the other dav9
Not a money trust in the ordinary
sense that anybody is hiding or hoard
ing money anywhere. Men who hava
money are not fools enough not to want
to use it, because it does not vield
them anything if it is not used. What
Is suspected is this: that nobody can
get large loans in. this country to start
those large enterprises by which alone
our industry thrives, unless he will
consent to take certain gentlemen In
with him, who furnish money: that the
privileged circle is closed, and that.
while you can get all the little credit
you please in your local banks, YOU
can't get your big credits where the re-
serves of the country are kept except
on the terms of the gentlemen who
stand guard over these reserves. That
is what is charged. And it is NOT
charged without evidence. 1t is NOT
charged without abundant evidence.
Therefore, if only those who are chosen
at the top have the right-of- way in,
Did you ever hear of nation that was
from, the top? Did you ever
hear of a nation that was not made
virile. that did not account for it's
youth, by renewal from the bottom?
Did you ever hear of tree that drew
it's saps from its flowers? Does it not
draw it from the dark and silent places
of the soil? Does not a nation draw
its power of renewal and enterpl Use,
and all of it's future, from the ranks
of the great body of unnamed men?
And if you are going to discourage