The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-30
Goyernor Wilson's Speech

Williams Grove, Pa. August 29-Colonel Roosevelt's analogy that benefits of the protective tariff system constituted prize
 money of which too much was kept by the officers and too little distributed to the
 crew" was criticised by Gov. Woodrow Wilson today here. He wanted to know in his speech before the state grangers' picnic just where the prize money came from" He said the plunder came from the farmer who was taxed too highly by the tariff on agricultural implements. The governor confined himself to the tariff and how it affected tho farmer. He drew attention to the Presidents s veto of the farmers free list bill. T dare say he was correct from his point of view" Governor Wilson said. flor he rep resented the trustees and not the people, The governor argued the government had been in control of self constituted trustees in the republican party and that it was time for the people to obtain control "It is strange we should have put off
 so long looking into our government to see whether it is in fact run according to the rules we originally laid down for
 it. but it is certain that we are now
 looking into 1t very sharply. indeed, and without the least danger that we shall
 be deceived again as to it's character. "Our idea of 1t has been from the first l that 1t was a genuine partnership and that all were upon one footing and were
 
 to share alike in 1t.
 But a very interesting thing has come .o viewpoint That is not in fact the | way the government has been admins | tered in our time It has been in the hands of self-constituted trustees and the partners have seldom been allowed a real governing voice in It's administration. eve had supposed that we were con | dtcting the national business along the | lines laid down by Jefferson, but we find | that as a matter of fact we have been conducting it along the lines laid down l by Hamilton. Hamilton believed that | the common run of men had little quail 1 ncation for such business; that 1t could 1 be really comprehended and wisely di-
 rected only by those who led in commer- | cial and industrial enterprises and owned | the chief bodies of property in the coun- | try.
 Corporation Rule
 | And in our time the leaders of the 1 republican party have consciously or
 subconsciously adopted his notion. Those men financed party campaigns and were
 always on the inside when party policy | was to be determined. Tariff schedules, the foreign policy of the country the | chief expenditures of the government everything went as they suggested while | the rank and file of us fared we might and were happy if we had any small share in the prosperity which they or 1 eanized for themselves. They were the trustees, we were their wards and took l part in the common life as they planned and directed What went on in the trus- | tee meetings we were very seldom al | lowed to learn; learned indeed, only by | impertinent inquiry: only by congress sional investigations or trials in court which the trustees complained sadly in | terfered with the regular course of busi- ness. MT. Roosevelt has proclaimed him. self convert to the protective policy, l say a covenant because he at one time very frankly avowed a different opinion and has said that while he admitted that, | no doubt, some duties were too high and ought to be lowered, yet the policy pur- 1 sued by republican administrations had been the right one on the whole. He