Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
The Depth and Breadth of
Wilson's Democracy

of the people the audience ceered and then cheered
again The speaker say there
need He stopped intimate
word of that Democratic faith that binds him the
Wilson Democracy Thomas Jefferson revves and
again Wilson thorough He goes of the
He refuses believe that born sadded
brided and others booted and spurred
Democratic government according Wilson, elective
depotm tempered by memit 1t the organized energy and
intelligence the whole people 1t does abide capitols
pervad society like the nervesystem of the human body The
Democracy Wilson would make every house of
governmental power
Wilson insists that this campaign ife-and-eah struggle
Democracy-tha parting ways
that TAFT and Roosevelt both draw
kind government government take
people He insists that that kind government has aways-wth
the word-ensaved impoverished
people
Wilson understands that this age different from age
Jefelsonthat supreme question is the question of
economic liberty, in face of the tariff trusts
Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt live illusion that
tariff privileges and monopoes be by
kept under the eye wise and Washington
Wilson insists that privileges should be utterly abolished and
that private mOnopolies absolutely ntolerable
Wilson says he striving anything that
remotely resembles free trade impossible away
with mposs long the expenses of the Federal government
must be raised by indirect taxation He does object the
protection America but only to the tariff
privileges that life clean the tariff schd-
ues of all the lobby rcnes and the subsidies cunning soh
Wilson enemy big grows big
big abhors kind of business that
fauent and dropscal with fraudulent He thnks-and
thinks ghtltha there many businesses country
big because the behind se-
Piled to do pusilanimous things.
Mr. Wilson said in Pittsburg of small men
should be forcb secluded that they leisure quiet
to think larger thoughts This word of the pokes-
The regulation of competitions for which Wilson contends
that sharp distinction should be very
different kinds competition. right that private persons
should compete with each other for the public
all that they should compete with power
tax the public
Governor Wilson speaking language familiar to the Ameri-
can people when he reminds that the fluent and going life
democracy depends upon competition all individuals
excel in the service of the commonwealth
is not to be inferred from this principle highly or
gained and efficient business CONDENSATION they
raj of industrial broken up into warning
factions On the contrary the that such concerns
should be treated if they practical public ins-
tutions
They should recognized on such basis that their directors
and find profit and personal promotion
only in improving the services they render public
The system of egaIzed monopoly proposed by men like Mr.
George w Perkins oens and peril democracy because
would leave the gigantic industrial organizations private in their
motive and private the method their operation They would
have interest adverse the public they would have
power that public could permanently withstand
This newspaper has steadily maintained that prices cease
to be regulated by competition they should be by law that
where business risks have been eliminated dividends should be cut
to the current cost of working capital when corporation
to be competitive private the only
kind Of monopoly that is oerabe free country is public
monopoly.
This the logic Wilson democracy 1t is also the prevalent