Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
WILSON IN LINE
FOR PURE FOOD
Governor Also Attacks Tariff
Again in Series of Speeches
in New York.

NEW YORK, Sept. lot was a
busy day for Cove nor Woodrow Will
son. The Democratic presidential nom
inee attended pure food conference
at the Colony club, the most exclusive
women's organization in New York,
where he delivered a speech promising
to make pure food live campaign is
sue; opened the Democratic tariff ex-
hibtion at 10 Union square with a
speech on the tariff: delivered another
address on the same subject in the open
air in Union square, conferred with a
number of nationa leaders at national
headqua tiers upon his future speaking
program and delivered a long tariff adj
dress before the New York Press club
At the tariff exhibit Governor Wilson
advanced the new thought that Ameri-
can manufacturers in demanding high
tariff barrier for their own protection
are really taxing themselves. This puts
United States industries at a disadvan-
tage in trying to compete in the worlds
markets abroad, he said.
we are pampering our industries"
said the presidential nominee, and We
are pampering them at the very time
they should be getting free American
Industry is now in strait jacket. and
what we are fighting for in behalf of in
dustry is freedom"
1t is Notifying, Governor Wilson
said, that tariff exhibit should be
necessary. Such an object lesson. the
spea r6ecldred, is like sending grown
ups to the kindergarten. The governor
; continued his attack by saying that the
manufacturers were really robbing
themselves. He pointed out that sew
: ing machine may be purchased in Mex
i,o for SIS that costs $50 here
How much greater" he cried, would
the market for these machines be if
they We're sold for $1S here as well as
in Mexico"
In his Press club address the gov
ernor assailed the Republican party,
and remarked the impotency of. the
new Progressive party
Spokesman for the People
The governor said, in part:
Il have come here for the purpose of
discussing just as candidly as possible the
political situation and | hope that in
doing SO l shall do injustice to no one.
am nor one of those who believe that
the right tactics in politics is % deprecate
the men you are opposed to and to belittle
and misrepresent the forces with which
you have to content. 1t ought to be
frank, straightforward and fair determi-
nation of what 1t is we are to agree upon
and do, and how we are to do it in the
great field Of our common action.
My feeling about my own candidacy
| hn rorp cir 10
be the people spokesman | don't want to
feel, if l am elected to the office of pres
ldent. that am speaking the purposes
and impulses and judgment Of the people
of the United States, We are not: we are
not politicians. We do not live our lives
at the polls. We are interested in poll-
tics only as it is a means of adjusting
the law to serve our life as it should be
| served.
Il want to discuss the three parties
now seeking your support | know there
are more than three parties in the United
States, and it is not out of any disre-
spect to the parties that have com
manded only a small number of votes In
the past that | leave them out of the
reckoning for the present
Afraid Of Man Who Doesn't Know.
Let us consider. first. the Republican
party. There is a great deal of differ
enCe between the Republican party and
certain groups of gentlemen who have
been allowed to lead and direct the Re
publican party. The Republican party, as
represented by these men. is the very
party which has got us into the difficulties
we are now trying to get out Of
Mark you, | am not saving that the
| leaders Of the party knew that they
were doing US an evil or that they in
tended to do us an evil. For my part, |
am very much more afraid of the man
who does bad thing and does not know
il is bad than of the man who does a
bad thing and knows il is bad, because |
think that in public affairs stupidity
is more dangerous than knavery; because
harder to fight and dislodge These gen
tlemen, whatever may have been their in
tentions, linked the government Of the
United States with the men who control
the big finances of the United States
They may have done it innocently, or they
may have done it corruptly.
The Men He's Interested In
THE men l am interested in are the
men who never have their voices heard
who never get line in the newspapers
who never get a moment on the plat
form, who never have access to the ears
Of governors or of anybody who is re-
sponsibe for the conduct of government.
work every day carrying the burden of
the world. How are they to be under
stood by the masters Of finance If only the
masters of finance are consulted? The
masters of finance ought TO be consulted
| because they are part of the peopIe
of the United States, but they ought to
be consulted only in proportion as they
are part of the people Of the United
States
There is a large body Of Republicans
now in open rebellion. And what inter
ests me about them and draws me to
them is that they are in revolt because
their consciences could not stand what
was going on. That third party deserves
your careful consideration when you are
debating the question which party You
are going to support. | would be ashamed
Of myself if 1 did not realize and admit
that some Of the sober and finer forces
Of this country are now devoted to the
| promotion of this new movement and