The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-11-03
last RALLY OF
CAMPAIGN HELD
At court HOUSE.
Attorneys Gilbert, Green, Leek
and Lansden Address
Large Crowd.
WILSON MESSAGE READ
Rev. D. B. Kennedy Of South
ern Methodist Church
Reads to Audience.
WILSON MESSAGE READ

Y Inc iast rally OF the campaign was
held last night at the court house,
the room being well filed. Attorneys
Miles Frederick Gilbert. Reed Green,
David s. Lansden and Angus Leek
were present and made addresses.
Attorney A. Ney Sessions, of Anna,
who was present and invited to talk,
declined
M. J. Howley acted as chairman OF
the meeting and introduced Rev. ID.
B. Kennedy, pastor of the Southern
Methodist church, who read the
message of Gov. Wilson. 1t follows.
Friends and Fellow Citizens--Wc
stand face to face with great de-
cision, decision which will affect
the whole course OF our national life
and our individual fortunes through
out the next generation. We must
make that decision on the 5th of
November. 1t cannot be postponed.
We carnot vote without making 1t,
and IL we do not vote those who do
will hVake ii for us. The next four
years will determine how we are to
solve she question of the trusts, the
question Of tho reformation on our
whole banking and currency system.
the conservation of our natural re-
sources and of the health and vigor of
nur people, the development Of our
means of transportation, the right
application of our scientific knowl-
edge 20 the work and healthful pros
perlty of our whole population.
whether in the fields or In the fac
tories or in the mines, the firm es-
tablishment of foreign ploicy based
upon justice and good will rather
than unon mere commercial exploita-
tion and the selfish interests of mar
row circle of financiers extending
their enterprises to the ends OF the
earth. and the extension of the as
sistance of the government to those
many programs OF uplift and better
ment to which SONS Of the best
minds of our age have turned with
wise hope and ardor
Much to Be Done.
There Is mich to be done, and it
must be done Ia the right spirit and
in the right way, or 1t will deepen
our troubles, not relieve them. The
tariff question must be- solved in the
interest of those who work and
spend and plan and struggle, those
who are finding a foothold and
working out n career, those who
touch the sources Of strength and are
quick with the pulse OF common
life. for the sake of "the power that
tills The fields and builds the cities"
and not for the sake o. special groups
Of men who dominate and control
their fellows and regard the toll of
millions of men merely as an oppor-
tunity to make use of their estab-
lished advantage II must be han
died very prudently, so that no hon
st toll may be interrupted. no hon
orable or useful enterprise disturbed:
must be dealt with by slow stages OF
well considered change change
whose object shall be to restore and
broaden opportunity and destroy
nothing but special privilege and un-
wholesome control. Those who
handle 1t. therefore, must be men
who understand the general interest
and have developed themselves to
serving IL without fear or favor,
Trust Question Important.
The trust question must be dealt
with in the same way with this dis
tinet and single program, to destroy
monopoly and to leave business in
tact. 10 give those who conduct enter
prise no advantage except that which
comes by efficiency. energy and
sagacity. those only fountains of
honorable wealth, every man re-
warded according to his insight and
enterprise and service. his mastery
in an open field. Currency and
banking questions must be discussed
and settled In the interest OF those
who ase credit, produce the crops.
manufacture. the goods. and quicken
the commerce Of the nation. rather
than In the interest of the banker