Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
FREE TRADE NOT
AIM Of WILSON,
HE ASSERTS
We Must Weed Out Industrial
Garden That We Have Been
CuItivating, He Says.

,.r, denied that he was an advocate of
,o trade He said there can not be
s.,o trade in the United States so long
as the established fiscal policy of the
rederal government is maintained.
aThe Federal government" said the
,,ornor has chosen throughout the
Generations that have preceded US to
maintain itself chiefly on indirect in
terest of direct taxation. l dare say we
shou never see time when it can alter
tbat noIicv in any substantial degree,
and there is no Democrat of prudence,
or tboughtfulness, that have met who
contemplates program of free trade"
Tho candidate devoted most of his
,houqht 10 what has now become known
as his pet theme-special privilege.
Ne smoke with more than usual ear
teStness and eloquence on this subject
and reused his hearers to high state
of enthusiasm.
In burst of generous spirit, not al
wavs encountered in candidates, Gov
srnor Wilson declared that he yielded
to no man in his personal admiration
of President Taft. This sentiment clio
tied rounds of applause. He also paid
warm tribute to Senator LaFollette,
AGAIN APPLYING to him the term of The
Little Giant of Wisconsin"-the candi-
date declaring that he felt a kindred
spirit to all those in the ranks of pro-
gressfve Democracy, regardless of their
labels.
In outlining the tariff policy of the
Democratic party Governor Wilson
spoke in part as follows:
Weed the Garden of Industry.
What we intend to do. what the
house Of representatives has been at
tempting to do end will attempt to do
again, and succeed, is to weed this
garden of industry that we have been
cultivating If We have been laying at
the roots of our industrial enterprises
this fertilization of protection we have
found that the stimulation was not
equal in respect of all the growths in
the garden, and that there are some
gIoWths which every man can distin
guish with the naked eye, which have
so oyertopped the rest. which have so
thrown the rest into destroying shadow.
that it is impossible for the industries
of the United States as whole to pros
per under their desolating obstruction.
In other words, we have found out that
this that processes to be a process of
protection has become process Of
favoritism, and that the favorites of
this policy have fourished at the ex-
penSe Of all the rest. We are going iato
our garden, therefore, and weed it. We
are going to give the little plants air
and light in which to grow. We are
going to pull up every root that has so
spread itself as to draw all the nutri-
ment Of the soil from the other plants.
we are going to see to it that fertiliza-
hon Of intelligence, of invention, of
oHgination. is once more applied to a
SCI or industries now threatening to be
>aghant. because threatening to be too
huch concentrated That is the policy
VI Inc Democratic party in regard to
"e protective tariff, as l understand it,"
About Taft's Vetoes.
In speaking of the present condition
Of the government, Governor Wilson
SAID that it was neither flesh, fish nor
HOWL, so far as party control is con-
'elleu. He said that in the senate. a
union Of Democrats and so-called Re-
pu0lcans have been sending a Repub-
mean president measures which are
consistently vetoed, and arguing, from
inc hypothesis that the next congress
WOULD BE- progressive in both the house
-ha the senate, he said that it would be
.''N 10 have a president that would not
move with them no matter how admir-
ao'e ms cha. acter or high and patriotic
mis- purposes
After this manifest reference to
President Taft, Governor Wilson then
inquired:
Does anybody dream for a moment
'7-e. that there can be third party
"'Jo'iJy in either of the houses that
10 be elected on the 9Th of Novem-
yer. Does anybody think that it would
wise 10 have so extremely active a
-"ueman, so extremely aggressive and
versatile d gentleman as is now leading
we tnlrd party. established alone in
7>A'nston without party support or
.nl an impatient understudy to
fttfIte
Governor Wilson declared that the
rs as now constituted were made
Da-f To meet with the present condi.
It is said with a good deal of force. I
."l frankly to admit" said Mr.. Will
wy" that merely to make laws and
ave their application to the present
..'' with their present procedure is
'. very likely way of reform. be-
-Dse tho present procedure of our
means that individuals must
'hEe the power that is being ex.
7' against them, that an individual
wait until he is injured and then
me court for redress. and that he
nave money enough and courag
TO go to the court and ask for
For the worst Of our presen,
'''.'h Is that it requires courage to
r"se the power Of the men now
intro. OF ou- industries by resortine
tribunal Whatever. Therefore. !
''s 1" admit that we may have 10