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.

~ +rade He said there can not be
.... trade in the United States so long
tho established fiscal policy of the
p,.a.roI Government is maintained.
.Tbe Federal government" said the
Governor. has chosen throughout Ihe
s.rsrations that have preceded us TO
s,oirtein itself chiefly on indirect IN
.st of direct taxation. l dare say we
mover see a time when it can alter
,bat nolicy in any substantial degree
I'D there is no Democrat of prudence
+boughtfulness. that | have met VINO
Yan,ononlates a program of free trade
The candidate devoted most of his
.h,uoh+ 10 what has now become known
=. his net theme-special privilege
uo smoke with more than usual ear
.os,pass and eloquence on this subject
ard reused his hearers to high state
of enthusiasm.
i, hurst of generous spirit, not al
avs encountered in candidates, Gov
,rror Wilson declared that he yielded
m man in his personal admiration
4 of President Taft. This sentiment enc
ted rounds of applause. He also PAID
uarr tribute to Senator LaFollette,
,gair applving to him the term of The
y5tre Giant of Wisconsin"-the candi-
5o,a declaring that he felt a kindred
sririt t. all those in the ranks of pro
gre,sive Democracy, regardless OF their
4 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
4 ,opse of representatives has been at
temp+Ine to do and will attempt to do
again, and succeed, is to weed this
4 Garden of industry that we have been
ultivating II we have been laying at
tho roots Of our Industrial enterprises
this fertilization of protection we nave
found that the stimulation was not
equal In respect of all the growths in
the garden, and that there are some
growths which every man can distin-
guish with the naked eye, which have
50 overtopped the rest, which have SO
thrown the rest into destroying shadow
h that ii is Impossible for the industries
of the United States as a whole to pros
per under their desolating obstruction.
Il In other words, we have found out that
Il this that processes to be a process of
protection has become process Of
f favoritsm, and that the favorites of
& this policy have fourished at the ex-
pense of all the rest. We are going into
i our garden, therefore, and weed it. We
are going to give the little plants air
3 and light in which to grow. We are
n 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.
n We are going to see to 1t that fertlliza
Il tlon Of Intelligence, of invention, Of
q OmginauOn, is once more applied to a
set Of industries now threatening to be
4 stagnant, because threatening to be too
much concentrated. That is the policy
Of the Democratic party in regard to
q the protective tariff, as | understand it."
About Taft's Vetoes.
In speaking of the present condition
a Of the government, Governor Wilson
said that 1t was neither flesh, fish nor
\ fowl so far as party control is con-
q union of Democrats and so-called Re
puoicans have been sending a Repub-
II hcan president measures which are
consistently vetoed. and arguing, from
me hypothesis that the next congress
n would be progressive, in both the house
ana the senate, he said that it would be
Jolly 70 have a president that would not
N move with them, no matter how admir-
able his character, or high and patriotic
Fl his purposes.
After this manifest reference to
"a PRESIDENT Taft, Governor Wilson then
r inquired
Does anybody dream for a moment
mere, that there can be third party
Il majority in either Of the houses that
81 are no be elected on the 9Th of Novem-
oV'' Does anybody think that it would
Do wise to have so extremely active a
gentleman, so extremely aggressive and
'~'SaUIe gentleman as is now leading
,u- third party, established alone in
< Washington without party support or
'TS'alnt. an impatient understudy to
81 p oydence?"
Governor Wilson declared that the
aus AS now constituted were made
"a tud'e 10 meet with the present condi-
n tons
IL is said with good deal of force. J
& want frankly to admit" said Mr.. VIII
'" that merely to make laws and
rave their application to the present
Fl '1rtS with their present procedure is
''. very likely way of reform. be-
'.s7 The present procedure of our
,1llS means that individuals must
D'.ense the power that is being ex-
against them. that an individual
wait until he is injured and then
'"' court for redress, and that he
nave money enough and courage
's" To- go to the court and ask for
... For the worst of our present
IN Is that it requires courage to
"se the power Of the men nov
0'.'o. of our Industries by resorting
any tribunal whatever. Therefore. /
''dS to admit that We NAV have to
special tribunals. special proc
n, ana } am not afraid for my part