The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-03
Wilson Makes Final
Appeal toVoters

The following address was read yes
tcrday throughout the country before
Democratic mass meetings:
Friends and Fellow CitizeYfs.--we
stana face to face with n great de.
cision, a decision which will affect the
whole course of our natksaai life and
our individual fortunes throughout the
mkt generation. We must make that
decision on the 5th of November. II
cannot be postponed. We cannot vote
without making II, and If we do not
vote those who do will make 1t for
us. The next four years viii deter
mime how we are to solve the ques-
ton of the tariff. the question of the
trusts. the question of the reformation
OF our whole banking and currency
system. the conservation of our nat
uraI resources and of the health and
vieor Of our people, the development
OF our means OF transportation, the
right application Of our scientific
knowledge 10 the work and healthfnl
prosperity Of our whole population,
whether In the fields ~ I'm the fac
tories or in the mines, the firm estab-
lishrnent OF foreign policy based
upon justice and good will rather than
upon mere commercial exploitation
and the selfish interests Of n narrow
circle of financiers extending their
GAftEf pttStS ~ the citu5 III ltIs taIltt,
and the extension of the assistance
Of the government to those many pro-
grams of uplift and hetterment 10
which some of the best minds of our
age have turned with wise hope and
ardor.
There is much to he done. and 1t
must be done in the right spirit and
in the right way, or 1t will deepen our
troubles. not relieve them. The tarifr
question must be solved In the interest
OF those who work and spend and plan
and struggle. those VINO are finding
foothoid and working out a career.
thoss who touch the sources of a
common life, for the sake III "the pow
er that this the fields and puiids the
ciisesH and not for the sake OF special
groups of men who dominate and CON
troll their fellows ana regard the toll
of millions Of men merely a@ an OPP
portunity TO make use OF their estab-
lishsd advantage n must be handled
very prudentiy. so that no honest toll
may be interrupted. no honorable or
useful enterprise disturbed; must he
dealt with by slow stages of well con
sidered chan ge--eehange whose object
shall be to restors and broaden OPP
porsunity and destroy nothing but
spec ial privilege and unwhoiesome
control Those who handle 1t, there
fore. must be men Ah0 Understand TIE
general interest and have devoted
themselves to serving II without fear
or favor
The trust question MUS. Re dealt
with In the same way with this dis
tinct and single program. to destroy
monopoly and to h. business intact,
TO give those Va 10 conduct enterprise
no advantage except that which comes
by efficiency. energy and sagaeify.
those only fountains pt honorable
xssaata. ssssass Ga SiaTssess aeeesE a.
.ng :" his insight and enterprise and
servie- N mastery in an open field
Currency ~~si banking questions must
"a discuss md settled in the inter-
s1t &C those who Use credit, produce
the crops, manufacture the goods. and
quicken the commerce of the nation.
rather than In the interest Of the
banker and the promoter and the
can i Of finance. WHO II set off by
themselves In the MANAGEMENT OF such
things. too easily lose sight even OF
their own Intimate and inseparabie re-
lat ion To the general needs and inter-
ests OF the rank ana file. Forests
must be renewed. and mines and water