The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02
Gov. Wilson Issues "RaIIy
Day" Message to Voters.
He Points Out the Issues as He
Sees Them.
ON THE PEOPLES DECISION
Depends Whether Our TrOu-
bleS Are Relieved.
"BIack Magic of Campaign
Funds" Can't Work Miracles.

| New York, Nov, 2-Governo1
woodrow Wilson has issued the fol-
| lowing Rally Day. message to his
| fellow citizens:
Friends and Fellow Offensive
| stand face to face with a great de-
cision. a decision which will affect the
whole course of our national life and
| our individual fortunes throughout the
| next generation. We must make that
| decision on the 5th of November. 1t
cannot be postponed. We cannot vote
without making it, and if we do not
vote those who do will make it for US.
| The next four years will determine
how we are to solve the question OF
the tariff, the question of the trusts,
the question of the reformation of our
whole banking and currency system,
the conservation of our natural re-
sources and of the health and vigor of
our people, the development Of our
means of transportation, the right ap-
plication of our scientific knowledge to
the work and healthful prosperity of
our whole population, whether in the
fields or in the factories or in the
mines. the firm establishment OF a for
eign policy based upon justice and good
will rather than upon mere CONNER
cial exploitation and the selfish inter-
estS of narrow circle of hnanciers
extending their enterprises to the ends
of the earth, and the extension OF the
assistance of the government to those
many programs of uplift and better
ment to which some of the best minds
of our age have turned with wise nope
and ardor.
Much to Be Done.
There is much to be done, and it
must be done in the right spirit and In
the right way, or 1t will deepen our
troubles, not relieve them. The tariff
fI1a iV,fn act
of those who work and spend and plan
and struggle, those who are finding
foothoId and working out a career,
those who touch the sources. of
strength and are quick with the pulse
of a common life, for the sake of 1.-The
power that tills the fields and builds
the cities and not for the sake of
special groups of men who dominate
and control their fellows and regard
the toll of millions of men merely as
an opportunity to make use of their
established advantage. 1t must be
handled very prudently so that no
honest toll may be interrupted, no
honorable or useful enterprise dis
turbed
The Trust Question.
The trust question must be dealt
with in the same way with this dls-
tinct and single program, to destroy
monopoly and to leave business intact,
to give those who conduct enterprise
no advantage except that which comes
by efficiency, energy and sagacity,
those only fountains of honorable
wealth. every man rewarded according
to his insight and enterprise and serV- |
ice his mastery in an open field. Cur |
rency and banking questions must be
discussed and settled in the interest
of those who use credit, produce the
crops, manufacture the goods an'
quicken the commerce of the nation |
rather than in the interest of the |
banker and the promoter and the cap !
tain of finance, who if set Off by them !
selves in the management of such
things, too easily lose sight even of |
their own intimate and inseparable re
lation 10 the general needs and inter-
ests of the rank and file.
Shall we not move forward to the final
An organized, united, and en-
thusiaStic force stands ready, the onIy
united and militant force to which the
people can turn with any prospect that
they will be served, promptly, effectively
and upon a clear principle of actlon-the
great Democratic party, now at last solid
and of clear purpose. To it all who are
full of hope and of the vigor that makes
the nation, the noble and devoted women !
who wish to see better days for their chill
1ren and for all who are oppressed. the
men who never grow old but always press
forward to enterprises of the new age, all
who desire free opportunity and love the
public course that is just and righteous
and quick with the hopes of mankind A
great people is turning its face to the
ight not desiring revolution, but loving
the right and determined to set it up,
wisely. temporarily. honorably. with prud
snCe and patient debate, not in irritation
1r in haste but like men, not like chill
iren. 1t is a great day and a propitious
1ne. The responsibility is ours, and We
shall assume it knowing what it means.
Fhe decision of the 5th of November will |
Usher in, if we be true, new day of COL
idence, freedom and prosperity. 1t will |
5e no niggardly triumph of a party or a
action, but the triumph of people. The
Democratic party will be, not the selfish
-ictor. but the trusted instrument, and
he years that follow will test every prin-
.iple of the great republic. God grant we
hall be worthy to prevail.
WOODROW WILSON