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.

error Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic
candidate for president. in "a speech
,.rs denied that he was an advocate of
fee trade He said there can not be
free trade in the United States so long
., rhe established fiscal policy of the
Federal government is maintained
THE Federal government said the
.overnor. "has chosen throughout the
generations that have preceded US to1
maintain itself chiefly on indirect in
tarest Of direct taxation. dare say we
rbau never see time when 1t can alter
that policy in any substantial degree,
aod there is no Democrat of prudence,
or tboughtfulness. that ] have met who
contemplates program of free trade.
The candidate devoted most of his
Thought TO what has now become known
&c his net theme-special privilege.
He spoke with more than usual ear
reetness and eloquence on this subject
and reused his hearers to high state
Of enthusiasm.
In a burst of generous spirit, not al
NAYS encountered in candidates, Gov
error Wilson declared that he yielded
T.. 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-
dale declaring that he felt kindred
snfrit IL all those in the ranks of pro-
ore,sive 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 rep esentatives has been at
tempting to do and will attempt to do
again and succeed, is to weed this
garden of industry that we have been
ru1tivating II 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
growths which every man can distin-
guish with the naked eye, which have
SO overtopped the rest, which have so
thrown the rest into destroying shadow
that il is impossible for the industries
Of the United States as a 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 a process If
favoritism, and that the favorites of
this policy have fiourshed at the ex-
9 - H. IN
our garden, therefore, and weed it, Wei
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
W. are going to see to 1t that fertiliza
lon Of intelligence, of invention, of
orlgination, is once more applied to a
Set Of industries now threatening to be
s'aguant. because threatening to be too
much concentrated That is the policy
NJ the Democratic party in regard to
the protective tariff. as 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
Tow, so far as party control is con-
'erned. He said that in the senate, a
union of Democrats and so-called Re-
NIplcans have been sending a Repub-
Hcan president measures which are
consistently vetoed, and arguing, from
Inc hypothesis that the next congress
would be progressive, in both the house
and the senate. he said that ii would be
FOLLY 10 have 2 president that would not
move with them, no matter how admir-
so.e his character. or high and patriotic
his purposes.
After this manifest reference to
PRESIDENT Taft, Governor Wilson then
inquired.
Doe, anybody dream for a moment
mere That there can be a third partyi
majority in either of the houses that
are To- he elected on the 9Th of Novem.
"7.. Does anybody think that it would
'7 wise to nave so extremely active a
gentleman, 50 extremely aggressive and
versatile a gentleman as is now leading
me third party, established alone in
Washington without party support or
.'f'lnt an impatient understudy TO
ovidence?"
Governor Wilson declared that the |
court. as now constituted were made
I"'.' TO meet with the present condi- |
' is said with a good deal of force. ] |
want frankly to admit" said Mr.. VIII |
" that merely to make laws and |
''' Their application to the present |
'.''S with their present procedure is |
''' very likely way Of reform. be- !
the present procedure of our
means that individuals must |
0"se the power that is being ex-
against them. that an individual
wait until he is injured and then |
INC court for redress, and that he |
nave money enough and courage |
.-h 10 60 to the court and ask for !
s...... t'or the worst of our present
non is that ii requires courage to |
TDI' the power Of the men now |
'".'o. of oug industries by resorting 1
amy tribunal Whatever. Therefore I |