Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-08
WILSON'S SPEECH OF
ACCEPTANCE.
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mines and throughout all our great in
dustrial and commercial undertakings,
and the political life of the people of
the Philippines, for whom we hold
governmental power in trust for their
service, not our own The other, the
additional duty is the great task of
protecting our people and our resources
and of keeping open to the whole peo
pie the doors of opportunity through
which they must, generation by gener-
alton, pass if they are to make con-
quest of their fortunes in health in
freedom, in peace and in contentment.
In the performance of this second
great duty we are face to face with
questions of conservation and of de
velopment, questions of forests and
water powers and mines and water
ways, of the building of an adequate
merchant marine, and the opening of
every highway and facility, and the
setting up of every safeguard needed
by an Industrious, expanding nation
In Partnership With the People.
These are all great matters upon
which everybody should be heard. We
chiefly because these large things,
which ought to have been handled by
taking counsel with as large a num-
ber of persons as possible, because
they touched every interest and the
life of every class and region, have
in fact been too often handled in
private conference. They have been
settled by very small and often de
liberately exclusive groups of men
who undertook to speak for the whole
nation, or, rather, for themselves in
the terms of the whole nation-very
honestly it may be, but very ignorant
ly sometimes, and very shortsightedly,
too-a poor substitute for genuine com
mon counsel No group Of directors
economic or political, can speak for
people. They have neither the point
Of view nor the knowledge. We need no
revolution: we need no excited change;
we need only new point of view and
a new method and spirit of counsel.
We are servants of the people. the
whole people The nation has been
unnecessarily, unreasonably at war
within itself. Interest has clashed
with interest when there were com
mon principles of right and of fair
dealing which might and should have
bound them all together, not as rivals,
but as partners. AS the servants of
all we are bound to undertake the
great duty CT accommodation and ad-
justment.
We cannot undertake it except in
spirit which some find it hard to un-
derstand Some people only smile
when you speak of yourself as a sery-
ant of the people: it seems to them
ike affectation or mere demagogy.
They ask what the unthinking crowd
knows or comprehends of great com
plicated matters of government. They
shrug their shoulders and lift their
eyebrows when you speak as if you
reallys believed in presidential prima
ries, in the direct election of United
States senators and In an utter pub
licity about everything that concern
government, from the sources Of cam
paign funds to the intimate debate OF
the highest affairs of state.
The Public Noble Whole.
They do not or will not comprc-
hend the solemn thing that is in your
thought. You know as well as they
do that there are all sorts and condi
tions of men-the unthinking mixed
a.. Ill "a
prudent, the unscrupulous with the
fair and honest-and you know, what
they sometimes forget, that every
class, without exception, affords a
sample of the mixture, the learned and
the fortunate no less than the unedu-
Gated and the struggling mass. But
you see more than they do. You see
that these muItitudes of men, mixed
Of every kind and quality, constitute
somehow an organic and noble whole.
a single people, and that they have in
terests which no man can privately
determine without their knowledge
and counsel That is the meaning OF
representative government itself.
You may think that am wandering
on into general dlsquiSlt1On that mas
little to do with the business in hand.
but am not. This is business -busi-
ness of the deepest sort. 1t will solve
our difficulties if you will but take it
as business.
The Tariff.
See how it makes business out of the
tariff question. The tariff question as
dealt with in our time at any rate has
not been business. 1t has been politics.
Tariff schedules have been made mp
for the purpose of keeping as large q
number as possible of the rich and in
fiuentiaI manufacturers of the country
IN a good humor with the Republican
party, which desired their constant
financial support. The tariff has be-
come system of favors. which the
phraseology of the schedule was often
deliberately contrived to conceal. 1t
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