River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-15
WILSON IS TOLD
He IS NOMINEE
Democratic Candidate Gives His
Ideas on Way Nation Should
Be Governed.
SEES TWO BIG THINGS TO DO
Would Set Up Rule of Justice and
Right in Handling Tariff, Trusts,
ETC., and Protect Our People
and Our Resources.

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Woodrow Wilson today received the
committee which came to the little
White House" to notify him of his
domination for the presidency by the
Democratic party. Chairman Ollie
James headed the committee and de-
livered the speech of notification.
In reply Governor Wilson, after
thanking the committee, commented
on the unusual nature of the coming
campaign in which the candidates
must address an awakened nation, i'm
patient of partisan make-believe and
never more susceptible to unselfish ap-
peals or to the high arguments of
sincere justice. The forces of the ma
ton, he said, are asserting themselves
against every form of special priyi-
lege and private control, and are seek
ing bigger things than they have ever
heretofore achieved.
Two Great Things to Do.
How do we expect to handle each
of the great matters that must be
taken up by the next congress and the
next administration? said Mr.. Will
son. and he answered his own query
as follows:
What is there to do? 1t is hard to
sum the great task up, but apparently
this is the sum of the matter: There
are two great things to do. One Is
to set up the rule of justice and of
right in such matters as the tariff,
the regulation of the trusts and the
prevention of monopoly, the adapta-
ton of our banking and currency laws
to the varied uses to which our peo-
pie must put them, the treatment OF
those who do the daily labor in our
factories and mines throughout all our
great industrial and commercial I'M
dertakings, 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 people the doors of
opportunity through which they must,
generation by generation, pass if they
are to make conquest of their fortunes
contentment. In the performance of
this second great duty we are face
to face with questions of conservation
and of development, questions of for
ests and water powers and mines and
water ways, of the building of an ade-
duate merchant marine, and the open
ing of every highway and facility and
the setting up of every safeguard
needed by great Industrious, expand
ing nation.
Revision of the Tariff.
Coming to the tariff question, the
governor said the schedules have
been made up for the purpose of keep
ing as large a number as possible OF
the rich and influential manufacturers
OF the country in a good humor' with
the Republican party, which desired
their constant financial support. The
tariff has become a system of favors,
which the phraseology Of the schedule
was often deliberately contrived to
conceal"
Reasserting the Democratic convic-
ton that the only legitimate object
of tariff duties is to raise revenue for
the support of the government. he
continued:
There should be an immediate revi-
sion, and 1t should be downward, un-
hesitatingly and steadily downward. It
should begin with the schedules which
have been most obviously used to kill
competition and to raise prices in the
United States, arbitrarily and without
regard to the prices pertaining else
where in the markets of the world:
and it should, before 1t is finished or
fntermitted, be extended to every item
in every schedule which affords any
opportunity for monopoly, for special
advantage to limited groups of benefi-
Charles, or for subsidized control of
any kind in the markets or the enter
prises OF the country; until special
favors of every sort have been abso-
lutely withdrawn and every part of our
laws Of taxation shall have been trans
formed from a system OF government
al patronage into a system of just and
reasonable charges which shall fall
where they will create the least bur-
den. When we shall have done that,
we can fix questions of revenue and of
business adjustment in a new spirit
and with clear minds. We shall then
be partners with all the business men
of the country, and a day of freer,
more stable prosperity shall have
dawned.
Control of the Trusts.
The governor spoke of how recent