Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-20
WILSON GIVES
 RULE MEANING
Democratic Candidate for President Issues State
 ment Showing Ideas
 of Government
AMERICA PROSPEROUS

ception of the functions of govern ment It is not merely that democrat-i ic government is based. as the oldl phrase used to go, on the consent of the governed" but that it Is based! upon the participation in government of all classes and interests; and wher-I ever this conception can be realized, whenever government is disentangled from it's connection with special in terests and made responsive to gen uine public opinion, throughout the length and breadth of the great coun- try, it at once gets new ideals and responds to new impulses. 1t then be comes an instrument Of civilization and of humanity. America has so prOspered, her ener- gy has been so great, and her achieve ment hitherto so easy that she has not until our day felt the real diff culty and eNigency of government She has not had time, apparently, amidst her various and expanding in dustries to think of making her gov ernment economical in its administra- ton and efficient at every point. as her own business enterprises are.
 Every dollar that the government spends ought to be spent as carefully as if the resources of the country were limited. Every dollar of expenditure ought to mean something done or pro vided for the people Waste is also weakness. Inefficiency brings confu- sion.
 It is part of the new meaning of government, therefore, that its re- sources. are not to be put at the dis. ,F limited set of governing influences. but that those who exercise its auth oFity must keep house" for the whole people: must use the money raised by taxes as if ir were expended in trust to produce the best possible results in the ordering and stimulation of our life.
 it is an interesting circumstance that government is becoming less and less a business for politicians; that minds and energies Of etery kind are turning towards it as a part of the general enterprise of life. The reason we want our government to he free from every kind of private or naTrOT control is that we want to have it see more things than 1t would see if if served only a few. Those who con duct it ought to have the vision of the nation itself-ought to be sensitive to impulses from every quarter. The statesman should sit down with tho phiIanthrOpist, with the engineer, witt the forest expert with the student soils and agricultural methods, witt masters of technical and vocation2. eduCatiOn as well as with financier. and lawyers and manufacturers aur merchants and those whose interests have usually been at the center 0. pOliqy Though he cannot himseI. keep the life of the nation as a whoIe in his mind, he can at least make sure that he is taking counsel with thosC who know, that his sympathies may be open upon every side and that he may seek to serve civilization and humanity, not a party or any selfisL program.
 The Common Interest is Becominc
 Clearer
 These changes in the business ant character of government are not talk ing place because of any specia knowledge Os a few men, the lead CTS of parties and of public thought They are, on the contrary, comiR.
 
 tiOn itself.
 The government is becoming nor, and more a sensitive, registering in stTument. Public opinion has acCum ulsted tremendous force in our day not only, but it shows infinite ricl ness and variety. Men of many occr pations, of many interests, Of many as pirations. contribute to it. Neighbol hood meetings, city assemblies, stat conventions. interstate gathering! national conventions, are held by peC pIe of every sort interested in ever kind of occupation. Debate stimulate each profession. each trade, each clas of manufacturers, every union of l; boreTs, every association Of agent and the cumulative effect upon Opil ion and upon affairs is incalculable.
 Men are everywhere studying the own interests, not only from the special individual points of view, bJ also in conference with men followin similar callings all over the countr
 The fine result of it all is that n common interest is becoming mol and more cIeaT-that it is easier see things as a whole if you will b' resort to the men who have studio them as a whole.
 Why We Are Eager to Restore Il
 Ideals of Our Government
 Government, therefore, in the Uni ed States may be said to be enteriI upon a new day That is the resst we are so impatient al some of q old influences which abound in that is the reason we are so eager restore it's ideals and to broaden point of view; and that is also 2 reason why we wish to make il . solutely honest, not only, but tht oughly efficient
 A vast deal remains to be done the mere. line Of efficiency. lndet there has been very little serio effort even yet in the direction
 making the government ot the Unit States as efficient as a successful b mess organization would be. For gt ernmeut is an. instrument not
 object in itself We ought to be
 terested in it only as it express purpose Of the people of the count
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