Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-30
WILSON TELLS FARMERS
OF TEDDY AND TARIFF
Roosevelt a ProtectioniSti De-
cIafeS Gov, Wilson in Will
IiamS Grove Speech
Csy Associated Press.)

WILLIAMS GhONEs IA, aug. 70
Governor Wilson. in a speech at
farmers rally here today. talked of the
farmers share OF prosperity with exist
ing tariff He said in part:
1T is strange that we should have
put OF so long looking into our gov
eminent to see whether it is in fact run
according TO the rules we originally
laid down for it. but it is certain that
we are now looking into it very sharply
and without the least danger that we
shall be deceived again as to its char
acter. Our idea Of it has been from
the FIRST that IL was a genuine partner
ship and that all were upon one footing
and were to share alike.
But a very interesting thing has
Just come to light. That is not in
fact the way the government has been
administered in our time. 1t has been
in the hands of self-constituted trus-
tees. and the partners have seldom
been allowed a real governing voice in
the administration.
HAMILToN's PLAN.
1--WE had supposed that we were con-
lines laid down by Jefferson, but we
ind that as a matter OF fact we have
been continuing. it along the lines laid
down by Hamilton. Hamilton believed
that the common run OF men had lit
tie Qualification for such business, that
it could be really comprehended and
wisely directed only by those who lea
In commercial and industrial enterprises
and owned the chief bodies OF property
in the country. And IN our time the
leaders of the Republican party have,
consciously or unconsciously. adopted
his notion
NOW A PLUToCRACY.
Those men financed party campaigns
and were always on the inside when
party policy was to be determined.
Tarin schedules. the foreign policy OF
the country, the chief expenditures or
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT went as
they suggested, while the rank and nle
OF US Jared as we might, and we're
happy IL we had any small share In
the prosperity which they organized for
themselves. They were the trustees
we were their wards and took part in
the common life as they planned and
directed. What went on in the trustee
meetings we were very seldom allowed
10 learn-learned indeed only BY i'm
pertinent inquiry, only by congress
sional investigations or trials in court,
which the trustees complained sadly
interfered with the regular course OF
AS TO ROOSEVELT.
: .sAfre Roosevelt has proclaimed him
seIf a convert TO the protective policy
/ say a convert because ne al one
time very frankly avowed a different
opinion-and has said that while ne ad-
rnftted that. no doubt, some duties were
too hikh and ought to be lowered, on
the whole, the policy pursued by Re
pliblican administration had been the
right one; and he thought the prize
money which had been received under
that system by the manufacturers of
the country was legitimate booty.
1T is PRIZE MONEY.
The analogy is a very interesting
one Prize money is generally acquired
BY capture and not by any process Of
earnings. but Mr.. Roosevelt is always
frank aud says that his only objection
to the system is too much or the prize
money remains in the hands of the Of
to the crew. His own object he -avows
TO be TO see TO IL that more of the
prize money gets into the pay envelopes
OF those whom the free hooters employ.
The interesting point ! wish to raise
now is who supplies the plumber from
whom is the prize money taken?
THE DEMOCRATIC -IDEA2
The present Democratic congress
had the old-fashioned idea of govern
ment They supposed that its benefits
and projections were to be distributed
and equally shared. II introduced and
passed a bill which became known as
the farmers free list bill
That will put many indispensable
things on the free list Most prominent
among them were agricultural imple-
ments. because the American farmer
pays more for his agricultural imple-
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