Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-24
WILSON DRAWS
topeka CROWD
CANDIDATE ADDRESSES ONE or
LARGEST RALLIES IN. YEARS; &
GOES EAsT4ToDAY.

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 23.-The coming
OF Woodrow Wilson to Kansas and his
speech last night at the banquet Of the
Kansas democratic club brought out
one Of the largest gatherings OF demo
fcrats here since the visit or William ].
Bryan in 1905. Wilson'S subject was
the relation of business to the gov
ernment.' He said in part:
I'VE look back to great example
the example set us by a great practi-
cal genius. whose gift it was to look
forward and plan the life OF nation.
It is the singular distinction of Wash
ington and Of his associates that they
conceived their own fortunes and the
fortunes of Virginia in the terms of
the development of the nation. When
we, in our generation, look upon the
try to see the facts as they are and to
see them broadly. America is a busi-
ness nation, nation of material enter
prise and commerce on large scale.
1T is our duty, therefore, il we
would heed the example of Washing
ton and the men in his generation, to
ask ourselves what must we do for
America as she is?
"The cry Of the hour seems to be
that business has grown as formidable
in it's independent organization as to
have set itself up in rivalry to the gov
ernment itself and that it therefore
must be regulated; that that the whole
force of government must be bent to
the restraint of business. venture to
suggest that what we are really after is
not the restraint of business, but the
restraint of individuals who are put
ting business upon a false and selfish
footing. We do not wish to hamper
the great processes of our economic
life, but to free them where they have
been made wrong use of by men who
have ignored the common interest and
sought to promote their own private
and selfish purposes by means that
were neither public spirited nor hon.
orable. The rules that we now seek
to set up are that the men who are
making use of our corporation laws for
their own advantage shall not employ
them to establish monopoly; that they
shall not use them to limit credit to
those whom they draw into their own
enterprises; that they shall not If they
do wrong, find covert and concealment
within the corporations whose power
they employ.
.'In respect of the restraint of wrong,
we should deal with individuals, rath-
er than with corporations. 1t should
be laid bare of whom business com
binations consist and those of whom
they consist should be directly and In
dividually dealt with whenever a wrong
is done, either to an individual, or to
the freedom of business itself The
movement back to the people in the
field Of politics must precede the move
ment away from monopoly back to free
Business can be free only
when. the nation is free. Americas
program of popular government is
Americas hope for prosperity. Politi-
cal freedom and commercial freedom
60 hand in hand. Where there is
monopoly in the one there will rbe'I
tyranny and special privilege In the
other"
Wilson Addresses Students.
Lawrence, Kan, Feb. 23-It was as a
university man to university men that
Gov, Woodrow Wilson addressed the
students of the University Of Kansas
here today He taxed fifteen min
utes. All classes were dismissed dur
ing his visit. The cost of living was
his theme.
Gov. Wilson arrived here from To-
peka at $3.50. He was introduced to
the students by w. r. Stubbs of Kan
sas.