The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-18

details is enorInous-to me almost be-
yond conception. He never seems to
spare himself, and yet he seems to
come out always with steady nerves
and a smile upon his countenance As
a sample-whiIe president of Princeton
he was his own stenographer. He is a
good shorthand writer and uses it ex
tenSiveIy-Or did-in his everyday life.
taking copious notes of things he
wants to remember. He comes here
frequently, and is one of the most pop
ular visitors to the Banner gang. He
is a genuine Democrat, and sits around
the Office and talks snakes with the
snake editor, horses with the horse
editor, sports with the sporting editor
borrows any vacant desk upon which
to write, and makes himself generally
at home"
This is the man VINO said that the
great voice of America comes in 4
inurmnr from the hills and woods anQ
The farms and factories and the mills
rolling on and gaining volume until It
comes to US from the homes of COM
mon men"
There spoke the constructive states
imam, the contemplative philosopher
the ardent patriot, the simple Demo
cTat, the admirable gentleman.
This country needs q man. Even
more acute than when old Menelaus
.kgrippi in the early day of the Roman
commonwealth patched up the quarrel
between patrician and plebeian by q
recital OF the fable that told of the
strife between the stomach and the
members Of the human body, is the
breach between the privileges of the
rich and the burden OF the poor. That
breach must be closed, that dissention
composed, that tumult Quieted If peace
is to reign In our republic.
There Is but one remedy-JuSttce,
and justice always means equal oppor
tlinity for all. The people believe that
there has been favoritism practiced in
the enactment Of the laws and in the
administration of the laws. This
opinion is deep seated and pervades
all communities where there are hew
eles of wood and drawers of water.
One set gathers where another strewed.
In the division of profits capital gets
teso big a share. Nay, the Republican
party announces that the law must in
sure the profit of capital, as witness
the following from its platform of
1908:
TN all tariff legislation the true
principle of protection is best main
tanned by the imposition of such du-
ties as will equal the difference be-
tween the cost of production at home
and abroad, together with reason
thHy10 RIO1lS 10 xa4ll6ElC<1h
The duty is levied to protect. the
product, which is the property of cap
itsll But labor, mental and physician,
mast protect itself, while 1t is taxed to
protect the steel trust that declares
It can not protect itself That is the
enormity that win tax all his powers :
the eradication. Of every purely protec
tive feature OF the tariff. <.
On the tariff question Woodrow
Wilson is as sound as a. trout-sound-
er than some of his rivals you may
wot of, one at least. That is why so
many guns are trained on him That
is why predatory wealth is so anxious
to beat him for the Democratic nomf-
nation. If he would allow Wall street
to finance his campaign and to believe
he was reformer in speech only they
would not say word to his prejudice.
But they know him Knowing him.
they fear him. Fearing him, they hate
hira. And by that. same token the
people love him for his enemies. and
no man was ever more fortunate in his
enemies.