The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-21
Pre-EmlnentIy Independent, Of High
AZ Courage, He Undoubtedly 10 at
-. This Time Man of Destiny-WiII
: 5 Re.estabIish the Rulings Of Justice
In the High Places.
SAVOYARD.

1.-THE universities would make men
forget their common origins, forget
their universal sympathies and join
q class-and no class ever can serve
America. "-Woodrow Wilson.
Governor Wilson is student in the
best sense Of the word-he thinks
profoundly on what he reads. He is
GIFTED with the genius Of taking pains,
and recognizes that excellence is the
fruit Of labor. He is the author OF
several books, some Of which are now
|btandard, notably his congressional
Gpvernment," 1.-THE States" and "A
History of the American People" Be-
fore he was thirty he was an eminent
lpublicist, and no man Of the present
day is better fitted for the public serv-
ice Of q free people. He Is a practical
man, an administrator. His is Gre
lative genius, and he can make paths
where there were none before. He is
. man Of destiny If there be such a
one now on the public stage. He is a
man Of courage and prominently in.
dependent.
Woodrow wilson Is a Democrat In
social contact as we'll as Democrat
In political principle. His sincerity Is
manifest in every word. take the lib
erty Of inserting what one of the
shrewdest observers of the newspaper
press says of him-Marmaduke B.
Borton of Nashville Banner.
ssxxy,,.o,,. ooooo;+v $or looliro of%er
details is enormous-to me almost be-
. You'd conception. He never seems to
spare himself, and yet he seems to
come out always with steady nerves
and q smile upon his countenance. AS
q sample-while president Of Prince
ton he was his own stenographer. He
is a good shorthand writer and uses
It extensively-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
liz q genuine Democrat and sits around
the Office and talks snakes with the
snake editor, horses with the horse
editor, borrows any vacant desk on
which to write, and makes himself
generally at home"
This country needs man. Even
more acute than when old Menelaus
Agrippi in the early days Of the Ro-
man commonwealth patched up the
quarrel between patrician and plebe-
ian by a recital Of the fable that told
Of the strife between the stomach and
the members Of the human body, is
the breach between the privilege OF
the rich and the burden Of the poor.
That breach must be closed, that dis
sension composed, that tumult quieted
IL peace is to reign in our republic.
= There is but one remedy-justice,
and justice always means equal oppor-
tunity 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
! an communities where there are hew-
ers of wood and drawers Of water. One
set gathers where another strewed.
In the division of profits capital gets
too big a share. Nay, the Republican
party announces that the law must in
!. sure the profit Of capital. as witness
J the following from its platform of
1908:
I'm all tariff legislation the true
principle Of protection is best main.
,tained ky the imposition Of such du.
ties as will equal the difference be.
tween the cost Of production at home
and abroad, together with reason.
able profit to American industries"
The duty levied to protect the prod.
net, which is the property of capital.
But labor, mental and physical, must
protect itself, while it is taxed to pro-
tect the Steel trust that declares it
cannot protect itself. That is the chief
abuse with which the reformer has
$ to deal. That is the enormity that
viii tax all his powers-the eradica'
ton Of every purely protective feature
az the tariff.
On the tariff question Woodrow viii.
son IL a. sound as q trout-sounder
than some of his rivals you may know
Of, one at least. That 10 why so many
guns are trained on him. That IL why
predatory wealth Is 80 anxious to beat
him for the Democratic nomination. II
no would allow Wall street to. influ.
ence his campaign and to believe he
vas . 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
him. And by that same token the
people love him for his enemies, ana
- man WIN ever more fortunate 3