The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-05-09
WHAT SuSTAINS
OUR PROSPERITY?
Not Captains o. Industry but
the Masses Of the People.
DECLARES WOODROW WILSON,

cour.r, Come Up, Ne; Down ne
s.,,-Al tire People DO Net Sehe's
In Democratic Government
q, WOODROW WILSON.
What fus me with confidence n the
future is that the world Is not waiting
ipop The stupidity Of politics The
world has an awkward way Of taxing
things into It's own hands The lie oI
the people must in the long run eA-
press itself in II politics and il does
not now express itself in THIS co-A'F!
In the politics We have been accusiom-
ed to in the iast decade
There are two " three theories ot
government Il this countr! Don de-
ce!ye yourself by supposinr a- the
people believe in democratic govern.
ment. because they DO not You have
only 70 listen 10 the utterauceS OF
very DISTINGUISHED Republican speak
ers 10 see that The! do not believe ana
DO not pretend 10 believe IN represent
alive government They viii te. you
they do not believe the judgment OF
the people can be trusted Ana are
you going 10 take course from these
Ceutlemen as to The preservation OF
our representative Institutions when
they don't want them TO represent III"
great body OF The peoplei
Prefers Judg-er. OF Rank ana Flo
! don't KNOW neither ] was born -
or learned 80 or what l4ppened 20 me.
but know this that the deepest ION
sicti0u . haye. arising ont % "o>er'1.
aon and exierieu-e : This. that
would rather take the Judgment u tar
RANK and lie rlan thee judgment 81 me
men VITO have ue-ome absorbed and
successful .eaLers IN great uudertak
Ms
And / want 70 ask these gentlemen
III, query What sustainS business in
he United Slaies: What - il THAI
makes The United states pros erous:
IL il that We have great captains OF
industry What would they DO with.
Jut the cunning and skin. the muscle
and the irdomitabl aspiring hope Of
lie American people II these people
were - ind hope dying out Of their
hearts they would become dumb driy
FL beasts. and your enterp-. - would
fan for iack Of the very breath that
sustalns them
II you want TO find whether a ma.
aon IS prosperous ask the men who
are Oh the make what they hope and
what they fear Go 10 the country
districts and ask anxious fathers who
are looking for openings for their sons.
where they expect 10 get them In.
where they find doors open aud where
they find doors shut 60 through the
places u here men are making earn
lngs and see whether they dread OF
confidently look forward 70 the future
and then yon viii find whether Amer
"a is waxing or waning for Il these
men are confident. fu.l Of hope: i. they
know they are going 70 get fair treat
Dent wherever they 20. then America
ian conquer the word Of enterprise IN
their hope
But II you End what you do find
men everywhere asking themselves
whether the doors Of opportunity nave
,ot been locked IN their faces-then
you will have 70 take new reckoning
rs 70 the future Of America
II only those who are chosen at the
Op have the right Of way In, what Ia
going % happen 70 America: Did you
over hear Of nation that was renew
I'd from the topi Did Jon ever hear
~ nation that was not made Yirile
hat did not account for is youth b.
renewal from the bottom; Did yOu
over hear q tree that drew It's sap
rom IL fOwersi Does Il not draw L
ron the dark and silent places ~ the
soili Does not nation draw u pow
sr Of renewal and ENTERPRISE and All
Is future from the ranks ~ the great
BODY u unnamed mem
Friend o. American eusin...
II you are going ~ discourage these
men. II you are gong u put the chm
II fear Ia their hearts. then American
captains Of Industry can whistle FOR
heir future. and they vii whistle In
wilderness
all t-e llleNu CY ANrrlNz1 Dusi-
ness because | know whore ia fonda
lions are laid and vherr they are
weak. These foundations are s,l,d
'nly when laid 10 the confidence o,
he common people.
a Democratf Why. man coes not
understand history who isut a Demo
crat man doesn't understand enter
prise who isn't q Democra, And L.,
NE say this. Democracy n not merely
matter u progra ms: II IL matter ~
sympathy and insight II fererds
lpon whether your heart II in connec
non with the great hea = ~ the re,,
PIE II does not depend up,n whether
fon cen cunniDgly devise a platform
hat looss Just ana Yoo1 Yon can
Hlid fimsy platform ana stand on
successfully. provided it, taais ,s #,
ne rgh' Kind ~ sriri'
II IL matter ~ -nriny nri from
your eyes OUT bur from me oyes ~
Nh@r men 10 Ge'' o.. me -t.lor mat