The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-28
WOODROW WILSON'S
 RINGING ADDRESS TO ELECTORS OF BRIDGEPORT

do by means Of our government for ourselves, and if are to act for ourselves through the government have in order to do it successfully. In the first place, to what use do you want to place your government and what kind of government will be suit able to you? But has anybody said that we cannot use our government: Not only has somebody said it, but everybody knows that sn recent de cades we have not been able to use our government for our own purposes There are some intan gible things be-
 tween ourselves and our governn1 ent
 We are groping to get our grasp on
 the levers of the machine.
 Why is it we ask ourselves, that again and again, and again we dis tinctly declare what it is we want and 1t does not happen? For example one of the things standing like a great cloud in the way of the Repub- again what they promised four years ago. We may say ito them, You sad before that you would do these things, and we gave you the commission to would not do them we changed the
 majority in one of the Houses-.'
 At this point there was crash in the rear of sfl1e hall. A section of the steam radiation system upon which anxious auditors were perched, gave way dropping 8 number to the
 
 seconds feeling of uneasiness swept the gathering The speaker reasgur- ed the gathering, T hope no one is hurt said he raising his hand to queii the threatened Gisturba nee Re- assuring cries came from the scene of the trouble and one voice broke the spirit cf uneasiness with the cheerful shout
 Its the Moose party falling down and out.''
 Resunaing his discourse, Gov. Will ivy had not their pledge. They come to us again. he said, "and we say to them, Why do you come to Us again :? You promised before, you said before, that you would lower the tariff where it furnished hiding place for spe- cial 1ntreests but you did not do it. made furnished new cover for special interests
 When you put in a. Democratic house, the Democratic house proceed the Republicans promised to do and they were withheld by very honest man, the president of the United States who has not permitted to be put on the statute books the things that had been promised because his veto was interposed What was the eonfiding in? Not in i the people of the United States. because by an un- nnstaka,b vote it had declared to consulting. I am not saying this by way of criticism, because the gentlemen who have been representing the peo- pie for half a generation have felt that they should consult with the spe- cia1 intereets-and I mean the biggest special interests in which the biggest manufacturers have been concerned. and if our governors were honest men they felt that these were the only ones to be consulted.
 There is little advising circle i071 heart of our government at Washing ton. and stands between us and our practice of those who lead the Republican party it is impossible that the people should use their own government for their own purposes proposal made by the other wing Of the Republican party. You are led to examine very closely just what as I do that the general advisers of their government for decades are those who have been most instrument not saying for the moment whether trusts are good or bad I am told on excellent authority that there are good ones but it strikes me, that the good trusts are like the purple COW that Geliett Burgess tells us about: s' T never saw purple COW,
 never hope to see one
 But I know this much anyhow
 I'd rather see than be one
 ''I never saw a good trust and 1t te between good trusts and bad. But this you have had demonstrated- the trusts are those which nave been jointly consulted not only under this tra tions which have preceded it. And the gentlemen who have consulted appear to continue to consult with gentlemen. between the platform of the, regular Republican party and the platform of the irregu- platform of the regular Republican party is in it's terms more progress siVe than the platform of the irregular party.
 s'The regular Republican platform declares against monopoly but the ir- regular Republican platform does not. On the contrary it says if the power and I can't quote exactly for I have the failing of not rer,aennE ering words 1t says that it is opposed to the abuse of such power as has been gained by great combinations of capital but it says that the only test it will require 1f them is whether those who derive profits from that system and exercise the control over the industries of the not
 'eThey say that they shall require and exercise this control in their use of the profits that the profits arc properly shared and that the nation shall get a, part of the fruits They ion't even so much as propose to di- 7orce the government from the truets. 0n the contrary they propose to sup port the trusts for the conduct of the of the country-provided the 1 .rusvts are good trusts.
 '.If there is to be private monopoly l n this country then there can be no | in this country. Cheers | md cries of tGood!' You're right!') | And we ought to face the issue with | ahsolute frankness. If it is not pro | posed to abolish private monopoly it | s impossible to restore the govern | nent to the control of the people.
 The Democratic platform in so many words declares private mono 1 poly to jre fnto1erab1e and pledges the party to breaking it up.. The regular