The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-18
viii Make 1t Unpleasant for
One That Starts a Panic.
HE HAS NO FEAR OF TROUBLE
He Finds an Increased Tempta-
tiOn to Profanity.
There Has Been Too Much
Manners in Politics,


Wilson held up a warning finger to any
man who might deliberately start a
panic in the United States in order to
snow that intended legislative policies
i We're wrong. In a speech at the banquet
OF the Southern society of New York
he declared that he had heard sinister
predictions of what would follow If the
/ democratic party put into effect
! changes in economic policy
| Ihe presfdent-elect first distinguished
| IN MS speech between natural and
! unnatural panicS. He said that in
many cases panics had come naturally
/ because of a mental disturbance of peo-
/ pie with reference to loans and money
/ generally.
But the machinery is in existence -
ne said by which the thing can be
| deliberately done. Frankly I don't
/ think there is any man living who dares
use the machinery for that purpose.
If he does, I promise him not for my
self but for my fellow countrymen, a
g1bbet as high as Haman's.'
The governor added that he meant no
literal gibbet,' for that is not pain
full" but he said it would be a gibbet
of public disgrace which would live ''as
| long as the members of that mans
family survive"
America with her eyes open isn't
going to let a panic happen,"' the gov
ernor continued. but I speak as if
I expected-as if I feared it. I do not
am afraid of nothing"
The president-elect's speech covered
a variety of subjects. He treated first
of sectionalism, declaring that 1t
ought not to- exist.
There is a vast deal to do he said,
''and it can best be done b. forgetting
that We are partisans of anything ex-
cept the honor and prosperity of the
nation ITSELF
No Sectionalism in Thought.
Wilson -ifafIx- 60
provincialism and said that some people
had an idea that all the thinking of
the country was done in New York
city. He said the Southern society rep
resented an impor }tion of thought
from the south into the great me-
tropolis.
''I am happy to feel that there no
longer is a serious consciousness of sec
tionaI differences in the United States.
There can be sectionalism about the
thinking of America from this time on,
because no hard headed man can prove
that there are such things sectional
interests"
The governor here told his hearers
of his strenuous day in New Jersey.
I'VE thought we Strengthened things
our III New Jersey" he said, but
they won't stay straight. There are
some people in New Jersey who are
happy that they can count the days
when they can get rid of me. But they
man can live in Washington and
know what goes on in New Jersey and
a man can say from Washington what
he thinks about New Jersey and he
can say it in the most effectual way
by mentioning names
This anonymous assertion of
iniquiTy ought to be stopped. It's all
very well to make public who owns
ought to be made public who owns
this or that idea. If it cannot be pro-
dUced by law it can be produced by
conversation.
THE only way to keep out of trou-
BILE in the future is to see that your
name is connected with the right thing. |
81 say this not as a threat but to
convey this intimation that men have
got to stand up and be counted and
put their names down.
The Task Ahead.
''The task ahead of me so far as |
making appointments to office Is Who'll !
ly hateful, but the task so far as it is |
leadership of the United States. is full
of everything that is bright and |
with confidence, because
know that all you have to do is to |
appeal to the people of the United |
states on the right ground and put
those who are wrong out of business.
I am not a brave man because 1 don't
know anything to be afraid Of
Some people are making all sorts |
of sinister predictions as to the trc uble
we are going to get into at Washing
ton don't think there should be
any concern because it is going to |
be public trouble and a great jury is
always going to know what the evil
dence in the case is.
81 have been warned by some news
papers about keeping the open door
because they have said so many people
want to get into it. Perhaps 1 should
have said that the door will be open
only to people who come to transact
business I want to say that I may
not be very popular by preferrfng
business to etiquette, but after l take
the oath I shall feel obliged to trans
act business. and will feel Obliged to
cut out everything that does not touch
that business. But business has to be
supported and comprehensively pre-
sented to the people, so l will not feel
il necessary to stay in Washington all
the time, but to find out by conversa-
+ion with my neighbOrS everywhere
what they think. for it is a great deal
more important to the country what
YOU think than what 1 think"
Taste in Politics.
The governor discoursed somewhat
on politics and said there
was too much manners in politics"
and that good taste often stands in
the way of public morals"
..It is not thought good taste in poll
tics, they say" the governor said, ito
say anything about man unless it is
but it may be very ser
Viceable.''
Mr.. Wilson smilingly declared that
since he had left academic walks to
get into the high road" he had found
AN increased temI tation to profan-