Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-01
GOV. WILSON AT.
N. BRUNSWICK
Reviews Civic Parade in
Boost Week Event.
ecioI to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, June 1:-GOver-
nor Woodrow Wilson came here
yesterday afternoon to help boost
New Brunswick. The governor
spent the afternoon here making an
address and reviewing the civic
parade. He told the Board of
Trade, the organization which has
made the celebration possible, to
get into politics as we'll as look af-
ter other civic affairs and he told
the people to help fight wrong and
help the city get on its war paint or
else have another week of it so that
all would be enlisted in the cause.
The governor was escorted here
from his home by a special commit
tee and was met at the city limits
by the members of the reception
committee which consisted Of the
officers of the Board of Trade,
Mayor John J.. Morrison, Judge
Peter p. DAILY and other county and
city officials. Judge DAILY introduced
Governor Wilson as an eXemplar OF
true craftsmanship.
Governor Wilson expressed his
pleasure at being able to get out Of
politics and take part in an affair of
this character. The people Of the
city had set apart this week to show
that every citizen vas thinking of
something nobler and bigger than
self.
1t was quite difficult to separate
politics from the ordinary affairs of
life. He asked the question as to
what is politics and said he did not
r,oan nrh nn1}iiaS hgi hnpn in htG
state as that was a rather painful
subject. Many Americans had with
drawn from politics because they
did not know where it led to and he
thought perhaps it were just as well
as they could not have laid out a
ogr as to what should be done
if they had stayed in.
He doubted whether a jury of
twelve men picked from the audi
ence could tell him what effect the
tariff had on the industries of the
city. If they failed to realize what
New Brunswick is he did not see
how they could have any personal
pride in the city. To become bigger
than God made them they should
borrow some of the bigness of the
state and city and trade on that.
1.-THE real test of a community"
said the governor, lis not what 1t
does under compulsion, but what it
does of its own yolition. New Bruins
wick is big only in proportion to its
balance sheet plus the character of
the men who earned the balance.
Some say politics is a dirty business.
1t is your business and if 1t is dirty
you have no one to blame but your
self. When a mau tells me politics
is dirty ! ask him if he voted at the
last primary and if he says he did
not | invite him to shut up.
81 have noticed hat many honest
politicians speak a little cOntemptu-
ously of Boards of Trade and | be-
lieve this is due to the fact that
Boards of Trade keep their hands
off politics. No one has the right
to draw the line between business
and politics"
Governor Wilson urged hat New
Brunswick put on its war paint and
fight wrong, declaring that nothing
wrong should be done to the town
by any one. If all we're not enlist
ed In this cause they had better
have another week of 1t and get en-
Unused. Every IL should enroll to
fight municipal evils. He wished
such a roll might be started at once
and he felt that every newspaper
would be willing to print such a
roll as it would be a genuine roll of
honor.
During his stay here the governor
visited the pure food show escorted
by Company II, National Guards.
and the State Home band all in
white costumes.
A large number Of the industries
and business houses were represent
ed in the industrial parade. On the
first float was q small carpenters
hammer and with il a large wooden
mallet fifteen feet long representing
the knockers who always talk
against their city and any move
ment to advance it. Tonight with
appropriate ceremonies this big
mallet will be burned, signifying
the destruction of the KNOCKERS
Club"
This afternoon the baby parade
will be held under the direction of
the Asbury Park carnival committee.