Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-01-09
Also Folk, of Missouri, SHES
His Castor Into Free
for-all Political
Ring.
BOTH MEN GIVE
A LITTLE ADVICE
Tell Just What Should Be
Done in Order That the
Country May be
Preserved.
ISSOcidtcd Press DiStdtchl

WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-WoodroW
Wilson. responding to the toast De
mocracy. past and future" at the
jackson Day banquet. said i'm part:
Perhaps we can best express our
present political object by saying it is
to free government and business from
private control
our government has for great
many years been privately controlled
1t is our tariff system which chiefly
expresses the ascendency business mas
had i'm the politics Of this country
Everybody knows how and by what
means special groups of manufactur-
ers have struggled 10 obtain special
favors from the government Every
body knows haw and by what means
special special groups of manufactur-
ers have struggled To obtain special
favors from the government. Every
body knows upon what eX-parte
statements o made by business men
themselves or members OF congress.
who acted as their spokeSmen, tariff
schedules have ben framed. While
this was going on, the control of
business itself has been more and
more narrowed until il has come
about that same the men. who have
stood at the ear of our Legislators.
have more and more successfully
dominated the general development
business throughout the country
Having stated the facts. we should
ask ourselves what We are to do. In
the first place the government must
Withdraw its special favors. BY with
drawing favors We shall break up
special alliances between powerful
business interests and the government
# the states and the country We
sE1u not cease to take thought for
business prosperity. but shall cease To
look to- those who ask for special ia
vors as the spokesmen for that pros
perty"
'The democratic party never had
a better opportunity for pl-b,ic ser
vice than now" said Joseph ". Folk
This opportunity will be lost if the
party merely occupies a position Of
negation without announcing affirm
ative and progressive ideas The
present rising tide of democracy is not
for the democratic party. no matter
how controlled. but is in favor of real
democratic principles. To profit by it.
the party must sincerely by platform
and candidates, declare for these prIn-
ciples. and be i'm keeping with the
great movement that is sweeping over
the land today. And in this epoch |
So important is American liberty. our
surest and safest guide should be |
Equal rights to all. special privilege |
to none
with this rule as our guide. the in
famies of special privileges, in every |
form will be destroyed and unto each |
there shall be restored the equal op-
portunity that belongs to each. This |
gospel opposes subsidies. bounties. |
tariff for any purpose. except that of
revenue and all forms of government
tai favors at the burden of the many.
The party should insist on stamping /
Dut graft and corruption in every de- !
Dartment of the government: should !!
enforce laws against high |
and low, including individual criminal
liability of those who operate cor
Dorations; preservation of the rights
,f state to self government as to all
matters not delegates to the federal
extension of American
rade ot every port of the world and
he removing of restrictions upon
commerce: just income tax, in or
Ter that the burdens of government
'e fairly distributed; election of Init
ID States senators by direct vote of
he people: unrelentinS opposition to
pubic affairs of snecial
and elimination of such in
luences from politics"