The daily sentinel., 1912-11-04
Woodrow Wilson's Message
Sea Cirt, N. j., oct. 10. 1912.

Sea Girt, N. J., oct. 10, 1912.
80 the Voters AEerica:
an glad to have an opportunity TO steteVerY
simply and directly uhy an seeking to be elect
ed President OF the United States. fesl very
deeply that this is not anbit ion q should
entertain for hfs own sake. He must seek to
serve a cause. and must know very clearly what
cause II Is he is seeking to serve.
Tho cause 1 an enlisted in lies very plain
70 my own view: The Goverpment OF the United <
States, as now bound by the policies which have
become characteristics of Republican adninistra-
tton IN recent years, Is not free serve tho
Whole people iRpertta and IT ought to be set
free. 1t has been led up. whether deliberately
or merely by unintent ional development with
particular interests. which have used their pow
er, ooth TO control tho government ana TO con-
troll the industrial devel lopnent of the country.
1t must be freed from such entangl euents and al
lianees. Until It is freed. it cannot serve tho
people a whole. Until it is freed. 1t cannot
undertake any programme of social and economic
bet teruent but must be checked and thwarted at
every by its patrons and masters.
In practically every speech that make. I
put ct the front OF what have to say the ques-
tion of the tariff and the question of the trusts
but because of any thought OF party stret egy,
because believe the solution of these ques-
tions lilo at the very heart of the bigger
quest ion whether the government shall be free
not. The government is not free because IL
by means of tho tariff. The men to whom these
special favors have been granted have formed
great comb mat tons by Viii to control enter
prise and deternine tho prices Of commodttte5.
They could not have done this had 1t not been for
the tariff. No party. therefore. which does not
propose to take away these special fevors and
prevent monopoly absolutely in the markets. Of so.
country even much as the most elementary
part of the method by which the government IL
be free.
The cont rol to which tariff legislatio on has
led both in the field r" politics aid in the
field of business, IS has produced the most
odious feature Of our present political situa-
tion, namely, the absolute domination of power
ful bosses. Bosses cannot exist without busi-.
moss alliances. with them politics is hardly
distingut shable from business. Bosses maintain
their control because they. are allied with men
who wish their assistance in order to get con-.
tracts. in order to obtain special Legislative
advantages, in order to prevent reforms which
viii interfere with monopoly or with their en-
joyment OF special exempt ions. Merely as polit-
tcal leaders not backed by money, not supported r
by securely intrenched special interests, bosses
would be entirely anageeble and conparatively
poverless. By freeing the government, there-
fore, at the same t tme break the power of tho
boss. He trades, he does not govern He
renges, he does not lead. He sets the stage for
what the people are to do: he does not act as
their agent servant. but as their director.
For him the real business of politics is done
under cover.
The same that VIII set the government
free from the influences which nov constantly