The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-10-27
Notes From Democratic National Headquarters

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are born saddled and bridled, and
others booted and spurred.
Democratic government, according
to Wilson, is not an elective despot-
ism, tempered by time limit. 1t is
the organized energy and intelligence
of the whole people.
Wilson insists that this campaign
is a life-and-death struggle for real
democracy-thatw we stand at the part
ing of the ways. He insists that TAFT
and Roosevelt both draw toward an
undemocratic kind of governments
government that assumes to take care
of the people. He insists that that
kind of government has always-with
the best intentions in the world--en-
shaved and impoverished the people
Wilson understands that this age is
different from the age Of Jefferson
that the supreme question now Is the
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of the tariff and the trusts.
Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt seem TO
live under the illusion that tariff priv
ileges and trust monopolies can be
made innocuous by being kept under
the eye and wise and good rulers at
Washington.
Wilson insists that privileges
should be utterly abolished and that
private monopolies are absolutely in
tolerable.
Wilson says he is not striving for
free trade or anything that remotely
resembles free trade" He
does not object to the protection that
makes life easier in America, but on
ly to the tariff privileges that make
life harder.
Wilson is no enemy of big business
the kind that grows big because big
men are behind It. He abhors the
kind of business that is flatulent and
dropsical with fraudulent finance.
Mr.. Wilson said in Pittsburgh, that
some Of these small men should be
forcibly secluded, so that they may
have leisure and quiet to think larger
thoughts This, too, was a true word
OF the spokesman.
The regulation of competition. for
which Mr. Wilson contends, means
that a sharp distinction should be
made between two very different
kinds of competition. 1t is all right
that private persons should compete
with each other for power to serve
the public; it is all wrong that they
should compete with each other for
power to tax the public.
Governor Wilson is speaking Ian
guage familiar 10 the American peo-
pie when ne reminds us that the flu
ent and on n-going life OF democracy
depends upon the ceaseless competi-
ton of all individuals to excel in the
service OF the commonwealth.
1t is not to be inferred from this
principle that vast, highly organized
and efficient business concerns-when
they arise in the natural course OF
industrial evolution-are to be broken
,up into warning factions. On the
contrary, the true inference is that
such concerns should be treated as II
they were in practical effIct public
institutions.
They should be reorganized on such
a basis that their directors and man
agrees can find increased profit and
personal promotion only in improving
the services they render to the public.
The system of legalized monopoly
proposed by men like Mr.. George w.
Perkins Is an offense and peril to
democracy, because it would leave the
gigantic industrial organizations pri-
vate in their motive and private in
the method Of their operation They
would have an interest adverse to the
public interest, and they would have
a power that no public power could
permanently withstand.
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