The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-12
WILSON SPEAKS
OF VISIONS OF
THE DEMOCRACY,
Concluded from Page One.)

out all the generations that have
preceded us to maintain itself chief
| ly on indirect interest of direct tax
alton. ! dare say We shall never see
time when it can alter that policy
in any substantial degree; and there
| is no Democrat of prudence or
| thoughtfulness that | have met who
contemplates program of free
trade.
But. what we have been doing.
and what we intend 10 do, what the
House Of Representatives has been
attempting to do and will attempt
TO DO again. and succeed, is to weed
this garden of industry that we have
been cultivating. If we have been
laying at the roots of our industrial
enterprises this fertilization of pro-
lection. we have found that the slim
ularion was not equal in respect of
all the growths in the garden, and
that there are some growths which
every man can distinguish with the
naked eye. which have SO overtopped
the rest, which have so thrown the
rest into destroying shadow, which
II is impossible for the industries of
the United States as a whole to pros
per under their desolating obstruc-
ton We are going into our gar
den, therefore, and We weed it. We
are going to give the little plants
air and light in which TO grow We
are going to pull up every root that
has 50 spread itself as to draw all
the nutriment of the soil from other
plants. We are going to see to it
that fertilization of intelligence, OF
or origiaation, IS once
more applied to set of industries
now threatening to he stagnant. be-
cause threatening TO be too much
That is the policy Of
the Democratic party in regard to
the protective tariff, as I understand
it. The Democratic party has not
proposed 10 change the established
fiscal policy Of this country, except
where it furnishes root for special
AMI wherever special
privilege grows there American
labor lanquishes.
Want Certainty of Law.
"The difference between the DEM
ocratic and the Republican parties
or rather between the Democratic
party and those various other groups
and parts of parties that are mas
under all sorts of names
is that they are willing to accept the
discretionary power Of individuals
and we are not willing TO accept
anything except the certainty Of law
That is the only thing that has ever
afforded salvation or safety,
II want to draw a few illustra-
tions. There is the great policy Of
conservation for example; and ! dc
not conceive of conservation in any
narrow sense. There are the lives
and fortunes Of the citizens of the
United states to be conserved Con
seryation covers not only forest re
serves and forest cultivation and the
safeguarding Of water powers and
mines. but it includes pure food and
the public health and the conditions
Of labor and All those things which
tho government must see to minute
" and courageous1y. i we are not to
be sapred of ous vitality and disap-
pointed Of our hopes. Now, the
thing that stands in the way OF the
proper policy of conservation and
makes IL impossible TO form that
policy IL that the government Of the
Emitted states IS now under the in
fuonce Of men who want to control
the water courses, control the mines.
who will not odmit that these are
public properties which we hold IN
trust for future generations as well
as for ourselves. and who are resist
ing the efforts OF those of us who
would extend the threads Of law all
through those Industrial processes
which threaten our resources and
threaten our lives and vitality.
Lesson Labor Hours.
"Then there is the matter of tha
regulation Of the hours of labor, OF
the conditions Of labor, the question
Of the sanitation o. factories, Of tho
limitation of the hours of work for
women and children, of the limita-
ton OF hours for men, questions
which are in part state questions
but also In part federal questions
All of these matters have TO be
treated by knowledge and pursued
by a constancy Of purpose which ne
snecial interests ought to be allowed
TO stand In the way of. And the
government of the United States I'M
der the Democratic party win at
tempt to put all through this nation
tho structural steel of law. so that