Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-11-08

WILSON'S MESSAGE

Friends and Fellow Citizens
We stand face to face with a great
decision, a decision which will
affect the whole course of u
national life and our Individual
fortunes throughout the next
generation. We must make that
decision on the 5th of November.
II cannot be postponed. We can
not vote without making il, and if
we do not vote those who do will
make ii for US. The next four
years will determine how We are
10 solve the question Of the tariff.
the question of the trusts, the
question Of the reformation OF
our whole banking and currency
system, the conservation Of our
national u and of the
health and vigor of our people, the
development of our means Of trans
p1rtation, the right application nf
our scientific knowledge to the work
and heaIthful prosperity Of our
whole population, whether in the
fields or in the factories or in the
mines, the firm establishment of a
foreign policy BASED upon justice
and good will rather than upon
mere commercial exploitation and
the selfish interests Of a narrow
circle of tinancieTs extending their
enterprises to the ends OF the earth
and the extension OF the assistance
OF the government tn those many
programs of uplift and bettermcnt
to which some Of the best minds of
our age have turned with wise hope
and ardor.
There is much to be done, and it
must he done in the right spirit
and in the right way, or it will
deepen our troubles, not relieve
them. The tariff question must be
solved in the interest of those who
work and spend aud plan and
struggle, those who are finding 3
foothoid and working out a career,
those who touch the sources Of
strength and are quick with the
pulse Of a common life, for the
sake of the"power that tills the
fields and builds the cities''and not
for the sake Of special groups Of
men who dominate and control
their fellows and regard the toll of
millions of men merely as an op-
]portunity to make use Of their
established advantage. 1t must be
handled very prudently, so that no
honest toll may be interrupted. no
honorable or useful enterprise dis
TURNED; must be dealt with bv slow
S ages of well considered change
change whose object shall be to
restore and broaden opportunity,
and destroy nothing but special
privilege and unwholesumc control.
Those who handle it, therefore,
must be men who understand the
general interest and have devoted
themselves to serving it without
fear or favor.
The trust question must be dealt
with in the same way with this
distinct and single program, to
destroy mon poly and TO leave
business intact, TO give those who
conduct enterprise no advantage
except that which comes By
efficiency, energy and sagacity,
those only fountains of honorable
wealth, every man rewarded
according to his insight and enter.
prise and service, his mastery in az
open field. Currency and banking
questions must be discussed and
settled in the i]nteress If those who
use credit, produce the crops,
manufacture the goods, and
quicken the commerce Of the
nation, rather than in the interest
of the banker and the promoter
and the captain Of finance, who if
set off by themselves in the manage
ment Of such things, too easily lose
sight even of their own intimate
and i%nseparablc relation to tic
general needs and interests Of the
rank and Glc. Forests must be re.