The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-06

ity.
President-eIect Wilson's Viewpoint.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: From Presi-
dent-elect Wilson's article ON THE
New Freedom Free Men Need no
Guardians in the Worlds Work for
February.
The hypothesis under which we
have been ruled is that OF govern
ment through board of trustees,
through a selected number of the big
bufiness men of the country who
know a lot that the rest OF us do not
know, and who take it for granted
that our ignorance would wreck the
prosperity of the country. The idea
of the Presidents we have recently
had has been that they were Presi-
dents of a national board of trustees.
That is not my idea. ! have been
president of one board of trustees, !: nd
I do not care to have another on my
hands. want to be President of the
people of the United States. There
was many \ time when / was presi-
dent of the board of trustees CT uni
versity when the undergraduates
knew more than the trustees did. !.
81 am one of those says Mr.. Will
son elsewhere In the same article,
who absolutely reject the trustee
theory, the guardianship theory" We
may remark in passing that to speak
| of '.trusteeship" and guardianship
as identical seems to us to prove a
deep confusion of thought repre-
sentative of the people in congress is
their trustee intrusted to express
their wishes, opinions and convic.
tons. But he is not their guardian,
anG does not SO esteem himself, I'M
less fool
Pursuing in another place his
4 thought tina trusteeship and guardian
ship are identical Mr. Wilson indi
Gates his belief that men whose sue
cess in life he's made them conspicu
ous-has made them what we are
wont to call Representative mem
have been too much consulted in th,
government OF the United States. Ii
decidedly satirical tone he asks:
; Who have been consulted when i'm
lportant measures of government, lik,
tariff acts, and currency acts, IN,
railroad acts, were under considera
ton? The people whom the tariff
, chiefly affects, the people for whom
the currency is supposed to exist, tn
people who pay the duties and ride OF
the railroads? Oh, no, What d.
they know about such matters. TIL
gentlemen whose ideas have bee
: sought are the big manufacturers
4 the bankers, and the heads of tn
4 great railroad combinations TIL
! masters of the government of tn
United States are the combined car
italists and manufacturers OF tn
j United States. | have no oil
t lection to these men being consulted
t because they also, though they do no
a themselves seem to admit it. are par
: of the people of the United States
/ But do very seriously object t
/ these gentlemen being chiefly cor
e suited, and particularly to their be
i ing exclusively consulted; and If tn
: go eminent of the United States is t
4 do the right thing by the people Q
e the United States it has got to do
V directly and not through the intel
mediation of these gentlemen
All of which is very interesting a
showing the mental processes an
9 spiritual warnings OF the President
O elect of the United States. 1t ais
!. seems to be pretty plain notice that a
, President Mr.. Wilson wishes to Civ
!, as much weight or more to the idea
of undergraduate" as to the idea
h o. men who have taken all the DE-
& grees of success in life.
Apparently Mr.. Wilson attaches n
;. more weight to the opinion of me
Il who have proved that they know ho'
Y to achieve success BY achieving i
q for themselves and for the great nun
ii bers whose energies they have organ
'. lied and directed, than to the me
o whose efforts have been so organize
Y and directed
It From Mr.. Wilson'S viewpoint ther
Il isn't, apparently, and such thing as
. representative man. a natural Leaf
u er of his fellows, qualified by abilit!
y experience and achievement to yoic