The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-22
WILSON'S NEW BOOK OUT.
"TIIE NEW FREEDUN." is TITLE
OF PRESIDENT-ELECT La
TEST WORK
IcllS His Policies i'm POIiticS-RoOSe-
welt, Taft, AldriCh and a Number of
Corporations Scored as Authors of
Political Wrongs.

New York, Feb. ia new book
by Woodrow Wilson, entitled "The
New Freedom" will make its appear
ance tomorrow. According to the
publishers it is the first time in the
history OF this country that a Presi-
dent-elect on the eve of his inaugu-
ration has addressed to the country
a profession Of his faith and a state
ment Of his intentions.
Governor Wilson, it appears from
the preface is not quite sure whether
he ought to have credit for writing
the book. He says the book is the re-
suit of the editorial literary skill of
William Bayard Hale, who put to-
gether in their right sequence the
more suggestive parts of Mr.. Wilson'S
campaign speeches.
The book, however, is more than a
mere collection Of campaign speeches.
The early chapters deal with the
philosophical doctrines which the
Governor Of New Jersey poured into
the ears of Democrats, Bull Moosers
and Republicans alike on his Wes-
tern tour. In the later chapters, un-
der the sting of the reproaches made
during the campaign by his leading
opponent, names are freely used, and
Colonel Roosevelt, President Taft.
Senator Aldrich, George w. Perkins
and number Of well-known corpor-
ations are scored as the authors of
political wrongs.
AS told in the preface, Governor
Wilson has attempted to set forth in
large terms which may stick in the
imagination what it is that must be
done if we are to restore our politics
to their full spiritual vigor again and
our national life-whether in trade. in
industry or in what concerns us only
as families and individuals-to its
purity, its sclf-respect and its pristine
strength and freedom. The new
freedom is only the old revised and
clothed in the unconquerable strength
of modern America"
Freedom Governor Wilson defines
in one Of the closing chapters in these
terms
The greatest thought one can have
OF freedom is as gift that shall re-
lease men and women from all that
pulls them back from being their best
and from doing their best; that shall
liberate their energy to it's fullest linn
it, free their aspirations till no bounds
confine them and fill their spirits with
the jubilance of realizable hope"
All his energies will be used. the
President-elect says, to bring about
the new freedom. He says that it is
a vision" which has come to Demo-
Gratis because Of : the long endurance
Of exile" Here is the vision" which
is to be the main prop in the new
Presidents program:
I'VE must put heart into the people
by taking the heartlessness out Of
politics, busines and industry. We
have got to make politics thing in
which an honest man can take his
part with satisfaction because he
knows that his opinion will count as
much as the next mans, and that the
boss and the interests have been de-
throned
Business we have got to untram-
mel, abolishinG tariff favors and rail
road discrimination, and credit de-
malls, and all forms Of unjust handi-
caps against the little men. Industry
we have got to hun1anize, not through
the trust, but through the direct ac-
ton Of law guaranteeing protection
against dangers and compensation for
injuries, guaranteeing sanitary con-
ditiOns, proper hours, the right to or
ganize and all other things which the
conscience of the country demands
as the WOfKlnSman 5 rights.
I'VE have got to cheer and inspirit
our people with the sure prospects of
social justice and due reward, with
the vision Of the open gate of oppor-
tunity for all. We have got to set
the energy and the initiative of this
great people absolutely free so that
the future of America will be greater
than the past, SO that the pride Of
America will grow with achievements,
so that America will know as she ad-
Vances from generation to generation
that each brood of her sons is greater
and more enlightened than that which
preceded it, know that she is fulfilling