Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-02-21
Wilson's Book Out.


entitled THE New Freedom" made its
appearance last Monday. According to the
publishers it is the first time in the history
OF this country that a President-elect on
the eve of his Inauguration has addressed
to the country a profession of his faith
and a statement of his intentions.
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 policies to their full spiritual vigor
again and our natural life-whether in
trade, in industry or in what concerns us
only as families and individuals-to its
purity, its self-respect and its pristine
strength and freedom The new freedom
is only the old revised and clothed in the
unconquerable strength of modern Amer
ica."
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 release men
and women from all that pulls them back
from being their best and from doing
their best; that shall liberate their energy
to its fullest limit, 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 Presi-
dent-elect says, to bring about the new
freedom He says that it is vision"
which has come to Democrats 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,
business 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 untrammel
abolishing tariff favors and railroad dis
forms of unjust handicaps against the little
men. Industry we have got to humanize.
not through the trust, but through the d.
rect action of law guaranteeing protection
against dangers and compensation for in
juries, guaranteeing sanitary conditions,
proper hours, the right to organize and all
other things which the conscience of the |
country demands as the workingman's
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 opportunity for ALL We
have got to set the energy and the initia-
tive 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 advances
from generation to generation that each
brood of her sons is greater and more en-
lightened than that which preceded it,
know that she is fulfilling the promise that
she has made to mankind"
81, for one. have the conviction that
government ought to be all outside and
not inside. |, for my part, believe that
there ought to be no place where anything
can be done that everybody does not know
about it. 1t would be very inconvenient
for some gentlemen, probably, if govern
ment were all outside but we have con-
suited their susceptibiities too long al
ready"
Initiative, referendum and recall are
treated only briefly. He favors them, ex-
cepting only the recall of judges, where
they are needed by the people to regain |
their right of representation. He aims to |
show in this connection by a review of |
legislation under his leadership as Gov
ernor Of New Jersey people can get what
they want if only they refuse to stand
quietly by and see things done which they
voted against. His arraignment of "po-
litical bosses" leaves no doubt that such
creatures will be most unwelcome guests
at the White House.
''ln all that may have to do in public
affairs in the United States" he says. II
am going to think Of towns such as have
seen in Indiana. towns Of the old American
pattern. that own and operate their own
industries, hopefully and happily. My
thought is going to be bent upon the null
duplication of towns Of that kind and the
prevention of the concentration of industry
in this country in such fashion and upon
such scale that towns that own them
selves will be impossible.
The welfare, the very existence, of the
nation rests at last upon the great mass
of the people its prosperity depends at
last upon the spirit in which they 60 about
their work in their several communities
throughout this broad land. In proportion
as her towns and her countrysides are
happy and hopeful will America realize
the high ambitions which have marked her
in the eyes of all the world"