Arizona republican., 1913-01-31
Bring Government to the People

(CWoodrow Wilson in Worlds Work)
 Here is the old question of campaign funds: If take $10OOOO from group of men representing d particular interest that has big stake in certain schedule of tariff, take it with the knowledge that those gentlemen will expect me not forget their interest in that schedule and that they will take it a point of implicit honor that should see it that they not damaged by too great a change in that schedule. Therefore, if I take their money, I bound to them by tacit implication honor. Perhaps there is no ground for objection this situation long as the func- on government is conceived to be to- look after the trustees of prosperity, who in turn will look after the people; but any theory other than that of trusteeship interested campaign contribu tions can be tolerated for moment-saVe those the millions of citizens who thus support the doctrines they believe and the men whom they rec ognze their spokesmen.
 tell you the men I interested in the who under the conditions we have had, never had their voices heard who never got line in the newspapers, who never got a moment on the platform who never had access to the ears Of gov ernors or presidents of anybody who spOnsble for the conduct of public affairs, but who silently and patiently to their work every day carrying the burden of the world. How they be understood by the masters of finance if only the masters of finance are consulted?
 That is what I when l say, Bring the government the people" I do not mean anything demagogic; I do not mean to talk as if wanted a great of to rush in and destroy something That is not the idea. want the people in and take possession of their own premises; for I hold that the government belongs to the people, and that they have right that intimate to it which will determine every of it's policy.
 America is going to submit to guardian ship. America is going to choose thralldom instead of freedom. Look what there is to decide There is the tariff question. Can the tariff be de- cded in favor of the people, long the monopo- lies the chief cOunselors at Washington? There is the currency question. Are going to settle the currency question long the government listens only to the counsel of those who command the banking situation?
 Then there is the question of conservation What is fear about conservation? The hands that being stretched to monOpolize our forests, to prevent the of great water producing streams, the hands that being stretched into the bowels of the earth to take possession of the great riches that lie hidden in Alaska and elsewhere in the incomparabe domain of the United States, the hands of monopoly. Are these men to continue to stand at the elbow of the government and tell how to save Ourselves-frOm themselves? You cannot settle the question of conservation while monopoly is close to the of those who govern And the question conservation is a great deal bigger than the question of saving forests and mineral resources and waters; it is big the life happiness and strength and elasticity and hope of people.
 There tasks awaiting the government of the United States which it perform until every pulse of that government beats in unison with the needs and the desires of the whole body of the American people Shall give the people access of sympathy. of authority, to the in strumentalites which to be indispensable to their Iives2