Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-04
WILSON'S VIEWS
GIVEN TO NATION

tla liONtN~ VI bNI HhllOLidl NE dEdlh
with the standards we 70 proudly set
mp at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts. Our work Is a
work of restoration.
Things to se Accomplished.
We have itemized with some degree
of particularly the things that ought
to bp altered. and here are some OF the
chief items: A tariff which cuts us off
from our proper part In the commerce
of the world, violates the just princi-
pies of taxation and mates the govern
meut a facile instrument in the hands
of private interests: a banking and cur
reucy system based upon the necessity
of the government TO sell its bonds fifty
yer re- e and perfectly adapted to con
centrating cash and restricting credits;
NJ, Industrial system which. take it ON
al It's sides. financial as well "a ad-
illustrative. holds capital tn leading
strings. restricts the liberties and linn
its the opportunities of labor and ex-
ploits without renewing or conserving
the natural resources Of the country; Il
body Of agricultural activities never
yet given the efficiency of great busi-
ness undertakings or served as II
should be through the fundamentally
of science taken directly to the farm
or afforded the facilities of credit best
suited to its practical needs: water
courses undeveloped. waste places un-
reclaimed. forests INTENDED. fast dis
appearing without plan or prospect OF
renewal. ~unregarded waste heaps ut
every mine. We have studied as per-
! haps no other nation has the most eff
fective means OF production. but we
have not studied cost or economy NJ
we should either as organizers Of in
duStry. as statesmen or AZ individuals.
Society's Duty to Itself.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service Of humanity In
safeguarding the health of the nation,
the health of its men and its women
and its children. as we'll as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
of government Is justice. not pity.
These are matters Of justice. There can
be no equality or opportunity. the first
essential of justice in the body polite.
if men and women and children he
not shielded in their lives. their very
vitality. from the consequences of great
industrial and social processes which
they cannot alter. control or singly
cope with. Society must see to it that
1t does not itself crush or weaken or
damage it's W constituent parts. The
first duty of law Is to keep sound the
society it serves. Sanitary laws. pure
food laws and laws determining con
ditions of labor which individuals axe
powprless to determine for themselves
are intimate parts of the very bust
ness of justice and legal efficiency.
These are some of the things we
ought to do and not leave the Others
undoue. the old fashioned. never to be
neglected. fundamental safeguarding
Of property and of individual right
This Is the high enterprise of the new
day: To lift everything that concerns
our life as a nation to the light hat
shines from the hearth fire of every
mans conscience and vision of the
right. 1t il Uncomfortable we should do
this as partiSanS: 1t Is i~pconceivable we
should do 1t In ignorance of the facts
as they are or in blind haste. We shall
restore. not destroy. We shall deal
with our economic system as 1t is and
as it may be modified. not as ii might
be II we had Il lean sheet OF paper
to write upon. and step by step WE
shall make it what 1t should be In the
spirit of those who question theil
own wisdom and seek counsel and
knowledge. not shallow self Satisfac-
ton or the excitement of excursions
whittier they cannot tell. Justice. and
only Justice. shall always be our motto.
Task Not Merely One of Politics.
And yet it will be no cool process Of
mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred-stirred by a solemn pas
sion. stirred by the knowledge of
wrong. Of ideals lost. of government
too often dehnnched and made an in
strument OF evil. The feelings with
which we face this new age of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heartstrings like some air ont Of Gods
own presence. where Justice and mercy
are recunciled and the judge and the
brother are one. We know our task to
be no mere task of politics. but a task
which shall search us through and
through. whether we he able to under
stand our time and the need of nj
people. whether we he indeed their
spokesman and Interpreters. whether
We have the pure heart to comprehend
and the rectified will t. choose our
high course OF action.
This IL not II day Of triumph: 1t Is
a day Of dedication. Here muster not
the forces of party. but the forces of
humanity. Mems hearts wait upon ns:
mems lives hang in the balance: mems
hopes call upon us 10 say what we
will io. Who shall live mp TO the great
trust? Who dares fail TO try? | sum
mon all honest men. all patriotic. all
forward iookin" men. to NV side. God
helping me will not fail them f they