Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-03-11
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BELIEVES IN THE PEOPLE
President Wilson Puts His Creed il
Open Book.

President Wilson Puts His Greed in
| Open Book.
A new book by Governor Woodrow
Wilson, entitled, '"The New Freedom
has just made It's appearance. Accord
ing to the publishers, 1t Is the hrst
time in the history Of this country
that a president-e on the eve OF
his inauguration has addressed to the
country a profession Of his faith and
a statement OF his intentions. Gov
ernor Wilson, it appears from the pre-
face Is not quite sure whether ne
ought to have credit for writing the
book. He says the book Is the result
of the editorial literary skill OF Will
liam Bayard Hale, who put together
| in their right sequence the more sug-
gestive parts of Mr.. Wilson's campaign
speeches.
AS told in the preface, Governor
Wilson has attempted to set forth In
large terms which may STICK In the
| Imagination what 1t 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 self-respect and its
pristine strength and freedom. The
new freedom 4 only the old revised
and clothed IL the uncomfortable
strength of moo ern America"
His Vision Of the New Freedom.
Freedom, Governor Wilson defines
in one Of the closing chapters In
these terms:
"The greatest thought one can have
of freedom Is as a 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 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
president-ele says, to bring about
the new freedom. He says that 1t Is
vision" which has come to Demo-
of exile" Here is the vision" which
is to be the main prop in the new
presidents programme.
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 MS
part with satisfaction because ne
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 intram-
mel, abolishing tariff favors, and rail-
road discrimination, and credit denl-
ais, and all forms Of unjust handicaps
against the little man. Industry we
have got to humanize, not through the
trusts, but through the direct action
Of law guaranteeing protection against
dangers and compensation for in1u-
ries, guaranteeing sanitary conditions,
proper hours, the right to organize,
and all the other things which the
conscience Of the country demand as
the workingman's rights.
our people with the sure prospects OF
social justice and due reward, with
the vision of the open gates Of oppor-
tunity for all. We have got to set the
energy and the initiative Of the great
people absolutely free so that the fu-
ture of America will be greater than
the past, so that the people Of Amer
lea will grow with achievment, so that
America will know as she advances
from generation to generation that
each brood OF her sons is greater and
preceded it; know that she Is fulfill
ing the promise that she has made
Drastic Reforms to Come.
This process of release, emanci-
patton and inspiration" Governor
Wilson points out, requires many dras-
tic reforms. He names the wrongs
and tells what must be done with
them. The tariff and the trusts and
Wall street come in for a good snare
Of criticism. The testimony Of ]. P.
hafnrn
committee in Washington has not con-
vinced Mr.. Wilson that there Is no
money trust.
The early chapters constitute plea
for thS return OF the government into
the hands Of the people. Governor
Wilson objects to the guardianship OF
men of affairs; ne objects to consult
ing, chiefly or exclusively, the capital
lists and manufacturers on tarin and
currency legislation. In the chapter
entitled Life Comes From the Sol"
he speaks Of that great, voiceless
multitude of men who constitute the
great body and the saving force of the
nation" Public opinion, he says in
the succeeding chapter on The Par
Lament Of the People" Is not formu-
lated in the privacy Of congressional
committee rooms, but rather In the
country, on the farms and around the
stoves of village stores. In this con-
nection the governor tells little story.
In a lecture that / gave once he
says, II said that public opinion was
not typified on the streets OF busy
city, but was typified around the stove
in a country store, where men sat and
probably chewed tobacco and spat In
TO a sawdust box and made up before
they got through what was the neigh
borhood opinion both about persons
and events, and then, inadvertently, l
added this philosophical reflection,
that, whatever might be said against
the chewing Of tobacco, this at least
could be said Of it-that 1t gave q
man time to think between sentences.
Ever since then I have been repre-
sented, particularly in the advertise
menls Of tobacco firms as in favor OF
the use Of tobacco"
His Cure for Diseased Politics.
In chapter entitled Let There Be
Light" Governor Wilson advocated
public exposure as a check for all bad
practices Of politics. He regards no
air so wholesome as the air of utter
publicity" and says:
You have got to cure diseased pol
itics as we nowadays cure tuberculo-
sis, by making all the people who suf-
fer from it live out Of doors, not only
walk around, but sleep out Of doors;
always remain in the open, where
they will be accessible to fresh, nour-
ishing and revivifying influences.
II, for one, have the conviction that
government ought to be all outside,
and no inside. I, for my part, believe
that there ought to be no place where
any thing can be done that everybody
does not know about. 1t would be
very inconvenient for some gentle
men, probably, IL government were all
outside, but we have consulted their
suscep eptibilities too long already"
The initiative, referendum and re-
call are treated only briefly. He fa-
vors them excepting only the recall OF
judges, where they are needed by the
people to regain their right to repre-
sentation. He aims to show this In
this connection, by a review Of legis-
lation under his leadership as govern
or Of New Jersey, that the people can
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