The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-17
PRES|DENT-ELECT
GIVES Il OUT ON
INAUGURATION EVE
"The New Order Changeth" Is
the Title Of First Chap
ter in Book
PAYS RESPECTS TO
PLAN OF ROOSEVELT
Refuses to Recognize Trusts
As Part Of Our Economic
Order, to Merely Be
Regulated

NEW fOHk. FEB Ih.-~h o0aFO~
wilson's latest book, THE New Free
message ever delivered to the Amer
team people by president-eiect ON the
eve OF his inauguration. 1t iB an
avowal OF faith and declaration Of
intentions on the part Of the man,
who in sixteen days will be the first
try will have had In sixteen years.
One OF the most interesting chap
ters deal with the program of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt and his progress
Siye followers and Mr.. Wilson Annli1es
Ii carefully and concludes that the
basis OF the Roosevelt plan is the
recognition and legAlizAtion OF mo
nonoiy. which Ii proposes TO convert
into benevoience and philaEthranpy.
He declares that you cannot use mo
raopoly IN order to serve free peo-
pie" and warns progressive HepuhH-
cans that they are being deluded.
'sThe new freedom" is dedicated to
every man or woman who may derive
from 1t. in however small a degree.
The impulse of unseifish public SER
, vice"
Credit to MIR. Hale
In the preface the president~elsct
sets forth that he did not write this
the editorial literary skill at Mr.. Will
liam Hayard Hale. VINO has put to-
gether the more Suggestive portions of
lily campaign speeches
This book he continues. ii not
a discussion OF measures Or Of pro
grams. II In an attempt TO express
The new spirit OF our politics and TO
set forth in large terms which may
stick In the imagination what II Ia
that must be done IL we ara TO re-
store our politics to their full spiritual
vtgor again and our national life,
whether In trade. In industry or In
what concerns M only AZ families and
individuals, to its purity. Its self-re-
spect and Its pristine strength and
freedom The New Freedom 10 the
old revived and clothed In uncon-
uuerable strength OF modern Amer
lea"
The Old Order Chanrcxh.
The exponent OF progressiviEm de-
votes the frat chapter, The Old Or
der Changeth. to a diEcussion OF the
transformations that have taken place
in the life OF America In the last TWEEN
ty years.
I'VE have changed our economic
conditions absolutely from top to bot
TOM" he says. and with our econ
oHaic society the organization OF our
. life. The cid political formulas do not
fit the present problems. they read
like documents taken out OF forgot
ten page
* tie points out tuA4 Ills G0IpoTa~
tions which formerly played small
part in business affairs. NOW play the
chief part" and says that most Of
our laws were formed in the age when
employer and employees knew each
other, knew each others characters.
were associates with each other. dealt
with each other as man to man.
which In no longer the case.
Government and Business.
He adds:
eOne of the most alarming phe-.
nomena Of time-~-or rather. Il would
be alarming IL the nation had not
awakened to 1t and shown It's deter
minatIon to control it---one of the
most significant signs OF the new
sociaIera. Id the degree to which gov
eminent has become associated with
business / speak for the moment OF
the control over the government exer-
eiaed bv hiE ~sDuHiaA eaa
behind the whole. subj rs Of
course, tn the truth that In the new
order government and business must
be associated closely. But that asso-
solutely intolerAble: the precedence i
wrong: the association y upside down.
''Our government han bosn for the
past few years under the control OF
heads OF great allied corporations
with special interests. X has not con-
trOiled these interests ana 1194&n0d
them q proper place In the whole
system OF business: II has submitted
itself to their control.
The whole supenduous program
must be publicly planned and can
vassed."
Faith IN the Pcuplc.
In chapter three Mr.. Wilson says
that America ''is never Going to sub
NIT to guardianship. Mr.. Wilson's
great faith In his countrymen 70 solve
the problems which confrent them H
shown In the Anal words OF his
chapter on Life Comes From the
Son.
ssThe great AMERICAN people II 1t
bottom Just, virtuOua and hOpefuls
the roots or III being are IN the soil
Of what IL lovely, pure And OF good
report and the need az the hour y
just that radicalasm that win clear
! way for the realisation Of the -
pirations Of . sturdy race.
Concerning his doctrine Of pub
licity. to which ~ referred ~ many
OF his campaign speecheM this quo
tation from Mr.. Wilson'S book y
typical:
elements OF politics. The best thing
that you can do with anything that
IL crooked Ii to lift Il up where peO-
pie can 80 that II Ii crooked and then
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