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WILSON'S.LATEST
BOOK IS OUT
THE New Freedom" Dedicated
to U.!Sejfish Public Service
COMPILED FROM SPEECHES

President-EIsct's Latest Volume Is His
Avowal of Faith and a Declaration
of Intentions.
New York, Feb. 17.-Woodrow Viii.
sons latest book, "The New Free.
dom." appears today with the first
message ever delivered to the Ameri-
can people by president-elect on the
eve of his Inauguration.
1t is an avowal of faith and a de-
claration of intentions on the part of
the man, who in sixteen days will be
the first Democratic chief executive
the country will have had in sixteen
years.
One of the most interesting chap
ters deals with the progress of Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt and his pro-
gressive followers, and Mr.. Wilson
analyzes it carefully and concludes
that the basis of the Roosevelt plan is
the recognition and legalization of
monopoly, which it proposes to con.
vert into benevolence and phiian-
thropy. He declares that you cannot
use monopoly in order to serve a free
people," and warns progressive Re-
publicans that they are being deluded.
1.-THE New Freedom" is dedicated to
every man or woman who may de-
rive from it, in however small a de-
gree, the impulse of unselfish public
service"
In the preface the president-elect
sers forth that he "did not write this
book at ALL" it being the result of
the editorial literary skill of William
Bayard Hale, who has put together
here in thir right sequences the more
suggestive portions of my campaign
speeches"
The exponent of progressiveism de-
votes the first chapter, "The Old Or.
der Changeth," to a discussion of the
transformations that have taken place
i nthe life of America in the last
twenty years.
1--WE have changed our economic
conditions absolutely from top to bot
tom," he says, "and with our economic
society the organization of our life"
He points out the corporations which
formerly played a small part in busi-
ness affairs, now play the chief
part" and says that most of our laws
weer formed in the age when en-
ployer and employees knew each other,
kne weach others characters, were as
sociates with each other, dealth with
each other as man to man." which is
no longer the case. a
= IN Cha ntef@ three N.Y. llsan says
that America "is never going to sub
NIT to guardianship" Mr. Wilson's
great faith in his countrymen to solve
the problems which confront them is
shown in the final words of his chap.
ter on Life Comes From the Soil"
Getting down to brass tacks on the
subject of the tariff, Mr. Wilson de-
clares:
What we are interested in first of
all with regard to the tariff is getting
the grip of special interests off the
throat of congress. We do not propose
that special interests shall any longer
camp in the rooms of the committee
on ways and m ,ans of the house and
the finance committee of the senate.
We mean that those shall be places
where the people of the United States
shall come and be represented in Or
der that everything may be done in
the general interest and not in the in
terest of particular groups of persons
who already dominate the industries
and the industrial development of this
country"
In dealing with the Roosevelt pro-
gram under "Benevolence or Justice"
Mr.. Wilson lashes the plan and de-
clares that the doctrine that 'monop-
oily is inevitable and that the only
course open to the people of the Unit
ed States is to submit to and regu-
late it," found a champion during the
champaign of 1912 in the new party
or branch of the Republican party,
founded under the leadership of Mr..
Roosevelt, with the conspicuous aid of
George w. Perkins, organizer of the
steel trust and the harvester trust"