Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-21
1.-THE New Freedom"

A scathing arraignment Of big
Business" is contained in President.
~eiect Wilson's pre-in-auguration book,
''rhe New Freedom"
The president-elect not only reiter-
ates his attack upon the trusts Of the
United States but sounds a new warn
ing to the great financial interests of
the country. The work is one of the
most remarkable ever put in the field,
both by reason of the bitterness of it's
arrangement of the present financial
system and by it's exploitation of a
future presidential policy. No other
chief executive of the United States
since the declaration of independence
has performed the feat of Mr.. Wilson
on the eve of taking office. He not
only attacks the trusts and mono
poles of the country, but makes it
clear that he will do all in his power
TO legitimately restore trade competi-
ton and individual opportunity and
to disentangle community centraliza-
stion which, he says, has become dan
sEerously co-ordinated.
Mr.. Wilson arraigns ex.President
Roosevelt and his program of bene-
VIOLENT monopoly; strongly advocates
the policy of the initiative, referen.
dun and recall, with the exception of
the recall of the judiciary; charges
the existence Of a money trust, and
-expounds at length his political phil
.osophy. He explains that he is not
the actual author of the book, but
that it is a collection Of the more sug-
Eestive portions of his campaign
speeches put together by William
-Dayard Hale with such interpretations
- would render the work an actual
exposition Of Mr.. Wilson's views. The
book is signed by Mr.. Wilson.
The preface contains the following:
This book is an attempt to express
tho new spirit of our politics and to
1T forth in large terms. which may
stick in the imagination, what it is
that must be done, If we are to re.
store our politics to their spiritual
yigor again and our national life,
whether in trade, industry or in what
concerns us only as families and indi-
vtduals, to its purity. its self respect
and Christian strength and freedom. "
In writing under the subject, Mon
opoly or Opportunity" Mr.. Wilson
says:
81 admit the popularity of the
theory that the trusts have come
about through the natural develop
ment Of business conditions in the
United States and that it is a mis-
take to try to oppose the processes
by which they have been built up.
II answer, nevertheless, that this at
titude rests upon a confusion OF
thoughts. Big business is no doubt,
to a large extent, necessary and ma
tural. The development of business
upon a large scale. upon great scale
OF cooperation, is inevitable and, let
me add, is most probable. But that
is a very different matter from the
growth of trusts, because trusts have
now grown; they have been artificial
~ created.
For my part l want the pigmy
little business) to have chance and
] forsee the time when the pigmies
will be so much more athletic than
the giants that it will be case OF
Jack.the- Giant-Killer. / take my stand
absolutely, where every progressive
ought to take his stand. on the propo
sition that private monopoly is indie
fensible and intolerable. And ! will
fight my battle. And l know how &c
fight it. am perfectly willing that
they (the trusts should best any
competitor by fair means; but l know
the foul means they have adopted
and l know that they can be stopped
by law. What we want to do is tc
disentangle this colossal community
Of interests
After an analysis of progressive
party tenets, Mr.. Wilson finds thai
1.-The new party legalizes monopoly
and systematically subordinates
working men to them and to plans
made by the government both with re
gard to wages and with regard to
employment"
"Take the thing as whole" says
Mr.. Wilson, land it looks strangely
like economic mastery over the very
lives and fortunes of those who dc
the daily work of the nation; and al
this under the overwhelming power
and sovereignty of the national gov
eminent.
1.-THE man who Is leading the new
party has not changed his point Of