The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-03
WILSON WRITES OF
PERIL OF REVOLUTION
Says Some Conscienceless Man Could
Put Whole Country in
Flames

Woodrow Wilson says he would like
to take census of BUSINESS men as to
whether they think the organization Of
business in this country is satisfactory
or not. He believes that IF they could
vote secretly they would vote over
whelmingly that it was meant to shut
out beginners, to prevent new entries in
the race, to prevent the building up OF
competitive enterprise that would inter-
fere with the great monopolies which .he
great trusts have built up"
Above everything else he says, .ie
country needs "a body OF laws, which
will look after the men who are on the
make rather than the men who are al
ready made Because the men who are
already made are not going to live in
definitely, and they are not always kind
enough to leave sons as able and honest
as they are
These sentences are from "The New
! Freedom-a call for the emancipation OF
the geenrous energies of a people, the
first of a series of articles which the
president-elect has written for tie
Worlds Work, diagnosing American Ills
and setting forth his political creed and
purposes. He says that our government
has been for the past few years ,Inier
the control "of heads OF great allied cor
lporations with special interests" As Il
result there have grown up vicious sys-
TENS and schemes Of governmental fay-
oriticm 1.-THE most obvious being the eX-
trayagant tariff, far reaching in effect
upon the whole fabric of life, touching to
his injury every inhabitant of the land,
laying unfair and impossible handicaps
upon competitors. imposing taxes in
every direction, sitting everywhere the
free spirit of American enterprise"
He feels that this has come about
naturally and that it is no use de-
nouneing anybody or anything except
human nature Some constituencies
man with eloquent tongue could put this |
whole country into flame, Gov. Wilson |
says.
Don't you know" he asks, that this
country from one end to the other |
believes that something is wrong What |
an opportunity it would be for some
man without conscience to spring up ard |
say, This is the way Follow met
and lead in paths of destruction
Society, Gov. Wilson thinks. is ready \
for radical reconstruction. (which only
frank and honest eounsels and the forces
of generous cooperation can hold back
from becoming revolution" He says
that revolution will come peacefully, 'as
it came when we put aside the crude
government OF the Confederation and
created the great Federal Union" Some
radical changes must be made in law and
practice, calmly and soberly.
The whole stupendous progrIln.'
Gov. Wilson writes. must be publicly /
planned and canvassed. Good temper,
the wisdom that comes of sober counsel,
the energy of thoughtful and unselfsh
men. the habit of cooperation and COM
promise which has been bred in us by
long years of free government in which
reason rather than passion has been
made to prevail by the sheer virtue Of
,andid and universal debate, will enable
Us to win through to still another great
lge without violence" II
The president finds that our eco
lomic conditions have changed absolute
y in twenty years and the old formulas !
10 not ft Laws regarding the relations .
II employers and employed. for instance,
are in many respects wholly antiquafed
Ind impossible" In
To GOV. Wilson the corporation grind :
" Hit hot t'tiii9ei'cS he"i tie9s' "us
We are all caught in a great economie
ystem which is heartIess." In
III a workman. says the governor l'y {
vay of illustration is hurt BY machin- h
~ which his superintendent directed
i'm 10 use he cannot get damages he i
ause the courts have held that the sup I
Is fellow employee. Gov. 2
wilson adds;
''Nhen ! hear judges reason upon .he
nalogy Of the relationship that used 10 Il
xist between workmen and their en- 9
lovers a generation ago | wonder ii II
hey have not opened their ewes to The b
modern world. You know we have a
ight to expect that judges viii lave p
heir eyes open, even through the Law v
ihich they administer hasn't awakened II