Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-22
Not Captains Of Industry, but
the Masses Of the People.
DECLARES WOODROW WILSON,
Business, Pellties and Wealth Of the
Country Como Up, Not Down. He
says--All the People Do Not Believe
In Democratic Government.
BY WOODROW WILSON.

uvun the stupidity of politics. The
word has nn awkward way of taking
| Things into LIS own hands. The life Of
the peIple must in the long run ex'
urtss itself in It's politics. and II does
not now express itself In this country
IN the politics we have been accustom-
I'd to In the last decade.
There are two or three theories OF
government in this country. Don't de-
rpive Yourself by surprising all the
people believe In democratic govern
mrnI. because they do not You hive
only to listen to the utteranceS OF
! very distinguished Republican speak.
err To sep that they do not believe ana
10 not pretend to believe IN represent
alive government They will tell you
! they do not believe the Judgment OF
the people can he trusted. And are
! you going to take counsel from these
/ gentlemen ~ to the preservation of
our representative institutions when
hey don't want them to represent the
great body 1T the ppople7
Prefers Judgment Of Rank and File
don't know whether ! was boru
Or Ipat""d 80 or what happened to me
put Snow this. that the deepest coy
,ir.iru | hnve. arising ont Of obserrn
sinn ana experience II this. that
would ruttpr take the Judgment VI the
rank and file than the Judgment Of th'
MEL, who have become absorbed ana
sur esSfui leaders In great undertake
iIIaS
And | want TO ask these gentlemen
this query: What Sustains business ii.
The United states! What IL Ii tia.
mikes the United States prosperous:
II It that we have great captains q!
inuaSiry? What would they do viti'
1,.i the cunning and skill the muscl'
and the indomftable aspiring hope ~
tie American people: II these peppi''
mrfp to find hope dying out Of thri'
hearts they would become dunn drlN
pn beasts. and your enterp!. * w"n;'
Ian tor Jack Of the very bath ia,
llstaniS therI
INT to find wH"''"r "
j. A. prosperous ask the mrn vt
what the. fear TO 10 the ','n',s,
districts and ask anxious fathers W.
G4g~mNa ,hft1E for openings for :hrir sous
where they expect to get then' y
where they find doors open a,M whp
they md doors shut 60 through ~
fia, PS whore men are making 49,
jn::S and see whether they dread %
runtidentll look forward To the fu.u"
ana then yol will find whether Ani"."
~ is waxing or waning. for II those
men are confident. full of nope: II ~"
Know they are gUi.iG to- get fair trrl:.
ntnt wherever they 20. then Ameri
:ln conquer the world OF en;eriIr'se It
their hope
Rut If yon find what you d" ind
men every where asking themselves
whether the doors of opportunity have
not iHpD h.cked 10 theif faces then
you will have to take new rec Goning
rs to the future Of America.
IL only Those who are chosen Mt thr
top have the right Of way N, what is
going to '-1ppen to America: Did you |
ever lcar Of nation that was renew |
cd from the top: Did you ever near |
of nation that was not made virile I
that did not account for its youth b.
renewal from the bottom? DID you
ever hear of tree that drew It's sap
from lts fiOwersi Does 1t not draw II
from the DARK and silent places of the
sonf Does not nation draw its pow
er Of renewal and enterprise aud nj
it's future from the ranks Of the great
body of unnamed men1
Friend Of American business.
II you are going to discourage these
men. II you are going t. put the chill
of fear In their hearts. then American
captains Of industry cal whistle for
their future. and they win whistle II
r wilderness
am the friend Of American bns
ness because | know whore liz founda
tions nre laid and where they are
wenk. These foundations nre sOlC
only when laid IN the confidence nj
the common people.
A Democrat: Why. a mrn does ne
understand historr who isn't n Dem"
crit A nmn doesn't understand enter
prise who isn't DenWrat And 10
me say this. Democracy II nor merel'
a matter Of programs; II II II mntter ~
and insight II depp"dS
upon whether your henrt II In c"nnr'
Hon with the great heart " the pc"
Pile II does not depend upon whether
you Gun runDingly devise u l'lntforn
that looks INIT and good fon can
build n fimsy platform and stand on
4 successfully. provided its basis II IN
the right kind Of spirit.
IL is matter OF seeing. not from
your eyes out. but from the eyes OF
,ther men In Getting the vision that
q In the back Of the other mans head
3 the thing; getting the hope that Is
he universal hope: getting that i'm
pulse that IN the common human I'M
pulse. forward. This world has been
swept By wave after wave Of Demo
xstic impulss. IL