The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-10-27
WILSON URGING GENERAL
SCHEME OF PREPARATION
Not Expecting Country to Get ln'0
War, Because He Does not Expect
Certain Gentlemen to Get IN anu
Make Mess of Things.

Shadow Lawn, n j., Oct 21.-Presl-
dent Wilson expounded the merits OIL
,he federal reserve act and the rural
credits system to 5000 farmers and
4beir friends here today. He urged
the farmers to join in the general
scheme of preparedness which has
heen undertaken, and said:
"1 am not expecting this country to
Get into war, partly because l do not
expect certain gentlemen to get m
and make mess of things.
Referring to the campaign, Mr.. Will
SON said he was glad it was nearly
over.
There has been too much loose
talk" he declared. Let us sober up
and get down to business again. our
relations with the rest Of the "ortS
are to be incomparably more intimate
in the years to come. That is 'tnH
reason we are submitting certain men
4o the third degree concerning where
thew stand on world politics"
The main points of the presidents
address follow:
..More has been done for the farmer
in these last three and half years
than was ever attempted before, partly
because in some Of the earlier genera
tions the largess of nature was so
preat that it did not seem to demand
national attention, b tualso because the
attention of the country has been con-
centrated by the leadership of men
with a special point of view.
Tariff.
.I can illustrate the point OF view
nv the way in which the tarih mas
;been treated. You as farmers never
we're told. 1 take it that you were
getting the direct benefit of the tarih'
) You were told you we're getting the
indirect benefit of the tariff. You were
getting it with extreme indlrectlon
because you were getting it by nav
ing duties placed upon almost every
thing that you had to use and, there
fore, the cost of almost everything
that you had to use was enhanced anu
YOU were promised hardly more than
this. that if the country prospered
YOU would necessarily prosper with tne
country; but you would pay for the
prosperity at very considerable price
That was not added, but that was i'm
piled.
Sand the whole point of view of ouT
legislation has been this, that a spe-
ciaI set of men who thought they couio
p,1ide the nation better than anybody
else and preferred to guide it in prl'
yate, asked certain chief benehciaries
of the tariff to come together and sug'
aest what the schedules of the tariff
should be, and then to contribute the
literature and the support of the ora
tors and also the other instrumentali'
ties or propaganda to make the coun'
try believe that if these men VINO
MANNED the tariff were rich the res
of the country would share thell
riches.
Motive All Right.
"I am not impugning the motive:
of these men. Some of them, many o1
them, may have had high and patriotic
motives. But 1 am ready to impugI
their intelligence. 1hey did not kno"
that unless a nation is lifted with
something like systematical movement
the whole mass participating in the
uplift, it does not suffice to lift VI
adm benefit certain parts of it.
The object of the government il
partnership, common counsel, every
body in the participation OF whiel
leads to the constructor of legislation
So that these gentlemen have had tn
idea that it was best for US to be IL
the hands of guardians Now I, TO-
have come of age sometime ago ant
| decline to live as a ward. insist up
OH living as grown upindividual an'
to insist that | shall be considers
primarily along with the rest and no
secon4ary.
'"The task of this administration
b therefore, has been to see that tn