Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-06-28
A REMINDER OF 1912.

Arthur Brisbane, until recently a
warm supporter Of President Wilson
and his policies, relieved himself few
DAYS ago of the following in an editorial
in the Chicago Herald-Examiner:
'If you had business running
badly, with the ''red ink" showing
loss year after year, you might be puZ-
zled. But suppose somebody said: a
few of your clever employees arranged
matters so that they, not you, control
the general manager, and they run the
business for their interest, not for
yours You would be puzzled no long
err
"That's how the United States is run.
"a few clever schemers, politicians,
leaders, financed by corporations, run
the business and select on both sides
the candidate for general manager.
when the election is over the hand
full of schemers own the general man
ager, or President, Of the United
States and the people have the high
cost Of living problem, high income tax,
and all the rest of it.
That sounds just like Woodrow vii
sons speeches in 1912 from which his
book, "The New Freedom" is composed
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as Mr.. Wilson believed it in 1912. Mr.
Wilson's remedy then was the election
Of democratic president. Mr.. Bris
bane's remedy now is the election of a
president by third party. Wilson's
connection as applied after his election
has made matters worse and it may be
believed that Brisbane's cure-all now
would result more disastrously than
even Wilson's did.
TO prove that Wilson saw things in
1912 much as Brisbane sees them now
the following is quoted from 'The New
Freedom" page pol:
worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled And dominated governments
in the world-no longer a government
by free opinion, no longer a government
by conviction and the vote of the ma,
jority, but government by the opinion
and duress of small groups of dom
inant men.
IF the government is to tell big
business men how to run their bust
ness, then don't you see that big busi-
ness men have to get closer to the gov
eminent even than they are now
Don't you see that they must capture
the government? They have already cap
tured it, Are you going to invite those
inside to stay inside? They don't have
to get there. They are there. Are
you going to own your own premises, or
are you not? You didn't get into the
house iii the right way, but you are in
there, God bless you we will stand out
here in the cold and you can hand us
out something once in while.
Woodrow Wilson, when he was try
ing to get into office, resOrted to the
same trickery of language, INDUCED in
the same damagogury, offered the same
remedies, as Brisbane is now doing in
trying to create sentiment for third
party that his employer, William Ran
dOlph Hearst, can control. The country
tried Wilson's remedies and see the
condition to which they brought us
If we have not yet been sufficiently
punished we might experiment with the
Brisbane concoctiOns.
However, indications are that the
people have had quite enough of
quacks and drcamers and that they are
ready TO return to the practice of sound
doctrines under the leadership of a
level headed, capable man of affairs,
schoOled successfully by experience,
self-made, self-reliant, of sound judg-
ment, free from wild theories and i'm
possible idealisms. Such leader is
Warren G. Harding, United States
senator from Ohio. and the next presi-
dent of this great republic.
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