all First Voters By Governor Woodrow Wilson YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME: choose upon the basis of what parties have done in the past, because the pres arly in America. Conditions have changed so fast within the last few years t was, either in politics, in InGustry or in trade. Parties must deal it in ' narties have of late seemed to be breaking up and that their programs have become confused. | questions does not suit the matters they have to deal with. The Republican party is go sed its power in the wrong way, and those men who acknowledge the fact have become in arty has vd once and again, to break up into groups because great varieties of se who ea rats, and no com responsibility for the present ¢o bliged ther Wherever Democrats have been entrusted with power and respon livid lower branch of Congress, they have ghown no upeertainty of purpose. ire. therefore, how are you to be guided Upon your choice will largely depend the future sc foll uetive program; both promise to choose with a free hand the measures untry. Your question, them, comes to this: Which 1s freest to choose rightly, and which is choose. who do not wish to see special interests favored by the action n resolves itself into, Who will serve you and who will serve special iga . has been in practically complete control of the Federal Government th oughout the greater part of ut that period, the period during which America was gaining her growth and all ber national fostered every special interest, every body of capital that or use the labor of the country to build hi pen : “Pirst take care of the interests, and re of the WILSON—THE PEOPLE'S common people; first make big business ill CANDIDATE. make the masses prosperous; first take : | of the people in the shape of tariff ex- p Gov. Wilson is! the only candi- | more expensive, and then pay it back to doctrine | date who is more interested in re- | of the Democratic party has always been, aim of government must first be to make the t the inter ests will then prosper as a natural con- st first be taken care of, and then the interests will selves; that the only right government is that which cannot easily be broken. The Republican partnership with the interests, depends and cannot break with them without go- Those withis $ # hin its ranks who revolt in arty tradition. They fling out and ree from entangling alliances. The sym- cratic party are with the masses of the which will be in the interest of all; and 3 P ¢ : Gov. Wilson is the candidate whom the trusts fear and the aandle mast bas made the power of the trusts what it oe of protection, but a means of patron- years has been designed, not to effect a nt and of all extension and equalization of the opportunities of the people, but to 1 nat % uc ers ( minant party hss ste” them. but its regulation bas threatened to transfer the t ove ent itself, mx AY the lor only cement the partnership and corrupt the gov- ( essary that the interests sl in t he party and control the government, clieves 5 BT { the tariff as out of it every feature of patronage and spe- ntirely on the need of revenue for the ge adjustment of the taxation in- e people. It believes, moreover, not in such NN oulation” of the trusts as will put busines: in + ‘hut in such laws as will punish individuals, the individuals in and behind the trusts, for every every act hostile to the « ts and to fair competition and a free opportunity for e of r Hay ich we are now confronted are corporate in name, t is Pers can hide behind their corporations no remedy can t searches out the guilty man makes corporate wrong-doing méan personal punish ¥ be ¢ beve f government has become an atmosphere of patronage, of governmental nage 18 the mother of t : .ds servility. The trusts control. Controlling markets, they supply, they ntrol price; controlling price, they of ntrol life, They co strol also employment. f4 {merican freedom of opportunsty’ What are wou free to choose when you seek an wnde- ept either 10’ serve a trust or to defy it? And who, under our present laws, has the strength to ce have created this system and who cannot honorably extricate 3 , who mean slowly, steadily, persistently to change it, and draw the country nortunity, in which the government will accord no patronage
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