By Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson wasn’t one to face silently by means of the sidelines. He’s frank and he’s functional, and within the New Freedom he tells it love it is. With chapters like “The option to Resume is to Resume” and “Freemen desire No Guardians” he tells american citizens to include their independence whereas operating jointly for the typical solid of the rustic. President Wilson takes a stand opposed to the monopolies that undermine the equality of the nation’s electorate in his demand the Emancipation of the beneficiant Energies of a humans.
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If I move out of my present house because I do not like it, then I have got to choose a better house, or build a better house, to justify the change. It would seem a waste of time to point out that ancient distinction, — between mere change and 27 the new freedom improvement. Yet there is a class of mind that is prone to confuse them. We have had political leaders whose conception of greatness was to be forever frantically doing something, — it mattered little what; restless, vociferous men, without sense of the energy of concentration, knowing only the energy of succession.
Suppose you go to Washington and try to get at your government. You will always find that while you are politely listened to, the men really consulted are the men who have the biggest stake, — the big bankers, the big manufacturers, the big masters of commerce, the heads of railroad corporations and of steamship corporations. I have no objection to these men being consulted, because they also, though they do not themselves seem to admit it, are part of the people of the United States. But I do very seriously object to these gentlemen being chiefly consulted, and particularly to their being exclusively consulted, for, it the government of the United States is to do the right thing by the people of the United States, it has got to do it directly and not through the intermediation of these gentlemen.
The world has always neglected stand-patters. And, therefore, the stand-patter does not excite my indignation; he excites my sympathy. He is going to be so lonely before it is all over. And we are good fellows, we are good company; why doesn’t he come along? We are not going to do him any harm. We are going to show him a good time. We are going to climb the slow road until it reaches some upland where the air is fresher, where the whole talk of mere politicians is stilled, where men can look in each other’s faces and see that there is nothing to conceal, that all they have to talk about they are willing to talk about in the open and talk about with each other; and whence, looking back over the road, we shall see at last that we have fulfilled our promise to mankind.