Show I I i E Experience x p With One On Professor Wilson Sufficient for the American People HE people of the United States without respect to creed or aVocation aVoca T THE lion tion have a bitter memory of the last college president rejoicing in lu t the tut he name uis of Wilson 11 J who was vas given o 4 power arid and authority as a member of the he government The president of the University of Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- I I ginia William Villiam Lyne Lne Wilson as chairman of the ways and means committee comI coma com com- of a Democratic Congress a under President Grover Cleveland I framed and secured the passage of a tariff measure known as ns the Wilson Wilson Wil Yil son pill bill The legislation was so bad that President Clen Cleveland denominated n ted it an example of party part perfidy and dishonor and refused to approve it it permitting it to become a law Jaw without his signature But the public remembers it more clearly as the direct agency that sent I thousands of workingmen and women into bread bred lines Jines and soup houses to ward wald off starvation that closed dosed mills and factories j that paralyzed industry and brought our entire commercial structure to ruin with a crash that echoed and re- re re echoed for years Professor William Wilson Tilson was ns a theorist of the same calibre calibro as Professor Woodrow 1 Wilson Vilson who ho has been put forward by Murphy Belmont and Taggart b as their thir candidate for President The earlier carlier Wilson Y lson was a professor of ancient languages until elected to Congress through the influence of his students and the alumni of his university his ideas as to legislation had been pieta gleaned from books rather than titan cx- cx mi Th gang theories which fie hp evolved col in the cloistered seclusion i i of his st study dy Were were written into the Wilson bill i J Like bike ke every other idealist who can prove with mathematical precision pi the inevitable success of untried principles i lest he insist insisted d upon free wool as a n test of the the- wisdom of free raw material and compelled marked reductions inthe in inthe inthe the schedule imposed upon manufacturers of wool as well as ns iron and steel products I Immediately following a the initial operation of thi this measure the country became involved inv in most desperate financial straits Factories and w workshops closed and cs were thrown idle the unprotected mining industry languished the farmer without market for his wool and his other products plastered his bas farm with mortgages business was prostrate Prostate banks failed from one end of the country to the other money fled to strongboxes for protection and the whole industrial fabric of the United States was as crushed So much for the tho college president who thought a ho he could revise the tariff along theoretical lines aThe The burden of this unfortunate experiment by Professor Wilson Tilson fell upon lapon the laborer the v 1 earner age and the the- salaried man The privations privations at ions of the wealthy were only those of absent absent dividends and idle money that should have ha been working day and night their comforts and conveniences were not les lessoned lessened ened their children were well nourished and well clot clothed bed Unfortunately for those whom the Professor Wilson of II j this present day regards as II unprofitable servants when their say sav sayings savings ings disappeared they became objects of charity The Professor Wilson who ho flourished in 93 1892 was an e expensive e luxury for the people of the United States and the similarity ity between his environment his training his academic theories and his lack of cs- cs experience ex et- p and that of the P. P Professor Wilson who erroneously supposes himself to be flourishing now is so remarkable t that at the lesson which this would teach cannot be disregarded Experience is the only lamp which the American people may employ to illuminate the pathway of the future that they may not stumble and fall in the darkness The only po possible ible test of the future is the past and by that gauge the professor professor professor pro pro- fessor fails to qualify The tariff ideas of the present day Professor Wilson are amazingly amazingly amazingly b like those of or his J meaning well ell but intensely mistaken professorial brother of the same name who struck the industries of the United States an almost fatal blow in order to prove proc himself right light or wrong succeeding succeeding succeed succeed- ing rag in m d demonstrating the latter beyond the peradventure of a doubt r The present professor is equally as inexperienced qually as theoretical equally as uninformed upon practical affairs affairs- With his bis predilection for experimentation we can feel the utmost sympathy if he will risk only His nis 1118 personal possessions But the utter foolishness of delivering to him the reins reins of power over persons of placing their commercial commercial commer commer- commercial cial and industrial future in his untrained hands hand should be painfully I patent even without the record of the former Professor Wilson n from which derive one may knowledge Th The n necessity for for change in governmental ov policies is not apparent prosperity prosperity is returning men are employed at J livin living ving wages and business is ison ison I on the mend But if there were need aced for experiment with new ideas and suggestions the folly of placing them under the control o of an ant academic theorist without practical experience is is so oh obvious ous as to render argument argument ment useless Professor Wilson the Democratic candidate for President President President dent is is well meaning So was his pedagogical confrere of twenty years I ago w w 4 If of such laws as ruffle the thc Innovation E ENFORCEMENT feelings of none and the ignoring of or those In Denver which if applied might stunt the growth of the exotic dividends that spring g fI from funds It May Be invested in muck has been the thc policy of most Contagious I American city governments time out of mind The rules of conduct and of policy to which the people of a community might be required to conform conform con con- form depended not upon the temper of the lawmaking body or upon the courts which charged with the thc duty of interpreting the law the disposition of the executive ye and his subordinates was reflected in law enforcement and law was vas not law unless they felt disposed to makeI make it so by compelling obedience to it I Denver among other populous centers has suffered from this American civic habit So intense upon this subject has public sentiment sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment become that the grand jury of the county of Denver has just in in- in present and past city officials for failing to compel obedience to laws regulating the social evil en This unusual action cannot be fairly regarded as a precedent until it has been tested in the courts and until the degree of power which public opinion may wield to compel obedience obedience obedience obedi obedi- ence to its decrees has be been n carefully noted Should Denver find in this novel departure an efficient meth method by which to compel lax lag officials to p the duties with which they ther are charged one can fancy a general revival reviva of law enforcement throughout the country The city official official of of- may defer to the special interests and permit the underworld to dictate the limits within which he may pose as a faithful officer but the I. I weapon which places himself in jeopardy need not even be brand brandished shed to compel wholesome respect The action of the thc Denver Dener grand jury is especially especially- interesting at a time when the apostles of direct government ent are offering their various remedies for or civic chic ills If by such SUC means as attempted in Denver public r officers may be brought to a realization tion of their responsibilities the recall is unnecessary The Time which is chiefly interested interest d in preventing law enforcement and in choosing complaisant officials so often controls the electorate that the recall would often prove pro a futile instrument Th grand jUl jury under the guidance of a fearless and energetic ener ener- getic prosecutor would be such a constant menace to the thc derelict official official cial that the best service from him would always always' be obtainable St Statistics show that there are are 1 men of fighting a age e in the United States Stales Amon Among whom are several colonels it is not n cesi ces- ces i to t mention by name 1 F. F i m 7 T. T G. G Robin the bank wrecker is reported to have made wIllIe while 1 in in prison Still most bank wreckers prefer refer to make their I t I out of it it monc money I r a 1 The persistence with which Colonel Wa Watterson's terson's erson's t M h grouch Iian hangs g s on I arouses the haiT harrowing aiT suspIcIon that 0 something has mg happened r. r to his i i mint bed ed Even Even Een if if Governor Go Wilson has a track one mind it evi evidently is i equipped wIth a a. few swItches y Hc He p recently declined to be the fudge t m In a baby show b bIf If The first first day daJ i iii shooting season the Dela f- f g Delaware a proved unlucky r to thirteen e sportsmen and rt it was neither y north 1101 the c I t Soon no IO worthy rth nation will he be without its ils t Andrew y l le has hub just conferred one cue on the Argentine republic i Cai Gan- r ry e 1 |