A People Awakened
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A People Awakened: The Story of Woodrow Wilson´s First Campaign Which Carried New Jersey to the Lead of the States in the Great Movement for the Emancipation of the Government Until Woodrow Wilson suddenly loomed upon the horizon of its affairs New Jersey was asleep. Vain efforts had been made from time to time to raise it from its somnolence. It seemed that the people were perfectly willing to sleep and be robbed. They refused to realize that the big railroads, for instance, were paying taxes out of all proportion to those of the small householder or business man, so ridiculously out of proportion, indeed, that when the issue was fairly framed before the legislature the railroads themselves met it and made only a half-hearted fight against a decent readjustment. The people of the state seemed perfectly willing to permit the agents of the big corporations to pose as political leaders and so direct legislation as to give the public utility concerns the legislation they desired to perpetuate their control over rates and monopoly of franchise. It seemed utterly impossible to arouse the people to the necessity of action against a condition which made for their loss, which kept their tax bills up and their incomes down, which made a farce of elections and a side show of legislative sessions. The legislatures were chosen by the party bosses with one necessary qualification for candidates, and that a willingness to serve the same interests which had for so many years shaped the course of the legislature and kept a strangle hold upon the people. It was known to every correspondent who "covered" the legislature for his newspaper that for years the committees of both houses of the legislature were made up in the offices of big corporations, and that these committees were expected to "take care" of the bills affecting those corporations. They seldom broke the faith. To break it meant political death, and men seldom court that ignominy. There had come over the state, as a result of the insistent cry of some of the men who had chafed under the yoke, a strong undercurrent of feeling. Then there appeared in spots indications of an awakening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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