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<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>THE NEW FREEDOM</h1> <h2>A CALL FOR THE EMANCIPATION<br/> OF THE GENEROUS ENERGIES<br/> OF A PEOPLE</h2> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>WOODROW WILSON</h2> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p class="center">NEW YORK AND GARDEN CITY<br/> DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY<br/> 1913</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p class="center"><b>THIS BOOK<br/> I DEDICATE, WITH ALL MY HEART, TO EVERY MAN OR<br/> WOMAN WHO MAY DERIVE FROM IT, IN HOWEVER<br/> SMALL A DEGREE, THE IMPULSE OF<br/> UNSELFISH PUBLIC SERVICE</b></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2>PREFACE</h2> <p>I have not written a book since the campaign. I did not write this book at all. It is the result of the editorial literary skill of Mr. William Bayard Hale, who has put together here in their right sequences the more suggestive portions of my campaign speeches.</p> <p>And yet it is not a book of campaign speeches. It is a discussion of a number of very vital subjects in the free form of extemporaneously spoken words. I have left the sentences in the form in which they were stenographically reported. I have not tried to alter the easy-going and often colloquial phraseology in which they were uttered from the platform, in the hope that they would seem the more fresh and spontaneous because of their very lack of pruning and recasting. They have been suffered to run their unpremeditated course even at the cost of such repetition and redundancy as the extemporaneous speaker apparently inevitably falls into.</p> <p>The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether in trade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families and individuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristine strength and freedom. The New Freedom is only the old revived and clothed in the unconquerable strength of modern America.</p> <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> <p><b>WOODROW WILSON.</b></p> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2>CONTENTS</h2> <div style="margin-left: 40%;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary= "Table of Contents"> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#I"><b>I</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   The Old Order Changeth</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#II"><b>II</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   What is Progress?</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#III"><b>III</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   Freemen Need No Guardians</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#IV"><b>IV</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   Life Comes from the Soil</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#V"><b>V</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   The Parliament of the People</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#VI"><b>VI</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   Let There Be Light</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#VII"><b>VII</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   The Tariff--"Protection," or Special Privilege?</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#VIII"><b>VIII</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   Monopoly, or Opportunity?</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#IX"><b>IX</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   Benevolence, or Justice?</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#X"><b>X</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   The Way to Resume is to Resume</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#XI"><b>XI</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   The Emancipation of Business</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'><SPAN href="#XII"><b>XII</b></SPAN></td> <td align='left'><b>   The Liberation of a People's Vital Energies</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align='left'></td> </tr> </table></div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h1>THE NEW FREEDOM</h1> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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