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How do you interpret this quote?

TheLoneBedouin

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In 1912, Woodrow Wilson made the following quote:

Woodrow Wilson said:
'Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
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What power, in your opinion, was Wilson talking about?
 
AZCat said:
I generally interpret quotes like this in the context which they are made.
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Good idea.
Here's the preceding paragraph:
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men....
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It is from The New Freedom. So how would you interpret it?
 
What speech/talk/conference/interview/etc. is this quote from. We may be better able to decipher the quote if we know what original context it is from.
 
Bankers. I'm gonna withdraw my money now from Crazy Bob's First Bank Trust & Fireworks down on the corner. That greedy slob!
 
TheLoneBedouin said:
Good idea.
Here's the preceding paragraph:


It is from The New Freedom. So how would you interpret it?
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I don't know - I need to read it first. It is not a long document but will take some time. Perhaps some of the other posters here have already read it and can provide a more timely answer.
 
From what I can tell, Wilson was speaking of the "trusts", a common political trope of his day.
 
TLB, why not state how you interpret it? Give us a clue.

ETA: I just cheated by searching the Gutenberg copy. Yep, it's about the trusts, hot issue ca.1912. So again, TLB; what is your view? Wilson's concern about the trusts and monopoly capitalism was pretty obvious even at a quick glance like I just did.
 
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Clearly he's talking about the Saucer People who in conjunction with the Rand Corporation, along with the Reverse Vampires, are trying to eliminate the meal of dinner.

Trusts? Who's ever heard of such a thing?
 
Travis said:
Clearly he's talking about the Saucer People who in conjunction with the Rand Corporation, along with the Reverse Vampires, are trying to eliminate the meal of dinner.

Trusts? Who's ever heard of such a thing?
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But trusts is an anagram for struts, which is sort of a synonym for beams...and I guess you can see where that leads us...
 
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Slayhamlet said:
That isn't the preceding paragraph. Please at least try to read the source material you're quoting from.
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I was about to say....So, TLB, why the need to lie about the structure of an essay you had linked us to? Did you really think no one here would bother to check on your assertions?

Have you learned so little about us in your time here?



Silly question, I know.......
 
Piggy said:
From what I can tell, Wilson was speaking of the "trusts", a common political trope of his day.
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He says there is a single monopoly that is "organized, subtle, watchful, interlocked, complete, and pervasive" that controls the loaning of large amounts of credit as well as "the industries of the country".

Is Wilson a crazy conspiricy theorist?
 
TheLoneBedouin said:
He says there is a single monopoly that is "organized, subtle, watchful, interlocked, complete, and pervasive" that controls the loaning of large amounts of credit as well as "the industries of the country".

Is Wilson a crazy conspiricy theorist?
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He also said:


We used to think in the old-fashioned days when life was very simple that all that government had to do was to put on a policeman's uniform, and say, "Now don't anybody hurt anybody else." We used to say that the ideal of government was for every man to be left alone and not interfered with, except when he interfered with somebody else; and that the best government was the government that did as little governing as possible. That was the idea that obtained in Jefferson's time. But we are coming now to realize that life is so complicated that we are not dealing with the old conditions, and that the law has to step in and create new conditions under which we may live, the conditions which will make it tolerable for us to live.
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Why is someone so paranoid about government conspiracies promoting an essay that calls for more governmental control?


Or did you not read that far?
 
Hi

I went to Project Gutenberg and downloaded teh book.

Man... I THINK he's talking about MICROSOFT!!
 
Horatius said:
He also said:





Why is someone so paranoid about government conspiracies promoting an essay that calls for more governmental control?


Or did you not read that far?
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Red herring and strawman. Wilson's policies are irrelevant to his observations.

Is Wilson a crazy conspiracy theorist?
 
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