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Woodrow Wilson was raised by Mr.. Joy seep Rustles, his father and also his mentor, to be a religious man. Mr.. Wilson encouraged his son, Woodrow Wilson “to develop an oratorical skills and stressed precision in speech and war ting. ” (1). Wilson had so many achievements in his early life, but the proudest achievement he got was he became the President Of the United States Of America. Wilson was also a president Of Princeton University, where he admired all the businessmen in their own fields.
When h e started playing the role as the president in Princeton, he used this opportunity to make the U university a training ground for future leaders; “by these future leaders must not be narrowly train d technicians” they must also have the characteristic of being a leader and have a mind of their o n. During Willow’s time as president, the constitution have become less important and his pope r to inspire, shape, and lead public opinion became his main priority. (8)’ ‘To Wilson he believed pop literally controlled and directed economic development was the basis of progress. (9 ) According to Wilson, Capitalist only sought power and profit for purely selfish reasons, like monopoly. He believes that the government should control all the businesses because real g oath needs to be guided or shaped by politics rather than rely on unlimited resources. “Resists blew energy and efficiency of harmony and cooperation” could help the society move forward, but the government will still regulate and guide them to public interest(9). Without re Galatians and controls, these selfish competitions would cause conflict and violence in so m any ways(S).
He believes that the government should control all the businesses, real growth n deeds to be guided or shaped by politics rather than rely on unlimited resources. Wilson was a deem carat and he lived that people should have the freedom that this country has promised Wilson assumed that the president alone is the only sole voice on the nation, and didn’t thought about the member of the cabinet as a political officers at all. (8). Wills one’s vision of presidency only evolved around his own political views and it resulted on a co instant search for ways to secure the national unity and leadership.
Willow’s views were extra denary and had a lot of potentials, he understood what the people wanted. “He was a party lead ere, symbol of national unity, and interpreter of the wishes of all people. (8. ) By the beginning g of the Wilson administration, Wilson created a union system, where he reduced the working g hour and raised the minimum wages. Some federal agencies even had a seventeen, sixty we eek forking. Also Wilson created a strongly unionized manufacturing industry. By 191 2, the e union had 2. Million members. The unions became important to the economy and slowly t running into a political force. After 1 0 years workers “productivity had grown by more than 5 O per cent, but wages kept pace with that increase. ” (16). Employments were high, but the u employment sties SSE between 1 908, 1914 and 1 952 to 12 per cent. “By 191 3, when Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated, American industries were pioneering in the production of a new flood of consumer goods, including automobiles, telephones and movies. ” (17).
There no insurance CE for workers back then, thousand of people were either injured or dead during industrial a accidents, many of them were women and children. (16) The year 1 912 was a very good year for most Americans. Unemployed lowered to 4. 6 percent than it had been for several years. Wilson improved the working condition, workers only had to work Sixty, thunderhead a week and t was shortened to eightieth, six day week. But in exchanged to all that, the living e expenses in the rural area also increased by 35 per cent.
Many constitution were corrupt during the Shakespearian war, that’s why p people didn’t have much trust in the government, but Wilson changed all that by focus sing on one thing. Wilson noticed that the people felt helpless and had no control over gigantic f roses. People wanted somewhere to place their trust. Wilson argued that strong administer Zion could make the democratic state more rather than less responsive to the people. 6) In the lat e sass’s and early sass’s Americans wanted government control than ever before. They expect g overspent to improve the industrial condition and provide social justice, and social control. 22). The Americans were fighting against corruption, the government attempted to ma eke all the businesses more socially responsible. Wisconsin was the first state that forms the civilities, which they “improved public education, create a law that regulates children a ND women’s labor, health and forefoot rules… ” (23) and all the other things that is necessary to help the people. Some cities, like San Francisco for example, start providing their own gas and water and created their own public transportations to free themselves from the corruption that’ s happening in private companies.
Wilson was so against monopoly, that even he thought Roosevelt regulatory commission wouldn’t work “because monopolies would quickly find a way to control the re coagulator body. ” (28) Once the monopoly in this nation grow, it would start controlling the give rent and that’s what scares Wilson. Wilson idea of “New Freedom” really caught the attention n of the middleman’s people, but it wasn’t specified. 28) During one of Willow’s speech he said that “Our laws are still meant for business done by individuals. Tariff reduction w as Willow’s first concerns. The Wilson administration’s policy that concerns to the tariff reform s presented a really strong argument for the theory that institutes a “corporate liberalism” w here big businesses partner up with the government is more stable and more profitable. The Feed real Reserve Act was a main example of the Wilson administration, its purpose is to maintain the b lance been the interest of the corporate capitalism and to protect the opportunity of ordinary Americans. A lot of people did not agree to this.
This bill would have been more satisfactory to bi g businesses (43) but it wasn’t the reason why Wilson favored it. He plan to use this to prevent monopolies to develop elsewhere. In some issues Wilson was having a hard time accepting t o believe that the public wanted change. As the president, it was his duty to change his position in response to changing public demands. Wilson understood the people, and he wasn’t too obsessed with power. He w as more concern about the public welfare, and the protection of this nation.