The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-02

their enterprises and think only Of their own profits. The government must employ its powers and spend it's money to develop whole people and whole continent. and at the same time keep them free and alert and unhampered, it's eye always on the common use and purpose. it's thought
 constantly of what will happen to the average man and of what will be pre- pared for the next generation.
 We must consider our foreign policy
 upon the same high principle. We have become a powerful member of the great family of nations. The na-a tions look to us for standards and policies worthy of America. We must shape our course of action by the maxims of justice and 1iberality and good will, think of the progress of of this or that investment, of the pro lection of American honor and the ad- vancement Of American ideals rather than always of American contracts, and lift our diplomacy to the levels of what the best minds have planned for mankind. We must devote the power of the government to the ser vice Of the race and think at every turn of men and women and children, of the moral life and physical force and spiritual betterment of those, all of those for whom we profess to have set government up.
 None of these high things can be done, because none of them can be conceived, from the point of view of those who at present exercise power over us at Washington No establish ed policy of the Republican party can be used for such ends. 'The black magic of campaign funds'' cannot work these miracles. The government at Washington has not in half a genera tion been conducted from the point of view or by the counsel of the nation as a whole, but by the advice and with the consent of those who have extort- ed special favors from it, a very small number of persons with their own ob- jects constantly in view, it may be unconscious of their selfishnesS, cer- tainIy unconscious of the interests of the vast majorities whom they ignor- ed in their scheme of prosperity. The great task that waits to be done can be done only by a free government with it's eye upon the whole people, and such a government we have not had since the Dingley and A1drich tariffs began to be built up favor by favor and trusts began to multiply under the very prohibitions of the law. The Republican party is irretrievabIy committed and bound to go in the very opposite direction from that in which release and freedom lie. It has become a party of special points of view.
 The country has already perceived this. Everywhere there has been 8 steadily gathering revolt by the vot- CTS Twenty-six of the forty-eight State governments are now under Democratic executives. In the Leg islatures of the forty-eight States the Democrats outnumber the Republicans by majority of 200. Seventy-three of the 12O chief cities of the country have Democratic mayors. There are now 227 Democrats in the National House of Representatives and only 161 Republicans. The tide gathers in greater and greater volume. Only Be Presidency and the Senate lift their heads little above it, those citadels of power which the constitution makes it hardest for the peoples majorities to capture and occupy. Until these are taken, the great task will halt and wait, the great task of putting the government at the service of the peo- pie.
 Shall we not move forward to the and enthusiastic force stands ready.