Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-07

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policy that has Z vision ara ADe o.
that looks to serve mankind.
There are many sides 70 these Ossae
matters. Conservation y easy to -
eralise about, but hard to paFt1sUlAr1Ds
about wisely. Reservation - ~ ne
whole OF conservation. The develop
ment OF great states must not b stay
cd indefinitely to await . policy b.
which our forests and water powers
can prudently be made uss OF. Uso
and development must 20 hand q
hand. The policy We adopt must b
progressive-not negative merely, - 4
we did not know what TO do.
Improving Our Rivers
With regard to the development Of
greater and more numerous waterways
and the building up Of merchant ma
rine, we must follow great constructive
lines and not fall back upon the cheap
device Of bountiss and Subsidies. In
the case Of the Mississippi river, that
great central artery Of our trade, It =
plain that the federal government must
build and maintain the levess and kesp
the great waters In harness for tl,s
The question Of . merchant marine
turns back to the tariff again. to which
ali roads seem to lead. and to our reg
istry laws, which. n coupled With the
tariff, might almost b supposed to
have been intended to take the Amer.
can Aa9 o6 tho sos. BOuAt1s0 aEo ~
necessary II you will but undo sons
Of the things that have been donA
Without . great merchant marine ws
cannot take our rightful place IN tns
commercs Of the world Merchants
who must depend upon tho carrters Of
rival mercantile nations to carry their
goods to market are 1t disadvantage
in international trade too manifest to
need to be pointed out. and our mer-
chants will not long suffer themselves
ought not to suffer themselves-to
be placed at such y disadvantage. Our
Industries have expanded 20 SUCH =
point that they will burst their Jackets
II they cannot flnd a free outlet to the
markets OF Abe, world. and they cannot
find such an outlet unless they be
given ships Of their own to carry their
goods-ships that will go the routes
they want them to gO-and prefer the
interests OF America In their sailing
orders and their equipment Our do
nestle markets no longer sufnce. We
need foreign markets. That 10 an
other force that Is going e break the
tariff down. The tariff was ono q
bulwark; now 1t is dam. For trade
is reciprocal; We cannot sell unless we
also buy.
The very fact that we have at last
taken the Panama canal seriously In
hand aud are vigorously pushing It to-
ward completion is eloquent Of our re
awakened interest in international
trade. We are not building the canal
and pouring out million upon million Of
money upon It's construction merely to
establish q water connection between
the two coasts Of the coattnent, i'm
portant ana desirable - that may Be-,
particularly from ths point Of view
Of naval defense. It 10 meant 10 BE- q
great International highway. It would
be a little ridiculous II we should build
it and then have no ships TO send
through It There have been years
when not single ton OF freight pass
ed through the great s0es canal in an
American bottom, so empty arc the
seas Of our ships and seamen.
industrial Edueatien.
A,,k- NJ ~
Democratic party has shown Itself
great enough and close enough to the
people to perceive, the duty ofJsoyern.
ment to share in promoting }agricul-
tural, Industrial, vocational education
in every way possible within IL con
stitutional powers. No other plstdorn
has given this intimate vision offa par.
tvs duty. Education Is part sH the
great task of conservation. part OF
the task Of renewal and Of perfected
power.
We have set ourselves . great pro
gram. and It will be greattparty that
carries It out. It must be a party with
out entangdng alliances with any spe'
cial interest whatever. It must have
the spirit and the point Of view Of the
new age. Men are turning away from
the Republican party % organized I'M
der itS old leaders because they found
that 1t was not free, that it was entan'
gled, and they are turning to US be
cause they deem W free TO serve them
We should go into this campaign
confident Of only one thing confident
Of what we want 10 do II Entrusted
with the government. 1t Is not parti
san fight we are entering upon. We
are happily excused from personal at
tacks upon opponents and from all gen
eral indictments against the men op
posed to us. The facts are patent e
everybody; we do not have to prove
them; the moro frnnk among our Oppo
nents admit Thorn. Our thinking must
be constructive from start to finish
We must show thai we understand the
problems that confront us and that W
are sOberly minded to deal with them
applying to them not nostrums and no
lions, but hard sense and good courage
a oe~synr,snt For publie Coed.
A presidential. campaign may easily
Degenerate into mere personal con-
test and % lose IT. real dignity and
significance. There Is no indispensa-
BILE man. The government will not
collapse and 60 to pieces II any one
Of the gentlemen who are seeking to
be intrusted with its guidance should
he LOFT at home. But men are instru-