The Calumet news., 1912-08-07
TWO GREAT THINGS TO DO
One to Set up Rule of Justice and
Other to Open Doors of
Opportunity
WOULD REDUCE THE TARIFF

Sea Grt. N. j.. August AFTER
thanking the committee of notifica tlon
and expressing his profound sense Of
responsibility In accepting the nomi-
nation. the governor said he realized
that he was expected To speak plainly.
10 talk politics and open the campaign
in words whose meaning no enc need
doubt And he was expected to speak,
he added, to the country as well as to
the committee
we must speak" he continued, by
way of preface. mot to catch votes,
but to satisfy the thought and consci-
ence of people deeply stirred by the
conviction that they have come tc A
critical turning point in their moral
and political de, elopment
Plainly II Is a new age" he went
on. 1t requires self restraint not Ia
attempt tco much and yet il would 5e
cowardly to attempt too little. In the
broad light OF this new day we stand
face to face. with what? Plainly, not
with questions of party, not Witt a
contest for office, not with a petit
struggle for advantage. With great
Questions of right and OF justice, rath-
er-questions of national develop
ment. Of the development and of stan
dards of action no less than of d better
business system. The forces of the ma
ton are asserting themselves against
every. form of special privilege and
private control, and are seeking b,S-
ger things than they have ever here
toforo achieved.
Two Great Things to Do.
There are two great things to do.
One is to set up the rule OF justice
and Of right In such matters as tho
tarin the regulation of the trusts and
the prevention Of monopoly, the adar
tation of our banking ami currency
laws to the very uses to which ouI
people must put them. the treatment of
those who do the daily labor IN our
fsctories and mines and throughout al
our great industrial and commercial
UNDERTAKINGS. ard the political lille OF
the people Of the Philippines, for whom
We hold governmental power in trust
for their service, not our own. The
other. the additional duty s the great
TASK of protecting our people and our
resources and OF keeping open to the
whole people the doors of opportunltS
through which they must. generation
by generation, pass IL they are to make
conquest of their fortunes I'm health.
IN freedom, In peace. and I'm content
ment In tho performance OF this
second sreat duty we are face To face
with questions of conservation aud OF
development. questions of forests anu
waterpower and mines and waterway,
of the building of an adequate mer-
chant marine.
View in Past Too Narrow.
we have got into trouble I'm recent
years chiefly because these large
things. which ought to have been han
died by taking counsel with as laree
number of persons as possible be-
cause they touch every interest ahd
the life OF every class ard region. nave
IN fact been too often handled in pri
vate conference. They have been set
tied by very small and often delibcr-
ately exclusive groups of men who un
dertook to speak for the whole ma
ton. or. rather. for themselves IN the
terms Of the whole aatlon-very hon
estly II may be. but very ignorantly
sometimes, and very shortsightedly
TOO, poor substitute for genuine
common counsel. No group cf dircc-
tors, economic. or political can speak
Tor people. They have neither the
point of view nor the knowledge Our
miliculty is not that wicked and de-
signing men have plotted against us
nut that our common affairs have been
determined upon too narrow view,
ana by too private and initiative our
ASK now Is to effect great read
'"S''nc't and get the forces of the