The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
nor WILSON'S Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination for President

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upon the carriers OF rival mercantile ma
lions 10 carry their goods TO market are
at A disadvantage In International trade
100 manifest 10 need to be pointed out.
and our merchants will not long suffer
themselves-ouSh not 10 suffer them
selves-to be placed at such disadvan-
tage. Our industries have expanded TO
sucn point that they Will burst their
jackets, II they cannot find a free outlet
To the markets Of the world: and they
cannot md 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 in
tereste OF America In their sailing orders
ana their equipment Our domestic mar
kets no longer suffice. We need foreign
markets. That is another force that is
going to break the tariff down. The tariff
WAS once y bulwark; now IL is q dam.
For trade Is reciprocal; We cannot sell
uniess We also buy
Revival of Commerce.
The very fact that re have at las,
TAKEN the J'auaiua canal seriously in hand
and are vigorously pushing It towards
completion is eloquent OF our re-awaS-
ened interest In international trade. Ne
arc not building tlIys canal and pouring
out million upon million Of money upon
lis construction merely to establish a
water connection between the two coasts
Of the continent, important and desirable
as mat may be. particularly from the point
to be a great international highway. IL
would be little ridiculous if we should
puid IL and then have no ships 10 send
through IL. There have been years when
not a single ton Of freight passed through
the great Suez canal In an American bot
ION, so empty are the seas OF our ships
and seamen. We must mean 10 put an
end to that kind Of thing or We would
coors merely Ior the use OF our men-of-
war We shall not manage the revival bv
the mere paitTy device Of tolls We must
nuild and BUY ships IN competition with
the world. We can do 1t II we will but
give ourselves leave,
Promotion of Agriculture.
There is another duty which the DEM
ocratic party has shown Itself great
enough and close enough TO the people
10 perceive, the duty OF government to
share In promoting agricultural. indus
trial. vocational eductaion in every way
possible within its constitutional powers.
NO other platform has given this init
mate vision OF partys DUTY. The ma
lion cannot enjoy its deserved suprem-
acy In the markets ana enterprises oe
the world unless Its people are given the
ease and effectiveness that coms only
with knowledge and training Education
is part OF the great task OF conservation,
fected power.
We nave set ourselves A. great pro-
gramme, and II Will be a great party that
carr1es IL out II must be q party with
out entanSlinS alliances With any special
interest whatever Il must have the
spirit and the point OF View OF the new
age. Men are turning away from the
Repuolcan party, as organized under its
old leaders, because they found that II
was not free. that ii was enlangIed; and
they are turning 10 because thew
deem us free To serve tsem. They are
immensely Interested, As we are. AZ
every man WHO reads the signs OF the
time and feels the spirit OF the new ags
is, In the new programme II Is solidIy
based on the facts Of our national lie:
Its Items are Items Of present business:
u is Wf,at every man should wish to sea
cone who wishes to see our present dis
teDtpers made an end Of and our old
free cooperative life restored
We should go into this campaign con-
what We want TO do IL entrusted with
the government II Is not partisan
night we are entering upon. We are
happily excused from personal attacks
upon our opponents and from all general
indictments against the men opposed 10
US. The facts are patent TO everybody,
we 40 not have TO p.oye them; the
more frank amoung our opponents ad-
init them. Our thinking must be con-
structive from start IL nnIsh. We must
snow that we understand the problems
That confront us. and that We are sober
IS minded to deal wiet them. applying
TO them. not nostrums and notions, but
nard sense and Sood courage.