The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-03

tf stand face to face with great ds- cision, decision which will affect the whole course of our national life and our individual fortunes throughout the next generation. We must make that decision on the 5th of November. It cannot be postponed. We cannot vote without making it, and if we do not vote those who do will make it for us. The next four years will determine how we are to solve the question of the tariff. the question of the trusts, the question of the reformation of our whole banking and currency sys- tenn. the conservation of our natural resources and of the health and vigor of our people, the development of our means of transportation, the right ap- rlication of our scientific knowled ge to the work and healthful prosperity of our whole population. whether in the fields or in the factories O. in the mines, the firm establishment of | foreign policy based upon justice ana good will rather than upon mere com mercial exploitation and the sellisl interests of narrow circle of finan- ciars extending their enterprises to the ends of the earth, and the exten- sion of the assistance of the govern
 ment to those many programs of up life and bettezment to which some ot the best minds of our age have turn ed with wise hope and ardor
 There is much to be done, and 1t must be done in the right spirit amt in the right way, or it will deepen our troubles, not relieve them. The tar
 if question must be solved in the interest of those who work and spend and plan and struggle, those who are finding a foothold and working out a career, those who touch the sources of strength and are quick with the pulse of common life, for the sake of the power that tills the fields and builds the cities" and not for the sake of special groups of men who dominata and control their fellows and regard the toll of millions of men merely as an opportunity to make use of their established advantage. It must be Handled very prudently, so that no honest toll may be interrupted, no honorable or useful enterprise disturb ed; must be dealt with by slow stages of well considered change change whose object shall be to re- store and broaden opportunity, and destroy nothing but special privilege and unwholesome control. Those who handle it, therefore, must be men who have devoted themselves to serving it without fear or favor.
 The trust question must be dealt with in the same way with this dis tinct and single program, to destroy monopoly and to leave business ill- tact, to give those who conduct en- terprise no advantage except that which comes by efficiency, energy and sagacity, those only fountains oT hon. orable wealth, every man rewarded according to his insight and enterprise and service, his mastery in an open field Currency and banking ques tions must be discussed and settled in the interest of those who use ere it, produce the crops, manufacture the goods, and quicken the commerce of the. nation, rather than in the inter- est of the banker and the promoter and the captain of finance, who if set off by themselves in the management of such things, too easily lose sight even of their own intimate and insep- arable relation to the general needs and interests of the rank and lne. Forests must be renewed, and mines and water courses must be husband d and preserved, as if we were trustees for all generations, not merely for cur own, for the sake of communities and nations and not merely for imme- Giate use of those who hasten to en- large their enterprises and think only of their own profits. The government must employ it's powers and spend it's money to develop whole people and whole continent and at the same tlRe keep mem frse ano alert and unfampe-ed, it's eye aIways on the common use and purpose. its 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 pol icy upon the same high principle. We have become a powerful member of the great family of nations. The na- tipns look to us for standards and Io'icies worthy of America. We must shape our course of action by the riaxims of justice and liberality and good wifi. think of the progress of mankind rather than of the progress