The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-07

velop, new waterways where trade !
will be most served and transporta-
ton most readily cheapened by them.
Such expenditures are no largess on
the part of the government, they
are national investments.
The very fact that we nave at
last taken the Panama canal Sc
riously in hand and are vigorously
pushing it towards completion is elo-
uuent 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
water connection between the two
coasts OF the continent important
and desirable as that may be, partlc-
ularly from the point of naval de-
fense. II is meant to be great IN
ternational highway. 1t would be
little ridiculous if we should build
it and. then have no ships TO send
through it. There have been years
when not single ton of freight
passed through the great Suez canal
in an American bottom. so empty
are the seas of our ships and seamen.
1--WE must mean to put an END TO
that kind of thing or we would not
be cutting "a new canal at our very
doors merely for the use of men OF
war We shall not manage the re-
vival by the more paltry device OF
tolls. We must build and buy ships
in competition with the world. We
can do it if we will but give ourselves
| leave.
There is another duty which the
democratic party has shown itself
great enough and close enough to the
people to perceive, the duty of gov
eminent to share in promoting ag-
ricultural industrial, vocational edu-
cation in every way possible within
its constitutional powers No other
platform has given this intimate Wis
ion of partys duty. The nation
cannot enjoy it's deserved supremacy
in the markets and enterprises OF
the world unless its people are given
the ease and effectiveness that come
only with knowledge and training.
Education is part of the great task
OF conservation, part of the task of
renewal and of perfected power.
"A presidential campaign may cas-
lily degenerate into mere personal
contest and so lose it's real dignity
pensable man. The government will
not collapse and go TO pieces if any
Cne OF the gentlemen who are seek
ing TO be entrusted with it's guidance
should be left at home. But men
are Instruments. We are as ini
portant as the cause we represent,
ard in order to be Important must
really represent a cause. What is our
cause? The Peoples cause? That
is easy to say, but what does it
mean? The common as against any
! particular interest whatever? Yes,
/ but that, too, needs translation into
acts and policies. We represent the
desire to set up an unentangled gov
ernment, a government that cannot
be used for private purposes, either
in the field of business or in the field
of politics. a government that will
not tolerate the use of the organiZa-
tion of a great party to serve the
personal aims and ambitions of any
individual, and that will not permit
legislation to be employed to further
any private interest. l heed with
deep thankfulness the message you
bring me from the country. Ifeel that
| am surrounded by men whose prin-
ciples and ambitions are those of
true servants of the people. thank
God. and will take courage"