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banking and currency laws, it is plain
that we ought to consult many per-
sons besides the bankers, not because
we Gistrust the bankers, but because
they do not necessarily comprehend
the business of the country, not with
standing they are Indispensable SER
wants of it and may do vast deal to
make it hard or easy. No mere bank
ers' plan will meet the requirements
no matter how honestly conceived. 1t
ehould be merchants and farmers
MAN as well, elastic in the hands of
those who use it as an Indispensable
part of their daily business.
Progressive Conservation.
II do not know any greater question
than that of conservation. We have
been a spendthrft nation and must
now husband what we have left. We
must do more than that. We must de-
velop, as we'll as preserve. our water
powers and must add great waterways
to the transportation facilities of the
nation, to supplement the railways
within our borders as well as upon
the isthmus.
I'VE must revive our merchant ma
rine We must add to our present
postoffice service a parcels post as
complete as that of any other nation.
We must look to the health of our
people upon every hand, as well as
; hearten them with justice and oppor-
tunity. This is the constructive work
of government.
Reservation is not the whole of
fconservation. The development of
great states must not be stayed in
definitely to await a policy by which
our forests and water powers can pru-
IDENTIFY be made use Of. Use and devel-
opment must go hand in hand. The
| policy we adopt must be progressive,
not negative, merely, as if we did not
know what to do.
There is another duty which the
| Democratic party has shown itself
great enough and close enough to the
people to perceive, the duty of govern
ment to share in promoting agricul-
| tural, industrial. vocational education
in every way possible within its con
| stitutional powers.
No MudslingIng.
I'VE should go into this campaign
confident of only one thing-confid en,
of what we want to do If entrusted
| with the government. 1t is not n par
| tisan fight we are entering upon. We
are happily excused from personal at
tacks upon opponents and from all
| general indictments against the men
opposed to u.s."
What the P.-I. Thinks of II.
Commenting on Governor Wilson's
speech of acceptance, the Seattle Post
Intelligencer said yesterday:
| Woodrow Wilson's speech of accep-
lance Is pacific in tone. II not specific
in promise. and has the additional
merit Of optimism. His frank observa-
tion that the correction of existing
evils. political and economic, is not de-
pendent upon any one man, is to his
credit. Clearly. as he appraises the
general situation. the nation is not
headed for the bow-wows. whatever
the result of the voting in November.
OF course. this is obvious to all think
Ing people, and involves no disclosure
Of new and reassuring fact. But in
these days of doleful prophecy and
pessimistic vociferation with Jere-
miahs abroad in the land. a hopeful,
rational note from high quarter must
necessarily command recognition. Con-
trasted with current political utter
ances, the Jerseyman's keynote is de-
cidedly conservative.