The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-11-04
WILSON'S FINAL APPEAL.
Sends Out Rally Day Message In
Which He Clearly Outlines
The Issues.

great decision, decision which
will affect the whole course of our
national life and our individual for
tunes throughout the next genera
ton. We must make that decision
on Nov. s. 1t cannot be postponed.
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 nat
ural resources and of the health
and vigor of our people, the de-
velopment Of our means of transpor-
tation; the right application of our
scientific knowledge to the work
and healthful prosperity of our
whole population, whether in the
fields or in the factories or in the
mines; the firm establishment of
foreign policy based upon Justice
and good will rather than upon
mere commercial exploitation and
the selfish interests of a narrow
circle Of financiers extending their
enterprises to the end of the earth,
and the extension of the assistance
of the Government to those many
programs of uplift and betterment
to which some of the best minds OF
our age have turned with wise hope
and ardor.
There is much to be done, and it
must be done in the right spirit
and in the right way, or it will
deepen our troubles, not relieve
them. The tariff question must be
solved in. the interestsof those who
work and spend and fan and strug-
gle, those who are finding a foot
hold and working out a career, those
who tough the sources of strength
and are quick with the pulse of
a 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
dominate and control their fellows
ard regard the toll of millions of
men merely as an opportunity to
make use of their established ad-
vantage.
It must be handled very pru-
IDENTIFY. so that no honest toll may
be Interrupted, no honorable or
useful enterprise disturbed; must
be dealt with by slow stages OF we'll
considered change-change whose
object shall be to restore nothing
but special privilege and unwhole-
some control. Those who handle
it therefore, must be men who
understand the general interest and
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 de-
stroy monopoly and to leave bust
ness intact; to give those who con-
duct enterprise moi advantage ex-
cept that which comes by efficiency,
energy and sagacity. those only
fountains of honorable wealth, every
man rewarded according to his in
sight and enterprise and service,
his mastery in an open field. Cur
rency and banking questions must
be discussed and settled in the
interest of those who use credit,
produce the crops, manufacture the
goods and quicken the commerce Of
the nation, rather than in the in
terest of the banker and the pro-
moter 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 inseparable relation to
the general needs and interests of
the rank and file.
Forests must be renewed and
mines and water courses must be
husbanded and preserved as If we
were trustees for all generations,
not merely for our own, for the
sake of communities and nations
and not merely for the immediate
use of those who hasten to enlarge
their enterprises and think only of
their own profits. The Government
must employ its powers and spend
Its money to develop a whole peo-
pie and whole continent. and at
the same time keep them free and
alert and unhampered, its eye al
ways on the common use and pur-
pose. its thought constantly Of
what will happen to the average
man and of what will be prepared
for the next generation.
We must consider our foreign
policy upon the same high principle.
We have become a powerful men,
Der of the great family of nations.
The nations look to us for standards
and policies worthy of America. We
must shape our course of action by
the maxims Of justice and liberai-
ty and good will. think of the pro-
gress of mankind rather than of the
progress of this or that investment,
of the protection of American honor
and the advancement of American
ideals rather than always of Ameri-
can contracts, and lift our diplc-
macy to the levels of what the
best minds have planned for man
kind. We must devote the power
of the Government to the service of
the race and think at every turn
of men and women and children, of
the moral life and physical force
and spiritual betterment of those,
all of those for whom we profess
to have set government up.