Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-11-04
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distinct and single program. to
destroy mon npoly and to leave
business intact. to give those who
conduct enterprise no advantage
except that which comes by
efficiency, energy and sagacity,
those only fountains of honorable
wealth, every man rewarded
according to his insight and enter
prise and service, his mastery in an
open field. Currency 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
Tatiun, rather than in the interest
of the banker and the promoter
and the captain of finance, who if
set off by themselves in the manage
ment of such things, too easily lose
sight even of their own intimate
and inseparable relation to tile
general needs and interests of the
rank and file. Forests must be re.
newed, and mines and water courses
must. be husbanded and preserved,
as if we were trustees for all gen.
erations, 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 de-
velop whole people and whole
continent, and at the same time
keep them free and alert and un-
hampered, its eye always on the
cominun use and purpose, 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 power
full member 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 liberality and good will
think of the PROCESS for mankind
rather than of the progress of this
or that investment, of the protec-
ton of American honor and the ad-
vancement of American ideals
rather than always of American
contracts. and lift our diplomacy
to the levels of what the best minds
lave planned for mankind. We
must devote the power of the
government 10 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 hose,
all OF those for whom we profess
to have set government up.
None Of these high things can be
don :, because none Of them can be
conceived, from the point of view
of those who at present exercise
power over us at Washington. No
established policy of the republican
party can be used for such ends.
"The black magic of campaign
funds" cannot work the miracles.
The government at Washington has
not in half a generation been con-
Quoted from the point of view or
by the counsel Of the nation as
whole, but by the advice and with
the consent of those who have
extorted special favors from it, a
very small number of persons with
their own objects Consistently in
view, it may be unconscious of
their selfisbnass, certainly uncon-
scicus Of the interests of the vast
majorlties whom they ignored in
the scheme of prosperity. The
great task tn waits to be done
can be done only by a free govern.
ment with its eye upon the whole