The Detroit times., 1912-08-08

practical document We arc abont 70
ask our platform, we are about 10
axk the nennle2 ~ The United states
20 adopt our platfnrm We ere about 20
ask them TO entrust ms with orice ana
power and the guidance OF their auatrs
men We arr and ~ whRt dennlte pur
pose: what translation OF action ant
OF policy We intend TO GIVE 20 the gen
eral terms so the platform whioH
conyfntion AZ Baltinlore put forth.
should We be elected
The platform Is not a program.
proEram must consist 90 measures al
ntipistrIuve acts. and acts - lcSisla'
tiop Tive proof ~ the pudding T. the
eating thereof How 10 We intend to
make II edible and digestihleF From
this time on We shall be under interro-
cation How do w, expect 10 handlt
each Of the great matters .sat must he
taken up by The beNt congress and the
next administration
Rule &c Justice Paramount.
What l. there 20 doe II Is harG 80
sum the great .asiS up, but apparently
TINS Is the sum ~ the matter: There
are two great things to do one Is To
set ~ the rule OF justice and OF right
/ In such matters as the tariff, the regu-
/ lntion or the trusts and the prevention
Of monopoly the adaptation OF our
banking and currency laws 10 the
varied uses 10 which our people must
pu' them. the treatment OF those who
10 the daily labor in our factories and
mines and throughout all our great
Industrial and commercial undertake
ings. and tht political life OF the people
of the Philippines for whom We hold
governmental power I'm trust. for their
service not our own. The other. the
additional duty is the great task OF
protecting our people and our re-
sources and OF keeping open 20 the
whole people the doors CT opportunity
Z through which they must. generation
| by generation, pass IL they are 10 max 9
/ conquest OF their fortunes In health,
/ In freedom, In peace. and IN content
4 ment. In the performance OF this sec
\ end great duty We are face 10 face
with questions CT conservation and OF
Y development questions OF forests and
4 water powers and mines and water
/ ways. of the building OF an adequate
merchant marine. and the opening OF
4 every highway and facility aud the
setting up or every safeguard needed
by a great industrious. expanding ma
tion,
These are all great matters upon
which everybody saould be heard ".
have got into troIble In recent year
chiefly because these large things
which ought 10 have been handled by
taking counsel with as large a numhe!
ot perscns as porsible. because they
touched every Interest and the Ike OF
every class and region, have In fact
been too often handled In private con
ference. They have been settled by
very small, and often deliberately sN
4 clusivG. groups OF men who undertook
3 tn speak tGI the WnOle nation, OF
rather, Cor themselves in the terms OF
the whole nation--very honestly IL may
he. but very ignorantly sometimes. and
very shortsighteily too--a poor sub
sutcte for genuine common counsel
No group OF directors. economic OF
POLITICAL can speak for a people They
have neither the point OF view lOr the
knowledge our difficulty Is n0t that
wicked and designing men have plotted
against US. but that our common af-
fnirs have been determined upon tcC
( narrow n view. and by too private an
Initiative Our task now Is 20 erect
a great readJustment and get the
| forces % the whole people once more
| into play We need no revolution: we
need no excited change: we need only
a new point OF View and a new method
and spirit CT counsel.
! we gre servants of the people. the
! whole people The nation has been un-
necessarily, unreasonably at war with
I In itself Interest has, clashed with
l interest when there were common
principles OF right and OF fair dealing
which might and should have bound
/ them all together. not as rivals. but as
/ partners As the servants OF all, we
! are bound to undertake the great dsty
| OF accommodation and adjustment.
! We cannot undertake IL except In q
] spirit which some md II hard 10 under
stand. Some people only smile when
you speak OF yourself as a servant OF
/ the people: II seems to them like affec-
tation or mere demagogery. They
ask what the ,lnthinking crowd knows
or comprehends OF great complicated
matters OF government. They shrGs
their shoulders and lift their eyebrows
when you speak as II you really be
lieved IN presidential primaries. In the
| direct election OF United States sen
arors. and In an utter publicity about
| everything that concerns government,
! II ON the sourcesfof campaign FUNDS 20
the intimate debate OF the highest at
| fairs OF state.
/ Dennes Repres@ntatiye Rule.
They do not, or will not. comprehend
the solemn thing that Is In your
/ thought. YOU know as we'll as they do
that there are all sorts and conditions
Of men---the unthinking mixed VITA
the wise. the recklcss with the prudent,
! the unscrupulous with the fair ana
/ Eonest-and you know what they
sometimes forget. that every class.
the mixture. the learned and the for
tunate no less than the unedueated and
the struggling mass. But you see
more than they do. You see that these
tand quality. constitute somehow an
organic and noble whole single pCo-
tple, and that they have interests which
! ho man can privately determine with.
/ out their knowledge and counsel That
ifs the meaning OF representative gov
( ernment Itself Representative gov
I eminent II nothing more nor less than
an effort to give : oice 10 this great
I
! of every grade and class.
| You may think that | am wandering
! cn into general disquisitlon that has
little 10 do with the business in hand /.
but I am not This is business--bu bust
ness OF the deepest sort II will solve
our difficulties II you will but take u
as business.
See how IL makes business OF; OF the
tariff question The tariff question, as
dealt with In our time at any rate. has
not been business IL has been politics
1arir schedules have been made up
for the purpose OF keeping as large a
number as possible OF the rich and In
fuential manufacturers OF the country
IN a good humor with the Republican
! financial support The tariff has be-
come system of fayors. which the
( phraseoioEy OF the schedule was often
deliberately contrived 20 conceal IL
becomes "A matter ~ business OF legiti
q mate business only when the partner
2hip ana understanding IL represents
. is between tie leaders OF congress and
the whole people ot the United states.
I Hl1#t,hd ~ brtWe'V ~ the leaders or con-
gress and small groups OF manufac-
turers demanding special recognition
. and consideration That is why the
general idea % representative govern.
mcnt becomes ecessarv part of the
tarin question Who. when you come
down 20 tile hard facts OF the matter,
when our tarin schedules were being
? discussed and determined not on the
floor OK congress Tor that is not where
they have been determined but lu ,he
committee rooms and conferences
That II the heart W the whole anHir.
VIII yol can YOU. briaR the whole
people into the partneIship or notF