Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-08
WILSON SLOWLY
UNF0LDS BELIEF
Candidate Invokes 1.-The Rule of
Right and of Justice"
to Politics.


Continued from pnge one.!
difficult question Of the reform Of our
banking and currency laws. It is plain
that we ought to consult very many per-
sons besides the bankers, not because we
distrust the bankers, but because they
do not necessarily comprehend the bust
ness Of the country, Notwithstanding
they are Indispensable al OF It and
may do a rash deal to make IL hard or
easy. No mere bankers plan will meet
tho requirements, no matter how hon.
estly conceived. It should be a merchants
and farmers plan as we'll. elastic in the
hands Of those who Use II as an indis-
pensabie part Of their daily business.
QUESTION OF PHILIPPINES.
I'm dealing with the Philippines we
should not allow ourselves to stand upon
any mere point Of pride. We are now the
owners Of the Philippine islands. We hold
them In trust for the people who live
In them. They arc theirs for the uses of
their life. We are not even their part
ners. 1t IL our duty. ms trustees, to make
whatever arrangement OF government
will be most servlceable to their freedom
and development. Here. again. we are to
set up the rule of justice and Of right.
Il do not know any greater question
than that OF conservation. We have been
a spendthr1ft nation and must now hus-
band what we hav left. We must do
more than that. We must develop az we'll
as preserve our water powers and
must add greater waterways to the tran
sportation facilities Of the nation to sup
plement the railways within our borders
Us we'll as upon the isthmus. We must
revive our merchant marine too. and fill
the sea again with our own fleets. We
must add to our present postofflce 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 we'll
as hearten them with justice and oppor-
tunity. This is the constructive work Of
government This Is the policy that has
a vision and a hope and that looks to
serve mankind.
With regard to the development Of
greater and more numerous waterways
and the building up of a merchant ma
rine. we must follow great constructive
lines and not fall back upon the cheap
device of bounties and subsidies. In the
case of the Mississippi river, that great
central artery Of our trade. 1t Is plain that
the federal government must build and
maintain the levees and keep the great
waters in harness for the general use. 1t
Is plain. too. that vast sums Of money
must be spent to develop new waterways
where trade will be most served and
transportation most readily cheapened by
them. Such expenditures are no largess
on the part of the government: they are
national investments.
MUST DEVELOP SHIPPING.
THE very fact that we lave at last
taken the Panama canal seriously in hand
and are vigorously pushing it towards
completion is eloquent of our ~re-awakened
interest In International trade. We are
not building the canal and pouring out
millions upon millions of money Upon its
construction merely TO establish a water
connection between the two coasts Of the
continent, important and desirable as that
may be, particularly from the point of
view of naval defense. II is meant to be
n great International highway. II would
be a little ridiculous II We should build
1t and then have no ships to send through
1t. There have been years when not a
single ton OF freight passed through the
great Suez cana. in an American bottom,
so empty are the seas of our ships and
seamen. 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 revival by the mere
} paltry device of tolls. We must build and
buy ships In competition with the world.
We can do it II we viii! but give our
? selves leave.
> There Is another duty which the Demo-
cratic party has showni itself great enough
I and close enough to the people to per-
ceive. the duty OF government to share
in promoting agricultural. industrial. vo-
! cational education n every way possible
, within It's constitutional powers. No other
! platform has given this intimate vision
OF a party's duty. The nation cannot en-.
JOY Its deserved supremacy in the mar
2 kets and enterprises OF the world unless
Its people are given the ease and enec-
tiveness 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 easily de-
generate into a mere personal contest and
so lose It's real dignity and significance
: There Is no Indispensable man. The gov
ernmen will not collapse and go to pieces
: II any one OF the gentlemen who are seek
r ing to be entrusted with its guidance
u should be left at home. But men are In
struments. We are as important as the
a cause we represent. and in order to be I'M
I portant must really represent a cause,
= 'What Is our cause? The peoples
cause? That is easy to sayt hut what does
II mean? The common as against any
: particular interest whatever? Yes. hut
e that. too, needs translation into acts and
: policies. We represent the desire to set
s up an unentangled government n gov
T eminent that cannot be used for private
purposes. either In the field OF business
o or in the field of politics: a government
: that will not tolerate the use OF the or
q ganization Of a great party to serve the
personal aims and ambitions OF any In
o dividual. and that will not permit legis-
l. lation to be employed to further any
u private interest. I heed with deep thank
> fulness the message you bring me from
e the country. | feel that ! am surround
I ed by men whose principles and ambi-
tons are those OF true servants Of the
s people. ! thank God, and will take cour'
Q age"
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AMERICAN I.nAGITE QTANDIN0.