Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-11-02


great decision, a decision which
will affect the whole course OF
our national life and our in
dlvidual fortunes throughout
the next generation. We must
make that decision on the 5th Of
November. Ii cannot be post
poned. We cannot vote without
making it, 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 ques-
tion of the reformation of our
whole banking and currency
system, the conservation of our
natural resources and of the
health and vigor of our people,
the development of our means
of transportation, the right ap-
plication of our scientific knowl-
edge to the work and heaithful
prosperity of our whole popula-
ton, whether in the fields or in
the factories or In the mines,
the firm establishment of for
eign policy based upon justice
and good will rather than upon
mere commercial exploitation
and the selfish interests of a
narrow circle of financiers ex-
tending their enterprises to the
ends of the earth, and the ex-
tension of the assistance OF the
government to those many pro-
grams 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 re-
lieve them. The tariff question
must be solved in the interest
OF those who work and spend
and plan and struggle, those
who are finding foothold and
working out career, those who
touch 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 and regard the
toll of millions of men merely
as an opportunity to make use
of their established advantage.
II must be handled very pru-
IDENTIFY, so that no honest toll
may be interrupted. no honor
able or useful enterprise dis
turbed; must be dealt with by
slow stages Of well considered
hange--change whose object
shall be to restore and broaden
opportunity, and DESTROY moth
ing but special privilege and
unwhoieeorne control. Those
who handle it, therefore, must
be men who understand the
general interest and have devot-
ed themselves to serving it with
out fear or favor.
The trust question must be
dealt with in the same way with
this distinct an1 single program.
to destroy monopoly and to
leave business Intact, to give
those who conduct enterprise
NO vantage except that which
c o by efficiency, energy and
81. ;ity, those only fountains
OF honorable wealth, every man
rewarded according to his in
sight and enterprise 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. man
ufacture the goods. and quicken
the commerce OF the nation,
rather than in the interest OF
the banker and the promoter
and the captain Of finance. who
II set of 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 pre-
served, as II 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 en-
large their enterprises and think
only Of their own profits. The
government must employ It's
powers and spend its money to
develop a whole people and a
whole continent, and at the
same time keep them free and
alert and unhampered, Its eye
always on the common use and
purpose. its thought constantly
OF what will happen to the
average man and of what will
be prepared for the next gener-
alton.
We must consider our foreign
policy upon the same high prfn-
ciple We have become a pow
erful member of the great fam
lily of nations. The nations
look to us for standards and
policies worthy Of America. We
must shane our course of ac-
ton by the maxims of justice
and liberality and good will.