The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-14

ing circumstances of the money mar
ket in general industrial and trading
pation, but absolutely fortified and Sc
cured against a central control, the
influence of lotteries and leagues OF
banks TO which 1t is now in constant
danger OF being subjected. He would
have known that the currency ques-
ton is not only an economic question.
but a political question, and that, above
all things else, control must be IN the
hands of those who represent the gen.
eral interest and not in the hands of
those who represent the things we
are seeking to guard against.
I'm the general field of business his
thought would, of course, have gone
about to establish freedom, to throw
business opportunity open at every
point to new men. to destroy the pro-
cesses of monopoly, TO exclude the
poison of special favors, to see that,
whether big or little, business was
not dominated by, anything but the
law itself, and that that law was made
in the interest Of plain, unpriviieged
men everywhere.
"Jefferson's principles are sources
of light because they are not made up
OF pure reason, but spring out Of as
piration, impulse, vision, sympathy.
They burn with the fervor of the
heart; they wear the, light of inter
probation he sought to speak in, the
authentic terms of honest. human am
hilton. And the law in mis- mind was
the guardian of all legitimate ambition.
II was the great umpire standing by
to see that the game was honorably
and fairly played in the spirit Of
generous rivalry and open the feld
free to every sportsnanlike con-
testant.
constitutions are not inventions.
They do not create our liberty. They
are rooted in life. in fact, in circum-
stance, in environment They are not
the condition OF our liberty, but it's
expression. They result from our life;
they do not create it. And so there
beats in them always, If they live at
all this pulse of the large life of
humanity. AS they yield and answer
to that they are perfected and ex
allied.
Indeed, the whole spirit of govern
n,ent is the spirit of men of every
kind banded together in a generous
combination seeking the common good.
Nations are exalted, parties are made
great as they partake of this aspira
tion are permitted to see this vision
of the nation as a whole struggling
towards q common ideal and a COM
mon hope.
1--WE as Democrats are particularly
bound at this season of expectation
and of confidence to remember that
ii is only in this spirit and with this
vision that we can ever serve either
the nation or ourselves. AS we ap-
proach the time when we are to pick
out president-for I believe that is
to be our privilege-we should fix our
thought on this one great fact. that
no man is big enough or great enough
to be president alone. He will be no
stronger than his party. His strength
will lie in the counsel of his comrades.
His success will spring out of the
union and energy and unselfish CO.
operation of his party. and his party
must be more than half the nation.
It must include, and genuinely include.
men of every class and race and dis
position. If he be indeed the repre-
sentative of his people, there may be
vouchsafed to him through them
something of the vision to conceive
what Jefferson conceived and under
stood-how the vision may be carried
into reality"