The Big Sandy news., 1912-08-09

and the political life of the people OF
the Philippines. for whom we hold
governmental power in trust. for their
service, not our own. The other, the
additional duty is the great task OF
protecting our people and our resources
and Of keeping open to the whole peo-
pie the doors OF opportunity through
which they must, generation by gener-
alton, pass II they are 70 make con
quest q their fortunes In health. In
freedom, In peace and In contentment
In the performance q this second
great duty we are face to face with
Questions Of conservation and OF de-
velopment, questions OF forests and
water powers and mines and water
ways, Of the building OF an adequate
merchant marine. and. the opening OF
every highway and facility. and the
setting up OF every safeguard needed
by an Industrious. expanding nation.
In Partnership With the People.
These are all great matters upon
which everybody should be heard We
have got into trouble In recent years
chiefly because theee large things,
which ought to have been handled by
taking counsel with as large num-
Der of persons rs possible. because
they touched every interest and the
life OF every class and region, have
In fact been too often handled In
private conference. They have been
settled by very small and often de-
liberateiy exclusive groups OF men
who undertook to speak for the whole
nation. or, rather. for themselves In
the terms Of the whole nation-very
honestly It may be, but very Ignorant
ly sometimes. and very shortsightedly'
too-a poor substitute FOR genuine com
mon counsel. No group Of directors.
economic or political. can speak for a
people. They have neither the point
OF view nor the knowledge. We need no
revolution; we need no excited change;
we need only new point Of view and
a new method and spirit OF counsel.
We are servants OF the people. the
whole people. The nation has been
unnecessarily. unreasonably at war
within itself Interest has clashed
with interest when there were com
mon 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 duty Of accommodation and ad'
justment.
We cannot undertake II except In a
spirit which some ind It hard to un-
derstand. Some people only smile
when you speak Of yourself as a serv-
ant OF the people: 1t seems to them
like affectatlon or mere demagogy
They ask what the unthlnking crowd
knows or comprehends OF great COM
plicated matters OF government They
shrug their shoulders and lift their
eyebrows when you speak as II you
really believed in presidential prima-
ries, In the direct election OF United
States senator's and In an utter pub
licity about everything that concerns
government from the sources Of cam
palgn funds to the intimate debate OF
the highest affairs OF state.
The Public Noble Whole.
They do not or will not compre-
bend the solemn thing that is In your
thought. You know as well us they
do that there are all sorts and condi-
tions OF men-the unthlnking mixed
with the wise. the reckless with the
prudent, the unscrupulous with the
fair and honest-and you know, what
they sometimes forget. that every
class, without exception. affords a
sample Of the mixture. the learned and
the fortunate no less than the unedu'
pcated and the struggling mass. But
you see more than they do. You see
that these multitudes OF men. mixed
OF every kind and quality. constitute
somehow an organic and noble whole
n single people, and that they have In
terests which no man can privately
determine without their knowledge
and counsel That is the meaning OF
representative government itself
You may think that am wandering
of Into general dlsqulsltion that has
little to do with the business In hand
but am not, This is buslness-busi
ness Of the deepest sort. It will solve
our difficulties II you will but take II
as business.
~ The Tariff.
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