Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-08-08

UlIUeS anu IHToupDOuI I'LL our great In.
dustrial and commercial undertakings,
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 If they are TO make con-
quest Of their fortunes in health, in
freedom, in peace and in contentment.
In the performance of 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 these large things,
which ought to have been handled by
taking counsel with as large a num-
Der of persons as 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-
Iiberately 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 1t 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
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
new method and spirit of counsel.
We are servants of the people, the
WHOIt ItbIllc Ilt llll"ll JCth
unnecessarily, unreasonably at war
within Itself Interest has claShed
with interest when there were com
mon principles ofNright and Of fair
dealing which might and should have
bound them all together, not as rivals,
all we are bound to undertake the
great duty of accommodation and adj.
justment.
We cannot undertake it except in
spirit which some find it hard to I'M
derstand. Some people only smile
when you speak of Yourself as n serv-
ant Of the people; 1t seems to them
like affectation or mere dcmagogy
They ask what the unthnking crowd
knows or comprchendS of great com
pllcated matters of government. They
shrug their shoulders and lift their
eyebrows when you speak as If you
really believed in presidential prima-
ries, In the direct election OF United
States senators and In an utter pub
licity about everything that concerns
from the sources of cam
paign 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 we'll "a they
do that there are all sorts and condi-
lions of mcn-the unthinking mixed
with the wise. the reckless with the
prudent, the INSCRIPTIONS with the
fair and honest-and you know, what
they sometimes forget, that every
class. without exception, affords
the fortunate no less than the unedu-
Gated 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
government itself
You may think that am wandering
of into II general disQuisition that has
little to do with the business in hand.
but l am not. This is business bust
ness OF the deepest sort 1t will solve
our difficulties il YOU will but take it
ms business
The Tariff.
See how Il makes business out of the
tariff question. The tariff question ms
dealt with in our time at amy rate has
not been business. 1t has been politics.
Tariff schedules have been made up
for the purpose of Keeping as large n
number rs possible Of the rich ANA in
tuental manufacturers of the country
In Il good humor With the Republican
party, which desired their constant
financial support The tariff has be
come Il system of faYors. which the
Of the schedule was often
deliberately contrivrd to conceal 1t
becomes matter of business, of Iegiti-
mate business, only when the partner
ship and understanding It represents