The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-02

VI W CAoAuoOAVCS IL JIG management
OF such things, too easily lose sight
even of their own intimate and in
separable relation to the general
needs and interests of the rank and
file. Forests must be renewed, and
mines and water courses must be hus-
banded and preserved, as if we were
trustees for all generations, not mere
ly for our own, for the sake of COM
munitits and nations and not merely
for the immediate use of those who
hasten to enlarge their enterprises
and think only of their own profits.
The government must employ it's
powers and spend it's money to de-
velop a whole people and a whole
continent, and at the same time keep
them free and alert and unhampered
it's eye always on the common use
and purpose, it's thought constantly
of what will happen to the average
man and of what will be prepared
for, the next generation.
eve must consider our foreign
policy upon the same high principle.
We have become powerful member
of the great family of nations. The
nations look to us for standards and
policies worthy of America. We
must shape our course of action by
the maxims of justice and liberality
and good will, think of the progress
of mankind rather than of the pro-
gress of this or that Investment, of
the protection of American honor and
the advancement of American ideals
rather than always of American con-
tracts, and lift our diplomacy to the
levels of what the best minds have
planned for mankind. We must de-
vote the power of the government to
the service of the race and think at
every turn of men and women and
children, of the moral life and physi-
cal force and spiritual betterment of
those, all of those for whom we pro-
TESS to have set government up.
'None of these high things can be
done because none of them can be
conceived, from the point of view of
those who at present exercise power
over us at Washington. No estaJb-
lished policy of the Republican party
can be used for such ends. The
black magic of campaign funds can
not work these miracles. The govern
ment at Washington has not in half a
generation been conducted from the
point of view or by the counsel of the
nation as whole, but by the advice
and with the consent of those who
have extorted special favors from
it, very small number Of persons
with their own objects constantly in,
view, it may be unconscious of their
selfshness, certainly unconscious of
the interests of the vast majorities
whom they ignored in their scheme
of prosperity. The great task that
waits to be done can be done by a
free government with it's eye upon
the whole people, and such a govern
ment we have not had since the Ding
ley and Aldrich tariffs began to be
built up favor by favor and trust be-
gan to multiply under the very pro-
hibitions of the law. The Republi-
can party is irretrivably committed
and bound to go in the very opposite
direction from that in which release
and freedom lie It has become a
party of special points of view.
''The country has already perceived
this. Every where there has been
a steadily gathering revolt by the
voters. Twenty-six of the forty
eight state governments are now I'M
der Democratic executives. In the
legislatures of the forty-eight states
the Democrats outnumber the Repub-
licans by majority of 200. Seven
ty-three of the 100 chief cities of the
country have Democratic mayors.
There are now 227 Democrats in the
national house OF representatives
and only ISL Republicans. The tide
gathers in greater and greater vol
ume. Only the presidency and the
senate lift their heads a little above
it, those citadels of power which the
constitution makes it hardest for the
peoples majorities to capture and
occupy. Until these are taken, the
great task will halt and wait, the
great task of putting the government
at the service of the people,
shall We not move forward to the
final conquest? An organized, uni
ted, and enthusiastic force stands
ready, the only united and militant
force to which the people can turn
with any prospect that they will be
served, promptly, effectively and up
on a clear principle of action-the
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