The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-12


obstruction. we are going into our
garden, therefore, and weed it. We are
going to give the little plants air and light
UP every root that has SO spread itself
as to draw all the nutriment of the soil
from the other plants. We are going to
see to It that fertilization Of intelligence,
Of invention or origfnation, Is once more
applied to set of Industries now threat
ening to be stagnant, because threaten
ing to be too much concentrated. That
is the policy Of the Democratic party in
derstand 1t. The Democratic party has
not proposed to change the established
fiscal policy Of this country, except where
It furnishes root for special privilege, and
wherever special privilege grows there
American labor languishes.
DIFF ERENcE BETWEEN PARTIES.
"The difference between the Demo
cratic and the Republican parties, or
those various other groups and parts of
parties that are masquerading under all
sorts of names Is that they are willing
to accept the discretionary power OF in
cept anything except. the certainty OF
law. That is the only thing that has
ever afforded salvation OF safety.
II want to draw q few Illustrations.
There is the great policy Of conservation,
for example; and I do not conceive OF
conservation in any narrow sense. There
are the lives and fortunes of the citizens
OF the United States to be conserved.
Conservation covers not only forest re-
serves and forest cultivation and the safe
guarding of water powers and mines, but
1t includes pure food and the public
health and the conditions of labor and all
those things which government must see
to infinitely and courageously, II we are
not to be Slapped of our vitality and dis.
appointed of our hopes. Now, the thing
that stands In the way of the proper
policy of conservation and makes It i'm
possible to form that policy is that the
government of the United States is now
under the influence Of men who want to
control the forests, control the water
courses. control the mines, who will not
admit that these are public properties
which We hold in trist for future gen.
erations as well as for ourselves, and
who are resisting the efforts of those OF
US who would extend the threads OF law
all through those industrial processes
which threaten our resources and
threaten our lives and vitality.
REGULATING HOURS OF LABOR.
Then there is the matter OF the regu-
lation of the hours of labor, of the condi.
tions OF labor. the question of the sani-
tation of factories, of the limitation of the
hours of work for women and children,
of the limitation Of hours for men, aues-
tons which are in part state questions,
but also in part federal questions All
of these matters have to be treated by
knowledge and pursued by eonstancy
OF purpose which no special interests
ought to be allowed to stand in the way
Of And the government of the United
States under the Democratic party will
attempt to put all through this nation
the structural steel of law, SO that no
man can doubt what his rights are. or
doubt the stability of the thing that he
is walking on.
s.All over the country we are facing
the same problem It is q problem not
Of revolution but of re-adjustnent And
what I want to sugges: to you is tina
the only basis. the only standard, of re-
adjustment proposed or suggested by our
opponents is the standard of expedi.
ency and that only the Democratic
party offers a standard OF principle The
expediency OF the situation is merely to
see to 1t that those who receive spet ial
privileges behave themselves, whereas.
our principle is that nobody ought to re
ceive or retain special privileges at all
that every special privilege shall be de.
stroyed. not with ruthless hand, not
in such fashion as suddenly to upset the
conditions OF business, but nevertheless
with the frmness and kindness Of the