Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-07

each of the great matters that must be
taken up by the next congress and the
next administration?
What Is there to dot 1t is hard to
sum the great task up, but apparently
this ia the sum of the matter: There
are two great things to do. One Is to
set up the rule Of justice and of right
In such matters, as the tariff, the regu-
lation Of the trusts and the prevention
OF monopoly, the adaptation Of our
banking and currency laws to the
varied uses to which our people must
put them, tie treatment of those who
do the daily labor in our factories and
mines and throughout all 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
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 COZ
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 n
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 az possible, because
they touched every interest and tho
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-
ltberately exclusive groups of men
who undertook to speak for the whole
nation, or, rather, for themselves In
the terms Of the whole natlon-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, ear 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 a 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, u~nreasonably at war
within itself. Interest has clashed
with interest when there We're 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 adj
justment.
we cannot undertake II except III d
spirit which some find it hard to I'M
derstand. Some people only smile
when you speak of yourself as a serv-
ant of the people; 1t seems to them
like affectation OF mere demagogy.
They ask what the unthinking 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 prlma-
ries, in the direct election Of United
States senators and In an utter pub
lefty about everything that concerns
government, from the sources of cam