East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-07

ceive. They have come about very
naturally generally without plan or
deliberation, rather because there was
so much money to be invested and
il was in the hands. at great financial
centers, of men acquainted with one
another and intimately associated in
business, than because anyone had
conceived and was carrying out plan
of general control; but they are none
the less potent a force in our eco
nomic and financial system on that
account. They are part of our PROB
lem. Their very existence gives rise
to the suspicion of money trust"
concentration of the control of
credit which may at any time become
infinitely dangerous to free enter
prise. If such a concentration and
control does not actually exist, it is
evident that it can easily be set up
and used at will. Laws must be de-
vised which will prevent this, if laws
can be worked out by fair and free
counsel that will accomplish that re-
suit without destroying or seriously
embarrassing any sound or legitimate
wholesome arrangement.
Men Turning From G. o. u.
We have set ourselves a great pro-
gram. and it will be a great party
that carries it out. 1t must be par
ty without entangling alliances with
any special interest whatever. 1t must
have the spirit and the point of view
of the new age. Men are turning
away from the republican party, as
organized under it's old leaders, be-
cause they found that it was not free,
that it was entangied; and they are
turning to us because they deem us
free to serve them. They are i'm
mensely interested. as we are, as ev-
cry man who reads the signs of the
times and feels the spirit of the new
age is, in the new program. 1t is
solidly based on the facts of our ma
tional life; its items are items of pres
ent business; it is what every man
should wish to see done who wishes
to see our present distempers1 made
an end of and our old free, co-opera-
tive life restored.
We should go into this campaign
confident of only one thing-confi-
dent of what we want to do if en-
trusted with the government 1t is
not partisan fight we are entering
upon. We are happily excused from
personal attacks upon opponents and
from all general indictments against
the men opposed to us. The facts
are patent to everybody; we do not
have to prove them; the more frank
among our opponents admit them. Our
thinking must be constructive from
start to finish. We must show that
we understand the problems that con-
front US, and that we are soberly
minded to deal with them, applying
to them. not nostrums and notions,
but hard sense and 5ood courage.
Our Cause the Peoples.
A presidential campaign may
easily degenerate into a mere per-
sonal contest and so lose its real dig
nifty and significance. There is ~
indispensable man. The government
VIII not collapse and go to pieces if
any one of the gentlemen who are
seeking to be entrusted with its guild
ance should be left at home. But
men are instruments. We are as i'm
portant as the cause we represent,
and in order to be important must
realy represent cause. What is our
cause? The peoples cause? That is
easy to say, but what does it mean
/ The common as against any partcu-
( lar interest whatever? Yes, but that,
/ too. needs translation into acts and
/ policies We represent the desire TO
I set up an unentangled government, a
! government that cannot be used for
| Or vate purposes. either in the field
| OF business or in the field of poll
/ tics; a government that will not toll
/ crate the use of the organization of a
! great party to serve the personal
aims and ambitions of any individ-
/ ual. and that viii not permit legisla-
/ ton 10 be employed to further any
/ private interest 1t is a great con-
. ceptiOn but | am free to serve It, as
you also are. / could not have ac-
cepted a nomination which left me
( bound to any man or any group OF
men. No man can be just who is not
free; and no man who has to show
favors ought to undertake the solemn
responsibility of government In any
rank or post whatever. least of all in
the supreme post of president of the
United states.
To be free is not necessarily to be
wise. But wisdom comes with coun-
sci. with the frank and free confer
ence Of untrammeled men united ir
the common interest. Should | be en-
trusted with the great office of presl-
dent, / would seek counsel wherever
II could be had upon free terms.
know the temper of the great conven-
ton which nominated me; know the
temper of the country that lay back
Of that convention and spoke through
it.. ! heed with deep thankfulness
the message you bring me from it,
feel that l am surrounded by mer
whose principles and ambitions arr
those of true servants Of the people
ii THANH Cod and take cnuraQa