The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-11-01
GOVERNOR VISIONS RALLY
DAY MESSAGE.

race 10 lace with great decision, which
will affect the whole course of our nation
al life and our individual fortunes
throughout the next generation. We
must make that decision on the 5th of
November 1t cannot be postponed. We
cannot vote without making it, and if we
do not vote those who do will make it
for us. The next four years will deter
mine how we are to solve the question of
the tariff, the question of the trusts, the
question of the reformation of our whole
banking and currency system, the con-
servation of our natural resources and the
health and vigor of our people, the devel-
opment OF our means of transportation,
the right application of our scientific
knowledge to the work and healthful
prosperity of our whole population,
whether i'll the fields or in the factories
or in the mines, the firm establishment of
foreign policy based upon justice and
good will rather than upon mere com
mercIal exploitation and the selfish inter
ests OF narrow circle of ffnanciers ex-
tending their enterprises to the ends of
the earth, and the extension of the assist
anCe OF the government to those many
programs OF uplit and betterment to
which some of the best minds of our age
have turned with wise hope and ardor.
There is much to be done. and it must
be done in the right spirit and in the right
way, or 1t will deepen our troubles. not
relieve them. the tariff question mus be
solvedinthe interest ofthose whowork and
spend and plan and struggle, those who
are finding foohod and working out a
career, those who touch the sources of
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a common life, for the sake of THE DOW
cr that ills he fields and builds the
cities and not for the sake OF special
groups of men who dominate the toll of
millions of men merely as an opportunity
to make use Of their established advant-
age. 1t must be handled very pruden;iy,
so that no honest toll may be interrupted,
no honorable or useful enterprise disturb
ed; must be dealt with by slow stages OF
well considered change change whose
object shall be to restore aud broaden
opportunity. and DESTROY nothing but
| special privilege and uuwholesome con
| troll Those who handle it. therefore,
must be men who understand the general
interest and have devoted themselves tC
| serving 1t without fear or favor
The trust question must be dealt with
| IN the same way with this distinct and
| single program, to destroy monopoly and
| 10 leave business intact, to give those
! who conduct enterprise no advantage eX
| cept that which comes by efficiency, en-
| crgy and sagaCitv, those only fountains
| o! honorable wealth. every man rewarded
according to his insight and enterprise anC
| service, his mastery IN an open field
! Currency and banking questions must b.
discussed and settled in the interest o
those who use credit, produce the crops
and quicken the commerce of the nation
rather than in the interest of the banker
| and promoter and the captain of finance
who 1t set off by themselves in the man
| agement OF such things too easily to lose
| sight even Of their own intimate and III
| Separable relation to the general need
| and interests of the rank and file For
estS must be renewed. and mines ant
water courses must be huSbanded auC
preserved, as if we were trustees for al
generations, not merely for our own, TO
the sake OF communities and nations anC
not merely for the immediate use o
| those who hasten to enlarge their enter
priSes and think only of their own profits
! The government must employ its power.
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| people and a whole continent, and nj the
same time keep them free and alert anC
unhampered, its eye ALWAYS on the com
mon use and purpose, its thought con
stantly of what will happen to the averag,
man and of what will be prepared for The
| next generation.
We must consider our foreign polc,
upon the same high principle. We have
become powerful member Of the grea
family of nations. The nation to look Il
| us for standards and policies worthy o
| America. We must shape our course o
action BY the maXimS OF Justice and liber
aIity and good will, think of the progress.
of mankind rather than the progress o
this and that Investment. of the protec
ton of American honor and tn advance
meut of American ideals rather than al.
WAYS OF American contracts, and llt on
| diplomacy to the level of what The hes
minds have planned for mankind. w,
| must devote the power of the govern
ment to the service OF the race and think
at every turn of men aud women anC
| children of the moral life and phvSca
force and spiritual betterment of those
all of those for whom we profess to have
set government up.
Nom OF these high things can be done
! because most of them can be conceived
from the point of view of those who a
| pIeSent exercise power over us at Wash
| ington. No established policy of the Re
publican party can be used for such ends
The black magic of campaign funds
cannot work these miracles. The gov
erument a Washington has not IN half {
| generation been conducted from lht
| point OF view or by the counsel of the ma
ton as whole. but by The advice anC
! with the consent OF tn Use who have ex
torted special favors from it. a very SINAI
number oi persons with their own object,
constantly in view. it NAV be unConsciou.
oi their selfiShneSS. certainly unconscious
! of The interests of the vast maioritie,
! whom they ignored in their scheme o
prosperity. The great task thar waits iobt
done can be done only bV a Tree govern
! ment with lis eye upon the whole people
and such government we heve had moi
since the Dneley and Aldrich tariffs be
! gan 10 be built up favor bv iavo, anC
: trusts began to multiply under The very
: prohibitions of the law. The Republican
! parry is irrelrievablv committed anl
( bound 10 go in the very opposite drec
( lion from that in which release and free
/ dom lie. 1t has become party Of spe
cal point of view.
The country has ALREADY perceived
this. Everywhere there has teen ;
steadily gathering revolt by the voters
! Twenty.SiX of the fOftV-eiIht Stale gov,