Connecticut western news., 1913-03-06


 party means little except when the and definite purpose No one can mis- take the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party 1t seeks to use it to interpret change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them with fresh, awak. ened eyes; have dropped their disguises and shown themselves alien and sin lster. Some new things as we look frankly upon them. willing to compre- bend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of things long be. lieved in and familiar, stun of our own convictions. We have been refreshed by new insight into our own life.
 Our Model Government.
 "We see that in many things life is very great It is incomparably great in it's material aspects, In its body of wealth, in the diversity and sweep of its energy, in the industries which have been conceived and built up by the genius of individual men and the Iim- itless enterprise of groups of men. It is great also, very great, in its mora' force. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited iH more striking forms the beauty and the energy of sympathy and helpful | ra6 {,, hot f.D tify wrong, alleviate suffering and set the weak in the way of strength and hope We have built up, moreover. hope.
 Evil With the Good.
 But the evil has come with the good. and much fine gold has been corroded With riches has come inexcusab,. waste. We have squandered a grea- part of what we might have used and have not stopped to conserve the ex- ceeding bounty of nature without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigaI as we'll as admirably efficient We have been proud of our industria achievements. but we have not hith. erto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spir itual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitiless ly the years through.
 Duty of Americans Outlined.
 ''At last a vision has been youchsafed us of our life SIS whole. We see the bad with the good. the debased and decadent with the sound and vital With this vision we approach new af fairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to re- consider. to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good. to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.
 | We have come now to the sober sec ohd thought The scales of heedless- ness have fallen from our eyes We have made up our minds to square ev- 1 cry process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our work is q work of restoration.
 Things to Be Accomplished. We have itemized with some degree of particularly the things that ought to be altered, and here are some of the chief items: A tariff which cuts us of from onr proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just princi. pies of taxation and makes the govern ment facile instrument in the hands of private interests; banking and cur. rency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell Its bonds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to con centrating cash and restricting credits: an industrial system which. take it nn all it's sides. tiuancial as we'll as ad. miniStrative, holds capital in leading strings restricts the liberties and linn its the opportunities of labor and ex- ploits without renewing or conserving [ the natural resources of the country; a