The Detroit times., 1913-03-04
GIVE PEOPLE FAIR
CHANCE, URGES WILSON


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ual cost to the men and women ana
children upon whom the dead weight
and burden OF IL all has fallen pitt
lessly the years through. The groans
and agony OF 1t all had not yet reached
our ears. the solemn, moving undertone
OF our life, coming up out OF the
mines and factories and out OF every
home where the struggle had its intl-
mat apd familiar seat. With the
great government went many deem Sc
crer things which we too long DELAYED
to look into and scrutinize with candid
fearless eyes. The great government
we loved has too often been made use
or Tor private and selfish purposes and
those who used ii had forgotten the
people.
At last vision has been vouchsafed
us OF our life as whole. We see the
pad 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 eva
without impairing the good. to purify
and -humantze every process of our
common life without weakening or SEN
tinentalizing ii. There has been some
thing crude and heartless and unfeel.
Ing in our haste to succeed and be
great Our thought has been Let
every man look out for himself; let
every generation look out for Itself
while We reared giant machinery which
make IL impossible that any but those
who stood at the levers OF control
themselves. We had not forgotten our
morals. We remembered well enough
that We had set up a policy which was
meant TO serve the humblest as we'll as
the most powerful, with an eye single
10 the standards OF justice and fair
play, and remembered 1t with pride
But We were very needless and In a
hurry to be great.
Suggested Tariff Changes
We have come now to the sober sec
ond thought The scales OF needless
ress have fallen from our eyes. We
hav" made up our minds TO square
every process Of our national life agar
with the standards We 30 proudly eel
up at the beginning and have always
carried at our hearts Our work IL 9
work OF restoration.
We have itemixed with some degres
OF particularly the things that ought
TO be altered and here are some OF the
chief items: tariff which cuts us
or from our proper part In the com
nerce OF the world. violates the Just
principles OF taxation, and makes the
government a facile instrument in the
hands OF private interests; a banking
and currency system based upon the
necessity OF the government to sell its
bonds so years ago and perfectly
adapted to concentrating cash and re-
strictlng credits an Industrial system
which. take II on all sides. financial
as veil as administrative. holds capt.
tai In leading strings, restricts the lib
critics and limits the opportunities OF
labor. and exploits without renewing
or conserving the natural resources Of
the country; body OF agricultural ac-
tivities never yet given the efficiency
OF great business undertakings or
served as II sh )uld be through the In
strunentality OF science taken directly
to the farm, or afforded the facilities
OF credit best suited to its practical
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waste places unreclaimed, forests un-
tended, fast disappearing without plan
or prospect OF renewal, unregarded
waste heaps at every mine. We have
studied as perhaps no other nation has
the most effective means OF produc-
tion, but we have not studied cost or
economy as we should either as organ
izers OF Industry, as statesmen. or as
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service OF humanity, In
the health OF the nation
the health, OF its men, and It's women
and its children, as well as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
OF government is Justice. not pity
These are matters OF justice. There
can be no equality or opportunity. the
first essential OF Justice In the body
polite. II men and women and chill
dren be. not shielded In their lives
their very vitality. from the conse-
ouenres OF great industrial and social
processes which they cann3. alter
control or singly cope with. Society
must see TO IL that II does not Itself
crush or weaken or damage its own
constituent parts. The first duty OF
law is to keep sound the soc'ety II
serves Sanitary laws, pure food laws
and laws determining conditions of la =
Dor which individuals are powerless TO
d,termine for themselves are intimate
no ~ II.
and legal efficiency.
LIT Good Things High.
These arc some Of the things we
ought 10 do. and not leave the Others
undone, the old fashioned, never-to- be
fundamental safeguarding
This Is the high enterprise Of the new
day: to lift everything that concerns
our life as nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire OF every
right 1t is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans II IL in
we should do IL in fgnor-
ance Of the facts az they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore. not de-
stroy. We shall deal with our eco
nornic system as IL is and ms IL may
be modified not as IL might be IL we
had clean sheet OF paper to write
upon; and step by step We shall make
IL what II should be, In the spirit or
those who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge. not
shallow self-satisfaction or tho excite
ment 81 excursions whittier they can
not tell. Justice. and only Justice.
shall always be our motto.
And yet IL will be no cool process or
mere science. The nation has beet
deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn pas
sion stirred by the knowledge OF
wrong, OF ideals lost. OF government
too often debauched and made an in.
strument Of evil The feelings with
which we face this new age OF right
and opportunity sweep across our
h.art-strings like some air out OF
Gods own presence. where justice and
mercy are reconciled and the Judge
anG the brother are one. We know our
task TO be no mere task OF politics
but a task which shall search us
through and through whether we be
abIc To understand our time and the
need OF our people. whether We BE- Iva
DID their Spokesman and interpret
cry. whether We have the pure heart
10 comprehend and the rcCtified Will TO
chose our high course OF action
This Is not day OF triumph IL H. a
day ~ dedication. Here muster. not
the forces OF party, but the forces of
N humanity Mems hearts walt upon us
mems lives hang In the balance: mems
hopes call upon w to say what we will
40 Who shall live up TO the great
trust? Who dares faAl TO try I sum-
mon all honest men. all patriotic. ell