East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-03-26
as not seeking America but the west.

years after his adventurous voyage
the people of the new world have dug
a canal that makes his vision come
true. At the same time such a trip
for the little fleet would demonstrate
in a striking way the progress the
world has made in naval affairs since
the day of Columbus. For speed and
comfort the passenger steamers of the
present have advantages over the
beats of the 1892 model as the Harvard
crew will fully realize if they make
their proposed voyage.
Those who wish to know the eco
nomic views of President Wilson may
gain such information
Would Rescue from his book the
Business. New Freedom a chap
ter of which appears
in each months issue of the Worlds
Work Treating of Monopoly and OPP
portunity in one chapter the president
expresses himself in the following
splendid summary:
The facts of the situation amount
to this: that a comparatively small
number of men control the raw ma
terial of this country; that COM
paratively small number of men con-
troll the water-powers that can be
made useful for the economical pro-
duction of the energy to drive our ma
chinery; that that same number of
men largely control the railroads; that
by agreements handed around among
themselves they control prices, and
that same group of men control the
larger credits of the country
When we understand the strategy
which is going to be necessary to over
come and destroy this far-reachine
system of monopoly, we are rescuing
the business of this country, we are
not injuring it; and when we separ-
ate the interests from each other and
dismember these communities of con-
nection, we have in mind a greater
community of interest, a vaster COM
munity of interest, the community of
interest that binds the virtues of all
men together, that community of man.
kind which is broad and catholic
enough to take under the sweep of its
comprehension all sorts and conditions
of men; that vision which sees that
no society is renewed from the top
and every society is renewed from the
bottom. Limit opportunity, restrict
the field of originative achievement,
and you have cut out the heart and
root of all prosperity.
The only thing that can ever make
a free country is to keep a free and
hopeful heart under every jacket in
it. Honest American industry has al
ways thriven, when it has thriven at
all. on freedom; it has never thriven
on monopoly. 1t is a great deal bet
ter to shift for yourselves than to be
taken care of by great combination
| of capital.
II, for my part, do not want to be
taken care of. l would rather starve
free man than be fed a mere thing
at the caprice of those who are or
ganizing American industry as they
| please to organize it. l know, and
every man in his heart knows, that the
only way to enrich America is to make
! it possible for any man who has the
brains to get into the game. l am not
| has grown to that size. I am not
! jealous of any process of growth, no
matter how huge the result, provided
| the result was indeed obtained by the
processes of wholesome development
which are the processes of efficiency,
of economy, of intelligence, and of in
vention."
There is expressed above some good
sound American doctrine, and it is a
wholesome thing to have such a man
in the white house. Even If Wilson
does not accomplish all he hopes to
do his administration will at least
take the country forward many steps
towards the goal.
We have had some unusual weather
here in eastern Oregon and did not
like it. But we had no tornados
sweeping through the country tearing
towns and cities up by the roots.
Neither has the whole country been
converted into an ocean. For what
We have not suffered we should be
thankful while sorrowing for the af-
flicted people in the middle west.
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1t is a fine thing the city is not IL
able for damages every time a police
man arrests some one. If every often
dor could ca1nra yuot,lJ oop.