Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-12-05

tious in any one to dogmatize upon
so great and many-sided a question,
but feel confident that common coun-
sci will produce the results we must
all desire.
Turn from the farm to the world of
business which centers in the city and
In the factor, and l think that all
thoughtful observers will agree that
the immediate service we owe the bust
ness communities of the country is to
prevent private monopoly more eff
fectually than it has yet been pre-
vented.
i think it will be easily agreed that
we should let the Sherman antitrust
law stand, unaltered, as 1t is, with its
debatable ground about it, but that we
should as much as possible reduce the
area of that debatable ground by fur.
Their and more explicit legislation; and
should also supplement that great act
by legislation and make 1t fairer to all
: concerned.
Many-slded Subject.
No doubt we shall all wish. and the
country will expect, this to be the cen
, trail subject of our deliberations dur
| ing the present session; but 1t is a sub
ject as many-sided and so deserving
of careful and discriminating discus
; sion that l shall take the liberty of
; addressing you upon it in a special
message at a later date than this. 1t
is of capital Importance that the bust
ness men of this country should be re-
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: regard to their enterprises and invest
ments and clear path indicated
which they can travel without anxiety
b. 1t is as important that they should be
[ relieved of embarrassment and set
y free to prosper as that private monop-
q oily should be destroyed. The ways of
t action should be thrown wide open.
: For Direct Nomination.
. turn to subject which / hope can
be handled promptly and without Sc
9 rious controversy of any kind. / mean
the method of selecting nominees for
= the presidency of the United States.
:, I feel confident that do not mis-
:. interpret the wishes or the expecta-
: tons of the country when urge the
~ prompt enactment of legislation which
- will provide for primary elections
throughout the country at which the
\. voters of the several parties may
&c choose their nominees for the presi.
% dency without the Intervention of nom
r. mating conventions.
If / venture the suggestion that this
ID legislation should provide for the re
70 tention OF party conventions, but only
m for the purpose OF declaring and ac
r. cepting the verdict of the primaries
and formulating the platforms of The
parties; and l suggest that these con
yentions should consist not of dele
gates chosen for this singh purpose
=. but Of the nominees for congress. the
- nominees for vacant seats in the sen
"a ate of the United States, the senators
~ whose terms have not yet closed, tn.
- national committees, and the candi
=. dates for the presidency themselves
- In order that platforms may be frame,
~ by those responsible to the people 70
- carrying them into effect
is Obligations to islands.
lie These are all matters of vital dc
d. nestle concern, and besides them, out
n side the charmed circle of our owl
8 national life in which our affection,
'e command us, as we'll as our con
sciences, there stand out our obllga
lie lions toward our territories over sea
Is Here we are trustees.
f. Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines
re are ours, indeed, but not ours to dc
Is what we please with. Such territories
Ie once regarded as mere possessions
o. are no longer to be selfishly exploit
d ed; they are part of the domain OF
y public conscience and of serviceable
l. and enlightened craftsmanship. We
o must administer them for the people
who live in them and with the same
sense of responsibility to them as to.
IS ward our own people in our domestic
d affairs.
d No doubt we shall successfully
It enough bind Porto Rico and the Ha.
If waiian islands to ourselves by ties of
d Justice and interest and affection. but
v the performance of our duty toward
l. the Philippines is a more difficult
e and debatable matter.
= rh"lPPlnes Present problem.
= We can satisfy the obligations of
{ generous justice toward the people of
Porto Rico by giving them the ample
and familiar rights and privileges ac-
= corded our own citizens in our own
: territories and our obligations toward
= the people of Hawaii by perfectlng
the provisions for self government. al
: ready granted them, but In the Phil
= ippines we must go further.
We must hold steadily In view
: their ultimate independence, and we
:, must move to- ard the time of that
: independence as steadily as the way
can be cleared and the foundations
thoughtfully and permanently laid
Acting under the authority con-
ferred upon the president by congress,