Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1913-03-05

efs WHICH msue Impossible that any
but those who st3od at the levers OF
control should Il Ire n chance TO look
out for themselves. We had not for,
| gotten our moraL. We remembered
we'll enough that We had set IN a
policy which vas meant to serve the
humolest as well as the most power.
tui. with an eye single to the stand.
ards of Justice and fair play. and re-
membered it with pride. hut We were
very needless and in hurry to be
great.
Chief Items in Program.
We have come now TO the sober
second thought. The scales OF heed
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to square
every process OF our national life
tSnfn with the standards We SO proud
~ set UP at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work Is work OF restoration.
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 on from our proper part In the
commerce OF the world. violates the
just principles OF taxation, and makes
the government a facile instrument In
the hands OF private interests: n bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity OF the government 10
sell its bonds nifty years ago and per.
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
| and restricting credits; an industrial
system which. take il on all its sides.
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings. re-
stricts the liberties and limits the on.
portunities of labor. and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
urai resources OF the country; n body
or agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency OF great business
undertakings or served as It should be-
through the instrumentality OF science
taken directly to the farm. or afforded
the facilities OF credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses un-
developed, waste places unreclaimed,
forests INTENDED. fast disappearing
without plan or prospect of renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied az perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
or production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
IA organizers OF industry. as states
men, or as individuals.
Matters Of Justice.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service OF humanity, in
safeguarding the health OF the nation,
the health OF its mon and It's women
and it's children, as well as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This il
no sentimental duty The firm basis
OF government is Justice, not pity.
These are matters OF justice. There
can be no equality or opportunity, tho
first essential OF justice in the body
polite. IL men and women and chill
dren be not shielded In their lives,
their very vitality, from the conse-
quences OF great Industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control c. singly cope with. Society
must see TO 1t that 1t does not itself
crush or weaken or damage Ats own
constituent parts. The first duty OF
IL
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions OF
labor which individuals are poweriess
to determine for themselves are init
mate parts OF the very business OF JUS
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some OF the things wa
ought to do. and not leave the others
undone. the old-fashioned. never-to be-
| neglected, fundamental safeguarding
OF property and OF individual right.
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 hearthiire OF every
mans conscience and vision OF the
! right II Is inconceiyable that we
| should do this az partisans; Il is in
conceivable we should do IL in ignor.
| anco OF the facts as they are or I'm
| blind haste. We shall restore, not de-
stroy. We shall deal with our econ
omic system as It is and as e may
be modified, not as il might be II We
had clean sheet OF paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall make
IL what IL should be, In the spirit OF
those who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
| shallow self-satisfaction or the excite
ment OF excuTsions whittier they can
not tel Justice. and only justice.
| shall always be orr motto
Task Net One Of Politics.
and yet II viii be ~ cool process
Of mere science. The nation has been
| deeply stirred, stirred BY a solemn
| passion, stirred By the knowledge ~
wrong. OF i1csls lost, Of government
J Toe often dtbauched and made an in.
| strumont OF evil Tho feelings With
which we face this new age Of 5eht
and opportunity sweep across Jur
| heart-str!ngJ like some air. oat of