East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-03-04
W|LSON'SADDRESS
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to set liberty upon foundations that
VIII endure against fortuitous change
against storm and accident. Our life
contains every great thing, and con.
tains 1t in rich abundance.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has beer
corroded. With riches has come in
excusable waste. We have suuan-
dered a great part of what we might
have saved, and nave not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of ma
ture, without which our genius for
enterprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodgal as we'll as ad-
mirably efficient. We have been
proud of our industrial achievements.
but we have not hitherto stopped
ithoughtfully enough to count the hu-
man cost, the cost Of lives snuffed
out, of energies overtaxed and bro
ken, the fearful physical and spiritu-!
al cost to the men and women and
children upon whom the dead weight
and burden of it all has fallen pitt,
lessly the years through. The groans
and agony Of it all had not yet reached
our ears, the solemn, moving under
tone of our life, coming up out of the
mines and factories and out of every
home where the struggle had it's in
innate and familiar seat. With the
great government went many deep
secret things which we too long de-
layed to look into and scrutinize with
candid, fearless eyes. The great gov
ernment we loved has too often been
made use of for private and selfish
purposes, and those who used it had
forgotten the people
To Correct the Evil I
--"At last a vision has been vOuch-
safed as of our life as whole We
see the bad with the good, the debase
and decadent with the sound and vi
tai. With this vision we approach
new affairs. Cur duty is to cleanse,
to reconsider, to restore, to correct the
evil without impairing the good, to
purify and humanize every process If
cur common life without weakening
or sentimentalizing it, There has
been something crude and heartless
and unfeeling in our haste to sue
ceed and be great. Our thought has
been Let every man look out for him
self, let every generation look out
for itself, while we reared giant ma
chinery which made it impossible that
any but those who stood at the levers
of control should have a chance to
look out for themselves. We had not
forgotten our morals. We remembered
we'll enough that we had set up pol
icy which has meant to serve the
humblest as we'll as the most power
full, with an eye single to the stand
ards of justice and fair play, and re-
membered it with pride. But we were
very needless and in a hurry to be
great.
I'VE 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 processes of our national life
again with the standards we so proud
ly set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work is work of restoration.
Things to be Altered.
1--WE have itemized with some de-
gree of particularly the things that
ought to be altered and here are some
of the chief items: A tariff which
cuts us off from our proper part in
the commerce of the world, violates |
the Just principles of taxation, and |
makes the government facile in |
strument in the hands of private inter- !
ests; a banking and currency sys-
tenn based upon the necessity OF the |
to sell its bonds fifty |
years ago and perfectly adapted to |
cash and restricting |
credits; an industrial system which,
take it on all its sides, financial as
we'll as administrative, holds capital |
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; a body of agricultural
activities never yet given the effici- |
ency of great business undertakings |
or served as it should be through the !
of science taken di-
rectly to the farm, or afforded the |
facilities of credit best suited to its |
practical needs; watercourses undevel- |
oped, waste places unreclaimed, for
ests INTENDED, fast disappearing with
out plan or prospect of renewal, un-
regarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but We have not stud
led cost or economy as we should |
either as organizers of industry, as
statesmen, or as individuals.
Health of Nation.
"Nor have we studied and perfect
ed the means by which government
may be put at the service of human
ity, in safeguarding the health of the |
nation, the health of its men and its
women and it's children, as we'll as
their rights in the struggle for eN-
istence. This is no sentimental duty. |