Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1913-03-06
PRESIDENT WILSON Is
FOR JUSTICE ONLY
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and vital. WIN rnIs vision we ap
proach new affairs. Our duty is to
| cleanse, to reconsider, to restore. t.
correct the evil without impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing it.
/ There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste tc
! succeed and be great. Our thought has
been Let every man look cut for him
self, let every generation look out for
ITSELF while We reared giant machin.
cry 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 for
gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up
policy which was meant to serve the
humblest as we'll as the most power
full, with an eye single to the stand
ards Of justice end fair play, and re-
membered it with pride. But we were
very needless and in a hurry to be
great.
Chief Items In Program.
We have come now to the sober
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to square
every process 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 a 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 off from our proper part in the
commerce of the world, violates the
just principles of taxation, and makes
the government facile instrument in
the hands of private interests; bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity Of the government to
sell its bonds fifty 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 OPP
portunities of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources of the country; . body
of agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as 1t should be
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taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses I'M
developed, waste places unreclaimed,
forests INTENDED, 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 production. but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
% organizers of industry. as stasss-
men, or as individuals.
Matters Of Justice.
Nor have wo studied and perfected
lie means by which government may
DO put at the service Of humanity, in
safeguarding the health of the nation.
the health of it's men and its 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, If 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 or singly cope with. Society
must see to II, that 1t does not itself
crush or weaken or damage its own
constituent parts. The first duty Of
law is to keen sound the society II
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