The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-03-06
lessness have ALLEN &
We have made up our MINI

again with the standards we so pro
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 it on all it's sides.
| financial as well as administrative.
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the op-
portunities of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the na+-
ural resources of the country;
of agricultural activities
given the efficiency of or
undertakings or served as
through the instrumentality OIL s,
| taken directly to the farm, or afft
the facilities of credit best suite
its practical needs; water courses
| developed, waste places unreclain
| forests INTENDED, fast disappear
without plan or prospect of renew;
unregarded waste heaps at every MINI
We have studied as perhaps no Other
nation has the most effective mea
of production, but we have not stu
cost or economy as we should
as organizers of industry,
men, or as individuals.
Matters of Justie
Nor have we studied ar
the means by which COVE
be put at the service of !
safeguarding the health
the health of its men
and its children as well
in the struggle for eXis
no sentimental duty.
of government T.
These are matters "a
can be no equality or
first essential of JUST
polite, if men and W
dren be not shielded
their very vitality, fr
quences of great indust
processes which they C,
control or singly cope with.
must see to it that it does not
| crush or weaken or damage it's
constituent parts. The first duty
law is to keep sound the society it
serves Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions of
labor which individuals are powerless
to determine for themselves are inti~
mate parts Of the very business of jus
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some Of the things we
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 a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire of every
mans conscience and vision of the
right. 1t is incofceivable that we
should do this as partisans; it is
conceivable We should do it in ig
ance of the facts as they are OF
blind haste. We shall restore, not
stroy. We shall deal with our eco
omic system as it is and as it ma.
be modified, not as it might be if we
had clean sheet of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall max
it what it should be, in the spirit of
those who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge not.
shallow selfsatisfaction or the excite
ment of excursions whittier they can
not tell. Justice, and only justice
shall always be our motto.
Task Not One of Politics.
And yet it will be no cool process.
of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred, stirred by a sole.
passion, stirred by the knowledge
wrong, of ideals lost, of governmt
too often debauched and made an
strument of evil. The feelings
WHICH we lace lulS new age Oh II
and opportunity sweep across
heart-strings like some air out
Gods own presence, where justice
mercy are reconciled and the j.
and the brother are one. We
our task to be no mere task of pc
but a task which shall scar
through and through, whether
able to understand our time
need of our people, whether
deed their spokesman and
tiers, whether we have the
to comprehend and the
to choose our high course
This is not day of tri
day of dedication. Here
the forces of party, but tn
humanity. Mems hearts w
mems lives hang in the
hopes call upon US to
will do. Who shall
great trust? Who dare
l summon all honest mel
all forwardlooking men
God helping me, will
if they will but couns
mel
Romans May Have We
Every one is aware
gold mines have beer
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