Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-10-02
came from the shippYSg interests Of

the beneficiaries thereof + this very
lay. One may well believe it, be-
cause the $500, 0CC,000 which we pa0
annually to foreign-oWned ships is q
prize for witch TIRE Maintenance of an
American lobby and press bureau is
well worth while. We expended $780,
BOO, geo to construct tie Tasa1I& canal,
and though We pay out $3.50, 600, 900
annually for ocean transportation, we
haven't enough vessels flying the
American dag to adorn those tropical
waters with the Graded reflex Of I'll
American calCr5.
Wien grim war halted the com
of Europe and scurried it's
o~cean-car11ers into friendly ports,
when we found the world awaiting
our cargOeS and new markets beck
0ning, a Democratic congress awoke
to the error Of its PARTY rolicy of fifty
years. and ignored special privilege
to gUiD down partial federal n
ship. Even were it practical, even
were it aloof from the dangers of yio-
lated neutrality, the very neutrality
we gladly commend: even if it were
possible to commend federal owner
ship. or wise to buy ~antiquated craft,
a Democratic CONGRESS- is rapidly
learning that though it may repent a
half century Of mistaken obstinacy in
Il moment. it takes years to estab-
lish a great merchant marine.
Evolves Big Business.
Lest some one conclude that l put
toe much emphasis on the Importance
Of material good fortune, let me re-
mind you hat it is the underlying
foundation of all our higher attain
ments. Subsistence first is the sub
structure of all our boasted civiliza-
ton. Whether it is ideal, every COM
%Ilunity, industrial or cultural, is meas
ured by its productive activity. There
is no college nor school until there is
productive capacity to sustain the
non-producer. Production calls for
exchange, and exchange means com
MERGE. Beneath the diplomatic ex-
cuses, ports, and highways OF
exchange plunged the old world into
TIE death grapple of giants. Hateful
as 1t may appear, trade is essential
10 higher national development.
Here at home, as elsewhere, it has
evolved big business. The race for
supremacy has developed big things,
We have passed pioneering and out
strided the star of empire in its west
ward march. This monster develon-
ment has brought it's problems, raised
new difficulties, and offered new tar
gets to the political fakir. l do nSt
pretend to proclaim the solution Of
the evils of big business, but l dc
know the country needs to seek solu
ten in political sincerity. Between
allied jawsmiths and political ham
mer-smiths on the one hand and the
aggressions of constituencies greed
on the other, we have come to a state
where legitimate business trembles ii
fear. It is ours to give rightful assur
ance, and, in turn, demand righteous
cooperation. One thing I know be
You'd all dispute, good fortune, tran
guilty and progress lie in square deal
these are inteTdependent, and theiI
rewards must come in iighteou'
measures together.
The farmer has come to his reaso1
able reward. The amusing thing abou
it is that the Organized Democrat,
wept itself hoarse over the woes o
the farmer for three decades, an
when he finally came to his owl
through the making of an ample hom'
market under Republican protection
the Democratic party turned it's tear
to wipe out the high cost of livini
which gave the farmer his mead of re
ward. But the new adjustment is es
s~entially permanent. because ours i
the transformation of the agriculture
land to the Industrial and agricu
tural nation.
Such are the achievements unde
representative popular government
Ohio has kept the pace. Until 81
years ago succeeding Republican az
ministratiors had made a state whic
was a model and insDiration to other
the cost, we are Wisconsined an
CoXifed. Our growth in omce-holdin
under one head surrasses all othe
achievements of the Cox ADMINISTERS
ton. The present administration ha
SUPERSEDED popular rule with a con
missiOned commonwealth.
Under the Cox rule, we have bee
bureaucrated and a~utocrated mt
true Democracy is in open revolt. w
have seen the tax g%atherers and Il
, ~taX-Spenders leagUed together, wit
, out restraining law or inhibiting han
We have see state ofice-hClding e
banded to the dimensions of politics
|, peril, and the t~reasury-fed hosts lie
, to one single command. Amid it a
, there has been added some helpf1
LEGISLATION, enough mon entarily to {
! vert the popular gaz from I'll
: process Of undermining represent
: tive government. but the things wort
while are not of partisan accomplis
i. ment. The good things done a.
largely of Republican ~cOnceptiOn, al
, have been made possible through no
; partisan changes in our constitutio
=, We favored wOrknen's compensatio
and have as full a claim to credit
, the marty in rover, and favor now i
! arpler provisions and larger col
F., ~pensation.
5 Must Not Be Diverted.
g Let us not be diverted from Il
g tasks before us. Let the people
s Ohio not he distracted by the feint
the Progressive allies who seek to G
Ii rose our forks to the real enem
The simple. incortrovertible truth
e that the citizenship of Ohio must
e eide the nending amendments witho
e regard to political bias. The drye
e Drv in all O'iO may vote his &C
S science on the amendments witho
violating his partisan fidelity. and t
wettest liberal in all tho state m
REGISTER his liheralitv without rega
n to the vital differences between poll
a cal parties. When these votes a
J registered In the convictions of o
$ citizenship. the will of the MAORI
r is the fundamental law of Ohio, Al
o no political nartv will endure viii
3 does not faithfully observe the ms
date Of the majority. The govern
n who IGNORED could immediately
It imnnached. The Third party apne
; 70 the temperance forces of the eta
is the supreme hypocrisy of polite
" rlav- and any Democratic barga
d With the Personal Liberty hosts is
new conspiracy for the old doub
d cross.
Let. us make u appeal to the d
|. c~rfmirating thought of Ohio citizt
shin. Let MS emphasize anew Repl
q Vicsn fidelity r. political nrnmise. [
d rs utter af~esh orr Republican hor
in rational nro@ress. Let us inv
IT the great majority Of Republican fai
to renewed and harmorized effort
preserve the proud accomnlishmer
o of fftv years Of triumrhant histo,
n making. and go reso'utnly on. in go
conscience an5 high hone. ma"rffvi
- every civil light. and simplifying
is human rights. Let rs proclaim e
If nhasized belief in political sanity 2
~ roliticaI honesty, not in reaction
n in rpc0nrenratiNr. Let NC cling tn =
"a nolicins d~ietinc+1v Peruh'ican. VIII
have always p~rosnered America fir
~ and thus ~ustoinnd move on. eN
lv on tn the higher blessings of Ans
Il can liberty which come to fruit
IL in the fullness Of material good I
70 tune.