Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-09

is that they have not known how II
dc anything except sit On the lid. Nov.
II you can release the seam so that
1t will drive great industries, it is nee
necessary to sit on the lid. What
We are trying to do in the great con-
servation bill is to carry out for the
first time in the history Of the United
States a system by which the great
resources Of this country can be used,
instead Of being set aside so that NJ
man can get at them.
Those Without Guides
But there are other things which we
have to do. Sometimes when ! looh
abroad, my friends, and see the great
mass Of struggling humanity on tina,
continent. it goes very much to my heart
to See how many men are at disadvan-
tage and are without guides and helpers.
Don't You think it would be pretty
good idea for the Democratic party to I'M
dertake a systematic method of helping
the working men Of America, and there
is very simple way in which they can
help the workingman. If you We're sim
ply to establish a great federal employ
IlSHI UUTcdQ II WO0lO w d NdSt OSd-s OS
the federal agencies which spread over
thi scountry men could be directed to
those parts of the country to those I'M
dertakings. to those tasks. where they
could find profitable employment. The
labor Of this country needs to be guided
from opportunity to opportunity. We
proved 1t the other day.
We were told that in two states Of
the Union 5000 men were needed to
gather the crops. We suggested in a
cabinet meeting that the department OF
labor should have printed information
about this in such form that it could be
posted up IN the postoffices al over the
United States; and that the department
of labor should get in touch with the
labor departments OF state, SO that no.
tice could go out from them. What was
the result?
Aid for 10000
Those $1,000 men were found and were
sent to the places where they got profit
able employment I do not know any one
thing that has happened in my admins
tration that made me feel happier than
that-that the job and the man had been
brought together. 1t will not cost
great deal Of money, and it will do q
great deal of service. If l were writing
an additional plank for a Democratic
platform l would put that in.
And there is another thing that
needs very much to be done. ! am not
one fo those who doubt either the in
dustry or the learning or integrity Of
the courts Of the United States, but l
do know that they have a very anti
quated way Of doing business, l do
know that the United States in its
judicial procedure is many decades
behind every other civilized govern
ment in the world: and l say that II
is an immediate and an imperative
call upon us to rectify that, because
the speediness of justice, the inexpen-
siveness of justice, the ready access OF
justice, is the greater part of justice
Itself If you have to be rich to get
Justice because Of the cost Of the very
process itself, then there is no justice
at all
And then these is something else.
The Democrats have heard the Re-
publicans talking about the scientific
way in which to handle tariff,
though the Republicans have never
given any exhibition of knowledge
Of how to handle it scientifically. If
il is scientific to put additional profits
into the hands Of those who are al
ready getting the greater part of the
profits. then they have been exceed
ingly scientific. It has been the science
of selfshness; 1t has been the science
of privilege. That kind of science l
do not care to know anything about
except enough to stop it.