New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-09

Dental term, and TO that end |
urge the adoption OF an
amendment to the Constitu-
ton making the President of
the United States ineligible
for reelection, and we pledge |
the candidate Of this conven-
ton to this principle.-Plank |
in the Baltimore platform, on
which President Wilson was
elected
I S---- --
+ United States Senate just now that
have been passed by the House Of Rep
resentatives, which are intended as con
structive measures in behalf Of bust
ness-one great measure which will
make available the enormous water
powers of this country for the indus
try of IL: another bill which will unlock
D. the resources of the public domain
which the Republicans desire TO save,
locked up, so that nobody could use
them.
have not had new idea in thirty
years is that they have not known how
10 do anything except sit on the lid.
Now, If you can release the steam so
that II Will drive great industries. II
IS not necessary to sit on the lid What
we are trying 20 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 no
man can get at them. ! shall watch
with a great deal Of interest what the
Self-stylcd friends of business try TO
DO TO those bills.
do not misunderstood me. There
are some men on that side OF the cham
Der who understand the value of these
things. and are standing valiantly by
them, but they are a small minority.
fhe majority that is standing by them
is on our side Of the chamber, and
they are the friends of America.
To Help the Workingmen.
But there are other things which We
have TO do. Sometimes when | look
abroad, my friends, and see the great
mass of struggling humanity on that
continent, il goes very much TO my
heart 10 see how many men are at
disadvantage and are without guides
and helpers. Don't you think it would
be a pretty good idea for the Demo
cratic party to undertake a systematic
method of helping the worklngmen OF
America? There is very simple way
in which they can help the working
men. II you were simply TO establish
great federal employment bureau, It
would do vast deal BY the federal
agencies which spread over this country
men could be directed 10 those parts Of
the country, to those undertakings. TO
those tasks, where they could find
profitable employment.
"The labor of this country needs TO
be guided from opportunity to oppor
tunity. We proved it the other day.
We were told that in two states OF the
Union thirty thousand men were need
ed to gather the crops. We suggested
in a Cabinet meeting that the Depart
ment Of Labor should have printed in
formation about this in such form that
il could be posted up in the postoiiices
all over the United States. and that the
Department of Labor should get in
touch with the labor departments of
states. so that notice could go out
from them.
what was the result? Those thirty
thousand men were found and were
sent to the places where they got prof
table employment. ! do not know any
one thing that has happened in my ad
ministratiOn that has made me feel
happier than that that the job and the
man had been brought together II will
not cost a great deal of money, and it
will do a great deal Of service. If the
United States were TO undertake 70 do
such things systematically and all the
year round; and !, for my part, hope
that it will do that. If | were writing
an additional plank for a Democratic
platform ! would put that in"
The President spoke of the need Of
reform in judicial procedure, and. TAX
ing up the tariff, discussed the Trade
Commission, saying:
THE Democrats have heard the Re,
publrans talking about the scientific
way in which TO handle a tariff, though
the Republicans have never given any
exhibition of knowledge of how TO
handle il scientifically. II il is scien-
tifc to put additional profits into the
hands Of those who are already getting
the greater part OF the profits, then
they have been exceedingly scientific
II has been the science Of selfishness;
il has been the science of privilege
That kind Of science ! do not care TO
know anything about except enough to
stop it.
New Trade Commission.
But if by scientific treatment Of the
tariff they mean adjustment to the
actual trade conditions of America and
the world. then ! am with them; and
want to call their attention-for though
they voted for 1t they apparently have
not noticed ito the fact that the bill
which creates the new Trade Commits
sion does that very thing. We were at
pains to see that il vas put in there.
THAT commission is authorized and
empowered TO inquire into and report
TO Congress not only upon all the CON
dltions of trade in this country, but
upon the conditions OF trade, the cost
Of maDufacture, the cost of transporta-
tion--all the things that enter into the
question of the tariff-in foreign coun-
tries as well as in the United States
and into all those questions of foreign
combinations which affect international
trade between Europe and the United
States. II has the full powers which
will guide Congress in the scientific
treatment of questions of international
trade. Being by profession a school
master. | am glad TO point that out to
the class of uninstructed Republicans,
though ! have not always taught in the
primary grade.
AT every turn the things that the
progressive Republicans have proposed
that were practicable the Democrats