Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-29

'lic for private influences, facts for
theories and pretensions in all future
Legislation with regard to duties and
restrictions on imports. They have
provision for the immediate and sys-
tematic development of our carving
trade on the seas. They have at last
supplied the means by which the nation
may be bound together, materially and
spiritually, by a network of giod roads
upon which both commodities and SYM
pathies may move freely from com
munity to community. They have put
the farmer upon footing of perfect
equality with business men and men of
all other callings in respect to his ac-
cess to commercial credit; have placed
great bureau of the Government at
his service in seeking and finding his
best markets; have protected him by
the establishment of definite stand
ards in the sale of his products, and
have put the scientific knowledge of
the world at his disposal by practical
demonstration at the expense of the
Government upon the farms them
selves. They have emancipated the la
borers of the country from the unjus-
titled restraints which the courts had
put upon them by mistaken applica-
lions of old law to new circumstances
and conditions. They have released the
children of the country in large part
from hurtful labor; have sought to
safeguard the lives and the health of
our laborers in dangerous occupations;
and have put agencies of the Govern
ment itself at the service of those who
seek employment And most of these
things have been done within the brief
limits of single administration.
Not Yet Finished.
And still the great work is not fin
ished. 1t can never be rounded off and
concluded so long as circumstances
change and the fortunes and relations
of men shift and alter. The question
you have to decide one week from next
Tuesday is whether it shall be prema-
turely interrupted, perhaps for a gen
GRAFTON to come, and all the generous
forces of the age and of the world
thrown back upon themselves in dis
enlargement and confusion.
The programme remaining is as
great as the programme accomplished.
The procedure of our courts is anti
quated and a hindrance, not an aid, in
the just administration of the law. We
must simplify and reform it as other
enlightened nations have done, and
make our courts of justice out of our
courts of law. We must seek and find
the means of bringing capital and labor
to clear understanding of their COM
mon interests, which are not other
than the interests of the nation itself
as a community. We must release our
great undeveloped natural resources
upOl oOu1S oSh0ADAC pan VI uSC SAAN
conservation We must recruit the
votes of forward-looking men by the
votes of women so that we may have a
fresh insight in all matters of social
reform and move more certainly and
more promptly in the solution of the
many new problems of society with
which the law must henceforth deal.
We must unite the Americas, North and
South, in. new sympathy and cooper
alton. We must seek justice and the
right through every channel that Of
fcrs; and we must put America in all
its force in all it's wealth, alike Of
physical power and spiritual enthusi-
asm, at the service of other nations of
the world when peace comes on the
other side of the seas, to make that
peace permanent by establishing it on
the everlasting foundations of right,
cooperation, equality and justice. These
things we must do and all else that
NAV serve mankind.