Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-28

yet we had not altered our policy or
our point of view. The great European
war has served ut least to show US this
one thing, that the world itself had
too big q world and too little q world
to submit its destinies to the hostile
rivalries and ambitions now of this and
again of that member OF the great fam
lily of men; too compact, too intimate IN
its contacts, too universal in its ways
of intercourse, to make it any longer
possible to limit the effects of any ma
tion Is action to single, separate sphere
where the rest would be untouched. An
inevitable partnership OF interests has
been thrust upon the ntaions. They are
neighbors and must accommodate their
interests to one another, or else disturb
the lives and embarass the fortunes OF
men everywhere. No wonder that in
such an age men in America should be
cried awake and feel once more, as they
felt them in the days when their great
republic was set up, the compulsions Of
humanity and of justice!
These are the freshening winds blow
ing out of the life of mankind every
where, that have brought on new day
in American politics. We have looked
once more very critically at our own
laws and our own practices and have set
about to square them with the actual
conditions of our life and the life of the
| world.
/ "Four years ago there we've two par
| ties in the field whose program was
conceived under tho influence of these
great forces of progress and adjustment,
the democratic party and the progres;
sive party. This year there is but one,
the democratic party. In the presiden-
tial election of four years ago some
fifteen million votes were cast. OF these
near ten and half millions were east
for the candidate of the two progress
sive parties, only three and half mill
lions for the candidate of the republican
party, the party which fingered in the
old ways and felt none OF the new inn
pulse of new day. More than two
thirds of the voters of the United States
favored then, and favor now, program
whose object is to serve the changing
needs of humanity and progress.
The democratic party was entrusted
| WIN lHt lush. ihNSN poN'iiu hp'NN'
Of the new age were put under its diree
tion, And under that direction what
have they accomplished They have put
both the business and the life of tn,
country upon new footing, They have
released the financial credit, upon which
commerce and production alike depend
from the control of small groups of fin
anciers and bankers at the speculative
centers. They have released the com
merce and industry of the country from
the domination of those who We're build
ing up their power by selfish and un
fair methods of competition. They have
; supplied those who wished to conduct
their busines sin conformity with tn,
spirit of the laws with friendly guild
anee and delivered them from n nervous
! fear of the courts. They have released
; our foreign trade from the shackles o.
tariff contrived in the interest of spe
, cia groups of favored producers, am,
have created tariff commission intend
ed to substitute public for private in
! fluences, facts for theories and preten
sions. in all future legislation with re
gard to duties and restrictions ON i'm
lpor,s They have made provision for thu