Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-07

though loss never attends. Moreover, under
any system security is economy itself.
There are manifest differences about our
developments for military defense. The
President made trip from the coast to
the valley of the Missouri to tell the Amerl-
can people the need of preparedness. 1t
might have been moro seemly to tell the
story to Congress, for that body was In
session and empowered to act, and SEEM
ingly ever ready to testify obedience. How
ever Congress undertook to provide an
army for defense and the majority waobled
between paciication and preparedness until
the Republican minority in the Senate put
something real in the pending measure
We Republicans made a rational response
to the call of the land, but Democratic In
sufiiciency and incfflcieney are recorded in
the Conference-amended act, and fedcrai
nitrate plant to supply powder to the pa
triots and pay to the pnternnllsts and fed-
trail fertilizer to the farmers in competi-
tion with private enterprise is N great con-
structive Offering of Democratic majority.
Until the civilized world is pledged and
repledged to peace and until civilization
commits nations to the nobler practices OF
the individuals who constitute them' III
which would have America lead TINS Ike
public will have need for n basic army ana
a ready provision for military defense. We
have territory to defend, we have indepena-
ence to preserve, we have lives to safeSuard'
we have property to protect, we nave rlghts
to assert we have missions OF humanity 10
perform We proclaim justice and we love
peace and we mean to have them-and we
are not too proud to fight for them.
NO CURSE OF MILITARISM.
Let no one apprehcnd the curse of mill
tnrIsm In this fnir land, We declare un-
alterably against 1t. Our free citizenship
walking confidently absorbed in the tri-
unonhs of peace, would tolerate no such
blight on American institutions. There Is
to he no surrender of cherished ideals
With that yearning for peace which mas
marked our continued development, with
that same committal to justice which has
given us front rank in the onward march
Of civilization, with that rare unselfshness
which led us to unsheath the sword for hu-
manity's sake and put all territorial ag-
grandizement aside, with that belief IN the
square deal. Individual national and inter-
national which Is the foundation of Ameri-
can faith, we mean to go on, an eXemplar
of peace to all the nations, an arbiter OF
Justice to all the world, promoter of
righteousness to all the people of the earth.
THE PROTECTIVE POLICY.
At the same time we have more to do
shan to chart national course through the
waters surgng with the turbulence of war
our inspiring course is on the highway OF
peace. Our armed defense must ever be
linked with our industrial seIf-reliance, and
worth living fer. out of natures prodigaltty
we have incalculable resources and limitless
possibilities, and there is need only for the
unhindered application of mans genius and
industry to make us as Independent indus
trially as we are free politically Ample
defense rests on industrial freedom and
self-relianee as well patriotic sacrifice,
and Industrial preparedness gives that
suranee of material good fortune In peace
on which must be founded all our higher
aspirations.
Subsistence is the first requisite of exist
ence, and we have the higher American
standard of living because of the Republi-
can protective policy which makes or
Americans the best paid workmen in all
the world out of the abundance OF em-
ployment and higher compensation, to-
gether with the becSoning opportunity which
offers every reward, we Americans have
attracted the lsborers of the earth, and
set new standards here,
1t is not for me to put the stamp OF rela-
tive Importance on pending ssues-the in
tellgent voters will determine that for
themselves. But | know what they are
thinking and they believe that the protec-
tive policy which made us industrially ana
commercially eminent is necessary TO pre-
serve that eminence 1 know they want II
restored and maintained. For myself
prefer a protective and productive tariff
which prospers America first. l choose the
economic policy which sends the American
workingmen to the savings banks rather
than the soup houses. commend the plan
under which the healthful glow OF pros
pering business is reflected in every face
from the great captain of industry to the
schooling child of the daily wage-earner
Moreover, l like the abiding consistency
of our unehanging position upon this policy
The Republican Convention or 1850, which
gave to the nation and all history the
nomination of Lincoln, made this simple
and ample utterance:
That, while providing revenue for the
support of the General Government by
duties upon imports, sound policy re-
auires such an adjustment of these tnl-
ports as to encourage the development
OF the Industrial interests of the whole
country and we commend that policy
Of national exchanges which secures TO
the working men liberal wages. to
agriculture remunerating prices TO me-
chanies and manufacturers an adequate
reward for their skill, labor and enter
prise, and to the nation commercial
prosperity and independence
we might fittingly reiterate that utter
anee today. The failure of revenues under
existing Democratic policy the necessary
resort to the imposition Of direct and onen-
siye faxation---war taxes = people at
peaee-to meet deheIeneies which ever at
tend Demoeratie control. the depression and
disaster which followed Democratic re-
vision, which we're relieved rather than
caused - the European war-au these
argue the Republican restoration
TEMPORARY PROSPERITY.
No one disputes temporary prosperity
n our land today. But It 2 sectional n
lts factory aspect abnormal Il Is fevered
rush. aeEItIoas Il Is essentials ana per
fzzllua = Is tendency. Worse. 4 Is tae
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