Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-02
Sc IN DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

V..'o.,. y. ~ az harrtars Of misunderstanding
and OF n too technical Interpretation o, ". .,r
law. In the new tarim commisslon We .s. na.
| added another instrumentality OF Opsei q. =,
| ,Ion and adjustment which promises 10 p'
| ,,,,n,ndjatelv serviceable The trade com
| nnssion substitutes counsel ana accornhlo
dation for the hareher processes OF iese
restraint and the tariff commission oush
to substitute facts for prejudices ana the
ories. Our exporters have ior some .lill' @
had the advantage OF working IN tne new
light thrown upon foreign markets ano
opportunities of trade by the intelhgenI IN
| oujries and activities Of the Bureau OF tor-
eign and Domestic Commerce which tne
| Democratic Congress so wisely createu iu
| 1912. The tariff commission completes the
| n,ocbiperv NV which we shall be enabled
to open up our legislative policy to the facts
| as they develop.
NO LONGER PROVINCIAL.
We can no longer indulge our traditional
| proyincialism, we are TO play leading
part in the world drama whether we wish
| IL or not. We shall lend, not borrow' act
for ourselves, not initiate or follow; or
ganize and initiate, not peep about merely
to see where we may get In.
We have already formulated ana agreed
upon a policy of law which will explicitly
remove the ban now supposed to rest upon
cooperation amongst our exporters In seek
ing and securing their proper place in the
markets of the world The field VIII be free,
the instrumentalities are at hand. IL VIII
only remain for the masters Of enterprise
amongst us to act in energetic concert,
and for the Government OF the United states
to insist upon the maintenance throughout
the world of those conditions OF fairness
and of even-handed justice In the CONNER.
cial dealings of the nations with one an
other upon which. after all, in the last
analysis the peace ana ordered life OF the
world must ultimately depend.
FAIR TO BUSINESS AT HOME.
At home also we want to see to it that
the men who plan and develop and direct
our business enterprises shall enjoy definite
and settled conditions of law, a policy ac-
commodated to the freest progress. We have
set the just and necessary limits. We have
put all kinds of unfair competition under
the ban and penalty of the law. We have
barred monopoly. These fatal and ugly
things being excluded, we must now quicken
action and facilitate enterprise by every
just means within our choice. There will
be peace In the business world. and, with
peace, revived confidence and life.
We ought both to husband and to de-
velop our natural resources, our mines, our
forests, our water power. wish we could
have made more progress than we have
made In this vital matter; and l call once
more, with the deepest earnestness and
solic:tude, upon the advocates of careful
anu pTONluenI COnSeTNdllOH OIl lllb OHC
hand, and the advocates of a free and in
vitng field for private capital, on the other, |
to get together In spirit OF genuine ac- |
commodation and agreement and set this
great policy forward at once
We must hearten and quicken the spirit |
and efficiency of labor throughout our
whole Industrial system by everywhere and |
In all occupations doing Justice to the |
aborer, not only by paying living wage, |
but also by making all the conditions that |
labor what they ought to be. And
we must do more than justice. We must
life and promote health and
safety In every occupation in which they
are threatened or imperiled. That is more
han justice, and better, because 1t is hui
nanity and economy.
COORDINATION OF RAILWAYS
We must coordinate the railway sys-
ems of the country for national use, and
must facilitate and promote their develop
nent with view to that coordination and
o their better adaptation as n whole to
he life and trade and defense of tho ma
ion. The life and industry of the country
an be free and unhampered only If these
rteries re open, efficient and complete.
Thus shall we stand ready to meet the
uture as circumstances and international
olicy effect their unfolding, whether the
hanges come slowly or come fast and
'ithout preface.
PLATFORM A PLEDGE
l have not spoken explicitly, gentlemen
the platform adopted at st. Louis; but
has been implicit in all that have said.
have sought to interpret its spirit and
Gaming. The people of the United States
} not need to be assured now that the
atform Is definite pledge, a practical
'ogram. We have proved to them that
If promises are made to be kept
We hold very definite ideals. We be- :
eve that the energy and initiative of our s
'ople have been too narrowly coached and
perintended; that they should be set free
we have set them free, TO disperse ]
emselves throughout the nation; that they ,
ould not be concentrated in the hands of
Few powerful guides and guardians as Y
II opponents have again and again, in G
'ect II not in purpose, sought to concen-
ate them. We believe moreoyer-who
at looks about him now with compre- :
nding eye can fail TO believe that the S
y OF Little Americanism, with Its mar &
W horizons, when methods of "protectIon"
d Industrial nursing were the chief study +
our provincial statesman, are past and i
ne and that day of enterprise has at
~ J, uawheu Tor the United States whose
Id is the wide world c
we nope to see the stimulus of that new ?
y uraw al America, the republics OF
III continents, on TO new life and en- s
BY ana initiative in the great affairs of r
ace We are Americans OF Big Amer
80 ieJolSe 10 look forward TO the days I
whieh America shall strive TO stir the u
'rid without irritating it or drawing II
- 70 new antagonisms. when the nations o
III winch we deal shall at last come to il
upon What deep foundations of human =,
ana Justice our passion for peace rests
When all mankind shall look upon our H
sat people with new sentiment Of adj n,
ration friendly rivalry and real affection
u upon n. people who, though keen to sue a
i,ss, aWays TO be at once generous X
m profit or selfish power. - "'@'er Ja
Upon this record and i'm the ,ai,h 90 80, ID.
fpose we go to the country '' - 'H'S - -
REDFIELD CENCIrpEe, t1Y,cr q,