Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-09-08

are capable OF great SympathlcS and
a noble pity in dealing with problems
of this kind. AS their spokesman
and representative, have tried to act
in the spirit they would wish me
striving for the rights that are fun
damental to life and happiness
teen million oppressed men, over
hurdened women, and pitiful children
in virtual bondage in their own home
treasured Some of the leaders of the
revolution may often have been mis-
taken and violent and selfish, but the
revolution itself was inevitable and is
right. 4
More is involved than the immedi-
ate destinies of Mexico and the rela-
tions of the United States with dis
tressed and distracted people. All
America looks on. Test is now being
made of us whether we be sincere
lovers of popular liberty OF not and
arc indeed to betrusted to respect
national sovereignty among our weak
err neighborS. 4
The future, the immediate future,
will bring us squarely face to face
with many great andeXacting prob
lens which will search us through
and through whether we be able and
ready to play the part in the world
that we mean to play. 4
1t is not a future to be afraid of.
1t is, rather, future to stimulate
and excite us to the display of the
best powers that are in us. We may
enter it with confidence when we are
sure that we understand it-and we
nave provided ourselves already with
the means of understanding it,
There must be Just and settled
peace, and we here in America must
contribute the full force of cur en-
thusiasm and of our authority as a
nation to the organization Of that
peace upon worldwide foundations
that cannot easily be shaken. No
nation stands wholly apart in interest
when the life and interests of all ma
tions are thrown into confusion and
peril. If hopeful and generous enter
prise is to be renewed, if the healing
and helpful arts of life are indeed to
be revived when peace comes again, a
new atmosphere of justice and friend
ship must be generated by means the
world has never tried before. r
These are the new foundations the
world must build for itself, and we
must play our part in the recon-
struction, generously and without too
muct thought of our separate inter
ests. We must make ourselves ready
to play it intelligently, vigorously and
well.
One of the contributions we must
make to the worlds peace is this:
We must see to it that the people in
our lnsular possessions are treated in
their own lands as we would treat
them here, and make the rule of the
United States mean the same thing
eVerymhere-the same Justice. the
same consideration for the essential
rights of men.
We have already been provident in
tn,s great matter and supplied our
selves with the Observation-Disclosures of
prompt adjustment. We have GRE
ated, in the Federal Trade Commits
sion, means of inquiry and of oc-
commodation in the field of com
merce which ought both to co-ordi-
nate the enterprises of our traders
ana manufacturers and to remove thc
Darrelrs of misunderstanding and of
a too technical Interpretation of the
Jaw. In the new tariff commission we
nave added another instrumentalitv
OF observation and adjustment which
promises to be Immediately service
apie. Inc trade commission substi-
tutes counsel and accommodation for
the harShcr process of legal restraint
and the tariff commission ought to
substitute facts for preiudiccs and
theofles. Our exporters have for
some time had the ADVANTAGE of
WORKING in the new light thrown upon
foreign markets and opportunities of
trade by the intelligent inquiries and
activities of the bureau D. FOREIGN
ana domestic commerce which he
democratic congress so wisely Great
ed IN 1912. The tariff commission
completes the machinery by which
we shall be enabled to open ND our
develop 7 "a" '"ey
W. car no longer ;ndulg. our -ra-
oitioh"i provincialism. We are to
Fiaf leading part IN the verdi drama
whI 'ncr we wish it On net. We shall
ieuu, nor Dorrow; act fer ourselves.
n?t initiate or follow; organic, End in.
where we may get IN.
10 Have Free Hand.
We have already formulated and
agreed upon a poiicy of law which
Will explicitly remove the ban now
supposed to rest upon co-operation
amongst our exporters in seeking and
securing their proper place in the
n c fthe world. The field will
be free, the instrumentaiities at hand
IL VIII only remain for the masters of
amongst us to act in ener-
getle CONCERT. and for the government
Oh Oh the United States to insist upon
the maintenance throughout the
world of those conditions of fairnes s
anu ana of even handed justice in the
CON, Commercial e dealings Of the nations
WI Win :, one another upon which, after
al, IN the last analysis, the peace
and ordered life of the world must
ultimately depend.
-, at home also VIC must see to it that
'I;., men VINO plan and develop and
dlrect our business enterprises shall (
enjoy definite and settled conditions
81 law, policy accommodated to the
ireest progress. We have set the
Just and necessary limits. We have
put all kinds of unfair competit;on
under the ban and penalty of the