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

dom of the Panama Canal. 1t reafirmed
its devotion to Jeffersonian principles and
simplicity of government and is voting
millions of the public treasury to the es-
tabishment of Federal factories to destroy
private industry. 1t declared for enlarged
shipping facilities without added burdens
upon the public treasury, and now proposes
that so to 500 millions of public funds shall
go to shipping, federally owned and private
ly managed, with every menace that Federal
ownership involves We believe in a great
merchant marine, federally encouraged and
privately erected, wrought in the committal
to the achievement of private enterprise and
measured to the requirements of our COM
merce in peace.
THE NATIONAL EXPANSION.
The President has said ours is n pro-
vincial party, evidently forgetting the Fed
eralist founding of our nationality and Re-
publican expansion to greater national
glory. The Democratic party not only fails
to grasp our immensty and Importance
1t Is sectional on the mainland and unheed-
ing of our island possessions. Its vision
does not catch the splendor of Old Glory
In the sunlight of the world Right now
when the devouring flames of war are
burning most hercely, when our national
view must be worldwide to be compre-
hensive. the Democratic Administration has
proposed to set adrift island empire,
In violation of our obligations to the world,
to the Philippine people and ourselves.
Amid proclnmations of our ministratiOns in
behalf of mankind 1t undertook to re-
nounce its guardianship of n race of people
and leave them to walk alone when they
had not been fully taught to creep. few
rebellious Democrats joined the Republican
minority in sparing us this national dis
grace. but the design is written among the
vacillations of the present Administration
The Democratic party once hauled down
the flag which had been unfurled in honor
in the Pacific and met rebuke at the first
popular expression at the polls No ad-
minstration which hauls down the flag and
none which proposes to haul 1t down ever
can succeed itself in directing the affairs
of the American people.
OUR wIDENED RELATIONSHIP.
One century of marvellous development
has led us into another century of inter-
national sponsorship. This mighty people,
fdealizing popular government and COM
mitted to human progress, can no longer
live within and for ourselves alone. OBJ
distance makes 1t impossible to
stand aloof from mankind and escape
widened responsibility. If we are to be-
come the agency of progressive cviliza-
ton and Gods great intent-and to believe
otherwise Is to deny the proofs of American
development-we must assume the RESPONSE
bilities OF influence and example, and accept
the burdens of enlarged participation The
clolstered life is not possible to the potential
man the potential nation. Moreover.
the Monroe Doctrine, stronger for a century's
fixes obligation of New
World sponsorship and Old World relation
ship. Our part must not be dictatorial il
must be trusted leadership In fraternity
of American republics.
OUR STRENGTH AT HOME
To meet the obligations we must first
make sure of maintained mental moral |
and physical health at home. 1t is good
TO recall that ours is the only major politi- |
cal party ever formed in this country on |
a great moral issue, Our first proclama-
tion was human liberty, to be glorified by
the spiritual and material development of |
a free people. We opened the way to |
higher human attainments and emphasized |
human rights under the guarantees of civil |
liberty We need only to go on, imbued |
with the spirit which has thus far pointed |
our way. The light of a moral people Is |
the halo of liberty itself Let US be hon
est, not only in proclamation, but in prac- |
tce not alone in campaigns but I'm ncum-
bency OF office: not only before affairs of |
worship but in our daily affairs and In |
every human relationship. If popular gov
ernment is to be held dependable and com |
mand the confidence as well as the loyalty |
of it's citizenship. political parties and their |
platform and their spokesmen must be |
honest and sincere.
A PEOPLES WELFARE.
If we are to urge the worlds attention to |
justice we must hold secure |
our civil justice at home and make social |
justice and attending welfare typical of our |
national life. We have advanced wonder |
fully, The reward of merit is eternal but |
we can promote the development of merit |
have spoken emphatically for the |
American producer that | want 10 add here |
a committal to improved conditions of pro- |
duetion. 1t is good to gaze afaF toward |
markets we hope 10 attain in peaceful COM |
mercial conquest, but production Is itself |
the maker of markets at home. To the |
safety and inviting environment of the la |
borer we must add his growing merits OF |
There can be no permanent |
good fortune that Is not righteously |
shared, there can be no real moral achieve |
ment that does not lift the great rank and |
hle TO an ever higher plane Maintained Re
publican policies provide conditions for the |
IDEAL advancement and continued uplift and |
It is not too much to hope that we shall |
acclaim the day when choice instead OF ne |
eessity ixes the status Of the American |
wage-earner.
My countrymen, for two generations, with
short Interruptions, the Republican party |
Ia conscience. courage and capacity has
been translattng the dependable popular
sentiment of the Republic into governmental
policy. We have not yielded 10 the ek-
pedieney Of adopting every ephemeral
Whim. because devotion u country ana is !
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