Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-28

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they are! They are the forces of hui
name, righteous, and patriotic purpose
which have sprung UP in our day in the
minds of those who perceive the short
| comings of the law as 1t has hardened
in America and who look forward with
purpose and conviction to a new age in
which government shall be indeed the
servant of liberty and not OF privilege.
These are men who perceive that
American law has not kept pace with
American sentiment; that our law has
been holding us rigid and immovable,
until class has begun, in free America,
to be arrayed against class until what
was legal has begun to play more i'm
portant part in our thoughts and de-
examinations than what Is human and
right; and until America has begun to
lag instead Of lead in reconciling what
is with what ought to be.
NEW AGE DAWNS.
| "A new age had dawned upon us
while those who were attempting to
lead us were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, intent
upon preserving the conditions of day
that is gone. America had changed and
the whole world had changed Our
commerce and industry had grown to
such bulk that the domestic markets
of which our former leaders were al
ways so solicitous were glutted and we
were bound, unless we were to burst
| our Jacket, to find free outlet into the
markets of the world. The time had
come whenfour commerce needed free
dom and would be throttled by further
restraints. We had acquired foreign
possessions, had been drawn into the
| politics of the world, had begun to play
part which could not be played by
provincials but must be played by citi-
zens of the great world of nations. And
yet we had not altered our policy or
our point of view. The great European
war has served at least to show us
this one thing, that the world itself
had changed; that ii had become at
once too big a world and too little a
world to submit its destinies to the
hostile rivalries and ambitions now of
this and again of that member of the
great family of men; too compact, too
intimate in its contact. too universal
| in its ways of intercourse, to make it
any longer possible to limit the effects
of any nations action to a single, sep
arate sphere where the rest would be
untouched. An inevitable partnership
of interests has been thrust upon the
| nations. They are neighbors and must
accommodate their interests to one an
other. or else disturb the lives and en-
barass 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
blowing out of the life of mankind
everywhere. that have brought on a
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.
NEEDS OF HUMANITY.
-Four years ago there were two par
ties in the field whose program was
| conceived under the influence of these
great forces of progress and adjust
| ment, the Democratic party and the
Progressive party. This year there Is
but one. the Democratic party. In the
presidential election of four years ago
some fifteen million votes were cast.
OF these nearly ten and half millions
were cast for the candidates of the two
progressive parties. only three and a
half millions for the candidate of the
Republican party. the party which lin
gered in the old ways and felt none of
the new impulse of a new day. More
than two-thirds of the voters of the
United States favored then, and fla
vored now, a program whose object Is
to serve the changing needs of human
ity and progress.
The Democratic party was entrusted
with the task. These powerful forces
of the new age were put under its d.
rection. And under that direction
what have they accomplished? They
have put both the business and the life
OF the country upon new footing.
They have released the financial credit,
upon which commerce and production
alike depend, from the control of small
groups OF financiers and bankers at the
speculative centers. They have re-
leased the commerce and industry of
the country from the domination of
those who were building up their power
by selfish and unfair methods of COM
petition. They have supplied those
,, who wished to conduct their business
in conformity with the spirit of the
laws with friendly guidance and de-
livered them from a nervous fear Of
the courts. They have released our
foreign trade from the shackles of
tariff contrived in the interest of spe-
cial groups Of favored producers, and
have created a tariff commission in
tended to substitute public for private
influences, facts for theories and pre-
tensions. in all future legislation with
regard to duties and restrictions on