The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-28
Interests of Mankind
 Can Never Again Be
 Served By Aggression

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 | contacts, too universal in it's ways of | intercourse, to make it any longer | possible to limit the effects of any na- tion's action to single, separate sphere where the rest would be un- | touched. An inevitable partnership of interests has been thrust upon the
 nations They are neighbors and | must accommodate their interests to
 one another, or else disturb the lives
 and embarrass 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 com pulsions 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 prac- tices and have set about to square them with the actual conditions of
 our life and the life of the world.
 Four years ago there were two
 parties in the field whose program
 was conceived under the influence of these great forces of progress and ad-
 justment, the Democratic party and
 the Progressive party. This year there
 year there is but one, the Democratic
 party. In the presidential election
 of four years ago some fifteen mil-
 lion votes were east Of these, near
 ly ten and half millions were cast
 for the candidates of the two progress
 sive parties, only three and half
 millions for the candidate Of the Re-
 publican party, the party which ling
 cred in the 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
 favor now, a program whose object is
 manity and progress.
 The Democratic party was entrust-
 ed with the task These powerful
 forces of the new age were put under
 its direction. And under that direc-
 ton what have they accomplished? ?
 They have put both the business and
 the life of the country upon a new
 footing. They have released the fL nancia1 credit upon which commerce and production alike depend, from the control of small groups of f1- nanciers and bankers at the specula- tive centers. They have released the commerce and industry of the coun- try from the domination of those who 1 were building up their power by sell fish and unfair methods of competi- l ton. They have supplied those who | wished to conduct their business in ] with the spirit of the laws l with friendly guidance and delivered | them from a nervous fear of the courts. They have. released our for eign trade from the shackles of a tariff contrived in the interest of spe- cial groups of favored producers, and l have created Tariff Commission in- tended to substitute public for pri- vate influences, facts for theories and pretensions. in all future legislation with regard to duties and restrictions on imports. They have made provi- sion for the immediate and systema- tic development of our carrying trade on the seas. They have at last SUD- piled the means by which the nation may be bound together, materially and spiritually, by a network of good roads upon which both commoditie and sympathies may move freely from community to community. They |, have put the farmer upon a footing li of perfect equality with business men and men of all other callings in re- spect of his access to commercial credit; have placed great bureau of the government at his service in seeking and finding his best markets: nave protected him by the establish nent of definite standards in the sale of his products, and have put the scientific knowledge of the world at ais disposal by practical demonstra-I ion at the expense of the government lpon the farms themselves. They nave emancipated the .laborers of the country from the 1njustified re- 'traints which the courts had put up- ,n them by mistaken applications of ,ld law to new circumstances and ] conditions. They have released the children of the country in large part { rom hurtful labor; have sought to 'afeguard the lives and the health of 'ur 1aborers in dangerous occupa- ions; and have put agencies of the government itself at the service of l hose who seek employment. And within the brief limits of a single ad- l 
 And still the great work is not fln- I shed. It can never be rounded off I md concluded so long as circum- t tances change, and the fortunes. and ( citations of men shift and alter. The f question you have to decide one week ( rom next Tuesday is whether 1t shall 8 ,e prematurely interrupted. perhaps or a generation to come, and all the ( generous fovces of the age and of the I world thrown back upon themselves t n Encouragement and confusion. C
 The program remaining is as great I s the program accomplished, The t procedure of our courts is anticipated md 8 hindrance, not an aid, in the { ust administration of the law, We I must simplify and reform it as other c nations have done, and t make courts of justice out of our c ourts of law. We must seek and | ind the means of bringing capital t md labor to a clear understanding of a heir common interests, which are no c ther than the interests of the pa- 2