Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-06-09


ducers. and by producers l mean ev-
cry human being who applies muscle
or skill or brain or all to the conver-
sion of natures abundance into the
necessities and luxuries of life or par
ticipates in the ways and means OF
their transportation and exchange.
Far better a high cost of living and
ability to buy than a lowering of cost
attended by destruction of purchasing
capacity,
Square Deal for Business.
No honest business in this country
Is too big to be good and useful, or
too little to be protected and encour.
aged, and both big and little deserve
the American shield against destruc-
tion by foreign competition, and pro-
lection from the raiders. political or
otherwise, at home. Business and it's
agencies of transportation are so in
separable from each other and from
the common veal that the political
party which does not pledge them
square deal, no more and no less. does
not deserve the confidence of the peo-
pie. The strength of the business
heart shows in every countenance in
all the land, and the weakness of that
! heart holds nation i'll. We must
| strengthen the heart of American
business in government cooperation
rather than official opposition.
1t is not inspiring to recite Demo-
cratic failures. I shall not dwell on
that party's insincerity or incapacity.
The country indicts and the record
| convicts. It proclaimed the sacred
ness of its pledges and then profaned
| them. 1t professed economy and Is
| staggered by its own extravaganza.
1t has turned adequacy or revenue un-
der direct and unfelt taxes to insufh-
cheney and direct taxation.
Tho National Expansion.
The president has said ours is .
provincial party, evidently forgetting
the federalist founding of our nation
ality and Republican expansion to
| greater national glory. The Demo-
cratic party not only fails to grasp
our immensity and Importance. 1t is
sectional on the mainland and unheed-
ing OF our island possessions. Its VI
| sion 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 fiercely,
when our national view must be
worldwide to be comprehensive. the
| Democratic administration has pro-
| posed to set adrift an island empire.
in violation of our obligations to the
world. to the Philippine people and
! ourselves. No administration which
hauls down the flag and none which
| proposes to haul 1t down ever can sue
ceed in directing the affairs of the
American people.
One century of marvellous develop
| ment has led us into another century
| of international sponsorship. This
mighty people, idealizing popular
government and committed to human
progress, can no longer live within
and for ourselves alone. Obliterated
distance makes 1t impossible to stand
aloof from mankind and escape Wild
ened responsibility. II we are to be-
come the agency of q progressive civ
flization and Gods great intent-and
| to believe otherwise Is to deny the
proofs of American development-we
must assume the responsibilities Of
influence and example. and accept the
/
| To meet the obligations we must
first make sure of maintained mental.
moral and physical health at home.
The American Spirit.
In the travail of life. liberty and
the pursuit of happiness the Amer
lean soul was born. Set aglow at
Bunker Hill. 1t was reflected in the
faces of patriots of fearless repub-
lie, where men dedicated themselves
to the solemn and momentous task
which was traced by an infinite hand.
! They were not all Americans by
birth. but they were dedicated Amer
leans in the baptismal rites of a new
republic and a new patriotism. They
could not all sign the Declaration OF
Independence, but they committed all
Americans to 1t for all succeeding
time. They could not all Join in max.
ing the Constitution. but they pledged
the succeeding millions of Americans
to its everlasting defense.
The gates of our ports have swung
inward ever since, there has been a
welcome to the foreign-born. whom
we asked to drink freely of the waters
of our political life and find their
places in the sun Of American oppor.
tunity. They are an inseparable and
important and valued part of Ameri.
can citizenship. and the few zealots Of
any origin who violate our neutrality
do not and cannot impugn the loyalty
or the American patriotism of that
great body which adds to the swelling
chorus of
| sI,, oouptry ~ thaa
Sweet land of liberty"
It is not surprising that in their
hearts there is sympathy or partially