New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
WILSON ACCEPTS
 PARTY LEADERSHIP
(Continued From Eleventh Page)

N teriaIs.
 It is not a future to be afraid of. M It is, rather, 8 future to stimulate and M excite us to the display of the best S powers that are in us. We may enter 8 it with confidence when we are sure @ that we understand it,-and we have M provided ourselves already with the S means of understanding it.
 # Look first at what it will be neces- M sary that the nations of the world @ should do to make the days to come @ tolerable and fit to live and work in; K and then look at our part in what is to follow and our own duty of pre- paratiOn. For we must be prepared Both in resources and in policy. There must be a Just and settled peace, and we her in America must contribute the full force of our en- thustasm and of our authority as 8 nation to the organization of that peace upon worldwide foundations N that cannot easily be shaken. No 8 nation should be forced to take sides $ in any quarrel in which it's own honor and integrity and the fortunes of it's own people are not involved; but no nation can any lOger remain neutral as against any wiIfuI disturbance of the peace of the world. The effects
 
 the areas Of battle. No nation stands @ wholly apart in interest when the life and interests of all nations are thrown H into confusion and peril. If hopeful and gen erous enterprise is to be re- S newed, if the healing and helpful arts Of life are indeed to be revived when peace comes again, a new atmosphere of justice and friendship must be generated by meana the world has never tried before The nations of the world nlE}Gt unite in joint guaran- tees that Whatever is done to disturb the whole worlds lie must first be tested in the court of the whole worlds opinion before 1t Is attempted
 These are the new foundations the world must build for itself, and we must play our part in the reconstruc- tion generously and without too much thought of our separate in- terests We must make ourselves ready to play it intellisently, vigor- ously and we'll
 One of tho contributions we must make to the worlds peace is this We must sec to it that the people in cur insular 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 cverywhere,-the same justice, the same consideration for the essential rights of men.
 Besides contributing our un- i erudging moral and practical support 10 the establishment Of peace throughout the world we must actiVe- lv and intelligently prepare ourselves 10 do our full service in the trade and :ndustry which are to sustain and de- < no life of the nations in the days to come.
 We have already been prOvident in this great matter and supplied our selves with the instrumentalltles Of prompt adjustment. We have created in the federal trade commission, means of inquiry and of accnmmOda- ton in the field of commerce which { ought both to coordinate the enter prises of our traders and manufac- turers and to remove the barriers or misunderstanding and of too tech nical interpretation of the law. In Inc new tariff commission we have added another instrumentality of ob- seryation and adjustment which rronaises to be immediately service able The trade commission substi- tlltes counsel and accommodation for the harsher processes of legal re- straint and the tariff commission ought to substitute facts for preju- dices and theories. Our exporters have for some time had the advan- tage of working in the new light thrown upon foreign markets and Op
 nortunities of trade by the intelligent inuuiries and activities of the bureau
 Of foregn and domestic commerce
 which the democratic congress so
 wisely created in 1912. The tariff
 commission completes the machinery by which we shall be enabled to open ID our legislative policy to the facts as they develop
 We can no longer indulge our tra-
 ditionaI provincialism. We are to
 play a leading part in the world
 drama whether we wish it or not.
 We shall lend, not borrow; act for ourselves, not initiate or follow; or eanize and initiate not peep about merely to see where we may get in.
 We have already formulated and agreed upon @ policy of law which will explicitly remove the ban now supposed to rest upon cooperation amongst our exporters in seeking and securing their proper place in the markets of the world. The field will
 be free the instrum entalities at hand.
 It will ony remain for the masters of
 enterprise amongst us to act in ener-
 eetic concert, and for the government
 of the United States to insist upon the
 maintenance throughout the world of
 those conditions of fairness and of
 even-handed justice in the conner
 tiaI dealings of the nations with one
 another upon which, after all, in the
 last analysis, the peace and ordered
 life of the world must ultimately de-
 rend.
 At home also we must see to it that
 the men who plan and develop and
 direct our business enterprises shall