The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-09-08
PRESIDENT WILSON FORMALLY
NOTIFIED OF HIS NOMINATION
Continued from Page Two)

the areas of battle. No nation stands
wholly apart in interest when the life
and interests of all nations are thrown
into confusion and peril. If hopeful
and generous enterprise is to be re-
newed, if the healing and helpful arts
of life are indeed to be revived when
peace comes again, new atmosphere
of justice and friendship must be
generated by means the world has
never tried before. The nations OF
the world must unite in joint guaran-
tees that whatever is done to disturb
he whole worlds life must first be
tested in the court of the whole
worlds opinion before it is attempted.
These are the new foundations the
world must build for itself, and we
must play our part in the reconstruc.
ton generously and without too much
thought of our separate interests. We
must make ourselves ready to play
it intelligently, vigorously and well.
One of the contributions we must
make to the worlds peace is this: We
must see to it that the people in our
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
everywhere,-the same justice, the
same consideration for the essential
rights of men.
Besides contributing our ungrudg-
ing moral and practical support to the
establishment of peace throughout the
world we must actively and intelli-
gently prepare ourselves to do our full
service in the trade and industry
which are to sustain and develop the
life of the nations in the days to come
We have already been provident in
this great matter and supplied our
selves with the instrumentalitie of
prompt adjustment. We have Great
ed, in the federal trade commission, a
means of inquiry and of accommoda-
ton in the field of commerce which
ought both to coordinate the enter
prise of our traders and manufac-
turers and to remove the barriers of
misunderstanding and of too tech
nical Interpretation of the law. In
the new tariff commission we have
added another instrumentality of OBJ
servation and adjustment which prom
ses to be Immediately serviceable.
| The trade commission substitutes
counsel and accommodation for the
harSher processes of legal restraint,
and the tariff commission ought to
substitute facts for prejudices and
theories. Our exporters have for
some time had the advantage of work.
ing in the new light thrown upon
foreign markets and opportunities of
trade by the intelligent inquiries and
activities of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, which the
Democratic congress so wisely created
in 1912. The tariff commission COM
pletes the machinery by which we
shall be enabled to open up our legis-
lative policy to the facts as they de-
velop.
Must Take Initiative.
We can no longer indulge our tradi-
tional provincialism. We are to play
leading part in the world drama
whether we wish it or not. We shall
lend, not borrow; act for ourselves,
not initiate or follow; organize and
initiate, not peer 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 suppos-
ed 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
instrumentalities at hand. 1t will on
ly remain for the masters of enter
prise amongst US to act in energetic
concert, and for the government of
the United States to insist upon the
maintenance throughout he world of
those conditions of fairness and of
even-handed justice in the commercial
dealings of the nations with one an
other upon which, after all, in the last
analysis, the peace and ordered life of
the world must ultimately depend.
At home also we must see to it that
the men who plan and develop and di-,
rect our business enterprises shall en-
joy definite and settled conditions of
law, a policy accommodated to the
freest progress. We have set the
just and necessary limits. We have
put all kinds of unfair competition un-
der the ban and penalty of the law,
we have barred monopoly. These IA
tai and ugly things being excluded, we
must now quicken action and facili-
tate enterprise by every just means
within our choice. There will be
peace in the business world, and, with
peace, revived confidence and life.
We ought to both husband and to
develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power.