Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-02

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 gen.
Grated by means the world has never
tried before. The nations of the
world must unite in joint guarantees
that whatever is done to disturb the
whole worlds life must first be tested !
in the court of the whole worlds |
opinion before it is attempted.
Must Prepare For Peace
Besides contributing our ungrudg |
ing moral and practical support to the
establishment of peace throughout the |
world we must actively and intelligent |
ly 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.
AT home also we must see to it that
the men who plan and develop and
direct our business enterprises shall
enjoy 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 under the |
ban and penalty of the law. We have
barred monopoly. These fatal and
ugly things being excluded, we must
now quicken action and facilitate en-
terprise by every just means within
our choice. There will be peace in
the business world, and, with peace,
revived confidence and life.
I'VE ought both to husband and to
develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power.
We must hearten and quicken the
spirit and efficiency of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations do
ing justice to the laborer, not only by
paying living wage but also by maxi
ing all conditions that surround labor
what they ought to be. And we must
do more than justice. We must safe
guard life and promote health and
safety in every occupation in which
they are threatened or imperilled.
That is more than justice and better,
because it is humanity and economy.
Touches on Railroads
I'VE must coordinate the railway
systems of the country for national
use, and must facilitate and promote
their development with a view to that
coordination and to their better
adaptation as a whole to the life and
trade and defense of the nation. The
! life and industry of the country can
be free and unhampered only if these
arteries are open, efficient and COM
plete.
Thus we stand ready to meet the
future as circumstance and interna-
tional policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
come fast and without preface.
Must Play Leading Part
I'VE can no longer indulge our
traditional provincialism," said the
President. 1--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; organize and initiate, not
peep about merely to see where we
may get in
Speaking of his diplomatic negotia-
tions with the European belligerents
the President followed a declaration
that while property rights might be
Vindicated by claims for damages, the
loss of life and the fundamental rights
of humanity never could be, with this
statement:
The record is clear and consistent
throughout and STANDS distinct and
definite for anyone to judge who
wishes to know the truth about it."
Immediately afterward he said:
Il am the candidate of a party, but
/ am above all things else an Amer
lean citizen. / neither seek the favor
nor fear the displeasure of that small
alien element amongst us which puts
loyalty to any foreign power before
loyalty to the United States"
Regarding his Mexican policy the
President reiterated that the people
of Mexico were struggling "blindly it
may be - and as yet Intellectually"
to free themselves from alien interests
"some of them Americans pressing for
things they could never have got in
their own country and that he would
do everything in his power to prevent
anyone standing in their way.
1T is hard doctrine" said he, "only
for those who wish to get something
for themselves out of Mexico" At
another point the President said:
Mistakes l have no doubt made in
this perpleXing business but not in
purpose or object" He declared at
another point:
Fortunes of Humanity
It am more interested in the for
tunes of oppressed men and pitiful
women and children than in any prop
erty rights whatever"
At the outset of his references to
the legislative achievements of his
party the President enumerated the
laws placed on the stature books re-
lating to business including tariff re-
vision, antitrust laws, revision of the
banking and currency system, rural
credits, rehabilitation of the merchant
marine and creation of the Federal
Trade Commission.
What other party has understood
the task so well or executed it so in
telligently and energetically," he ask
ed. What other party has attempted
it at all? The Republican leaders
apparently know of no means of as
sisting business but protection. How
to stimulate it and put it upon a. new
footing of energy and enterprise they
have not suggested"
At the conclusion of his review of
the party record the President de-
clared:
This extraordinary recital must
sound like a platform, a list of
sanguine promises: but it is not. 1t
is record of promises made four
years ago and now actually deemed
in constructive legislation" Then.
later he said: I'VE have in four years
come very near to carrying out the
platform of the Progressive Party as
well as our own; for we are also pro-
i gressives. 80
The Presidents address was some
five thousand words long, one of the
most lengthy he has delivered on any
occasion since taking Office
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