The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-10-28
MANKIND NOT SERVED
BY AGGRESSION But
BY NEW HIGH IDEALS

: awake and feel once more, as they
felt them in the days when their great
republic was set up, the compulsions
Of humanity and of justicel
These are the freshening winds
blowing out Of the life Of mankind ev
erywhera that have brought on a new
day in American politics. We have
looked once moro very critically al
our own laws and our own practices
and have set about to square them with
the actual conditions Of our life and
the life ofthe world.
I -Four years ago there were two par
ties in the field whose program was
conceived under the influence Of these
great forces OF progress and adjust
ment the Democratic party and the
4 Progressive party. This year there is
but one, the Democratic party IN the
presidential election Of four years ago
some fifteen million votes were cast
OF these, nearly ten and a half million
were cast for the candidates o. the
two progressive parties, only three
and half millions were cast for the
candidates Of the Republican party,
the party which fingered in the old
ways and felt none of the new i'm
pulse of new day. More than two
thirds of the voters of the United
States favored then, and favor noY,
a program whose object is to serve the
changing needs Of humanity and pro-
gress.
The Democratic party was entrusted
with the task. These powerful porces
of the new age were put under its di-
rection. And under that direction
what have they accomplished? They
have put both the business and the
life OF the country upon new foot
ing. They have released the financial
credit, upon which commerce and pfo.
duction alike depend, from the control
of small groups Of financiers and bank
ers al the speculative centers. They
have released the commerce and in
dustry Of the county from the dpmina-
tion of those whao were building up|
their power by selfish and unfair meth
ods of competition. They have sup
piled those who wished to conduct
their business in conformity with the
spirit of the laws with friendly gull-
ance and delivered them from ner-
vous fear of the courts. They have
released our foreign trade from the
shackles of'a tariff contrived in the
interest of special groups Of favored
producers, and have created Il tariff
commission intended to substitute pub
lie for private Influences. facts for the
cries and pretensions, in all future
legislation with regard to duties and
restrictions on imports. They have
made provision for the immediate and
systematic development Of our carry
ing trade OH the seas. They havo at
last supplied the means by which the
nation may be bound together, mate
rally and spiritually, by network Of
good roads upon which both commo-
dities and sympathies may move free
" from community to community.
They have put the farmer up)n a
footing of perfect equality with bust |
ness men and men OF all other cai'.ngs
in respect of his access to commercial
credit; have placed great bareau Of
the government at his service in seek
ing and finding his best markets;
have protected him by the establish
ment of definite standards in the sale
Of his products and have put the sci
entific knowledge Of the world at his
disposal by practical demonstration
at the expense Of the government up
on the farm themselves. They have
smancipated the laborers of the coun-
try from the uniustified restraints
which the courts had put upon them
by mistaken applications of old law
to new circumstances and conditions.
They have reIased the children Of the
country in large part from hurtful la
Dor; have sought to safeguard the
lives and the health of our laborers in
dangerous occupations; and have put
agencies of the government itself at
the service Of those who seek employ
ment. And most Of these things have
been done within the brief limits Of a
single administration.
And still the great work is not fin
ished. It can never be rounded off
and concluded so long as circumstanc-
Is change and the fortunes and rela-
tions OF men shift and alter. The ques-
ton you have to decide one week from
next Tuesday is whether it shall be
prematurely interrupted. perhaps for
a generation to come. and all the gen.
erous forces OF the age and Of the
world thrown back upon themselves
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