The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-03
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
Continued From Page Four.)

thusiasm and of our authority as a
nation to the organization of that
peace upon worldwide foundations
that cannot easily be shaken. No
nation should be forced to take sides
in any quarrel in which its own honor
and integrity and the fortunes of its
own people are not involved; but no
nation can any longer remain neu-
trail as against any wilful disturb
ance of the peace of the world. The
effects of war can no longer be con-
fined to the areas of battle. No ma
ton 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 renewed, 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 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.
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 intelligent1y, 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
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 through
out the world we must actively and
intelligently prepare ourselves to do
our full service in the trade and in
! dustry which are to sustain and de-
velop 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 instrumentalities of
prompt adjustment. We have Gre
ated, in the Federal Trade Commits
sion, a means of inquiry and of ac-
commodation in the field of commerce
which ought both to coordinate the
enterprises of our traders and man.
ufacturers and to remove the barriers
of misunderstanding and of a too tech
nical Interpretation of the law. In
/ the new Tariff Commission we have
added another instrumentality of OBJ
servation and adjustment which prom
Uses 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
working 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 Gre
ated in 1912. The Tariff Commission
completes the machinery by which we
shall be enabled to open up our leg
islative policy to the facts as they
develop.
We can no longer indulge our ira
ditional 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
ganize 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 misrepresentation at hand.
1t will only remain for the masters of
enterprise amongst US to act in ener-
getic 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
| cial 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.
pend.
At home also we must see to i
that the men who plan and develop
and direct our business enterprise
shall enjoy definite and settled con
ditions of law, a policy accommodated
| to the freest progress. We have SCI
the just and necessary limits. We
have put all kinds of unfair compe'
tition under the ban and penalty Of
the law. We have barred monopoly
These fatal and ugly things being ex.