Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-09-08


vital matter; and / call once more,
with the deepest earnestness and So
licitude, upon the advocates of care
full and provident conservation, on
the one hand, and the advocates of
free and inviting field for private cap
ital, on the other, to get together in
spirit of genuine accommodation
and agreement and set this great pol
icy forward at once.
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 a living wage, but also by
making all the conditions that sur
round labor what they ought to be.
And we must do more than justice.
We must safeguard life and promote
health and safety in every occupation
in which they are threatened or i'm
perilled. That is more than justice,
and better, because it is humanity and
economy.
We 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 q 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.
l have not spoken explicitly, gentle
men, of the platform adopted ut St
Louis; but it has been implicit in all
that | have said. have sought to
interpret its spirit and meaning. The
people of the United States do not
need to be assured now that that
platform is definite pledge, practi-
cal programme. We have proved to
them that our promises are made to
be kept.
We hold very definite ideals. We
believe that the energy and initiative
of our people have been too narrowly
coached and superintendent; that they
should not be concentrated in them
free to dispense themselves. through
out the nation; that they should not
be concentrated in the hands of few
powerful guides and guardians, as
our opponents have again and again
in effect, if not in purpose, sought to
concentrate them. We believe. more
over-who that looks about bin now
with comprehending eye can fail tc
believe THAT the day of Little Am.
ericanism, with its narrow horizons
when methods of protection" and in
dustrial nursing were the chief study
of our provincial statesmen, are pasI
and gone and that day of enter.
prise has at last dawned fer the
United States whose field is the wide
world.
We hope to see the stimulus of that
new day draw all America, the re.
publics of both continents, OH to new
life and energy and initiative in the
great affairs of peace. We are Amer
leans for Big America, and rejoice -
look forward to the days in which
America shall strive to stir the world
without irritating it or drawing it or
to new antagonisms, when the ma.
tons with which we deal shall at last
come to see upon what deep foun,la-
tons of humanity and justice our pas
sion for peace rests, and when al
mankind shall look upon our great
people with a new sentiment of ad-
miration, friendly rivalry and real af-
lection, as upon people who, though,
keen to succeed, seeks always to b.:
at once generous and just and to
whom humanity is dearer than profit
OF selfish power.
Upon this record and in the faith
OF this purpose we go to the country.