Evening star., 1916-09-02

fit to live and work in: and then look
at our part in what is to follow ana
our own duty of preparation. For we
must be prepared both in resources and
in policy.
"There Must Be Peace"
There must be just and settled
peace. and we here In America must
contribute the full force of our en-
thusiasm and of our authority as ma
ton to the organization of that peace
upon worldwide founda ations that can
not 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 neutral as against any
willful disturbance of the peace of the
world. The effects of war can no
longer be confined to the areas of bat
tie. 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 en-
terprlse is to be renewed, II the neal
ing and helpful arts of life are indeed
to be revived when peace comes again,
a 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 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
muy make ourselves ready to play it
inte1ligently, vigorously and well.
Regard for Insular Peoples.
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 every
where-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 inStrumentalities of
prompt adjustment We have created,
in the federal trade commission, a
means of inquiry and of accommoda-
tion in the field of commerce which
ought both to coordinate the enter
prises of our traders and manufactur-
ers and to remove the barriers of mis-
understanding and of too technical
Interpretation of the law.
In the new tariff commission we have
added another instrumentality of OBJ
servation and adjustment which prom
lSes 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 Tor preJudices and theories.
our exporters have for some time had
the advantage of working in the new
hight thrown upon foreign markets and
opportunities of trade by the intelligent
inquiries and artivities of the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce,
which the democratic Congress so
wisely created in 1912. The tariff com
mission completes the machinery by
which we shall be enabled to open up
our legislative policy to the facts as
they develop.
A World Power.
We can no longer indulge our tradi-
tional provincialism. We are to play a
leading part in the world drama
- 4letHt4 We WISH IL OF not. we ShaIl
lend. not borrow; act for ourselves. not
initiate or follow; organize and initiate,
not peep about merely to see where we
may get in.
We have already formulated and
greed upon policy of law which will
explicitly remove the ban now supposed
to rest upon cooperation among our
exporters IN seeking and securing their
proper place in the markets of the
world. The field will be free the in
stTumentalities at hand. 1t will only
remain for the masters of ENTERPRISE
among US to act in energetic concert
and for the government of the United
states to insist upon the maintenance
throughout the world of those condi-
tIons of fairness and of handed
Justice in the commercial 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 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 com
petition under the ban and penalty of
the law. We have barred monopoly.
These fatal and ugly things being ex-
.cluded. we must now quicken action
and facilitate enterprise by every just
means within our choice. There will
be peace in the business world, and, with
peace, revived confidence and life.
Natural Resources.
". ought both to husband and to de-