Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-28

imports. They have made provision
for the immediate and systematic de-
velopment Of our carrying trade on the
seas. They have at last supplied the
means by which the nation may be
bound together. materially and spirit
uaily, by network of good roads upon
which both commodities and sympa-
thies may move freely from community
to community. They have put the
farmer upon a footing OF perfect equal
ity with business men and men OF all
other callings in respect to his access
to commercial credit; have placed
great bureau of the government at his
service in seeking and finding his best
markets; have protected him by the
esta Enlistment of definite standards IN
the sale of his products, and have put
the scientific knowledge of the world
at his disposal by practical demonstra-
ton at the expense of the government
upon the farms themselves. They have
emancipated the laborers of the coun-
try from the unjustified restraints
which the courts had put upon them by
mistaken applications of old law to
new circumstances and conditions.
They have released 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 dan
gerous 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
single administration.
WORK NOT FINISHED.
And still the great work is not fin
ished. 1t can never be rounded off and
concluded SO long as circumstances
change and the fortunes and relations
of men shift and alter. The question
you have to decide one week from next
Tuesday is whether it shall be prema-
turely interrupted, perhaps for a gen.
GRAFTON to come. and all the generous
forces of the age and of the world
thrown back upon themselves in dis
enlargement and confusion.
The program remaining is as great as
the program accomplished. The pro-
cedure of our courts Is antiquated and
a hindrance, not an aid, in the just ad-
ministration of the law. We must SIM
plify and reform 1t as other enlightened
nations have done, and make courts of
Justice out Of our courts of law. We
must seek and find the means Of bring
ing capital and labor to clear under
standing of their common interests,
which are no other than the interests
of the nation itself as a community. We
must release our great undeveloped
natural resources upon some sensible
plan of use and conservation. We
must recruit the votes of forward look
ing men by the votes OF women SO that
we may have fresh insight in all
matters of social reform and move
more certainly and more promptly in
the solution OF the many new problems
of society with which the law must
henceforth deal. We must unite the
Americas. North and South, in q new
sympathy and cooperation. We must
seek justice and the right through every
channel that offers; and we must put
America in all it's force, in all its
wealth, alike of physical power and
spiritual enthusiasm, at the service of
the other nations of the world when
peace comes on the other side of the
seas. to make that peace permanent by
establishing 1t on the everlasting foun-
dations of right, cooperation, equality
and justice. These things we must do
and all else that may serve mankind.
NATION MUST SERVE.
And our motto must be Co opera
tion," the union, not the hostile rivalry,
of the forces of society within the ma
ton and within the family of nations.
The interests of mankind can never
again be served by aggression; the in
terest OF no nation or group of nations
can ever again be served by agrees
sion. The contests Of jealousy are as
bitter and as dangerous as the contests
of arms. The world must henceforth
seek the means of accommodation, not
the means of arresting quarrels mere
ly. The nation we love and serve must
be among the first and foremost of
those that rise to the new ideals with
spirit and well-directed force. Our own
our own actions in the inter-
est OF justice and humanity must be
the earnest of our spirit and purpose
in the affairs of the world outside our
own borders.
such Is the prospect, such Is the
my fellow citizens, to which
we look forward, to which it is our
purpose to move forward with enthus-
iasm and irresistible ardor. We will not
pause in the midst of our task We
hiOW tidt we DIT Olt VI Tic luool
critical junctures in the history of the
world, when all hopes hang in the bal
ance. We will suffer no man. no body
of men. through timidity or fear or
jealousy, to delay or hinder or en-
barrass us. Reaction can have no place
of tolerance amongst us when all the
world waits upon those who plan Jus
tice and progress. 1 summon you, not
only TO sustain, but to swell the hosts
that have their faces now set towards
the light. their eyes lifted to the hori-
IONS where the dawn of new age be-
gins to brighten; and I summon you
with confidence, with a certain expect
alton OF the part America and her great
people are to play when the dawn
broadens into day"
-A~e--
FRENCH AERQPIBNES