The Pulaskian., 1916-09-08
Our recent pursuit of bandits into


 that principle. We ventured to enter were no military forces in Mexico that l could protect our border from hostile attack and our own people from vio- 1 lence, and we have committed there no single act of hostility or interfer- ence even with the sovereign authority 1 of the republic of Mexico herself Many serious wrongs against the property, many irreparable wrongs against the persons, of Americans have been committed within the territory of Mexico herself during this confused revolution, wrongs which could not be | effectually checked so long as there was no constituted power in Mexico which was in a position to check them. We could not act directly in that mat ter ourselves without denying Mexi- cans the right to any revolution at all which disturbed us and making the emancipation of her own people await 1 our own interest and convenience. 1 Problems of Near Future. I The future, the immediate future, will bring us squarely face to face with many great and exacting problems which will search us through and through whether we be able and ready to play the part in the world that we mean to play.
 There must be a just and settled peace and we here in America must contribute the full force of our en- l thusiasm and of our authority as nation to the organization of that peace upon worldwide foundations l that cannot easily be shaken. No na- ton should be forced to take sides in any quarrel in which it's own honor and integrity and the fortunes of it's own people are not involved; but no nation can any longer remain neutral as against any willful disturbance of the peace of the world.
 One of the contributions we must make to the worlds peace Is this: We must see to it that the people in l our insular possessions are treated in their own lands as we would treat them here, and make the rule of the l United States mean the same thing everywhere-the same justice, the same consideration for the essential rights of men.
 Besides contributing our ungrudg- l 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- ton in the field of commerce which ought both to coordinate the enter prises of our traders and manufac- turers and to remove the barriers of misunderstanding and of too tech nical interpretation of the law. In the new tariff commission we have added another instrumentality of ob- servation and adjustment which prom ises to be immediately serviceable.
 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 instrumentalities at hand.
 At home also we must see to 1t 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 competition under the ban and penalty of the law. We have barred monopoly, These fatal and ugly things being excluded, we must now quicken action and facili- tate enterprise by every just means within our choice. There will be peace in the business world, and, with peace revived confidence and life.
 We ought both to husband and to develop our natural resources. our mines our forests, our water power. I wish we could have made more prog ress than we have made in this vital matter.
 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 l paying living wage, but also by making all the conditions that sur, round labor what they ought to be.
 We must coordinate the railway systems of the country for national use, and must facilitate and promote their development with view to that | coordination and to their better adaptation as 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