Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-02

enjoy definite and settled conditions
of law, policy accommodated to tho
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 facilitate en-
terprise by every Just means within
our choice There will be peace in the
business world, and, with peace, re-
vived confidence and life.
We ought both to husband and to
develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power.
1 wish we could have made moro
/ progress than we have made in this
with the deepest earnestness and
solicitude, upon the advocates of .
careful 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 accommodations ana
agreement and get this great policy
forward at once.
Labor Must Have Justice.
We must hearken and quicken tho
spirit and efficiency of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations
doing Justice to the laborer, not only
by paying a living wage but also bZ
making all the conditions that sur
round labor what they ought to b.
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 inn
PEELED. That is more justice, and bet
ter, because it is humanity and econ
omy.
We must coordinate the railway sys-
tens of the country for national use.
and must facilitate and promote their
development with view to that CO.
ordination and to their better adapta-
tion as whole to the life and trade
and defense of the nation. The life and
industry Of the country can be FREQ
and unhampered only if these arteries
are open, efficient and complete.
| Thus shall we stand ready to meet
the future as circumstances and inter-
national policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
come fast and without preface.
Democratic Promises Are Kept.
I have not spoken explicitly, gentle
men, of the platform adopted at st.
Louis; but it has been implicit in all
that / have said. / have sought to in
terpret its spirit and meaning. The
people of the United States do not
need to be assured now that that plat
form is definite pledge, practical
program. We have proved to them
that our promises are made to be
kept.
We hold very definite ideals. We be.
lieve that the energy and initiative oc
our people have been too narrowly
coached and superintendent; that they
should be set free, as we have SET
them free, to disperse themselves
throughout the nation; that they
should not ne 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, moreover who that loOlss
about him now with comprehending
eve can fail to believe?-that the d,y
, OF Little Americanism, with its mar
row horizons, when methods of "pr0-
lection" and industrial nursing were
the chief study of our provincial
statesmen, are past and gone and that
day of enterprise has at last dawned
for the United States whose field ID
the wide world.
Hopes for Stimulus of q New Dey.
We hope to see the stimulus of that
, new day draw all America, the repub'
J lies of both continents, on to a new
life and energy and initiative in the
, great affairs of peace. We are Ameri-
: cans for Big America, and rejoice to
} look forward to the days in which
: America shall strive to stir the world
without irritating it or drawing it on
: to new antagonisms, when the nations
, with which we deal shall at last como
to see upon what deep foundations Of
humanity and justice our passion for
! peace rests, and when all mankind
shall look upon our great people with
new sentiment of admiration,
friendly rivalry and real affection, az
4 upon people, who, though keen to
: succeed, seek always to be at once
4 generous and just and to whom hui
= manity is dearer than profit or selfish
= power.
{ Upon this record and in the faith Of
: this purpose we go TO the country.
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