The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-03
IN SIMPLE TEMENT OF FACTS, WILSON ANSWERS
 CRITICS IN A ACCEPTANCE

and at once, the moment the war In Europe is over. They will be new problems, most of them; many will be old problems in a new setting and with new clements which we have never dealt with or reckoned the force and meaning of before. They will require for thier solution new thinking, fresh courage and resourcefulness, and in some matters radical reconsiderations of policy We must be ready to mob- ilize our resources alike of brains and of materials
 It Is not future to be afraid of. It s rather, a future to stimulate and excite us to the display of the best powers that are in us. We may enter it with confidence when we are sure that we understand it-and we have provided ourselves already with the means of understanding it.
 Look first at what it will be neces- sary that the nations of the world should do to make the days to come tolerable and fit to live and work in; and then look at our part in what is to follow and our own duty of prep aration For we must be prepared both in resources and policy.
 MUST BE JUST PEACE
 There must be just and settled peace, and we here in America must  thusiasm and of our authority as a nation to the organiza tion of that peace upon worldwide foundations that cannot easily be shaken. No na- tion 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 wilful disturbance of ha of hn rxynr 10 effects of war can no longer be confined to the areas of battle. 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 enterprise Is to be renewed, if the healing and helpful arts of life are indeed to be revived when peace comes again, new atmosphere or 1us- tice and friendship must be generated by means the world has never tried before. The nations of the world must unite in joint guarantees that what ever is done to disturb the whole worlds life must first be tested in the court of the whole worlds opinion be- fore it is attempted
 These are the new foundations the world must build for itself and we must play our part in the reconstruc- tion, generously and without too much thought of our separate interests. We must make ourselves ready to play it intelligently, vigorously and well.
 One of the contributions we must make to the worlds peace Is this: We must see to 1t 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 con sideration 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 are to sustain and develop the life of the nations in the days to come.
 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
 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 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 instrumenta1ity of observation and adjustment which promises to be immediately serviceable. The trade commission substitutes counsel and ac- commodation for the harsher processes of legal restraint, and the tariff com mission ought to substitute facts for prejudices and theories. Our exporters have for sometime had the advantage of working in the new light thrown upon foreign markets and opportuni- ties of trade by the intelligent in- quiries and activities of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce which the democratic Congress so wisely cre- ated in 1912. The tariff commission completes the machinery by which we shall be enabled to open up our leg islative policy to the facts as they develop. e
 NO LONGER PROVINCIAL
 We can no longer indulge our tra- ditional provincialism. We are to play a leading part in the world drama whether we wish it or not. We shall lend, not borrow; act for ourselves, not initiate or follow; organize and initi- ate, not peep about merely to see where we may get in.
 We have already formulated and dSTccu upOH d PoiiSy oA low "hiCu will explicitly remove the ban now supposed to rest upon cooperation amongst our exporters in seeking and securing their proper place in the mar kets of the world. The field will be free, the instrumentalities at hand. It will only remain for the masters of enterprise amongst us to act in ener- getic concert and for the government of the United States to insist upon the maintenance throughout the world of those conditions of fairness and of even handed justice in the commercial dealings of the nations with one an- other upon which, after all, in the last analysis. the peace and ordered life of the world must ultimately de- pend.
 MUST PROTECT BUSINESS
 At home also we must see to it that the men who plan and develop and