The Washington herald., 1916-09-03

roofing OF energy ana enterprise they
have not suggested.
For the farmers of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit, by means of the Federal Re-
serve Act and the Rural Credits Act.
They now have the standing of other
business men in the money market.
We have successfully regulated
speculation in futures" and establish
ed standards in the marketing OF
grains.
Warehouse Act.
BY an intelligent Warehouse Act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as a
security for loans from the banks. We
have greatly added to the work of
neighborhood demonstration on the
farm itself of improved methods OF
cultivation. and. through the intelli-
gent extension of the functions of the
Department of Agriculture, have made
1t possible for the farmer to learn
systematically where his best markets
are and how to get at them.
The workInsmen of America have
been given tn veritab!e emancipation,
by the legal recognition of = mans
labor part of hts life, and not a
mere marketable commodity: by exempt
ing labor organizat tons from processes
OF the courts which treated their men,
bers like fractional parts OF mobs and
not like accessible and responsible indi-
viduals: by releasing our seamen from
involuntary servitude: by making ade-
quate provision for compensation for in
dustrial accidents; by providing suitable
machinery for mediation and Cancellation
in Industrial disputes, and by putting the
Federal Department of Labor at the dis
posal of the workingman when in search
Of work.
Children Emancipated.
We have enc tied the emancipation
of the children of the country by
releasing them FROM hurtfuI labor.
We have instituted a system OF national
aid in the building of highroads such rs
the country has been feeling after for
a century. We have sought to eQualize
taxation by means Of an equitable in
come tax. We have taken the steps that
ought to have been taken at the outset
to open Up the resources of Alaska. We
have provided for national defense upon
a scale never before seriously proposed
upon the responsibility OF an entire po-
litiCal party. We have driven the tariff
lobby from cover and obliged it to sub
stitute solid argument for private in
fiuence.
This extraordinary recital must
sound like platform. list OF
sanguine PROMISES but IL Is not. II
is a record OF promises made four
years ago and now actually re-
deemed in constructive legislation.
In foreign affairs we have been guided
by principles clearly conceived and con-
sistently lived up to. Perhaps they have
not been fully comprehended because they
have hitherto governed international af-
fairs only in theory, not in practice. They
are simple. obvious, easily stated, and
fundamental to American ideals.
Have Been Neutral.
We have been neutral not only because
TT was the fixed and traditional policy of
the United States to stand aloof from the
politics of Europe and because we had
no part either of action or of policy in
the influences which brought on the pres
ent war. but also because It was mani
testify our duty to prevent, II 1t were pos
sible, the indefinite extension Of the fires
of hate and desolation kindled by that
terrible conflict and seek to serve man
kind by reserving our strenth and our re-
sources for the anxious and difficult days
of restoration and healing which must
follow when peace will have to build its
house anew.
The rights of our own citizens of course
became involved; that was inevitable
w
principle: that property rights can be vim
dictated by claims for damages and no
modern nation can decline to arbitrate
such claims: but the fundamental rights
Of humanity cannot be. The loss of life
is irreparable. Neither can direct viola
lions OF a nations sovereignty await vim
dication in suits for damages. The ma
ton that violates these essential rights
must expect to be checked and called to
OhoN
ance 1t at once makes the quarrel in
par. our own. These are plain principles
and we have never lost sight of them or
departed from them, whatever the stress
or the perplexity of circumstances or the
provocation to hasty resentment. The
record is clear and consistent throughout
and stands distinct and definite for any
one to Judge who wishes to know the
truth about 1t.
No Favor from Hyphenntes.
The seas were not broad enough to
keep the infection of the conflict out of
our own politics. The passions and in
trigues of certain active groups and COM
bins tons of men amongst US who were
born under foreign flags injected the
poison Of disloyalty into our own most
critical affairs, laid violent hands upon
many of our industries and subjected us
to the shame Of divisions OF sentiment
and purpose in which America was con-
demned and forgotten. 1t is part of the
business of this year of reckoning and
settlement to speak plainly and act with
unmistakable purpose IN rebuke of these
things, in order that they may be for
ever hereafter impossible. 1 am the can
didate of a party, but I am above all
things else an American citizen. 1 neither
seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of
that small alien element amongst us
which puts loyalty to any foreign power
before loyalty to the United States.
While Europe was at war. our own
continent. one of our own neighbors,
was shaken by revolution. In that
matter, too, principle was plain and
it was imperative that we should live
up to it II we were to deserve the
trust of any real partisan of the right
as free men see it. We have professed
to believe, and we do believe, that the