Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-11-02

justified restraints which the courts
had put upon them by mistaken ap-
%plications of old law to new circum-
stances and conditions. They have
released the children Of the country
in large part from hurtful labor;
sought to safeguard the lives and the
health of our laborers in dangerous
occupations; and have put agencies
of the Government itself at the SER
vice of those who seek employment.
And most of these things have been
done within the brief limits of a sin.
gle administration.
And still the great work is not fin
ished. 1t can never be rounded off
and concluded SO long as circumstan-
ces change and the fortunes and re-
lations of men shift and alter. The
question you have to decide one week
from next Tuesday is whether it shall
be prematurely interrupted, perhaps
for a generation to come, and all the
generous forces forces of the age and
OF the world back upon themselves
in encouragement and confusion.
The program re%maining,is as great
as the program accomplished. The
procedure of u courts is Anticipated
and a hindrance, not an aid, in the
just administration of the law. We
must ajmo1ifv op1 rofnrno - ~. ..
enlightened nations have done, and
make courts of justice out of our
courts of law. We must seek and
find the means of bringing capital
and labor to a clear understanding of
their common interests, which are no
other than the interests of the nation
itself as a community. We must re-
lease our great undeyeloped natural
resources upon some sensible plan of
use and conservation. We must re-
cruit the votes of forward-lookinp
men by the votes of women so that
we may have a fresh insight in all
matters of social reform and move
more certainly and more promptly in
the solution of the many new prob.
lens of society with which the law
must henceforth deal. We must unite
the Americas, North and South, in a
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 it's wealth, alike of ply
steal 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 it
on the everlasting, foundations of
right, cooperation, equality and JUS
tice. These things we must do and
all else that may serve mankind.
And our motto must be go Opera.
tion," the union, not the hostile riv-
airy, of the forces of society within
the nation and within the family of
nations. The interests of mankind
can never again be served by agrees
sion; the interest of no nation or
group of nations can ever again be
served by aggression. The contests
of jealousy are as bitter and as dan
gerous rs the contests of arms. The
world must henceforth seek the
means of accommodation, not the
means Of arresting quarrels merely.
The nation we love and serve must
be among the first and foremost of
those that rise to the new ideals with
spirit and we'll directed force. Our
own reforms, our own actions in the
interest Of justice and humanity must
be the earnest of u spirit and pur
pose in the affairs of the world out
side our, own borders.
Such is the prospect. such is the
program. my fellow-citizens, to which
we look forward. to which it 10 our
purpose to move forward with en-
Ithnsissm and Irresistible ardor. We