Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-28

immaculate anu SySttilldtlC utNeiopihoHtI
of our carrying trade on the seas. They
have at last supplied the means by
which the nation may be bound togeth.
er, materially and spiritually, by net
work of gooo roads upon which BOTH
commodities and sympathies may move,
freely from community to county. They
have put the farer upon footing of
perfect equality with business men and
men of all other callings in respect of
his access to commercial credit; have
placed q great bureau of the govern
ment at his service in seeking and find
| ing his best markets; have protected
| him by the establishment OF definite
standards in the sale of his products,
and have put the scientific knowledge
of the wor d at his disposal by practical
demonstration at the expense Of the gov.
ernment upon the farms themselves.
/ They have emancipated the laborerssof
/ the country from the unjustified re-
straints which the courts had put upon
them by mistaken applications of law
to new circumstances and conditions.
They have released the children of the
| country in large part from hurtful lab
or; have sought to safeguard the lives
and the health of our laborers in danger
Gus occupations; and have put agencies
of the government itself at the service
Of those who see; employment. And
most of these things have been done
within the brief limits OF single ad-
ministration.
And still the great work is not finish
ed. 1t can never be rounded off and
concluded so long as circumstances
change and the fortunes and relations
Of men shift and alter. The question you
have to decide one week from next Tues
day is whether it shall be prematurely
interrupted, perhaps for a generation to
come, and all the generous forces of the
age and of the world thrown back upon
themselves in discouragement and con-
fusion.
The program remaining is as great as
the program accomplished. The pro-
cedure of our courts is antiquated and a
hindranee, not an, aid, in the just ad-
ministration of the law. We must simp'
lify and reform it as other enlighten-
ed nations have done, and make courts
of Justice out OF our courts of law. We
must seek and find the means of bring
ing capital and labor to clear under
standing of their common interests,
which are no other than the interests
@ fthe nation itself as a community
We must release our great undeveloped
natural resources upon some sensible
plan of use and conservation. we must
recruit the votes of forward-looking
men by the votes of women so that we
may have a fresh insight in all matters
of social reform and move more certain,
ly and more promptly in the solution OF
, the many new problems of society with
which the law must heneeforth deal. We
must unite the Americas, North and
South, in new sympathy and co-opera
tioa. We must seek justice and the right
through every channel that offers; and
we must put America in all its ioree
lin all its wealth, alike of physical pow
ca and spiritual enthusiasm, at the serv
{ ice of the other nations of the world
when peace comes ON the other side OF
!, the seas, to make that peace permanent
I, by establishing it ON the everlasting
foundations of right, cooperation, equal
/, ity and justice. These things we must
1 do and all else that may serve man
Kind
: "And our motto must be "Co.opera
ton. p" the union, not the hostile rivalry
of the forces of society within the ma
: tion and within the family of nations
The interests of mankind can nevc
: again be served by aggression; the in
tcrests of no nation or group of nations
can ever again be served by aggression
The contests of jealousy are as bite
and us dangerous as the contests o
arms The world must henceforth seel
the means of accommodation, not tn
means OF arresting quarerls merely. Th
nation we love aud serve must be amonI
the first and foremost of those that ris
to the new ideals with spirit and well
directed force. Our own reforms, on
own actions in the interest of justie
and humanity must be the earnest of on
spirit and purpose in the affairs of tn
world outside our own borders.
Such is the prospect, such is the pre-
gram, my fellow.eitizens. TO which W