Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-09-07

the world. The field will be free, tho
Observation-Disclosures at hand. II will only
remain for the masters Of enterprise
among us to act In energetic concert
and for the government Of the United
States to insist upon the maintenance
throughout the world Of those condi.
lions Of fairness and Of even handed
Justice in the commercial dealings Of
the nations with one another upon
which, after all, in the last analysis
the peace and ordered life of the world
must ultimately depend
Ban Unfair Competition.
At home also we must see to IL that
the men who plan and develop and d.
rect our business enterprises shall en-.
Joy definite and settled conditions Of
law, a policy accommodated to the
freest progress. We have set the lust
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 enterprise
| by every just means within our choice.
| There will be peace In the business
world and, with peace, revived conf
| dence and life.
We ought both to husband and to
| develop our natural resources. our
| mines, our forests. our water power.
| I wish we could have made more prog
ress than we have made in this vital
matter and | call once more, 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 capital on the
other, to get together in a spirit of
genuine accommodation and agreement
and set this great policy forward at
once.
We must hear:en and quicken the
spirit and efficiency Of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations do.
ing justice to the laborer, not only by
| paying living wage but also by max
ing all the conditions that surround
labor what they ought to be. 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 i'm.
! periled. That IS more than justice
and better, because It IS humanity and
| economy.
| We must coordinate the railway sys
tens Of the country for national use
and must facilitate and promote theil
| development with view to that co
ordination and to their better adapta
ton as a whole to the life and trade
| and defense Of the nation. The life
and industry OF the country can bt
free and unhampered only if these ar
teries are open. efficient and complete.
Thus shall we stand ready to NEE
the future as circumstance and inter
national policy effect their unfolding
whether the changes come slowly Of
come fast and without preface.
l have not spoken explicitly. gentle
men, OF the platform adopted at st
Louis, but it has been implicit in all
that have said. I have sought to in
terpret its spirit and meaning The
! people of the United States do no,
need to be assured now that that plat
form is a definite pledge, q practica
| program. We have proved to then
that our promises are made to be kept
Dawn of Greater America.
We hold very definite ideals. We
believe that the energy and initiative
Of our people have been too narrowly
coached and superintendent; that they
should be set free. as we have sci
them free TO dispense themselves
throughout the nation: that they should
not be concentrated in the hands Of @
few powerful guides and guardians. as
our opponents Lave again and again, IL
effect If not in purpose, sought to con
centrate them. We believe, moreover
who that looks about him now with
comprehending eye can fail TO believe
that the day Of little Americanism
with It's narrow horizons, when meth
DDS Of protection" and industrial
nursing were tho chief study Of oul
provincial statesmen. are past and gone
and that day Of enterprise has at last
dawned for the United States whose
field IS the wide world.
We hope to see the stimulus Of tina,
new day draw all America, the repub
lies of both continents, on to new life
and energy and initiative In the great
affairs Of peace. We are Americans
for big America and rejoice to look
forward to the days in which America
shall strive TO stir the world withou,
irritating it or drawing it on to new
antagonisms, when the nations with
which we deal shall at last come to
see upon what deep foundations Of hu
manity and justice our passion fol-
peace rests and when all mankind shall
look upon our great people with new
sentiment of admiration, friendly RI
valry and real affection as upon q peo
pie who. though keen to succeed. seeks
always to he ut once generous and just
and to whom humanity Is dearer than
profit or selfish power
Upon this record and In the faith OF
this purpose ,"c 80 20 the country.