The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-09-08

pOrtunitleS OF trade Dy the lntelugent
inquiries and activities of the bureau
Of foreign and domestic commerce
which the Democratic congress so
wisely created in 1912. The tariff COM
mission completes the machinery By
which we shall be enabled to open up
our legislative policy to the facts as
they develop.
We can no longer indulge our tradl-
tional provincialism. We are to play
leading part in the world drama
whether We wish 1t or not. We shall
lend, not borrow; act for ourselves,
not initiate or follow; organize and
initiate, not peep about merely to see
where we may get in.
We have already formulated and
agreed upon a policy Of law which Will
explicitly remove the ban now suppOS-
ed to rest upon cooperation among
our exporters in seeking and securing
their proper place In the markets OF
the world. The field will be free, ths
instrumentalities at hand. 1t 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 banded
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 it 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 just
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 I 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 spirit or
genuine accommodation and agreement
and set this great policy forward at
once
/ We must hearten 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. Ard
we must do more than justice. We
must safeguard life and promote
health and safety IN every occupation
I'm which they are threatened or i'm
periled. That Is more than justice,
and better, because 1t Is humanity and
economy.
We must coordinate the railway sys-
TENS of the country for national use
and must facilitate and promote their
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 be
free and unhampered only If these ar
teries are open, efficient and complete.
Thus shall we stand ready to meet
the future as circumstance and inter-
national policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
come fast and without preface.
1 have not spoken explicitly, gentle
men, Of the platform adopted at st.
Louis, but it has been implicit In all
that I have said. have sought to in
terpret its spirit and meaning. The
people Of the United States do not
need to be assured now that that plat
form is a definite pledge. a practical
program. We have proved to them
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 set
them free, to disperse themselves
throughout the nation: that they should
not be concentrated in the hands of a
few powerful guides and guardians. as
our opponents have again and again, In
effect if not in purpose, sought to con-
centrate them. We believe, moreover
who that looks about him now with
compromising eye can fail TO believe?
that the day of little Americanism.
with its narrow horizons, when meth
DDS Of protection" and Industrial
nursing were the chief study Of our
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.
W. hay1o 20 son tho Sffp,r,I,,S rP that