Grand Forks herald., 1916-09-02
consideration for the e.sent.., rights


Ing moral and practical support to the
establishment Of peace throughoua
the world we must actively and intel
iigently prepare ourselves to do our
full service In the trade and industry
which are to sustain and develop the
life OF the nations in the days to
come.
We have already been provident In
this great matter and supplied our.
selves with the instrumentalittes of
prompt adjustment. We have created,
In the federal trade commission. q
means OF inquiry and of accommoda-
ton in the field of commerce which
ought both to co-ordinate the enter
prises Of our traders and manufac-
turers and to remove the barriers OF
misunderstanding and Of too tech
nical Interpretation Of the law. In the
new tarin commission we have added
another fundamentally Of observation
and adjustment which promises to ho
Immediately serviceable. The trade
accommodation for the harsher pro-
cesses Of legal restraint. and the tariff
commission ought to substitute facts
for prejudices and theories. Our ex-
porters have for some time had the
advantage Of working in the new light
opportunities Of trade by the intelIi.
gent Inquiries and activities Of the
bureau Of foreign and domestic com.
merce which the domestic congress GO
wisely created in 1912. The tariN
commission completes the machinery
by which we shall be enabled to open
up our legislative policy to the faSts
as they develop.
We can no longer indulge our ira.
ditional provincialism. We are to play
a. leading part in the world drams
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 policy Of law which Will
explicitly remove the ban now suppos.
ed to rest upon cooperation amongst
our exporters in seeking and securing
their proper place In the markets Of
the world. The field will Be free. the
instrumentalities at hand. It will only
remain for the masters of enterprise
amongst US to act In energetic con-
cert. and for the government Of the
United States to insist upon the main
tenance throughout the world Of those
! conditions Of fairness and of even-
handed justice in the commercial
, dealings of the nations with one an
other upon which. after all, In the
! last analysis, the peace and ordered
pend.
At home also we must see to 1t that
the men who plan and develop and
direct our business enterprises shall
enjoy definite and settled conditions
Of law. a policy accomm odated to the
freest progress. We have set the just
and necessary limits. We have put all
ban and penalty Of the law. We have
barred monopoly. These fatal and
ugly things being excluded, we must
now quicken action and facilitate en-
terprise by every just means within
our choice. There will be peace in the
business world, and. with peace. re.
vived confidence and life.
We ought both to husband and to
develop our natural resources. our
mines. our forests. our water power.
wish we could have made more
progress than we have made In this
vital matter; and l call once more,
with the deepest earnestness and So
licitude, upon the advocates Of a
careful and provident conservation, on
the one hand. and the advocates of a
free and inviting field for private cap
ital, on he other. to get together in
spirit Of genuine accommodation and
agreement and set this great policy
forward at once.
We must hearken and quicken tho
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations do
ing justice to the laborer. not only by
paying a 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 imperilled.
That Is more than justice. and better,
because it is humanity and economy.
We must coordinate the railway
systems Of the country for national
use and must facilitate and promote
coordination and to their better
adaptation as q whole to tho life ana
trade and defense Of the nation. The
life and industry Of the country can
be free and unhampered only II these
arteries are open, efficient and COM
plete. .
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.
l have not spoken explicitly. gen-
Louis: but it has been implicit In all
that I have said. have sought to
interpret its spirit and meaning. Tho
people of the United States do not
need to be assured now, that that
platform is a definite pledge. . psac-
teal program. We have proved to
them that our promises are made to
be kept. We hold very definite ideals.
We believe that the energy and initia-
tive of our people have been too mar
rowly coached and superintended;
that they should be set free. as We
have set them FREQ. to disperse them
selves throughout the nation; that
they should not be concentrated in the
hands Of few powerful guides and
guardians, as our opponents have
again and again. in effect II not in
purpose. sought to concentrate them.
We believe. moreover-who that looks
eye can fail to believe that the day
Of little Americanism, with its narrow
horizons. when methods of ''protoc-
ton" and industrial nursing were the
chief study of our provincial sta4Ae-
man, 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 that
new day draw all America, the repuo-
lies Of both continents. on to new
life and energy and initiative in the
great affairs Of peace. We are Aneri-
cans for Big America, and rejoice to
look forward to the days in which
America shall strive to stir tho world
without irritating 1t or drawing Il on
to new antagonisms when the nations
with which we deal shall at last come
to see upon what deep foundations of
humanity and justice our passion Tor
peace rests, and when all mankind
shall look upon our great people with
new sentiment Of admiration.
Tr,endlv rivalry and real affection. a.