The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-08

United States will refuse to extend the
hand of welcome to any one who obtains
power in a sister republic by treachery
and violence. No permanency can be
given the affairs of any republic by a
title based upon intrigue and a~ssassi-
nation. Mistakes 1 have no doubt made
in this perplexing business, but not in
purpose or object"
TO PLAY A LEADING PART
The president declared that we must
be prepared both in resources and in
policy to play our part when EurOpe's
war is over. There must be a just and
settled peace, and the nations of the
world must unite in joint guarantees
that whatever is lone to disturb the
whole worlds life must first be tested
in the court of the whole worlds opin-
ion before it is attempted.
1--WE can no Toner indulge our tradi-
tional prOvincialism. We are to play a
leading part in the world drama wheth-
er we wish it or not. We shall lend.
not borrow; act for ourselves, not imi-
tate or follow; organize and initiate, not
peep about merely to see where we may
get in.
I'VE 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. At home we have put all kinds
of unfair competition under the ban and
penalty of the law. We have barred
monopoly. We ought both to husband
and to develop our natural resources,
our mines, our forests, our water power.
NEED LABOR EFFICIENCY
I'VE must hearten and quicken the
spirit and efficiency of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations doing
justice to the laborer, not only by pay
ing a living wage, but also by making
all the conditions that surround labor
what they ought to be. And we must
do more than justice. We must safe
guard 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 hold very definite ideals. We be-
lieve that the energy and initiative of
our people have been too narrowly
coached and superintended; that they
should be set free, as We have set them
free, to dispense themselves throughout
the nation; that they should not be con-
c%entrated in the hands of a few power
full guides and guardians, as our oppon-
ents have again and again, in effect if
not in purpose, sought to concentrate
them.
BIG HEARTED AMERICANS.
"We believe, moreover who that
looks about him now with comprehend
ing eye can fail to believe?-that the
day of Little Americanism, with its mar
row horizons, when methods of "pro-
lection" and industrial nursing were the
chief study of our provincial statesmen,
are past and gone and that a day of en-
terprise has at last dawned for the Uni
ted States whose field is the wide world.
1--WE hope to see the stimulus of that
new day draw all America, the repub-
lies of both continents, on to a new life
and energy and initiative in the great
affairs of peace. We are Americans for
Big America, and rejoice to look for
ward to the days in which America
shall strive to stir the world without ir-
ritating it or drawing it on to new an
tagonisms, when the nations with which
we deal shall at last come to see upon
What deep foundations of humanity and
justice our passion for peace rests, and
when all mankind shall look upon our
great people with a new sentiment or
admiration, friendly rivalry and real af-
lection, as upon a people who, though
keen to succeed, seek always to be at
once generous and just and to whom hui
mainly is dearer than profit or selfish
power.
Upon this record and in the faith of
this purpose We go to the country.