The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-02
Senator James Pays Tribute to President in NOtifi- cation Speech-WilsOn Defends European and Mexican Policies Points to Great Construc- tive Legislative Program Accomplished

with one another upon which, after all, in the last analysis, the peace and ordered life of the world must ulti- mately depend.
 At home also we must sec to it that the men who plan and develop and direct our business enterprises shall enjoy definite and settled condi- tons or law, policy accommodated to the freest progress. We nave set the Just and necessary limits. We have put all kinds of unfair competi- ton under the ban and penalty of tho law, We have barred monopoly. These fatal and ugly things being ex- cluded, 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 confidence and life.
 We ought both to husband and to develop our natural resources. our mines, our forests, our water power. l wish we could have made more pro- gress 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 provfdent conservation, on the one hand. and the advocates of a free and inviting field for private capital, on the other, to get together In a spirit of genuine accommodation and agree ment and set this great policy for ward 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 mak- 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 im- perilled. That is more than justice, and better, because it is humanity and economy.
 I've must coordinate the railway systems of the country for national use. and must facilitate and promote their development with a view to that coordination and to their better adaptation as a whole to the life and
  life and industry of the country can arteries are open, efficient and com- plete.
 Thus shall we stand ready to meet the future as circumstances and inter- national policy effect their unfolding, whether the changes come slowly or come fast and without preface.
 tofs tlemen, of the platform adopted at St. Louis; but it has been implicit in all that have said. I have sought to in terrret 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. ..
 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 concentrate them. We believe, moreover.-who that looks about him now with comprehending eye can fail to believe?-that the day of Little Americanism, with its nar- 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 enterprise has at last dawned for the United States whose field is tho wide world.
 We hope to see the stimulus of that new day draw all America. the republics 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 re- joice to look forward to the days in which America shall strive to stir the world without irritating 1t or drawing it on to new antagonisms, when the nations with which we deal shall at last come to see upon what deep foun- dations of humanity and justice our passion for peace rests. and when all mankind shall look upon our great people with a new sentiment of ad- miration, friendly rivalry and real af- lection. as upon a people who, though keen to succeed. seeks always to be at 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 we go to the country"