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New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Should Aid Farmers

we must IN every way favor the man
who lives upon the land which he owns
and which he himself cultivatcs. More
over, we must render it possible 70,
the man who works on the farm, but
VINO does not own any land, for the
hlred man who is not Il tramp laborer
but hard working, steady, industrious
worker, to acquire and to own a farm
TOT himself; we must make it more
rractlcable than at present fer the
farmer to get money at not too high a
price for the actual work of production
not IN order to acquire more land or
Tor other purposes, but actually do the
productive work of The farm By pref-
crence the money thus advanced should
DC by private organizations, encourage d
by the government for that purpose ;
but If such organizations fail, then the
government itself must undertake the
work.
"Under certain conditions Of Joint
production it has in practice proved
possible for certain purposes to get
groups Of farmers to Guarantee one an.
other; and this offers mighty tangi-
bic way of becoming ones brothers
kcepcr--of course when, and only when
the conditions make it practicable If
you 90 on a mans bond to permit him
to get hog you take an Intelligent
interest in his getting the right kind
Of hog and that he himself is the
right kind Of a man to take care of the
hog!
"As in all cases whatsoever of social
and industrial reform, what is needed
IS actual betterment by action, actual
bctterment in practice; we should well
come every experiment, and then pl O fit
by large scale application of the les
sons taught by such experiment. In
California such experiment has practi-
cally been tried in connection with aid
given by the state to encourage fit per
sons to take up land in the irrigated
sections. insistence being laid upon
getting only tho right kind of practical
farmer. while the state secures to him
the advantages that can only come from
the outlay Of capital. The principle
thus successfully tried il capable of
widespread application
"Above all, everything should b.
done to encourage cooperative work
among our farmers.
The business man and the working
man have both grown to renlizc during
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Give Labor Equal Rights

'They are given their full share of
the management, and all the details of
the work have been laid bare to them.
and they have accepted their full share
OF the responsibility and have worked
on exactly the same Basis as their col
leagues. In all war business concerns
the government, as an incident to en-
courage the business and yet to super
wise and control it. must hereafter see
that the wage worker has his right
guaranteed to him, and that in return
the full performance of his duties is
expected.
"He must be given the same right to
organize as capital has, and the same
right to bargaining that the corpora
ton has, and exactly as the corpora
tlon that does i'll should be held to
strict account so the labor organiza-
tion should hereafter be expected it.
ser TO give the fullest measure Of SER
vice, and while jealously safeguarding
the safety of its members to do so by
building up and not by pulling down
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29

outbreak of the great war, and for
some months after the war, our gov
eminent, through the State Depart
ment, was busy signing dozens of ridi-
culous little peace treaties and in
solemnly giving to the signers small
metal ploughshares made of con-
demned cavalry sabres. And this ludi-
crous monkey work went on at the very
time that Germany had trampled Bel
gium and Northern France and Serbia
into bloody mire.
''Those engaged in The fatuous work
owed their safety at that very moment
only to the fact that the English and
French feet and armies held back
Germany from world dominion.
after the war is over all these fool
ish pacifst creatures will again raise
their piping voices against prepared
ness and in favor of patent devices for
maintaining peace without effort. Let
our people be on their guard against
them
"Let US enter into every reasonable
agreement which bids fair to minimize
the chances of war and to circums cribe
the area of war; but let us remember
that all such agreements when tested
will prove what the German Chancellor
called them, scraps of paper unless
back of them lies the resolute strength
of nation which loves peace, but
which loves righteousness more than
peace, and which has prepared in adj
vance to defend its rights.
Let us enter into the treaties, by all
means, merely taking care not to prom
Use anything we cannot and do not seri-
ously intend to perform. But let us
also remember that it is Il hundred
times more important for us to prepare
our strength for our own defence than
to enter into any of these peace
treaties, and that if we thus prepare
our strength for our own defence we
shall minimize the chances of war as
no paper treaties can possibly minimize
them; and we shall thus make our views
effective Tor peace and justice in the
world at large as in no other way they
can be made effective
Friends, it is not only our duty to
be prepared against wal; it is, if pos
slble, even more our duty to prepare for
peace. And we are almost as unpre-
pared in one respect as the other.
Moreover, in the affairs of peace, as in
the affairs of war; let US as grown men,
as serious citizens Of great republic,
impatiently brush aside the silly sham
trust in rhetoric as a substitute for
action.
ut IS, | suppose, besettng sin of
all mankind, and certainly of mankind
as we see it around US, always to en-
deavor to hide ugly action, or ugly in
action, behind a cloak of lofty sound
ing sentimentality, and to endeavor to
justify and atone for the refusal TO
look ugly truths in the face by using
tine phrases as an anodyne for a par
TALLY aroused conscience.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Must Haue Moral Standard

~ am not blind to the fact that there
must be proper moral standard or no
material success will avail. But it IS
just as true that there must be basis
of material, of economic, justice and
wellbeng or no high moral standard
can permanently be maintained. This
standard Of economic wellbeing can
only exist if we use the government
to secure high degree of individual
initiative and yet hold ourselves in
readiness at any time to apply our COL
lective strength, always cautiously but
resolutely, to prevent the individuality
of any one man from being exercised 10
the detri iment Of his fellows, and to see
that the individual initiative of each
shall be in fair measure used for the
common good of all.
owe can neither afford to be dog
matte individualists nor dogmatic in a
blind belief in collectivism. We must
gradually and cautiously make the
necessary changes; never making any
change merely for the sake of change
or without due and careful considera-
ton, and remembering that each con-
siderable change may work hardship if
made too quickly and too sweepingly;
but refusing to rest content with any
policy of mere obstruction. We must
apply these principles alike to the
farmer and to the working man and to
the business man-to the men who in
the aggregate make up the vast ma
jority of our citizenship.
at is a mere truism to say that the
prosperity of the farmer stands as
basic to the prosperity of the nation.
"On the whole, in every great crisis
in the past, the farmer has stood as
preeminently the arch typical Amer
lean, who in peace and in war took the
lead in the work without which the re-
public must succumb. In our country
the typical farmer has been the man
who owned the land which he himself,
with his own hands. assisted by his
sons and by one or two hired men,
tilled-and this is the farmer of whom
| especially speak.
I'VE cannot afford to have him sup
planted by the man who merely holds
his land as a tenant for an absentee
owner We cannot afford to have his
farm absorbed by big landowner. Yet
IN sections of our country the tenant
farmer has tended to increase omin-
ously at the expense 1.-THE man who
owns his farm, and in other sections
there has been an equally ominous ten
dency to see the big landowner, espe-
claliy the big absentee landowner, grow
at the expense of the small landowner
"Farlous causes have combined to
bring about these results; and these
causes have been due far less to ary
evil action than to sheer naction. No
enc remedy will by itself avail. But
there are various remedies which. taken
together, can do much.
The laws must be so shaped as to
secure to the tenant not merely a right
10 ms improvements, but certain
right to the land which he cultivates
and OF giving him easy means of him
self acquiring it. We should sharply
discriminate in favor Of the actual far
mer against the moncyed man, not
really farmer at all, who buys thou
sands of acres and holds them for
speculation.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
War
husinaSr ~"SSS cI tA(


the efficiency and productiveness of q,
business. "a tae:
me corporation should not bo i,
lowed to forbid the organization of IL &
workers; first class wages and worl;se ae
conditions. and if possible soma ssaas sa..s
in any profits, should be assured .aa snayc
return the organized workers sbo,.s 4, !
neither be allowed to drive out aua'o
organized workers, nor perm;stad ioAs Is
shirk the job. The laborinp man !: 70
wage worker, through a system Of ~, sYe
age insurance and insurance see;na %,a.
accidents and involuntary unemnlas.
mcnt must have his future made ~
tain. His housing and living cow;
tions must be made such as ara y .a
putable with self-respecting cit;yan
ship. N'''1ea-
He must be given the amplest w.s.
consistent with seeing business deva1ssss
to its full possibilities. The stag
must, when necessary, intervene in .u tau
interest of the commonwealth. .. s1c
whole, to see that no wrong is dons
either side. ~
The wage worker has a right IN IN
these things, and it is to the profon9ai ga
interest of the commonwealth that thNs:,a ~
should have them. "
=. we neeu TO snow the same combina.
ton Of idealism and of hard -hesdss
common sense, of indignation apairss
wrong and sober caution against hss ha;as
mlsled into foolish action ara;nss,
wrong, that our forefathers have shosn
In both the great national crises of tsa
past. 'se
"ln order to achieve this cconoms,
power and dignity for the worker SipS S;m
self and in order that the commun;sv
as whole shall profit to the full ~
the ample reward, this ample rcwars
should and must be given the workinrs
nan.
sit is to the interest of the comma.
wealth that collectively and iudiviJ.
ually the wage workers should he IN.
position of economic sa-ety or economic
advantage; that they should have
money IN the savings banks. and the
power and dignity that come when
men are relieved from the sense of nra'
carlousncss in their livelihood.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Striking Points in Roosevelt's Speech

Among striking of Roosevelt in his speech
at Maine Republican Convention
1T disgrace Americans of German blood
precisely a other
language this countryhe English Ian
guage."
Had plain duty fin pparng] probably would
had go at ALL"
Le prepare for three with of 100000
Manhood suffrage should be based manhood service
price by the nothing mischief
"Everythng should be to aid
1--WE should the that
eve political
democracy"
The trouble with the
of a
universal military training all between
Some Of the important divisions the executive branch of the
continue chemically efficient organization
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29

sought to betray all the free nations,
into the hands Of Germany.
"They were first the tools and allies
and then the dupes and victims of
Prussian militarism. Within their own
boundaries they have brough, Russia
to the verge of complete dissolution.
Their government was a squalid despot-
ism. They trampled freedom under
foot.
"They were no less the enemies of
human rights than of property rights.
There is in this country just as little
room for the analogues Of the Bolshe-
Wiki as there is for the analogues of
the Romanoffs. If we are wise we shall
not permit ourselves to be withheld
from a forward movement by the Ro-
manoffs Of our own social and indus
trial system, and neither shall we per-
NIT ourselves to be plunged into the
abyss of fathomlcss disaster into which
we would be plunged if we followed
the American Bolsheyiki
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
"Pledged to the HiIt'

"We are pledged to the hilt as q
nation to put this war through with
out hinching until we win the peace
Of overwhelming victory.
1--WE owe this to our own honor and
to our future wellbeing. We owe it
TO the liberty loving peoples of man
kind. We are pledged to secure for
each wcll-behaved nation the right to
control its own destinies and to live
undominated ard unharmed by others
SO long as it does not harm others.
This is the peoples war. 1t is no,
the Presidents war. 1t is not Con.
gress's war. 1t is the war of the
people of the United States for tn,
honor and welfare of America and Of
mankind. It is the bounden duty o,
tnc Republican party to suppor
every public servant, from the preai
dent down, in so far as ne does poo,
and efficient work. in wagng the wa,
or helping wage the war. and to on
pose him exactly to the extent of hi
failure to do such work.
ut is the duty OF the Republican
party TO stand Ike rock against in
efficiency, incompetence, hesitation ane
delay no less than against any luke
wsrmness in serving the common caus.
of ourselves and our allies. Sizty-ode
years ago Abraham Lincoln get on,
duty before us when he said: gtane
With anybody that stand4 right. Stand
With him while he Is Hight and part
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Denounces Enemy Societies

Organizations like the German
American Alliance have served Ger
many against America Hereafter we
must see that the melting pot really
does melt. There should be but one
language in this country, the English
language. We require OF all immi-
grants who come hither to become
citizens that they snail specifically
forswcar allegiance TO the land from
which they came, as we'll as swear al
icgiaEcc to this land. Hereafter we
must see to it that this oath is OBJ
served in spirit as well as in letter;
and that the men bora here, Of what
ever blood and whether their anccs-
tors have. lived in this land for genera
,ions or came here from some foreign
land, are brought up as Americans and
ae nothing else, speaking az their own
tongue the speech Of Washington and
Lincoln. and knowing loyalty TO but
one flag, the flag that floats over our
: aInies now.
II we are men and rot children. If
, We have the right stuff of manhood
IN us, VIC VIII look facts in the face
however ugly they be, and profit by
them. We must face the fact Of our
shameful unpreparcdncAs before tbis
var, and Of the inctiicicncy with which
for the fret year and two nontha
thia var has been wagod by ua.
Many Of our state governments havo
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Deployes Unpreparedness

"Our failure has been due in part to
grave incompetence since Germany
forced us into war. But primarily it
+ is due to our utter folly in failing to
prepare during the preceding two and
half years, when the warning was
letters of blood and of fire
"Our first business now is to put
through the war, and therefore to
speed up the war. Make our effort in
SHIPS, men, guns, airplanes felt abroad
at the earliest possible moment.
Let us realize the grim truth that
unless our men now fight triumphantly
beside our allies, some day or other we
shall have to fight at homo, despairing-
~ and without allies. Our resources
are 50 immense that in the end we
snail begin to count in spite of all our
governmental shortcomings; but as
long as we think of the war as 5000
miles away. and as long as some of the
most importals. divisions of the execu-
tive branch Of the government con-
tinue almost chemically pure of eff
cent organization, our strength will be
eXerted at q terrible disadvantages War
Is won by brains and steel, not BY kid
gloves and fine phrases.
Let the ships be built by working
night and day, three shifts in the
tWenty-four hours. Let us prepare for
three years war and begin now to
make ready an army of five million
men (and the best way to begin is to
introduce at once universal military
training for all our young men be-
tween nineteen and twcnty-one, it be-
ing understood that they will not go to
war until they are twenty y-one). All
our other activities in making arms,
ammunition, airDlanes and other war
machines can be made to synchronize
with this.
"Our next duty. duty the perform
ance of which should begin at this
moment, is to introduce the policy Of
permanent preparedness
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Base Suffrage on Service

81 hold that there is but one efficient
method, and that is to introduce as our
permanent national policy the princi-
pie OF baslng manhood suffrage on man
hood service, on universal service in
peace and universal service in war
and therefore on the military training
Of all our young men in time of peace
so that they may be ready if the nation
calls TO perform the tasks of war. If
ye do not work ye shall not eat. And
the man who is not prepared and will
ing to defend his country in time of
war is not fit TO help manage her
affairs either in time Of peace or in
time Of war. Such preparation would
not invite war On the contrary. it
would be the surest guarantee against
war. Switzerland is the most demo
cratic OF ell republics; she has been
free from foreign war for a century.
She owes her immunity from war solely
to the fact that ali her citizens We're
trained to be soldiers while peace still
existed.
''For nearly two and half years be-
fore this war came the professional
pactists and every politician who
wished to cater to the pacifist vote and
to get the support OF casy-goinr
pleasure-lovng matcrialists and of sor-
did. money getting materialists kept as
suring us that if we would only keen
unpreparcd we would keep out of war.
Well, we tried the experiment. W.,
kept unpreparcd. And we got into war.
The paefists did not keep US out OF the
war. They got us into war. They
merely kept us unprcparcd 70 do our
instant duty in the war
"And friends, be on your guard
against these same apostles of weak
ness and folly when peace comes.
"Thcy Will then tell you that this is
the great war. Less than four years
ago these same men were telling you
that no great war could ever apain
happen. They will tell you that to
keep unpreparad is to avoid war. Well.
that's just what they told you two and
half years after the great war broke
out, and you sec for yourself the re-
suit
"Thcy will tell you that vou con
make paper treaties and agreements
and guarantees by which brutal and
Inscriptions men will have their souls
80 softened that weak and timid men
Won't nave anything to fear and that
brave and honest men won't have IN
prepare 10 defend themselves. Well
we nave seen that all such treatios
hre worth less than scraps of papcr
whcn 1T becomes TO the interest of
powerful md ruthless mllitnrigt nm
tipns to di8regard them. -.
IN our own country jusY4Sfior to tho
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Peace Only by Victory

Ihere is but one way TO get right
eous and lasting peace and that is to
beat Germany to her knees Let US
refuse to so into a joint debate on
peace with the Potsdam people. Let
us take our stand on that part of the
Presidents speech of December in
which he said: This intolerable thing,
this menace of combined intrigue and
force which we now see so clearly as
the German power, thing without
conscience or honor or capacity for
covenanted peace, must be crushed;
and let US forget the peace parleyings
Of February, for these were inconsis-
tent with the words just quoted.
"The Republicans of Maine and the
Republicans Of the nation generally
have in this crisis subordinated all
other questions to their devotion to
the nation.
mot in all our history has any politi-
cal party when in opposition shown as
fine, as whole-hearted and as completes
ly disinterested patriotism as has been
shown by the Republican party, espe-
cially by its representatives in the SEN
ate and Congress of the United States
during the year and two months now
closing.
Their devotion has been to the in
terests of America. They have sought
to serve their party only by making
it serve America; and they have real
lied that by serving America they could
best serve the free nations OF man
kind. There have been few excep-
tions, but as whole the record of the
Republicans in Congress during this
period entities them to the support of
all the people of the United States who
put patriotism and .ervice and undi
vided loyalty to the country before all
ether considerations at this time.
"They have resisted all temptations
to seek partisan advantage at the ex-
pense of the country.
"Indeed, their only failing has been
a reluctance to do what ought to be
done, if the doing of it might lead even
to untruthful charges of partisanship.
Such a record is unique, not merely in
our history, but so far as l know in
the history of any other nation with
representative government in q crisis
like this.
"The Republicans, as soon as, on jan
uary 81, 1917, Germany practically de-
clared war upon Us, abandoned Instant
ly all thought Of partisanship and from
that moment rendered Jealous service
to the whole people. and 70 the Ad-
ministration at every point where it
represented the whole people.
"In every important matter vital to
the successful prosecution of the war,
it is an actual fact that on the whole
the Republicans furnished larger
proportion of supporters for the Ad-
ministration's policies than were fur
nished by the Congress as a whole.
'In consequence of this attitude the
record of Congress during this year
and two months has been one of un-
paralleled service to the country.
"Tnere have been during this period
very grave faults and shortcomings
and delays in governmental work But
they were not due to the action OF
Congress; and the action of the Re-
publicans in Congress was consistently
designed to correct them, and was
sometimes successful in securing at
least their partial correction. 1 be-
lieve that the people Of our country
recognize this faithful stewardship OF
their interests.