Republican farmer., 1920-08-13

Some people have been saying of late: we are tired of progress, we want to go back to where we were before, to go about our own busi- ness, is to restore normal condi- tions.'' They are wrong. This is not go back. The good old days are grets. In this faith I am strengthen ed by the firm belief that the women cS this nation, now about to receive the National franchise, will throw their weight into the scale of pro- gress and will be unbound by parti- san prejudices and a too narrow out look on national problems. We can not anchor our ship of state in this world tempest, nor can we return to the placid harbour of long years ago. We must go forward .or founder.
 Americas opportunity is at hand. We can lead the world by a great ex- ample, we can prove ths nation a
 living, growing thing, with policies
 that are adequate to new conditions.
 In a thousand ways this is our hour
 of test. The Democratic program offers a larger life for our country,
 a richer destiny for our people. It is plan of hope. In these chiefly let 1t be our aim to build up, not to tear down. Our opposition is to the things which once existed in order that they may never return. We oppose money in politics, we oppose
 the private control of national finan- ces, we oppose the treating of human beings as commodities, we oppose the saloonbossed city, we oppose starvation wages, we oppose rule by groups or cliques. In the same way we oppose a mere period of coma in our national life.
 A greater America is our objec- l tive. Definite and continuing study shall be made of our industrial, fiscal i and social problems. Definite and 1 continuing action shall be left to emo 1 tional caprice or the opportunism of 1 any groups of men. We need a CO., 1 operation of the ablest and the wis
 est heads in the land, irrespective of | their politics. So we shall grow l sanely, humanly, honorab1y, happily l conscious at the end that we handed 1 on to those that follow us the knowI- l edge that we have not allowed. to | grow dim the light of the American | spirit brought hither three hundred
 years ago by the Pilgrim Fathers. 1 The coming years are laden with i significance and much will depend on
 the immediate decision of America 1 This is the time when men and wom- | en must determine for themselves | wherein our future lies. I look to it | for progress. In the establishment of i good will and mutual help among na- i tions, in the ending of wars and the | miseries that wars bring, in the ex- tension of honorable commerce, in 1 the international settlement which vii make it unnecessary to send again | two million of our men acros the sea ] I look to our future for progress; ir better citizenship, in less waste, iu fairer remuneration for our labor, in l more efficient governing, in higher standards of living.
 | To this future, I dedicate myself | willing, whatever may be the choice of the people, to continue to help a: best as I am able It is the faitf
 which is in me that makes me yer,
 certain that America will choose tht
 path of progress and set aside tn,
 doctrines of despair, the whispering.
 of cowardice, the narrow road to yes
 terday. May the Guiding Spirit O.
 our land keep our feet on the broad !, road that leads to better tomor
 row and give to us strength to carr,
 on.