The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-18
PLAIN LIVING ESSENTIAL
FOR AMERICA DURING
RECONSTRUCTION
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commerce, world influence and ma
tional safety.
I'VE have been talking about the
new south for a score of years and
more. 1t is new in spirit, new in
development. l would like to see IL
new in realization. l would like to
acclaim southland with added good
fortune and greater self-reliance
through diversified agriculture. and l
would like TO see a southland aflame
with industry, with transportation
ever a growing problem. This land
of raw materials ought TO manufac-
ture and locate its factories by mine
and farm and orchards. There will be
no jealously in the north, because
your greater glory will be glorious
victory.
Here we are today at one Of the
great waterways of Latin-America.
Somehow l feel that the western hem
isphere is our special field of influ-
ence and trade. Commerce marks the
highway of friendship as well as
rivalry. Our trade routes by sea to
the south ought to be as dependable
as our railway routes at home, re-
assuring comfy and concord among
Americans, central and north. Bind
our friendship with the ties Of trade
and we shall make 1t indissoluble.
I'VE have ships now, we have the
commerce foundation. Our future lies
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as sell TO be sure, but we need the ex-
panding trade policy, its efficient
salesman and credits and the simple,
practical understanding that commerce
is the llfeblood OF material existence.
Our great assurance at home lies in
vlrile, intelligent, resolute people.
in land unravaged by war, with
enmity toward no people, envying
none, coyetlng nothing. seeking no
territory, striving for no glories which
do not become righteous nation.
This republic cannot, will not fail
if each of us does his part. If we
but work and use thrift and seek the
understanding which reveals mutual
ly of inteDst, no difficulties can long
abide, such solution cannot come
out of the greedy thoughts of the
profiteer or the revolutionary agita-
tion Of those who would destroy.
These are but surface disturbances.
We choose the deep and ever onward
currents of normal America for the
course of the republic.
There has been wild contempla-
tion of earnings, whether in wages
or dividends, in terms of dollars
rather than in terms of purchasing
power. We must be more concerned
with the substance Of reward for ac-
tivity than its coin measurement.
And our concern must be in a depend
able prosperity which is righteously
shared The tide of good fortune
will ever flow and ebb, which Is Gods
way Of teaching us the changing tides.
And greed must not expect to ride
exclusive at the flood and expect
contentment TO recede alone.
"No law can alter nature or change
her varying moods. We haven't yet
learned to combat destructive weather
and the law Of supply and demand
is eternal. But We may soften their
rigors and minimize their penalties.
We want fortune a common possession
in America. We want the cotton
grower of the south to have his be-
coming reward with the wool grower
and the wheat farmer of the north.
We want southern factories 10 be
tuned to the music of the mills of
the north. We want your ports TO
send their cargoes under the Ameri-
can flag TO bear the messages of
peace and good will to all the marts
of the earth. There is no sectionalism
in righteous American ambitions. 1t
Is this wonderful and incompatible
United States of America which sets
our hearts aglow with becoming as
pirations and patriotic love, the Am
erica Of the constitution, free and
confident OF the morrow"