Daily capital journal., September 02, 1916, Page SEVEN, Image 7

THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 2, 1916.
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friend and Senator Martine for nomina-'
tiott for the senate at the primaries.:
;The president 's advisers have indicated i
that Martine seems the certain winner;
with the Irish and German votes. The'
president, however, made.it clear to-!
day that he would not mix in local situa
tions anywhere. !
Political conferences occupied the ,
morning'. At 1 o'clock the president ;
entertained at luncheon for the demo-1
erotic national committee, the American;
members of the Mexican peace commis-1
sion and other distinguished guests. I
Welcomed by Crowds. I
President Wilson slept last night i"
New Jersey for the first time since he
left the state for.. the White House. He
awoke today, to find the weather man
threatening to supply regular "democratic-weather"
for the notification
ceremonies. The forecast was unsettled
weather and" probably showers.
En route to Shadow I.awn the presi
dent stopped at Asbury Park last night.
In the crowd at the station was a tux
German who boosted his son to the plat
form, saying: - 1
"Hon, this is Mr. Wilson, our next
president."
The boy shied a little at this an
nouncement, i "Don't let that alarm you, my boy,"
aid the president, laughing, as he shook
bands with the youngster.
Two fine speeches carefully prepared
days in advance by the mayors of Long
Branch and West End, went into the
discard at the ceremonies at Shadow
I.awn Inst night iu which the towns
people welcomed President Wilson to
the new summer White House.- The
lights in the mension failed to work
properly and the two mayors couldn't
read their speeches. They excused them
selves with a few impromptu remarks.
The Exercises Today.
On the platform today from which
the president spoke were Mrs. Wilson,
iScnutor Ollie James, Clinirmihi Vance
WcCormick of the democratic nationul
committee and members of the presi
dent 's faily. '
Owing to the threatening weather a
huge umbrella which would cover the
platform, was ready for use in case of
emergency. Liyht spatters of rain con
tinued at intervals up to the hour of the
ceremony.
Led by .Senator James, the notifica-
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at 1 o'clock. Former Governor Glynn
and a -.small group of New Yorkers ar
rived at the same time.
As James pushed his great frame up
on the scene, the suu came out. The
band began, playing and everyone felt
better. Immediately afterwards the
president called his guests to luuch
eon. . . i i ii
A contingent or bo scouts ueiegmcti
to preserve order, raised the fine in
front of the mansion. The president's
personal flag, with a red eagle stir
rounded by stars on a background of
blue was brought from ashmgton and
was raised when he began to speak.
Aside from members of the New Jer
sey state committee, the president
found few of the battle-scarred veter
ans of democracy-on hand. Champ Clark
William J. Bryan, Vice-President Mar
shall, Charles Murnhv, Thomas Tag-
eart and nianv others were absent.
Clark and Marshall remained in Wash
ington to sign the eight hour railway
workers' bill. The president plans to
affix his signature when he reaches
Washington tomorrow.
Vice-President Marshall arrived un
expectedly at Sbndow I.awn a few
minute before 4 o'clock aud was loudly
cheered.
At 4 o'clock it was estimated that
between 15.000 and 20,000 persons were
on the grouuds of the summer White
House.
Record of Four Tears.
A record of "peace, prosperity and
happiness" while the old world stagger
ed beneath a load of sorrow, insures
President Wilson's re-election iu No
vember. Senator OHie M. James, of
Kentucky, assured the president in for
mally notifying him of his nomination
by the democratic convention this aft
ernoon. "With an enthusiasm, unanimity and
earnestness never surpassed in the po
litical life of America, the represen
tatives of the purest democracy in the
world, have summoned you ngnin to
lead the hosts of peace, prosperity and
American righteousness," said James.
"They do not- mnke this call upon
you for the purpose of honoring you.
for you hnve already had bestowed up
on you by your countrymen the great
est honor within their gift.
"The- call you for service to Amer
ica and mankind, a service you have so
amply proved to be of the highest type
known to governments among men."
James enumerated some of the ac
complishments of the Wilson ndiuistra
tion. The federal service act, he said.
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time "the mouey trust" and the panic
trust. Referring to the president's dip
lomatic successes without plunging thf
country into wnr, the senator snid:
"This great triumph you achieved
for America and for the world gave pro
tection to non-combatants and neutrals
that' war-made countries must respect
and this diplomatic achievement will be
the guiding, protecting precedent to
millions of Ifves of the innocent and
unof fendlilg long after you are gone.
"This tripmph of yours will not be
told" In history by a great war debt, a
mammoth peftsion roll, vnfnnt chairs
and unhappy firesides, but it will be
told in the victory of mnti-hless diplonv
acy and irresistible logic."
Enactment of the child labor law, an
increase in savings deposits, attain
ment of a position of world leadership
in the matter of exports and prosperity
everywhere were credited to President
Wilson by the Kentiickian, who after
predicting another Wilson victory said:
"The great convention which nomi
nated you was neither controlled nor
intimidated by any un-American or for
eign influence. It had the heart beat
and spoke, the true sentiment of the
f country."
James concluded speaking at 4:14 and
was applauded for one minute. Presi
dent' Wilson began speaking at 4:lfi,
reading his speech.
The President's Address.
Senator James. Gentlemen of the
Notification. Committee, Fellow Citi
zens: I cannot accept the leadership
I
and responsibility which the National
Democratic convention has again,' in
such generous fashion, asked me to
accept witnout first expressing my
jrofouud gratitude, to the party for
the trust it reposes in me after four
years of fiery trial in the midst of
affairs of unpreeendented difficulty,
and the keen sense of added responsi
bility with which this honor fills (I
had nlmost said burdens me as I
think of the great issues of national
life and policy involved in the present
aud immediate future conduct, of our
government. I shall seek, as I have
always sought, to justify the extraor
dinary confidence thus reposed in me
by striving to purge my heart and pur
pose of every personal and of every
misleading party motive and devoting
every energy I have to the service of
the nation as a wnoie, praying mat i
may continue to have the counsel -and
suiinort of all forward looking men at
every turn of the difficult business.
People With Democratic Party.
For I do not doubt that the people
of the United States will wish- the
democratic party to continue in con
trol of the government, iney are not
in the haoit of rejecting those who
have actually served them for those
who are making doubtful and conjec
tural promises of service. Least of all
are they liKely to substitute tnose wno
promised to render them particular:
services and proved false to that'
promise for those who have actually
rendered those very services.
Bonsting is always an empty busi
ness, which plea-ses nobody but the
boaster, aud I have no disposition to
boast of what the democratic party
has accomplished. It has merely done
its duty. It has merely fulfilled its
explicit promises. But there can be no
violation' of good taste in caning at
tention to the manner iu which those
promises have beea carried out or in
adverting to the interesting fact that
many of the things accomplished were
what the opposition party had again
and again promised to do but had left
undone. Indeed that is manifestly part
of the business of this year of reckon
ing and assessment. There is no menus
of judging the future except by as
sessing the past. Coastructive actiou
must be weighed agaiast destructive
comment and reaction. The demo
crats either have or have not under
stood the varied interests of the
country. The test is contained in the
record.
Record is Long and Consistent.
. What is that recordt What were the
democrats culled into power to dot
What- things had long waited to be
done, and how did the democrats do
themf It is a record of extraordinary
length and variety, rich in elements of
many kinds, but consistent In princi
ple throughout and susceptible of brief
recitul.
The republican party was put out
of power because of failure, practical
failure and moral failure; because it
hud served special interests and not
the country at large; because, under
the leadership of its preferred and es
tablished guides, of those who still
mnke its choices, it had lost touch
with, the thoughts and the needs of
the nation, and was living in a past
age and under" a fixed illusion, the'
illusion of grentness. It had f fumed
tariff laws based upon a fear of for
eign trade, a fundamental doubt as to
American skill, enterprise, and ca
pacity, and a very tender regard for
the profitable privileges of those who
bad gained control ot domestic mar
kets and domestic credits; and yet
had enacted anti-trust laws which
hnmpered the very things they meant
to foster, which were stiff and inelas
tic, and in part unintelligible.
.Banking Law Favored Panics.
It had permitted the country
throughout the long period of its con
trol to stugger from one financial
crisis to another'' under the operation
of a national bankiug law of its own
framing which made stringency and
panic certain and the control of the
larger business operations of the
country by the. bankers, of a few re
serve concerns inevitable; had made as
it it meant to reform the law but had
faint-heartedly failed in the attempt,
because it could not bring itself to do
the one thing necessary to make the
reform genuine and effective, namely,
break up the control of small groups
of bankers. It had been oblivious, or
indifferent, to the fact thut the
farmers, upon whom the country de
pends for its food and in the lust
analysis for its prosperity, were with
out standing iu the matter of com
mercial credit, without the protection
of standards in their market trans
actions, and without systematic knowl
edge of the markets themselves; that
the laborers of the country, the great
army of men who man the industries
it was professing to father and pro
mote, carried their labor as a mere
commodity to market, were subject to
restraint by novel nnd drnstic process
in the courts, were without assurance
of compensation for industrial acci
dents, without federal assistance in
accommodating lubor disputes, and
without national aid or advice in find
ing the plnces and the industries in
which their lubor was most needed.
Army, Navy Disregarded.
The country had no national system
of road construction and development.
Little intelligent atteution was paid
to the army .and not enough to the
navy, the other republics of America
distrusted us, because they found that
we thought first of the profit of
American investors and oulv as an
afterthought of impartial justice and
helpful friendship. Its policy was
providence iu all things; its purposes
were out of harmony with the temper
and purpose of the people and the
timely development of the nation's
interests.
So things stood when the demo
cratic party came into power. How
do thev stand nowt Alike in the do
mestic field and in the wide field of
the commerce of the world. American
business and life and industry have
been net free to move as thev never
moved before.
Tariff Revised Carefully.
The tariff has been revised, not on
the principle of repelling foreign
trade, but upon the principle of en
couraging it, upon something like a
footing of equality with our own in
respect of the terms of competition
and a tariff board has- beea created
PUNGENT POINTo
IN WILSUN SPEECH
OF ACCEPTANCE
'.'We (the democratic party)
have in four years come very
near to carrying out the plat
form of the progressive party,
as well as our own; for wc also
are progressives."
- J'The republican parry1 was
put out of power because of
failure, practical failure and
moral failure."
i "The republican party ia just
the party that cannot meet the
new conditions of a new age."
"The tariff has been revised,
not upon the principle of repell
ing foreign trade, but upon the
principle of encouraging it."
"The workingmen of the
country have been given a verit
able emancipation.'.'
"I neither seek the favor or
fear the displeasure of that
small alien group amongst us
which puts loyalty to any for
eign power before loyaltv to the
Vnited States. "
. "I have heard no one who
was free from such influences
(ownership of property in Mex
ico) propose interference by the
United States with the internal
affairs of Mexico."
The president stood pat on
his present Mexican policy.
"No nation can any longer re
main neutral as against any
willful disturbance of the peace
of the world. The nations of
.the world must unite in joint
guarantees that whatever is
done to disturb the whole
world 's life must first be tested
in the court of the whole world 's
opinion. "
whose functions it will be to keep the
relations of Americans with foreign
business and industry under constaat
observation, for the guidance alike of
our business men and ot our congress.
American energies are now directed to
wards the markets of the world.
The laws against trusts have bed
clarified by definition, with a view to
making it plain that hey were no
directed against big business but only
against unfair busiuess and the pre
tense of competition where there was
none; and a trade commission has
been created with powers of guidance
and accommodation which have re
lieved business men of unfounded fears
and set them upon the road of hopeful
and confident euterpnse.
Currency Made Elastic.
By the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal of
active business has been rendered
elastic, taking its volume, not from a
fixed body of investment securities,
but from the liquid assets of daily
trade; and these assets are assesesd
and accepted, not by distant groups of
bankers in control of unavailable re
serves, but by bankers at the many
centers of local exchange who are in
touch with local conditions every
where. Effective measures have been taken
for the re-creatipn .of,, an American
merchant marine and 'the revival of
the American carrying trade ' indis
pensable to our emancipation from the
control which foreigners have so long
exercised over the opportunities, ' the
routes, aud the methods of our com
merce with other countries.
Done Much for Business.
The interstate commerce commis
sion is about to be reorganized to en
able it to perform its great and import
ant functions more promptly and more
efficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service of the par
cels post.
So much we have done for business.
What other party has understood the
task so well or executed it so mtei
ligently and energeticallyt What other
nartv has attempted it at till T the re
publican leaders, apparently, know of
no menus of assisting business but
"protection." Uow to stimulate it and
put it upon a new footing of energy
and enterprise they have not suggested
Given Farmers Standing.
For the farmers of the country wc
have virtually created commercial i
credit, by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act. lhey
bow have the standing of other busi
ness men in the nionev market. We
have successfully rcguluted specula
tion in "futures" and established
standards iu the marketing of gruins.
By au intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
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crops available as never before, both
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neighborhood demonstration on the,
farm itself of improved methods of
cultivation, and through the intel i -
gent extension of the functions of the,
department of agriculture, have made
it possible for the furmer to learn sys
tematically where his best markets are
nnd how to get at them.
Much Done for LaDor.
The workingmen of America have
been given a veritable emancipation, i we nave llfVCr lost sight of them or1 that to be the policy of this adminis
by the legal recognition of a man.'sidParted from them, whatever the 1 1 rat ion within three weeks after I
labor as part of his life, and not a
mere marketable commodity; by ex
empting labor organizations from pro
cesses of the courts which treated j ;,,,( throughout and stands distinct I wumen and children than in any prop
their members like fractional parts of j am ,et'i nitc for anyone to judge who terty rights whatever. Mistakes I 'have
mobs and not like accessible and re- y,.iKneg (0 know the truth about .it. uo 'doubt made in this perplexing busi
sponsible individuals; by releasing) Disloyalists Not Feared. nefs, but not in purpose or object,
our seamen from involuntary Bervi- The ,ca8 wore not broad enough to Love of Liberty Under Test,
tnde; by making adequate provision j. the infection of the conflict out More is Involved than the immediate
for compensation for industrial acci -
dents; by providing suitable ma- intrigues of certuiu active groups and
chinery for mediation and conciliation combinations of men amongst us who
iu industrial disputes; and by putting , were boru ,ln(jer foreign flags injected
the federal department of lubor at thei,e poison of disloyalty into our own
disposal of the workiugmau when
search of work.
Child Labor Forbidden.
We have effected the emancipation
of the children of the country by re
leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
as the country has been feeling after
for a century. We have sought to
equalize taxation bv means of an
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been
tnken at the outset to open op th ren. I neither seek the favor nor fear
resources of Alaska. We have pro- the displeasure of that small alien ele
vided for national defense upon a , ment amongst us which puts loyalty
scale never before seriously proposed: to any foreign power before loyalty to
upon the responsibility of an entire tue United States,
political party. We have driven the Takes Up Mexican Situation,
tariff lobby from rover and obliged I While Kurope was at war our own
it to substitute solid argument for
private influence.
.. Promises Made . and Kept. .
This extraordiuary recital must
sound like a plattorm, a list of
sanguine promises; but it is not. It is
a record pf promise made four years
ago and now actually redeemed in con
structive legislation.
These things must ' profoundly dis
turb the -thoughts and confound the
plans -of those who have made them
selves , believe that the democratic
party neither understood nor was
ready to assist the . business of the
country in the great enterprises which
it is its evident and inevitable destiny
to undertake and carry through. The
breaking up of the lobby must es
pecially disconcert themj for it was
through the lobby that they sought
and were sure they had found the
heart of things. The game of privilege
can be played successfully by no other
means.
Are Progressive, Too. j
This' record must ' equally astonish
those who feared that the democratic
party had not opened its heart to com
prehend the demands of social justice.
We have ia four years come very near
to carrying out the platform of the
progressive party as well as our own,
for we also arc progressive.
There is one circumstance connected
with this program which ought to be
very plainly stated. It was resisted at
every step by the interests which the
republican party had catered to and'
fostered at the expense ot the country,
and these same interests are now
earnestly praying for a reaction which
will save their privileges for the
resoration of their sworn friends to
power before it is too late to recover
what they have lost. They fought
with particular desperation and in
finite resourcefulness the reform of
the banking and currency system,
knowing that to be the citadel of their
control; and most anxiously are they
hoping and planning for the amend
ment of the federal reserve act by the
concentration of control in a single
bank which the eld familiar group of
bankers can keep under their eye and
direction.
Cannot Meet New Condtiions.
But while the "big men" who used
to write the tariffs and command the
assistance of the treasury have been
hostile all but a few with vision
the average busiuess man knows that
he has been delivered and that the
fear that was once, every day in his
heart, that the meu who controlled
credit and directed enterprise from
the committee rooms of congress
would crush him, is there no more,
and will not return unless the party
that consulted only the "big men"
should return to power the party of
masterly inactivity and cunning re
sourcefulness in standing pat to resist
change.
The republican party is just rue
party that caanot meet the new con
ditions of a new age. It does not
know the way aad it does not wish
new conditions. It tried to break away
from the old leaders and could not.
They still select its candidates and
dictute its policy, still Tesist enanges,
still hanker after the. old conditions,
still know no methods of eucourugiug
business but the old methods. Whea
it changes its leadersi and- its purposes
aud brings its ideas ! Up to date it will
have the right to ask the American
people to give it power again; but not
until then. A new age, an age Of revo
lutionary changes, needs new purposes
and new ideas.
Foreign Affairs Discuss ed.
In foreign affuirs we have been
guided by principles clearly conceived
and consistently lived up to. Perhaps
thev have not been fully comprehended
because they have hitherto governed
international aftairs only in tneory,
not in practice. They are simple,
obvious, easily stated, and funda
mentals to American ideals.
We have been neutral not only be
cause it was the fixed and traditional
policy of the United States to stand
aloof from the politics of Europe and
because we nau nau no pan citiier oi
actiou or of policy in the influences
which brought on the present war,
but also because it was manifsetly our
duty to' prevent, if it were possible,
the indefinite extension of the fires of
hate and desolation kindled by that
terrible conflict and seek to serve
mankind by reserving our strength
aud our resources tor tne anxious uuu
difficult days of restoration and heal
ing which must follow, when peace
will have to build its house anew.
- United States Record Is Clear.
The rights of our own citizens, of
course, became involved: that wus in
evitable. Where thev did this was our
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damages, and no modern na-
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,. violation of a nation's sov-1
, .,, vl,licti(.n in ,.its for"
damages. The nation that violates ; hand of welcome to any one who ob
these essential rights must expect to; tains power iu a sister republic by
be checked and called to account, by I treachery ami violence. No per
direct challenge and resistance. It atlmanency cun be given the affuirs of
once makes the quarrel in part our any republic by a title based upon
,u-n Theae nre nlnin nrinciiilcs and ! intriuuc anil assassination. 1 declared
stress or the perplexity of circum-
stances or the provocation to hasty re -
anntmpnt Thp recoril is clenr ami eon.
,0( ollr own politics. The passions and
in'm.t critical srfairs, luid violent
hands upon - many of our industries
and subieeted us to the shame of
divisions of sentiment and purpose in
which America was contemned and
forgotten. It is part of the business of
this year of reckoning and sentiment
to speak plainly and act with unmis -
takable purpose in rebuke of these
things, . in order that they may be
forever hereafter impossible. I am
the candinute of . a
party, hut I am
i above all things else an American citi
continent, one of our own neighbors,
was shaken by revolution. In that
matter, too, principle was plain and
it was imperative that we nhould live
up -to it if we were to deserve the
trust of any real partisan of the right
as free men see it. We have pro
fessed to believe, and" we do believe,
that the people of small and weak
states have the Tight' to expect' to be
dealt with exactly as the people of big
aud bowerful states, , would be. We
have acted upon that principle in deal
ing with' the people ot Mexico
Our recent
pursuit of bandits into
Mexican territory was no violation of
that principle. We ventured to enter
Mexican territory only because there 1
were no military forces in Mexico that .
could protect our border from hostile,
attack and our own people from vio-
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single .act of hostility or interference
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eveu with the sovereign authority of
the republic of
Mexico hersolf. It I
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was a plain case of the violation of
our own sovereignty which could not
wait to be vindicated by damages and
for which there was no other remedy.
The authorities of Mexico were power
less to prevent it.
Cannot Deny Bight of Bevoit.
Many serious wrongs against the
property, maay irreparable wrongs
against ' the persons, of Americans
have been committed within the terri
tory of Mexico herself during this con
fused revolution, wrongs which could
not be effectually' Checked so long' as
there was no constituted power in ;
Mexico which was in a position, to
check them. We could not act directly
in that matter ourselves without de
nying Mexicans the right to any revo
hit ion at all which disturbed us and
mailing me emuucipauuu vt uer on u
people await our owq interest and con
vcnience.
For it is their emancipation that
they are seeking blindly, it may be,botn in' resources and in poUcy.
and as vet ineffectually, but with pro
found and passionate purpose aad
within their unquestionable right, ap
ply what true American principle you
will any principle that an American
would publicly avow.
Outsiders Have Dictated.
The people of Mexico have not beeu
suffered to own their own country or
direct their own institutions. Out
eiders, men out of other nations and
with interests too often alien to their
own, have dictated what their priv
ileges and opportunities should be and
who should control their land, their
lives, aud their resources some of
them Americaas, pressing for things
they could never have got iu their own
country. The Mexiean people are 'en
titled to attempt their liberty from
such influences; and so long as I have
anything to do with the action of our
great government 1 shall do every
thing in my power to prevent anyone
standing in their way.
Plain People Understand It.
I know that this is hard for some
pcrsoas to understand; but it is not
hard for the plain people of the Vnited
States to understand. It is hard doc
trine only for those who wish to get
something for themselves out of
Mexico. There are a few, of our own
people, thank God! whose fortunes
are invested iu great properties in
Mexico who yet see the case with true
vision and assess its issues ' with true
American feeliug. The rest can be
left for the present out of the reckon
ing until this enslaved people has had
its day of struggle towards tue ugut.
I have heard no one who was free
from such influences propose inter
ference by the United Stutes with the
internal affairs of Mexico. Certainly
no friend of the Mexican people has
proposed it.
Revolution Inevitable Right
The people of the United States are
capable of great sympathies and a
noble'pity in dealing with problems of
this kind. As their spokesman and
representative, I have tried to act in
the spirit they would wish me show.
The people of Mexico are striving for
the rights that are fundamental to life
and happiness fifteen million op-
prC8Mcd meu, ovorburdened women,
alld pitiful children in virtual bondage
in tieir own nome 0f fertile lands and
nexhuustible treasurcl Some of the
leaders of the revolution may often
have beeu mistaken aud violent and
selfish, but the revolution itself was
inevitable and is right. The unspeak
I abe Huerta bertayed the very com
i ruae8 , served, traitorously over-
threw the government of which he was
a trusted part, impudently spoke for
the very forces thut had driven his
people to the rebellion, with which he
hud pretended to sympathize, ine men
who overcame him and drove him out
represent at leust the fierce passion
of reconstruction which ties at the
very heart of liberty; and so long as
they represeut, however imperfectly,
suchisucn a struggle tor deliverance, i urn
1 ruo.li' , un.ua i'tiui Atl.lu wlmn T PUII
Treachery Not to Be Rewarded,
So long as tl power of recognition
rests with me the government of the
United State, will refuse to extend the
i assumed the presidency. I here aguin
r vow it. I am more interescted in the
' furtunes of ontioresscd men and pitiful
I destinies of Mexico and tho relations
of the United States with a distressed
and distracted people. All America
looks on. Test is now being made of
us whether we be sincere lovers of
popular liberty or not aud are indeed
to
be trusted to respect national sov-
I ereignty .among our weaker neighbors,
We have undertaken these many years
' to play big brother to the republics of
this hemisphere. This is the day of
: cur teat whether we mean, or have
lever meant, to piny that part for our
own benefit wholly or also for theirs,
Upon the outcome of thut test' (its
outcome in their minds, not in ours)
j depends every relationship of the
lulled htates with l.utin America,
whether in politics or in commerce and
enterprise. These are great issues and
lie at the heart of the gravest tasks
of the future, tasks both ecouomic and
political aud very intimately in
wrought with ma n v of the must vital
I IMHI l. II II inn " 'L nr i.yni vi.
of the new issues of the politics of the
world. The republics of America have I
in the last three years been drawing I
together in a new spirit of accommo
dation, mutual understanding, and cor
dial co-operation. Much of the politics
of the. world in the .years to come will
depend upon their relationships with
one another.'. It is a baVren and pro
vincial statesmanship that loses sight
of such things! ' -.- - - --
Big Problems Arising.
The future, the immediate future,
will
bring us squarely face to race
with mnnv irre&r. nnd ex&Rtinor Drob
i,. whinli will wnn.il na thrnnah
thrnnirh whether we be able and
- - .j - i nnrt in tha world
tnat we me'an to piav. it will not
bring us jnt0 their presenoe slowlv,
gently, with ceremonious introduction,
but 8Uddenly and at once, the moment
th wnr in tourone Is over. Tnev will
iue war in buiuirc id v..
be new problems, most of them: many
win v. nH nroblems in a new setting
and with new- elements which we have
... ... . . .
never dealt with or reckoned the force
and meaning of before. They will re
quire for their solution new thinking
fresh courage and resourcefulness, and
in some matters radical reconsidera
tions of policy. -We must be ready to
mobilize our resources alike of brains
and of materials.
Stimulation in the Future.
It is not a future to be afraid of.
It is. rather, a future to stimulate and
ercite us to the display of the best
powers that are in us. We may enter
it with conf idence when we are sure
thnt WB under-tand it and we have
.provided ourselves already with the
means of understanding it
Look first at what it will be neces
sary that the nations of the world
ghould do to make the days to come
tdlerable and fit to live and work in;
and then look at our part in what is
to follow and our own duty of prep-o-nlinn
Pftr wa muni VtA nrennrcd
Peace Must Be Worldwide.
There must be a just and settled
peace, and we here in America must
contribute the full force of our en
thusiasm and of our authority as a
nation to the organization of that
peace upon world-wide foundations
that cannot easily be Bhaken. . " No na
tion should be forced to take sides in
any quarrel in which its own honor
aad integrity and the fortunes of its
own people are not involved; but no
nation can any longer remain neutral
as against any wilful disturbance of
the peace of the world. The effects of
war can no longer be confined to the
areas of buttle. No nation stands
wholly apart in interest when the life
and interests of all nations are thrown
into confusion and peril. If hopeful
aad generous enterprise is to be re
ncwed, if the healing and helpful arts
of life are indeed to be revived when
peace comes again, a nw atmosphere
of justice and trieuusnip must oe gen
erated by means the world haB never
tried before. The nations of the world
must unite in joint guarantees that
whatever is done to disturb the whole
world's life must first be tested in the
court of the whole world's opinion be
fore it is attempted.
Must Treat Defendants Well.
These are the new foundations the
world must build for itself, and wc
must play our part in the reconstruc
tion, generously and without too much
thought of our separate interests. - We
must make ourselves ready to play it
intelligently, virogously and well.
Uue ot tue contributions we must
make to the world's peace is this: We
must see to it that the people in our
insular possesions are treuted in their
own lands as we would treat them
here, and make th rule of the United
States mean the same thing every
where the same justice, the same
condcratiou lor the essential rights
of men.
Besides contributing our ungruding
moral and practical support to the es
tablishment of peace throughout the
world we must actively and intelli
gently prepare ourselves to do our full
service iu the trade and industry
which are to sustain aqd develop the
life of the nations.
New Commlsisons Helpful
We have already been provident in
this great mutter and supplied our
selves with the instrumentalities of
prompt adjustment. Wo have created,
in the federal trade commisison, a
means of inquiry and o'f accommoda
tion in the field of commerce which
ought both to co-ordinuto the enter
prises of our traders aud manufac
turers and to remove the barriers of
misunderstanding and of a too tech
nical interpretation of the law. In the
new tariti commission we uuve added
another instrumentality of observation
and adjustment which promises to be
immediately serviceable. The trade
commission substitutes counsel and
accommodation for the harsher pro
cesses of legal restraiut, and the turiff
commission ought to substitute facts
for prejudices and theories. Our ex
porters have for some time had the
advantuge of working iu the new light
thrown upon foreign markets and op
portunities of trade by the intelligent
inquiries aud activities of the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce,
which tho democratic congress bo
wisely created in 1012. The turiff
commission completes the machinery
by which we shall be cnubled to open
up our legislative policy to the facts
as thev develop.
Must Take Part In World.
We can no longer indulge our tra
ditional provincialism. We are to play
a leading part in the world drama
whether we wish it or not. We shall
lend, not borrow; act for ourselves,
not imitate or follow; organize and
iuitiiite, not peep about merely to see
where we may get in.
We have already formulated and
agreed upon a policy of law which will
explicitly remove the ban now sup
posed to rest Upon co-operntion
amongst our
exporters in seeking ana
securing their proper pluoe in the mar-
kcis or tne wonu. iue neiu win oe
free, the iustrumentaliticfl at band. It
will only remain for the masters of
enterprise amongst us to act in en
ergetic concert, and for the govern
ment of the tinted Stntes to insist
upon the maintenance throughout the
world of those conditions of fairness
and of even-handed justice in the com
mercial deulings of the uat ions with
one another upon which, after all, in
the last analysis, the peace and ordered
life of the world must ultimately de
pend. Must Develop Resources.
At home also we must Bee to It that
the men who plan on. I develop nnd
...... , .. ,
direct our business enterprises shall
enjoy definite and settled condition
of law, a policy accommodated to ths
freest progress. We have set the just
and necessary limits. We have put all
kinds of unfair competition nnder the
ban aud penalty of the law. We have ,
barred monopoly. These fatal -and '
ugly things being excluded,' we must -now
quicken action and facilitate en
terprise by every just means withi
our. choice. There will be peace in tha
business world, and, with peace, re
vived confidence and life.
We ought both to husband and to
develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power,
I wish we could have made mora
progress than we nave made in tun ,
vital matter; and I call once more, .
with the deepest , earnestness ' and -solicitude,
upon the advocates of s
careful and provident conservation, cm ,
. , ., , .
the one hand, and the advocates of
"C "d inviting f told for private cap- ,
I itah on the other, to get together in
Ian.! nf fTjiniii-iA innnmiMiulBlinii. tinfl
spirit of genuine accommodation' and '
agreement and get this great polioj; ;
forward at once. -.. .. . i
Labor Must Have Justice. ' '
We must hearken and quicken tha '
spirit and efficiency of labor through- ,
out our whole industrial system by '
everywhere and in all occupation ,
doing justice to the laborer, not only
by paying a living wage but also by; '
making all the conditions that Bur-
round labor what they ought to b.
And we must do more than juBtice. Wa '.
must safeguard life and promote
health and safety in every occupation '
in which they are threatened or in-'.
pelled. That is more justice, and be
ter, because it is nnmanity ana ecoa ;
omy. ,
We must co-ordinate the railway sy ,
terns of the country for national use,
and must facilitate and promote their '
development with a view to that co-,
ordination and to their better adapta
tion as a whole to the life and trad
and defense of the nation. The life and ,
industry of the country can be f re
and unhampered only if these arteries
are open, efficient and complete.
Thus shall we stand ready to meet
the future as circumstances and inter '
national policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
eome fast and without preface. .
Democratic Promises Are Kept.
I have not spoken explicitly, gentle
men, of the platform adopted at St.
Louis; but it has been implicit in all
that I have said. I have sought to in
terpret its spirit and meaning. Th ,
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 thesa
that our promises are made to ba
kept.
We hold very definite ideals. We be
lieve taat tae energy ana iniuaiiva as
our people have been too narrowly ,
coached and superintended; that they
should be set free, as we have set
them free, to disperse themselves
throughout the nation; that they
should not ue concentrated in ' tha
hands of a few powerful guides and .
guardians, as our opponents hava
again and again, in effect if not ia
purpose, sought to concentrate then.
We believe, moreover who that looks
about Dim now wun compreuenuiug;
eye can fall to believe T thut the dy '
or Little Americanism, with its nat
iaw hninttntift. whfflti mAthods of " nrO
tection" and industrial nursing wciw
the chief study of our provincial
statesmen, are punt aim yuuc iuu
a day of enterprise has at last dawned
for l ho ITniteil States whose field is
the wide world.
Hopes for Stimulus of a New Dey. ,
We hope to see the stimulus of that -new
day draw all America, the repub- '
lies of both continents, ou to a new
life and energy and initiative in th -great
affuirs of peace. We are Ameri
cans for Big America, and rejoice t
look forward to the days in which
America shall strive to stir the world
without irritating it or drawing it oa
to new antagonisms, when the nations
with which we deal shall at last com
to see upon what deep foundations ot
humanity and justice our passion for
peace rests, and when all mankind
shall look upon our great people witfc
a new sentiment of admiration,
friendly rivalry and real affection, as
upon a people, who, though keen t
succeed, seek always to be at once
generous and just aud to whom hu
manity is dearer thaa profit or selfish
power.
Upon this record and in the faith of
tliiH nupnnan u-a tm in tha pniltltrv.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Fargo Orchards Co. to A. R. and
Kmma V. Brink, pt. lot 9, blk. 1, Far
go Urchnrd Tracts.
Jacob DC Shazer bv adm. to rercy a.
Cupper, pt. Geo. Ne'al el. 4 9 2 W.;
frl. block 30, Capitol Park add.
Hulda M. DeShazer to Percy A. Cup
per, pt. D. C. L. of Ceo. Ncal, No. 4
9 2 W.; also frl, blk. 30, Capitol Park
add, Sulem.
Kose and Ida Mallony to ("has. ST.
Metzler, lot 12, sec, 29; lots 6 and T,
sec. lib; lot 4, sec. 31; lot 4, sec. 32 ia
3 2 W.; all of J. F.Markley cl. 29 and
30 3 2 W.
Arthur H. Long to Langdon E. Staf
ford O and C 27 9 3 E.-
M. J. Lanwav et ux to Ida Kicka
bnugh, pt. D. C. L. of Alfred Stantoa
49 7 2 W.
C. E. Mcllwain ct ux to W J. and
Annie Patterson, frl lots 39, 40, 41, alas
lots 59 and (10 Capital City fruit farm
also pt. W. K. Beale el. 21 7 2 W.-.
Mae E. Tillson to B. K. and Oertrud
S. Cook, pt. blk, 9, Roberts add.
(1. R. Watt to Peter Waber, lota 8,
3, 21, 22, 23, and 24, Stciwer fruit
farms. ' "
Andrew Sorenson to Frank and Fran
ces Clark, pt. blk. 7lt, Nort Salem.
Salem Bunk and Trust Co. to H. W.
and Mary E. Vanwey, lots 5, 7, 8 blk.
1 Burlington add. Salem.
WILBUR JERMAN INJURED
While diving in Silver Creek Friday
afternoon, Wilbur Jerman plunged t
the bottom of the creek and struck hi
head on a rock, making an ugly gash
which required two stitches to draw to
gether. Climbing a fir tree the lad
made one successful plunge at a dis
tance of about thirty five feet, but th
second attempt was not so successful.
He came to the surface calling for
help and Harry Armstrong drew kisa
safely to shore. The lad was nervy
throughout the ordeal und Is recovering
nicelv from his narrow escape frosa
, -
death. Silverton Appeal.