Thursday, August 15th, 1912. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, C——— vital matters so long as we regard everything done for the workingman, by law or by private agreement, as a concession yielded to keep him from agitation and a disturbance of our peace. Here again the sense of uni versal partnership must come into play if we are to act like statesmen, a8 those who serve not a class, but a nation, The working people of Amerlca—if they must be distinguished from the minority that constitutes the rest of {t—are, of course, the backbone of the nation. No law that safeguards thelr life, that Improves the physical and more experienced competitors. They [moral conditions under which they belong to a very recent and very so | ve, that makes thelr hours of labor phisticated age, when men knew what | rational and tolerable, that gives they wanted and knew how to get it | them freedom to act in thelr own in by the favor of the government. It | terest and that protects them where Is another chapter in the natural his | they cannet protect themselves can tory of power and of “governing | properly be regarded as class legisla classes.” The next chapter will set us | tion or as anything but as a measure free again. taken In the Interest of the whole I am not one of those who think | people, whose partnership in right ac that competition can be established by | tlon we are trying to establish and law against the drift of a world wide | make real and practical. It Is in this these gentlemen get control of these things? Who handed our economic laws over to them for legislative and contractual alteration? We have In these disclosures still another view of the tapiff, still another proof that not the people of the United States, but only a very small number of them, have been partners in that legislation The trusts do not belong to the perl od of infant industries. They are not the products of the time, that old Ia borious time, when the great conti nent we live on was undeveloped, the young nation struggling to find itself and get upon its feet amidst older and ‘ean flag off the seas. Bounties are not necessary if you will but undo some of the things that have been done. | Without a great merchant marine we | cannot take our rightful place in the | commerce of the world, Merchants | who must depend upon the carriers of rival mercantile nations to carry their | goods to market are at a disadvantage in international trade too manifest te need to be pointed out, and gur mer chants will not long suffer themselves —ought not to suffer themselves—to be placed at such a disadvantage. Our Industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst thelr jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world, and they cannot find such an outlet unless they be given ships of their own to carry thelr goods—ships that will go the routes they want them to go—and prefer the Interests of America In their salling orders and thelr equipment. Our do mestic markets no longer suffice, We need foreign markets. That {8 an other force that Is going to break the tariff down. The tariff was once a economic tendency; neither am I one | spirit that we shall act if we are genu of those who believe that business | Ine spokesmen of the whole country. done upon a great scale by a single organization—call it corporation or | As our program is disclosed what you will—Is necessarily danger [ man can forecast it ready ous to the liberties, even the economic before counsel Is taken of every one liberties, of a great people like our | concerned--this must its measure own, full of Intelligence and of in | and standard. the interest of all con domitable energy. I am not afraid ef | cerned. anything that is normal. I dare the complicated and difficult question we shall never return to the old order | of the reform of our banking and cur of Individual competition and that the | ren y plain that we onght organization of business upon a great | to consult very many persons besides scale of co-operation Is, up to a certain | the ha not because distrust polnt, itself normal and inevitable | the bas but because they do mot {| necessarily comprehend the business | of the country, notwithstanding thes | are Indispensable servants of It and | may do 1 t deal to make it hard or | eas ! : will { meet t) honest | mere! Currency Laws, made be say Inws it is we Sherman Law Amendments. Power in the hands of great busi- ness men not make me appre- hensive, unless it springs ont of ad vantages which they have not create for Big dangerous because it is big, but cause [ts bigness Is an unwholesom Inflation created by privileges and ; emptions which it ought not to enjoy. | it an The general terms of the present | dally! federal anti-trust law, forbidding In « “combinations In restraint of trade.” | sho have apparently proved effectual. | Spon Trusts grown under its ban | OTUET very luxuriantly and have pursued | fami the methods by which so many of | for us them have established virtas! monog selfishne that olles without serious let or hindrance. | Made. We are It has roared against them lke Philippine Island sucking dove. I am not assessing the trust for the i responsibility; I am merely stating #1 They i * theirs for fact. But the means and methods be life. re are.hol which trusts have established mon It is r duty as tros olies have now become known. It w whatess be necessary to supplement the pres | Will be le to thelr ent law with such laws, beth civil and dom and development. Flere agalr eriminal, «5s will effectually punish and | are 10 set up the rale of justice and of prevent those methods, aiding does themselves business is have up any the uses of thelr even their tee ‘to n r rrangemeil oi gOVernme Ost servicoea such right. other laws as may be necessary to provide suitable and adequite foadic ial processes, whether civil or eriming to disclose them and follow them final verdict and judgment But the problem and are much greater than are not merely great binations which and deprived of their power to monopolies and destroy rivals Is something bigger still than thes and more subtle. mere difficult to deal with. There sre confederacies may perhaps them for the sake of econvenianece banks, Insurance corporations, m power and Presidential Primaries. phrase. Those who belisse In tas who does not that has caught the real spirit of America’ that there the difficul:y | can be rule of right without it; that right | polities is made the intere body sh 1 take pmrt in | that Is to determ We keen for presidential pri the direct election of United Stat | senators because nite g tion of the government to he deter: | od by pie had actually whom the were ready to trust fallow We manufacturing have anxious that all amon 44] corportions | contributions and expenditures should development companie the giblic in fu and all the rest of the circle, bous Ause we regarded the inf) together by the fact that the which unpaigns to le ship of their stock and the members of | #8 much a part of the people's b ! ness As | their government toward a partnership in upon which its aim and spirit depend I do not Know ny gre than of been a spendthrift nation now what must do more than that velop as powers and must add great waterw to the transportation facilities of 1 nation to supplement the railw within our borders as well as upon t dsthmus we must chant marine, and BH the we gain with our own fleets. We must add to our present postoMice servic parcels post as complete as that of nus other nation We must look to th health of our people upon every hand as well as hearten them with Jost and opportunity. This is the constr tive work of gevernment, This is the policy that has a vision and a hope sn that looks to serve mankind. There are many sides to these rent matters. Conservation is easy to ge | ernlize abeut, but hard to particnlarize about wisely Reservation is not the whole of conservation The develop ment of great states must not be stay ed indefinitely to await a policy by which our forests and water power can prudently be made use of, se and development must go hand in tices of genuine competition. hand. The policy we adopt must Ip If 1 am right about this, It fs going | PFOETessive —not negative merely, as If to be easier to act in accordance with | We 3d not know what to de the rule of right and Justice in den! | Ing with the ldbor question. The « called labor question is a question onl: | because we have not yet found th rule of right In adjusting the int ests of labor and capital. The welfnr the happiness, the energy and spi of the men and women who do th dally work in our mines and factories on our rallroads, In our offices ane marts of trade, on our farms and on the sen, are of the essence of our n tional life. There can be nothin wholesome unless thelr life Ia whole some; there can be no contentment un less they are contented. Their phys cal welfare affects. the soundness o the whole nation. We shall never get very far In the settlement of these bellove no tht The up oi trusts and « «tx of everybodys, and e are to he ontro the ine it have inaries we wan evadive the : ins 1] persons whom the pe designated as men rallways, express o mpanie an companies, been ning | be disclosed tw» detall bes | ences GW ne govern their boards of dire tors anything else eonnectsl wi and det small and of persons who, by their informal eo federacy, may if they ple and when they will, beth credit and enterpyise. They are part of our pre lem Thelr to the = concentrati fare contrd ermined by comparative losely Interrelnted grein very definite « versal } control, the purity of politie mer UL We 3% and 1133 44 it rive that CONST elves give trust.” Very existenes on of a n of the which may at any time finitely dangerons to free enterprise If such a concentration and do not actually exist it i& ov that they can easily be set up and need at will. Laws must be devised whic! will prevent this, if laws ean be work ed out by fair and free commsel th will that result without destroying or serionsly embarrassing | any =ounfl or legitimate bnsiness ng dertaking or necessary and wholesome arrangement The Labor Question. Let me say again that what we are seeking Is not destruction of any ¥ind | nor the disruption of any sound or hon est thing, but werely the rule of righ! and of the common advantage. 1 sm happy to say that a new spirit has bw gun to show itself in the last year os two among Influential men of business and, what is perhaps even more signif cant, among the lawyers who are thei expert advisers and that this spirit displayed itself very notably in the las few months In an effort to return | some degree at any rate to the pra “money contrel of creds we have We must [reserve husband tecome In well ns our wl or control ident revive amr too, accomplish Improving Our Rivers. greater and more numerons waterways and the building up of a merchant ma rine, we must follow great constrictive Hines and not fall back upon the chen device of bounties and subsidies I the case of the Miksissippl river, that great central artery of our trade, it | plain that the federal government mms build and maintain the levees and keen the great waters In harness for the general use, The question of a merchant marine turns hack to the tariff again, to which all roads seem to lead, and to our reg. Iutry laws, which, If conpled with the tariff, might almost be supposed to have been Intended to take the Ameri for no | and | For example, in dealing with | The rule of the people ‘fs no idle | With regard to the development of | bulwark; it 18 a dam. For trade Is reciprocal; we cannot sell unless we | also buy, The very fact that we have at last taken the Panama canal seriously in hand and are vigorously pushing it to ward completion is eloquent of our re awakened Interest In International trade. We are not bullding the canal and pouring out miillon upon million of money upon its construction merely to het wes now witter connection of the t and desirable as that may be, larly from the of view of naval defense tis i oe internation: establish a the two porta parti COAsts continent, point meant to rreat 1] highway be a little ridiculous if we shoul it and then have no ships to There have been ot a single ton of freight pa (hh the great Suez canal empty are nnd seamen Education, duty which Industrial There another Democratic great er people to reeive, he uty ment ) 4 in promoting agr tural, industrial, voeeational edu shown |! wugh to possible within its « [Haw ers Noy other p ven this intimate vi Eduveation Is ition, In every w stitutional has g ty's duty great tus} of the task of renewal and of perfect: part of (ONSery part power We have set gram, and it carries it out oursel eR A real | will be a great party tl It must be a party witli out entangling alliances with any cial interest whatever, It must have the spirit and the pelnt of view of th new age. Men are turning sway from the Republican party as organized un | der its old leaders because they form that it was not free, that It was ents gled, a they farming cause thes 5 free to ser We confide of with the san fight Kw ’ nre are ha tacks ug posed ton evervhod them nents the mre fra kK dmit them. Our t} be constr e from start We most show problems tl are app tions, but hard se A Government For Public Good. A pre degenerate into a teat a My Jose t we stnderstand 1 dential eampaten ros! | mas mere 1wrsor ! 1 te real dignity ane signif There ne indispenss ble man he gov collapse and go te pieces of the gentlemen be intrusted be left | ments CANse ernment will not if any are seeking to _ who with its guidance should at home We are as we represent, But men are Instron important as the and in must really Is our cause? That it mean? aorler fn be important CAN Se What ple's eanee? what represent a The peo is easy to say, hut The common ns against any particular interest what | ever? Yes, hut that, too, needs trans lation Into acts and polleles. We rep resent the desire to set up an unen | tagled government, a government that cannot be nsed for private purposes, | either in the fleld of Imsiness or in | the field of politics: a government that | will not tolerate the use of the organ- | 1zation of a great party to serve the | personal alma and ambitions of any | | Individual and that will not permit legislation to be employed to farther any private interest. It fa a great con- | ception, but I am free to serve it, as | | yon alse are. | could not have ae | | cepted a nomination which left me | | bound to any man or any group of |! men. No man ean be Just who Is not | free. and no man who has to show | dows | favors ought to undertake the solemn |’ responsibility of government In any | rank or post whatever, least of all in | the supreme post of president of the | United States ! | To be free ix not necessarily to be | | wise mt wisdom comes with coun sel, with the frank and free confor ence of untrammeled men united in| the common Interest Should I be In trust with the great office of pree| dent I would seek connsol wherever it could be had upon free terms, 1 know the temper of the great conven tion which nominated me: 1 know the temper of the country that lay back of that convention and spoke through It. I heed with deep thankfulness the message vou bring me from it. 1 feel that I am sirronnded by men whose principles and ambitions are those of) God and will take cournge. LHIOOOOOOOOOTOOOOCOCOOCOOOOOOO0OE true servants of the people, I thank §'$ BELLEFONTE, PA. Wilson Speech of Acceptance. Scholar and Statesman, Democratic Candi POOO000O0O0O0OOO0OOOOOOO00 HON. WILLIAM J, BRYAN: Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance is admirable. It is original in its treatment of the Jssues of the campaign. 1 am sure the address will impress favorably.” * * LJ * LJ LJ . hy Tn. He country JOHN W. KERN, SENATOR, INDIANA: “Govergor Wilson's speech of Acceplance is a master pieca, setting forth with great ness his conception of the work be accomplished by the Democratic party under his leadership It is in complete progressive clear. tarmony with the sentiment of appeals strongls timate bus GOV. WILLIAM MH. MANN, OF VIRGINIA: was irable an adm for years to come.’ GOV. FREDERICK W. PLAIS. TED, OF MAINE: iW a splendid presentation the American people It rings true in every fenoe and in every word. It presemts the spirit of the wracy of today it is the ress of a statesman GOv, F 4 he issues for LJ / - LJ * LJ J LJ » » * » (J * * » » ie EUGENE FOSS, MASSA. x CHUSETTS: 0) wag an admirable presen X ation of the real issues upon » the campaign will be K fought this fall. 1 think that it ® Is bound to strengthen Governor ® Wilson among the thinking peo R Plo of the country.” LJ LJ . . . . . » J GOV. GEO. Ww. DONAGHEY, ARKANSAS: “It was a great speech. It will ring through the country. Just what be should have The people have never felt more confident of success since the first nomination of Grover Cleveland.” J UDGE MARTIN J. WADE, IOWA: “For the first time since the state was admitted to the Un- lon, Towa will this year give its electoral vote to the Democratic nominee for President.” HRA IOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOONONN THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE, wo AUBURN, N, Vv, ‘Governor Wilson's speech fits the occasion and the man: pro- BreSkive but not wild; sane, strong and unmistakably Demo- eratic. It makes an inspiring opening of the campaign, indi cating clearly and nobly the spirit in which the leaders of our regenerated Democratic party must work; not one of mere “Partisan make believe,” but of honesty and justice toward all men. ] TY Pp WOODROW WILSON NEW YORK “SUN": "Governor Wilson's acceptance has good luck as well as merit. It comes just in time to contrast sharply with the in- terminable Bedlamite rant of Th. Dentatus Africanus Ferox And, If without contempt of said, tho lege speech of campus it may be ugh written by a o« very recently ret president, red, it is in the not anaem suspic donnishi English language and seldom with prigeishness or though has academic d What wil an air, a « stinction of its own | please everybody to make is Governor moderate is for destruction a living iison's equable sovernor air, not for 11 . Lh) and tone Wilson NEW YORK “TIMES”: It is applicable. The \ the very is the comm people ship in our activit all the osperity The partn idea comes from his mir ical theors immediate as a sublimated polit 4 practical, NEW YORK Governor W “WORLD"™: Ison Rr acceplance is the ablest. clear statement of high public purpose this country has known in a generation “Without without in vective, abuse, without partisan bitterness, without de nunciation without egotism, without demagogy, he has driv en straight to the heart of the supreme issue of American in stitutions——the partnership be. Government and Privi- speec] est, sanest passion, without JOHN E. LAMB, EX-REPRE. SENTATIVE FROM INDIANA: “Speech is discreet, able, safe and sane. Governor Wilson be- loves in the efficacy of the scal- pel rather than the big stick. His dissection of trust and tariff evils is unique and convincing. His suggestions of reform in methods of government and re duction of tariff schedules will meet with approval of legitl mate business and the laboring masses as well.” CHAMP CLARK, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE. SENTATIVES: “Considered from a literary standpoint Goverpor Wilson's speech of acceptance will take high rank In the political output of the year. It will make pleas ant reading, and, therefore, will prove a fetching campaign docu: ment. He discusses the issues of the day phil y clear ly and forcibly. Its courteous tone will allay opposition pelt win him friends. It Is an admir. able pronouncement.” “SCHOO date for President. JOHN A. DIX, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, son's speech of marked with clear thought, every “Governor Wi acceptance is broad vision and expressed in language American can understand. As a business man and manufacturer, I am especially pleased with his positive an-like posi issue of statesn paramount reform, and his wnward re- and tion on the tariff for jemand an immediate do vision In glaten grasp of appixwation tal needs of t h is Jefferson core It contains passion and ex Governor W sincerity went and Rreal Bpeed to his part) clear concept that pending concentrate ge and American people 1 Lhe the reg campaigr the aspi r government principles o and progress upon public issues Governor Wilson ‘Rule of right vantage The cates are far reaching. but Are Necessary, tical The awaken and stir the nat conscience and lead to a triumph that will restore to the people the control of their government and inaugu- rate a new and happier epoch in the life and development of the republic.” was founded and every natio appi and common ad reforms he advo they sound and prac speech will ional HOKE SMITH, SENATOR FROM GEORGIA: “I am delighted with Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance. It is a superb statement of the present purpose of the Democra- cy and points the way for jus tice to all through real progress by law, under the Constitution. With his election assured, it should give confidence to honest business and new courage to those who need a square deal” JOHN F. FITZGERALD, MAY. OR OF BOSTON: “Governor Wilson's accept. ance Is characteristic of the man. He lays his soul bare to the people and asks them to Join with him, irrespective of party, In righting present wrongs without undue clamor or Injury to legitimate Interests, Ho lays emphasis on construo- tive thinking and I believe this epitomizes one of the nation's groatost needs at the present time. It will be President Wil. III NNN
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