Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — THE TWO GREAT THINGS TO DO. [ARTICLE]

THE TWO GREAT THINGS TO DO.

There are two great things tq do. One Is to set up the rule of justice and of right in such matters as the tariff, the regulation of the trusts and the prevention of monopoly, the adaptation of otir banking and currency laws to the varied uses to which our people must put them, the treatment of those who' do the daily labor in our factories and mines and throughout all our great industrial and commercial undertakings and the political life of the people of the Philippines, for whom we hold governmental power in trust, for their service, not pur own. The other, the additional duty, is the great task of protecting our people and our resources and of keeping open to the whole people the doors of opportunity through which they must, generation by generation, pass if they are to make conquest of their fortunes in health, in freedom, in peace and in contentment. In the performance of this second great duty we are face to face with questions of conservation and of development, questions of forests and water power and mines and waterways, of the building of an adequate merchant marine and the opening of every highway and facility and the setting up of every safeguard needed by a great industrious, expanding nation. —From Woodrow Wilson’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination.