Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
CSEOF
The DEMOCRATIC PARTY AL
WAYS GOES into PARTNER
SHIP WITH CALAMITY"
Goyerno

-Atract From Remarks of Hon. Vim. E.
1osep Humphrey, of Washington, in Daily
Dmh, ns Congressional Record, April %, '12.
III, seo If there is one thing that characterizes
'Signs She Democratic party, it is its overwhelm
o,, @ m ing desire to advise and its eternal failure
49, ~ 70 perform As / have sat in this House
I,,so. day after day and listened to the ever
1Pont +, ready, never-endilg, gratuitous advice
10 6,,s; ,eoming from the other side of the House.
e q gusll have wondered what has given birth to
y;I,, ethls assurance, this self asserted wisdom
W. ~ Why are gentlemen so confident that
% "a they know all things? WHY should a
.. WI party that brought upon us the horrors
,liitot the last Democratic administration,
~ ,' hat went hysterical over free silver,
4 Seoou-party that has learned nothing in forty
S1lIs5 Years party that has forgotten nothing
~ g. IN iorty years, party that has not kept
!, promise IN forty years, party that has
AL, @ ~. not been right IN forty yearswhy should
~ . ~ ~ shat party assume that with it wisdom
e,J shall perish from the earth Applause.
eao The people of this country only once in
.ueS Ht0rty years have listened TO Democratic
49, promises and followed Democratic advice
and placed that party in power Then
that party revised the tariff it enacted
the Wilson law, that the gentleman from
New York Mr.. Cochran hasso eloquent
--iy condemned, and that law wlhered our
& prosperity as do the hot winds of the
desert the blossoming harvests That
D you msparty applied to the land that doctrine
hen you they now advocate for the sea. During
lis room that Democratic administration our ma
uOnal deDt increased a half million dol
Jars each day. Each day we lost a half
dollars in foreign trade. During !
that administration the value of farm
products decreased more than $500, 600 600 |
II The business of this nation in two months !
iatter the enactment of the Wilson law |
decreased per cent. Immediately upon |
the passage of that law fear distrust and .
panic paralyzed the great industrial sys-
tem OF our country banks closed their
doors; business houses assigned; the bal
ance oi trade was against US; bonds were
OiNIssued; capital withdrew from the fields
Y,erl legitimate enterprise into secret
places; labor was forced into unwilling
l,,t Lldieness; we had deserted mills, smokeless
~ factories, silent machinery.
and We had tramps and beegars and indus
hngnIt tbe ale5 mdst 6i nsTt Women and children
fe a; crops rottlng unharvested in the field at ,
million hearthstOnes sat famine pitiless 7
cruel. Two million men were out of I
AXE employment and begging for work-beg-
ging Tor an opportunity to earn bread to I
vanished the starving lips OF those they loved =
" m william Mckinley was elected, the sys. \
TEN Of protection was restored. and in \
eight months 200, eco idle men had gone b
I /i.to work, p
IN What has the Democratic party done
NetO command confidence that gives il the f.
fright to assume to advise the American Z
Apeople? The Democratic party asks al
CWays to be judged by the future and not IL
10y the past. 1t isalWays TO be Judged bv o.
N Its promises and not by its performances. +,
VI That party in fifty years has added
nothing to progress; nothing to the sum
OF human happiness; nothing to the cause
N, 4 liberty; nothing to freedom: nothing TO
he glory OF its country. It always goes
SUI nto partnership with calamity. it feeds b,
On disaster and lattens on despair The OF
Al plYtlme il had control of this country b
during this generation it shut the doors
Ut OF Industry and clothed labor in rags. 1t w
IN founded the dishOnOred banner Of free
silver; it subscribed to the driveng W,
rea stupidity that nation can create value SIC
,,r by law-that the Government could br
stamp lie upon so cents worth of silver ch
All and make it dollar ItOpposed keeping hL
our flag in the Orient, and advocated that rre
II be lowered in retreat and trailed in the fu
oN dust Of dishonor.
The Democratic party always has its m,
e lace to the past and its back to the future. he
IL never sees an opportunity until it is br
past, and never gets on the right side of wa
an issue until it is settled. an