The Alaska citizen., 1913-07-07
phone 262 Phone
MAKING GOOD.

Las Friday, he Democratic party.
with President Woodrow Wilson at
lis head concluded the first four
months q: the administration. which
began on March t
Four months Is short time,
and as tin wheels OF state have
these many years turned slowly
the c=untry expected but very
little showing. YET 10 stop and r.
view The happenings of those few
weeks one marvcls al the amount
that has really been accomplished.
l, is almost beyond belief. and GER
tainly beyond the general expecta.
lions OF tho people Of the country.
Starring out With the greatest
work that the administration had
promised 20 do=rhe revision of the
Inf President Wilson went Al it
with a vim and has already accom-.
Plished what the preceding admin
i,trafion characterized as impossi.
bic. and which a times seemed $ to
the casual observer. There were the
scctiunal congressman 10 contend
with Who dared not il seemed. for
political reasons. pa, aside the de
sire districts 10 maintain the high
tariff on whatever commodity they
happened To he producing, and who
could not muster Hp enough patriot
ism 10 work for the general revision
downward.
That obstacle vas overcome in
short rider by President Wilson.
who invited attention to the fact
that he had numerous appointments
TO make and that none of them
would be forthcoming until the
congressman we're whipped into line.
Il VA. good weapon and for once
it pleased the While country that
the President had Big Stick. .
for such il certainly was.
Then came the lobbyists. the worst
lot 0. leeches and scorpions that
have ever invaded the country.
Everybody has realized for years
that they have worked year in and
year out al the capital, obtaining
favor by hook or Gro k for Wall
street, or lis officials Against this
class OF men President Wilson
opened his attack. and at the out
set the majority of the congress,
men. especially OF the so-ealled Old
Guard. lined up before the inyesti-
eating committee, and swore that
in all their years at the capital
they had never seen r come in
contact with lobbyist.
The lie was too fragrant, for there
is not dozen citizens in the coun-
try but what think and in fact
know that the money powers, by one
ruse or another, hand out fayors in
Washington and get a rich reward
for so doing Aim st at the close Of
the investigation, when there had
been but little evidence that would
tend to prove the Presidents state
ment. man who had represented
the syndicate of manufacturers
came forward and admitted that for
years he had worked among the
various departments for laws and
rules that would benefit his employ
ers. He did mere. He made no gen
eral accusations. but rather specific
ones, naming some of the most
prominent and we'll known legisla-
tors of the last ten years. Many of
them We're known to be bound
hand and foot to the money gods,
but no preof could be obtained un-
Ill now.
1t does look, at this time, how
ever. as if President Wilson would
be able to rid the country Of hun
dreds of grafters that have been
growing fat at the expense of the
common people.
Take our own Alaska and watch
with what energy the chief execu
tive is pushing through measures
that will result in the territory
coming to that which it should
have had twelve years ago. Our
railroad is coming because Presi-
dent Wilson is going to put it in,
in the same way that he is pushing
all Of the other measures that are
called for and needed all over
the United States.
In four short months the admin
istration has worked wonders, and
within the next four years it will
accomplish as much more in pro
portion.
And yet they argued against a
scholarly President. who, by the
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