Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-12
Our Washington Letter.

Our Washington Letter. -
Those prophets that predicted tina
there would be a constant clash be
tween President Wilson and Secretar.
of State when he took William Jen
nings Bryan into his cabinet have bee'
Aery effectually silenced. Presiden
Wilson has had no more able supporte
than Secretary Bryan. In the, loya
support he has given to the administra
tons legislative program and in hi
public addresses Mr.. Bryan ha:
given the best evidence of this. Al
an illustration in speech at York, Pa.
few days ago Secretary Bryan sale
of President Wilson:
''The people had more than wisdom
when they elected Woodrow Wilson
Every day increases my faith in him
am near enough to get his point Of
view, and it is the point of view Of the
people of the country. He has great
sineleness of purpose. History will
say of Woodrow Wilson that he did
not have to ask anyone what to think.
Since taking Office he has never looked
around but straight ahead. Has never
sacrificed public interest for party.
president Wilson has looked at the
tariff from the viewpoint of the con.
sumer. He knew that former tariff
bills had been made up by log-rooling
and that it was not for the taxpayers,
but for the tax.eaters. When the tar
if bill went through the House it was
the best reform tariff measure of half
century. He found different SEN
ate to deal with than in former years.
When this bill gets through the Senate
it will be even better than that passed
by the House.
president Wilson took up the cur
rency bill, and when 1t is enacted the
people will for the first time recognize
that the government is the one to issue
money and not private corporations. l
meet people every day from all parts
of the country, and l find that in ev-
cry section of our land the people are
commencing the administration.
Senator J.. Ham Lewis, of Illinois,
made an effective answer to an objec-
tion raised by Senator Root, of New
York, that his state would bear the
brunt of the income tax provisions of
the tariff law. Senator Lewis said
New York had failed miserably to
make its rich men share their burden
Of the government, and that he was
ready to make the rich pay.
''Who are the people from New York
for whom the Senator is so solicitious p
enquired the Illinois Senator. "Are
they those who brood around Wall
Street and flock to the Waldorf
Astoria !? Are they those whose names
are seldom found on the assessors list,
but who hover around the Mediter-
ranean in the summer and the islands
Of the Caribbean in the winter? Are
they the poor and humble OF the state
Why should the Senator ask that my
people should be exempt from the
burden of government?
1.-THE object of Democracy is not to
make illegal war on legal wealth, but
legal war on illegal wealth. We hear
talk of war With Mexico. Who would
be the first to hasten to this capitol to
have the army and navy sent out 1t
would be my people who would want
the farmers sons sacrificed to protect
their property and to prevent invasion
of the country. Let them pay for the
great benefits of government which
they enjoy, and let not all the burden
be placed on the helpless that they
may become the hopeless, too