The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-18
DANIELS TALKS
FOR REFORMERS
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
ROUNDLY SCORES THOSE
WHO ARE COMPLAINING
ABOUT HYSTERIA.

New OfK Cltv.-- ReactlOnafleS
who think to weaken the advocacy OF
progressive measures by declaring
that they are the products of 'hyste--
ia" We're roundly denounced here
last night by Secretary Daniels, of the
navy, in an address at the dinner of
the North Carolina society of New
York. :.
"A few days ago." Mr.. Daniels
said, "a distinguished educator from
a Southern state in speech in New
York declared that such new and
progressive measures as the initia-
tive and referendum were 'revolut-
ionary' Another distinguished auth
ority, statesman and an educator,
referred to certain modern American
political doctrines as wild theories,
fences demand be rejected as the
result of hysteria.
"The real trouble is that this So
called 'hysteria' hurts. 1t keeps party
pledges, it does not take from labor
the breat it earns, it makes protec-
tion-built wealth pay income tax. 1t
elects senators direct from the peo-
pie. They call it hysterical because it
means we can have no more senators
from the New York Central railroad,
no more senators from the Southern
Express company, no more senators
from the New York, New Haven e.
Hartford railroad, no more senator's
from the Standard Oil trust.
They call it hysteria because it
prevents the classes from exploiting
the masses, and brings the govern
ment back TO the people. After all,
the real hystericals are not the people
who stand upon house tops and cry
for reform but the people who are
guarding special privilege and are
seeing the castles built by privilege
tumble down about their heads.
mo, gentlemen" continued the
secretary, "the victims OF hysteria
are not the forwardlooking, promise
keeping reformers, who quietly con-
vince the people that this New Way,
this gospel of progressive statesman
ship is best for the country, but your
hysterical man is that incarnate es-
claimation point of self-intoXicated
patriotism and who madly waves the
stars and stripes with one hand and
grips his rebate-provided, protection
| fostered wealth with the other, ana
bewails an alleged tendency to put a
period to class legislation; who wlld-
! ly proclaim that we are turning away
from those fundamental principles
Through which we have come to our
present high estate.
Legislators in the recent past
have been the favorites OF great cor
porations. They have felt compell'
ing power from higher up. The I'M
personal element in the situatio.
made it hard to cure, but at last the
axe has been laid at the root OF the
tree, and the people have demanded
that all this must be changed. HOW
by legalized primaries, even for thf
president, by pure food laws, by al
! income tax, by a lower tariff, b!
Ilaws to protect seamen, by reguia
Ition of trusts, by the abolition of in
ter,ockine directorates and rebates
etc.
i Take the tariff. The men who re
yised it we're not hysterical. Ire,
Iyised it were not hysterical. The.
|painstaking and scientific. and wha
Twas the answer? the beneficiaries o
:. protection, the infant industries, gra.
. and hoary with age, and obese iron
their long pull at the paper-bottle
| cried out: You are going to impovef
lish our country.
! "Four months under the new tarif
have passed, and the report OF Ses
retary OF Commerce Redfield deciai