The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12

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needs of the people and the bust
ness community.
Yet, absorbing as the tariff
and currency questions are, the
administration has found time
10 inaugurate and put in opera
ton an extensive line of addi-
tional policies, including re-
forms and improvements of the
utmost Importance, and embrace
ing in their scope our foreign
Citations and our domestic util-
ties. The japanese complica-
ion, a few weeks ago so grave
that in many it left no alter
native but humiliation or war,
has been treated by President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan
it'll a skilled diplomacy which
has upheld American dignity,
educed the lingo scare to the
fimsiness oil a distorted dream,
nd given the United States an
mpregnable standing before the
world in future negotiations
with Japan. In the Mexican ten
ion, the president and the Sec
etary Of State have stood an
nvincible barrier between this
ountry and precipitation. Dem
cratic precedent a century old
as been revived and put in up
o-date working order by offer
g the helping hand to
Nicaragua. Figures of the De-
Of Commerce, Show
ing an enormous foreign trade,
the impetus given by
democratic policies to our com
mercial relations with the
world.
improvements of epochal i'm
ortance have been made in the
postal service. The crippled IA
clllties of the nation have been
put on their feet by the employ
ment of enough new clerks to
meet the necessities of the mail
receiving public. The parcels
post is undergoing a complete
'emodeling whose beneficial re-
are already felt from one
of the land to the other.
BY the governments an
bounced readiness to add $780,
100000 to the circulating med
UNI of the country, if the neces-
'lty for such assistance should
rise, a stunning blow was ad-
nlnlstered to breeders of panic.
Artificiallv depressed securities
we're restored to normal levels.
speculative hazard was re-
Business confidence was
trengthened. Now the Treas
Try is getting ready to aid the
.armer in the country's great
enterprise-that of moving
he cg9as.
AnNAtrufy memorable cpl
ode was the averting of the
threatened strike on the East
IN railroads. A single days
difference in Washington be-
ween President Wilson and the
representatives. of the trainmen
nd of the companies, changed a
fraught with peril to
ne national prosperity. to one of
eIlef and safety. The negotia-
Ion which induced the contend
forces to consent to arbitra-
ion, and the immediate amend
nent of the law so as to afford a
easlble means of mediation. is
N achievement without parallel
n the annals of labor difficulties
n the United States. Thereby
ne Wilson administration and
-emocratic congress rendered an
unreasonable service to the
public convenience and to the
ecurity of the business world.
A work Of democratic mill
ancv whose wholesome conse-
.uences are not only manifest
but reach far into the fu-
ure is the rout of the lobby
he weapon President Wilson
..sed against the lobby was pub
From the moment il
ould no longer skulk in the
ark, the lobby was paralyzed,
With a sequence which seemed
mazlng at the time, but now is
cen to have been inevitable. the
disintegration followed
is reduction to inactivity, AS
militant, organic body it has
pparently ceased to exist. It can
ever revive again, at least not
a Its ancient viciousness. if
ucceeding administrations conv
ne example of President Wilson
nd the present congress in
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