Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-18
North Carolina Statesman Re-
pIieS EmotionaIIy to Those
VINO Speak of PrOgreSSiyism.
as HySteria,
DEMOCRATIC POLICIES
IN INTEREST OF PEOPLE
Tariff Law, Income Tax Direct
Election of United States
Senator's and Currency Bill
Are CompIimented,

New York. Dee. Opponents Of
democratic reform measures who
have denounced many administration
buls as the products Of hysteria -
were characterized as reactionaries
and standpatters by Josephus Daniels,
,ecretary of the navy. IN an address
here tonight az the annual dinner Of
The North Carolina society Of New
York. The hysteria which they de-
rounce." he said. 'is democracy, the
rule of the people
Secretary Daniels was foremost of
me native Carolinians who attended
the banquet. The army and navys
active service was represented among
,he guests by Rear Admiral Hugo
Ogterhaus and Cameron McB. Wins
low. and capt Albert Gleaves, COM
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard
Martin W. Litueton, former repre-
sentative discussed administration
measures and pleaded for larger
navy
"A few days ago Alr Daniels said,
d distinguished educator from a
southern state In a speech in New
YORK declared that such now and pro-
gressve measures as the initiative and
referendum were revolutionary An
other distinguished authority, states
man in educator. referred to GER
tain MODERN American political doe
rines as wild theories which COM
mon sense and wise experience de-
mand be rejected as the result Of
hyseIia
The real trouble Is that this so-
called 'hysteria hurts. IL keeps party
pledges, e does not take from labor
BE bread it earns it makes protec-
ton-built wealth pay income tax. It
elects senator's direct from the people.
They call &c 'hysteria' because it
means We can have no more senators
from the New York Central railroad.
no mole senator's from the Southern
Express company no more senator's
from the New York, New Haven Dc
Hartford railroad no more senators
irom the STANDARD oil trust
They eal il 'hystcria because it
prevents the classes IRON exploiting
the masses ana brings the government
back to che people. After all, the
real victims of 'hysteria 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 sec
rctary the victims Of 'hysteria' are
not The forward looking 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
historical man is that incarnate ex
camation point Of self intoxicated pa
irotism VINO madly waves the stars
and stripes with one hand and grips
his rebate provided protection-fos-
tered wealth with the other and be-
walls an alleged tendency to put a pc
ROD 20 class legislation who wildly
pfoclaims that we are turning away
from these fundamental principles
through which we have come to our
Present high state.
Legislators in the recent past have
peen the favorites of great corpora
uons They have felt Il compelling
power from higher up The imper-
+onal clement in the situation made
y hard TO cure. but at last the AK has
peen laid at the root Of the tree and
the people have demanded that all
tols must be changed. How? BY le
sdl primaries, even for president by
pure food laws by an income tax,
oy lower tariff, by laws to protect
seamen by regulation Of trusts, by
'he abolition Of nterlocking dirccto-i
Rates and rebates, etc.
Take the tariff The men who re-
'6ed It We're not hysterical. They
used figures and facts. They were
Ialnstaking, scientific, and what was
.'e answer? The benefciaries Of pro-
"eton, the infant industries, gray and
noaiy with age, and obese from their s
'UHs PHI at the pap bottle, cried out
leu are going to impoverish our
,0unlfF' -Four months under the new =
s"Hl nave passed and the report Of {
sVttlai| Of Commerce Redfield de- &
'aies that the flooding of our mar 5
re'S with the cheap wares Of Europe g
''as not happened, as predicted. ana G
''''erican foreign trade is still evil y
'enelhg g healthy growth S
i me latest exhibition Of hysteria is c
'e effort to prevent the passage or y
I''e currency bin. 1t is we'll known
everybody that this bill is certain
become a law substantially az
framed, and the principal fea- }
es q i are as good as upon the y
.atule books and yet those who I
YOU'D destroy confidence in the =
iah government and its ability p
~. ,ohtFol its finances. dub as nvs- y
- me effort to pass long needed &