The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
RURAL CREDITS BILL TO PASS DURING SESSION President Will Urge Passage ol Ship Purchase Bill for
 Merchant Marine WESTERN DEMOCRATS PLEASED WITH OUTLOOK President May Refer to Enor- nous Expenditures On
 Army and Navy
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ing back for the last session or the SSrd Congress-the Victorious ones and the defeated ones and the few Who did not run for reelection All mem bers of the Congress that was at the helm of Roverunent of the greatesc Constitutional government known 10 man when the greatest war in the nls- l tory of tho world broke loose in Eur ope and spread over all of the old part of the world threatening the ver5 foundation of christendon. All Gneln- pers of the Congress blamed TOT the 1 war tax blamed for the Income tax, blamed for the men out Of WorK, anu blamed for about all the ills from which the American people claim to be suffering today.
 Bp,f the best part of it all is that the defeated and undefeated Demo cratic members are coming back pleas- l ed witfSthe result of the vote lh Ine l country at large
 The Democrats have a plurality Of 38 l and possibly 40 votes in the next Com gress, and the proudest of the mem bers coming back are the western rnernbers who say that beginning at the Mississippi river and going west the people supported the Wilson ad- rninistration, and the furtherNWest you 1 Ro the stronger the President IS TO the hearts of the people
 1 Western Democrats say that they cannot understand fwhy the eastern people who repudiated the President 1 in the Congressional elections could not have shown a little more patience and forbearanee in such trying times They
 say that the east has not been as re- gently up against the Tough spots or economic life as has the west
 1 That the people of the east do not know what 1t is to wait a whole year for a crop to mature, and then have the entire crop go bad.
 These western Democrats can see 1ar1&r iffon. while the defeated eastern mem I bers who make up the flame duck ldiyision have to admit that they gain ed in the number of votes they received in most of the districts. and that the ltsoutlof- work cry drove the Bull Moosers who sang Onward Christian Soldiers two years ago, back to the banners Of Standpatism. Members coming from n1anufactur- ling centers nave much to say about the slathers of money that seemed sto be dumped into their districts by or l ganized notwithstanding interests money that could be used to better advantage they say, in perfecting
 methods of production or in the -ex- lpansion of South American trade.
 Already in some of the manufactur- Ing centars postal cards are being cir culated for people to sign. The cards carry a printed appeal for the restora- tion of high tariff by the present T TCr0nRT0SS kind upon goods that do not come in at the ports of entry would be bene- Ihcial.
 The indications are that the 63rd tcsongress will stand as firmly behind the President in the third session as lit did in the first and second ses-
 The President will appear before ICongress on Tuesday and read his Emessage. He will urge strict economy Ion the ground that the government is lbeing run at $1O0, ,000, 900 above its ai1- InuaI income as long as ktha war lasts.
 He will probably have something to tsay in defense of the army and navy lof the country which the armament supply people are claiming to be worn Tout and useless in order to work the fl ipeople of the nation into a frenzy of fear as a, result of reading of the ter irible slaughter in Europe
 The United States spent, next o England, more money than any other lcountry in the world for armament ldurine the Taft and Roosevelt admin listrations and now Senator Lodge and Representative Gardner, both Repub- l1icans, are decrying the condition of Jour armament, and the Democratic ad- lministration has got to give an ac- icount of what the Republican admin listrataons did with the money.
 I The President will also urge the tpassage of the Ship Purchase bill with tout delay to handle the transportation IofS American goods between South
 American and United States ports. This country manufactures nearly $21 coo. GOO, coo worth of goods and ex- Iports only five per cent. of the same I This country raises $g. 5O0, ,00o, 600 worth of foodstufrs and exports only five per 1cent. of it. The reason that we do inot expand our markets is that the commerce Is controlled by foreign
 firms who own the shipping
 ! Only seven per cent of the imports of the Orient comes from the United
 States. Of the exports of the world only 13 per cent. come from America.
 The President wants a government
 owned fleet that will blaze the trail of
 commerce for American goods until
 created and privately owned lines will
 consider it worth while to carry
 American goods in American ships un- der the American flag.
 The Ship Purchase bill will be the big bill of the third session leading
 only a Rural Credits bill and the Phil tippine bill which passed the House at
 the last session.
 The members of the 63rd Congress are here to work and the flame duck division from the east are told by the
 victorious westernerE that they need
 not expect much reward from the ma lojrity of the people at home who r Ichanged horses while crossing the : stream, and that the only consolation sl they will get will come in the years e to come when the history of the 63rd ICongress is written. But they do de- 1clare their belief that the historians ! will agree that the 63rd Congress was a patriotic Congress with it's frs ' thought of America, and that the peo- e pie of the nation who voted to make
 the 9th Congress a Democratic Con
 gress supporting the revised tariff, the
 income tax, the new currency law an6 f kindred legislation were a patriotic r people who voted to preserve the tra- q ditions of Constitutional governmen Ion the western hemispheres at a time