The Cairo bulletin., 1914-10-17
SulIlyan's Tribute to Wilson.

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Sulllyan's Tribute to Wilson.
"Only eighteen months have passed
since President Wilson came into Of
fee. but they have been months of &C
complishment. OF efficiency, Of real
progress.
Tariff reform came first. a tariff
law which even its friends damned
with faint praise, was replaced by one
which was fair, equitable and respon-
sive to public demand.
THE income tax went on the statute
books with the tariff law. Ii removed
a burden of taxation from those least
able TO bear it, and placed it where
it belonged, on those who hardly felt
the addition.
"Then came currency reform. II had
been promised for fifty years. 1t had
been a convenient football for gentle
men who wanted to talk, but who did
not care TO act. A currency law has
been passed, and II is SO good law
that even now, before it is in full
effect, 1t is our safeguard In a time OF
financial peril.
Laws to stop the criminal prac-
tees of big business are on the eve
OF attainment. II they are not passed
before | get to Washington, they will
have my vote They are not laws to
interfere with honest business, not
laws to hamper it nor disturb it; but
laws to drive out rascality, and to
put the business OF the country upon
sound and permanent basis.
"On its work in enacting construc-
tive legislation alone the Democratic
national administration has earned
unanimous vote OF approval from the
American people. But there is rec
ord of still more solemn significance.
The page OF history that will show
the greatest service to our country
and to humanity performed in our
time is being written now.
LET your minds dwell for a mo.
ment upon Mexico and all that is sug-
gested by that name. Only q few
weeks ago, you will remember, there
were men In this country who were
willing to plunge this nation into war,
II they could obtain personal or poll
tical advantage thereby. You remem-
Der the abuse and scorn heaped upon
the President because he remained
firm in crisis; because he demanded
that both sides OF i question be con-
sidered because he dared to do right
in the face OF threats that to do right
was to lose popularity.
World at War Except Our Country.
"Then Europe burst into a fame OF
war. A continent is bathed in blood.
A generation is being destroyed. The
world trembles. amazed and appalled,.
Every great nation OF the Caucasian
race, save ours, is involved-every
one. save us, is on the battlefield, or
sits armed awaiting the dread day Of
conflict.
"Bnt America Is at peace. We have
no call for volunteers. We have no
CONSUMPTION. We have no lists Of
dead and injured.
America stands aghast at condi-
tons it believed civilization had made
impossible. And yet the Mexican sit
uation held the same germ of inter
national strife that the Servian situa-
ton held.
We are not at peace by accident
We are at peace because Woodrow
Wilson had the vision, the Justice and
the courage to stand firm for peace
and the methods of peace against
clamor for war. Had hot blood, rash
pride and arrogance of power been
given their way, we would have been
at war with Mexico, and God alone
knows where else, before the war
spirit swept Europe. But steadfast In
the knowledge that he was right. the
President took the unfair criticism
that assailed him and turned the jibes
OF the boosters and the self-serving
into the gratitude of the millions. He
is IN Washington. sticking to his job. -
holding our country to the course OF
peace, meeting with sound sense and
honest purposes all the problems of
the great war, and ready, on the first
occasion that offers. to mediate be-
tween the warning powers and bring
peace to Europe. He has earned our
gratitude by keeping our peace Sc
cure. He will earn the gratitude of
the world by restoring the peace of
the world. Hope today for the mil
lions of our brothers in Europe lies
in that strong, lonely man in the
White House.
Let us thank God. my friends. that
at the crisis of the century Woodrow
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