The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-19
PRESIDENT PRAISES
WORK OF CONGRESS
Reviews the Achievements of the AID
minigCration in Letter to Leader
Underwood.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- President |
Wilson made public yesterday letter to
Majority Leader Underwood of the House
in which he reviewed the achievements of
his administration, outlined the program
/ for the next session of Congress, and de-
! clared the Democratic party is now IN
| fact the only instrument ready to the
countrys hand by which anything can BE-
accomplished
! The President wrote the letter as an en-
| dorsement Of all Democratic members of
Congress in lien of speeches he said he
would like to make in every congressional
district. He predicted victory for his
party in the elections because every
thoughtful man sees that change of par
ties Just now would set the clock back not
! forward" and because "A practical nation
! ~ not likely. to reject such a dream, full
of the spirit of public service, and Substi-
tute, in the midst of great tasks, either
party upon which deep decentralization
has fallen. or a party which mas not grown
to d stature that would warrant it's as
Stunning the responsible burdens of state
II The legislative program begun during
the present Congress was declared by the
President to have been begun Ito DESTROY
, private control and set business free" He
Sdlu illdI lllt people bl jne country Hdt
: been served by this Congress as they
have never been served before"
, Outlining the work already accomplished
MIR Wilson mentioned the reform of the
tariff the passage OF the new currency
bill, the antitrust bills. and the handling
4 of foreign problems. He said he doubted
Z il there has ever been finer exhibition
of teamwork or of unhesitatng devotion
to the fuhllment of party pledges"
Praisng the new tariff bill the Presi-
dent asserted that private control had
shown its sinister face ON every hand in
America, had shown it for long time
and sometimes very brazenly in the trusts
ard in the virtual combination of credit
by small groups OF men" He said that
, high prices did not spring directly from
@ the tariff, but out of the suppression OF
:. competition which fourshed more easily
under the protection of a high tariff, He
declared that the panic which opponents
of the new bill predicted had not come
and that despite the European war there
had been sufficient time to prove the sue
. cess OF the act.
The trade commission bin and the Clay
ton antitrust bill were spoken of as de
- signed Ito make men in a small way q
business as free to succeed as men in
big way, and to Kill monopoly in tn,
seed. He added that "monopoIists arr
y built up by unfair methods OF competi
ton" which would be eliminated by tn
new legislation. "Monopoly is to he Gu
M off ut the roots he declared.
If our party were to be called upon t
name the particular point of principle il
which it differs from its opponents mos
sharply and in which it feels itself mos
O. definitely sustained by experience cor
y Iti1ued the President, we should no doub
say that it was this That we would hav
no dealings with monopoly but reject
altogether; while our opponents wer
ready to adopt it into the realm Of law
and seek merely to regulate it and mode
= ate it in its operation 1t Is our purpos
to destroy monopoly and maintain con
- petition, the only effectual in~trumer
va of business liberty
* Justice has been done the laborer. d
me- cared the President. and MS labor is I
. longer to be treated as if it were mere
to an nanimate object of commerce disco
= nected from the fortunes and happine
ice Of a living human being to be dealt Wit
as an object of sale and barter
. OF the currency bill Mr. Wilson sa
9 we have created a democracy of cred
= tsuch as has never existed in this count
before" He declared that credit is no
-o- at the disposal of every man who c;
m show energy and assets, and because 60
no troll of the system rested with the Cover
on. men may place perfect confidence.