The Detroit times., 1914-10-19
WILSON PLEASED
WITH RECORD OF
THE DEMOCRACY
In Letter to Underwood, He De-
clares Platform Pledges Have
Been Kept
HOPES FOR ENDORSEMENT
ON TWO YEARS SHOWING
PrOclaims His Belief in Political
Sagacity Of The American
People

WASHINGTON, Oct. ls.--In let
ter sent to Majority Leader Oscar w
Underwood, Of the house OF represen.
tatiyes. President Wilson reviews the
achievements Of his administration,
outlined the program for the next ses-
sion OF congress and declares ''the
Democratic party is now In fact the
only instrument ready to the coun.
try's hand by which anything can be
accomplished"
The letter Is, In part, as follows:
II cannot let this session OF con-
gress close without expressing my
warm admiration with which the
program. outlined In April and De.
cember Of last year, has been car
ried out, and my feeling that the peo-
pie of the country have been served
by the members Of this congress as
they have se)6cp, II ever, been served
pOefosSs eOgran, swas great
one, and Il b matter Of deep salts
faction TO think OF the way In which
II has been handled.
1T had several distinct parts and
many items, but. after all. a single
purpose, namely, to destroy private
control and set business free. That
purpose was manifest enough In the
case OF the tarifY. and In the legisla-
tion affecting trusts; but, though per-
haps less evident upon the surface
there, II lay at the very heart gof the
currency bill, too. May not add.
even though II lies outside the field
OF legislation, that that, and that
chiefly, has been the object of the for
eign policy OF the government during
the last Is months?
The Trusts.
Private control had shown its sin.
lister face on every hand In America.
had shown II for long time. and
sometimes very brazenly, domination
OF credit by small groups OF men.
The safest hiding. place and covert of
such control was In he tariff. High
prices did not spring directly out OF
the tariff. They sprang out Of the
suppression OF domestic, no less than
OF foreign, competition by means OF
combinations and trade agreements
which could be much more easily
contriyed and maintained under the
protection OF O high tariff than with
out It, The European war came be-
fore the withdrawn OF this much-coy.
eted opportunity for monopoly could
show Its full effects and active COM
petition bring prices to their normal
level again; but It 10 clear enough
already that the reduction Of the tar
In, the simplification OF its schedules
so AZ to cut away the jungle In which
secret agencies had 20 long lurkej,
the correction OF its inequalities. and
Its thorough recasting with the single
honest object Of revenue, were an In
dispensable flrst step to re-establish-
ifsS competition.
The present congress has taken
that step with courage. sincerity, and
effectiveness. The soil In which com
binatious had grown was removed
lest some OF the seeds of monopoly
might be found to remain IN 4.
THE panic that the friends n
privilege had predicted did not fol.
low. Business has already adjustetI
itself to the new conditions with sine-
ular ease and elasticity, because the
new conditions are In fact more nor.
NAL than the old.
We had time TO learn from the ac-
tuai administration OF the law that
the revenues resulting from the
double change would have been abun
dant, had II not been for the breal
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