The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-10-18
DEMOCRACY HAS DONE WHAT IT
PROMISED
EIGHTEEN MONTHS Or PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION
uNExcELLED IN HISTORY NATION


der democratic laws, enacted by
democratic majorities in both houses
of the national congress, approved by
democratic president, scores of
ships are applying for registry un-
der the American flag, and it will
not be long until the American flag
flying over American merchant yes
sells is as familiar upon the seas
of the world as the flag of any other
nation.
We have taken the necessary steps
toward opening up the vast Terri
tory of Alaska, with all its possibili-
ties. The policy of the republican
party was either to give away to the
interests the resources of this great
section OF the continent or to tie
them up forever The people re-
belled against the former course,
and the republican administration,
weak and inefficient, merely tied
up these great resources and left
the problem for us to solve. We
have met it untlinchingly; and to-
day groups of American surveyors
are penetrating the interior of Alas
ka preparing for the great railway
made possible by democratic ad
ministration.
We have made effective the popular
vote for United States senators.
We have averted great railway
strikes by arbitration.
We have destroyed the telegraph
and telephone trusts.
We have made possible an efficient
parcel post law and have extended
it and cheapened it. .
We have wiped out the deficit in
the postal service and have made
the post office department self sus-
tanning.
We have made effectual and posi-
Bile trust dissolutions.
We have destroyed Cannonism in
the house of representatives and
have made that body responsive,
not to the will of a few political
bosses representing the interests, but
we hae made it responsive to the
demands of the people of the United
States.
Before the end of the present ses-
sion we will have written into the
law all the great trust bills advocated
by the present administration. All
of them have already passed the
lower house of congress. One of
the most important of them has al
ready become law. The trust laws
we have enacted are along democrat
ic lines, they are based on the
Golden Rule. Under them business
will flourish and trade wars will
cease, legitimate, honest competition
Will prevail, and there will be a
restoration of the honest, honorable
business methods of the past. Under
them the trusts must obey the de-
crees of courts. They must aban-
don unfair, cut-throat competition.
Determinations between purchasers
of their goods must cease. They
must abandon the control of COM
petitors acquired by them under the
"holding company" systems. The
tremendous power welded by their
interlocking directorates must cease.
In other words the trust laws we
have enacted give to the struggling,
ambitious men of moderate means
better chance in life
We have enacted much-needed leg
islation providing for cooperative
agricultural extension work through
out The land and for the fostering
and development of our commerce
at home and abroad.
am unwilling to believe that
the people of the nation desire to
undo the work of the present admin
istration and to restore to power the
party under which flourish corporate
greed and trust oppression.