The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-10-22
PRESIDENT WRITES LETTER TO
MAJORITY LEADER UNDER
WOOD IN LIEU OF CAM
PAlGN SPEECHES.
PRAISES CONGRESS FOR
IaANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Change of Power Now, Says Execu.
tive, Would "Set Clock Back, Not
Forward"-AVers Legislators
Have Served People as
Never Before"


Washington, Oct. 20.-President
Wilson made public a letter to Ma
jority Leader Underwood Of the
house in which he reviewed the
achievements of his administration,
outlined the program for the next
session of Congress, and declared the
Democratic party is now in fact the
only instrument ready TO the country's
hand by which anything car be ac-
complished."
In Lieu of Speeches.
The president wrote the letter as
an Endorsement of all Democratic
members of Congress in lieu Of
speeches he said he would like to
make in every congressional district.
He predicted victory for his party in
the elections because every thought.
full man sees that a change of parties
just now would set the clock back,
not forward" and because "a practi.
cal nation is not likely to reject such
a team-full Of the spirit of public
serVice-and substitute, in the midst
of great tasks, either a party upon
which a deep decentralization has fal.
len, or a party which has not grown
to a stature that would warrant it's
assuming the responsible burdens Of
state"
The Results Claimed.
The legislative program begun dur.
frD 1f,n nraennt rDnnr,e, wa IL,
clared by the president to have been
begun ito destroy private control and
set business free" He said that the
people of the country had been serv.
ed by this Congress as they have
never been served before"
Outlining the work already accomp.
lished. Mr.. Wilson mentioned the re-
form of the tariff, the passage of the
new currency bill, the antitrust bills,
and the handling of foreign problems.
He said he doubled If there has ever
been a finer exhibition of team work
or of unhesitating devotion to the full.
tllment of party pledges"
Points to Tariff Act.
Praising the new tariff bill, the
president asserted that private con.
troll had shown it's sinister face on
every hand in America, had shown it
for a long time, and sometimes very
brazenly, in the trusts, and in the vir.
tual domination of credit by small
groups of men," He said that high
prices did not spring directly from
the tariff, but out of the suppression
or competition. which fourished more
easily under the protection of a high
tariff. lie declared that the panic
which opponents of the new bill pre-.
dicted had not come, and that de.
spite the European war, there had
been sufficient time to prove the sue.
cess of the act.
The trade commission bill and the
Clayton antitrust bill were spoken of
as designed ito make men in a small
way OF business rs free to succeed as
men in a big way, and to kill monopoly
fn the seed" He added that "monopo.
lies are hailt up by unfair methods of
competition" which would be eIimi.
mated by the new legislation. "Monopo.
ly is to be cut of at the roots he
declared.
Justice Done Laborer.
Justice has been done the laborer,
declared the president, and his labor
is no longer to be treated as if il
were merely IN inanimate object of
commerce disconnected from the for.
tunes and happiness of a living hu.
man being, to be dealt with as an
object OF sale and barter"
or the currency bill Mr.. Wilson
said, have created a democracy of
credit such as has never existed in
this country before"
Demands of Future.
Speaking of the program for the
next session OF Congress. the. presi.
dent mentioned legislation for build.
ing up the American merchant ma.
rine and the completion of a great
program for the conservation Of our
natural and the develop.
ment of the water power of the coun.
try"
Without a Congress in close sym.
pathy with the administration" wrote
the president. "a whole scheme OF
peace and honor and disinterested
service to the world cannot be brought
TO its full realization"