The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
SEN. CORE REVIEWS GREAT RECORD OF
 WILSON REGIME

Washington, Nov. ABefore leaving Washington for his home in Oklahorna, which state is to return him to the United States Senate for another term of six years, Senator Thomas P. Gore rating the achievements of the past two years of Democratic a.dnaindstra,- tton by creating the character of the modern ssstandpat Rip Van NVdnlzle:
 Tt is not always easy for us to gFuage our own progress or to see our own times in perspective. The. last two years have been bdE with history. The national Democratic adInindstration has not only removed many obstacles from the path of progress but it has journeyed many leagues and set many milestones upon that highway. We can illustrate the passage of the old Bondage and the coming of sgThes New Freedom in no better way thAn Dy- ,stpposing that some standpat Rep1b- HcaLn Rip Van Wrinkle who had fallen asleep two years ago should now be roused from his sll1rnibers If won derirs he should ask of his Democratic neizhEoor the meaning of the Simmons Underwood act the DeInocratic friend would advise hi1n that while he was dozings the sacred Sagunto of protec- ton had been abolished; that the high ta19n rates which had reigned so long had been reduced downward; that the Burdens of taxation had been shifted in large measure from necessaries to lJ1xuries; from want to wealth. and that Dives was compelled to share
 with Lazarus the expense of their 1ts1- tua1 protectdon. If thist Van Wrinkle should demand to know something of ff7e Glass Owen Act he would be i11- formed by his Democratic neighFbor that order had been brought put of chaos forrner1y donorninated as our banking and currency system; that we now have a real system to prevent preventafbIe panics, which will alto- nnatically adjust the supply of currency to tEAe demand for currency, a system which has stripped the money power of it's onanipotence to oppress and has reopened the doors of credit and op- portunity to the thrifty and deserv- ing.
 ssIf Rip van Wrinkle should evince amy curiosity about the Clayton bill he would be enlightened by the as- sl1rasnce that this measure had placed the ban upon fnterIocked dfrectoratess holding. con1pan5es and tying contracts and other devious methods which had been the Instruments of monopoly. He would be informed that, in popular parlance. the Clayton measure has been cElristened "a new charter of Hb- erty for labor since 1t renders fnpossi- b1e the use of the writ of injunction and authorizes a trial by Jury In eases of constructive contempt
 zssIf the Federal Trade Commission should excite any interest on the part of Rip Van he would be told that this measure forbfds unfair competition and eliminates that twilight zone where men have been wont to stumble and which has been infested with so much of fraud on the part of dishonest business men and so much of danger for the honest business man.
 Eff Rip Van Wrinkle should look with startled eyes on the tragedy now enaeting in Europe his Democratic friend would not lose the opportunity to say that President Wilson with nnasterfu tact, diplomacy and justice had spared our Republic a bloody war with OUT sister republic to. the south ward and had removed all possible occasion for quarrel with the enlbat- tied nations across the set. He would be assured that 'watehfu1 waiting wins. No doubt Rip Van Wrinkle would call his dog Snyder and go to the polls on November and emulate the example of his patriotic Repubdi- can friends and vote to return a Den- ocratic Senate and Democratic House that will consunmate the splendid program of progress inAugurated by the present adnniniStrati tion.''