Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-10-20
WILSON LAUDS
ACHIEVEMENTS
Reviews Democratic Record
in Letter to Majority Leader
Oscar Underwood
VICTORY IS PREDICTED
Outlines Program for Next
ession-D Democratic Is Only
Party Ready for Service

Wilson made public today letter to
Majority Leader Underwood of fine
house in which he reviewed the
achievements of his administration
outlined the program for the next ses-
sion of congress and declared "the
Democratic party is now in fact the
only instrument ready to the coun-
try's hand by which anything can be
accomplished"
The president wrote the letter as
an endorsement of all Democratic
members of congress in lieu of
speeches he said would like to make
in every congressional district.
He predicted for his party in the
elections because "every thoughtful
man sees that 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 party upon
which deep decentralization has fall.
en- or a party which has not grown
to a stature that would warrant its
assuming the responsible burdens of
state"
Outlines Work Accomplished
Outlining the work already accom-
plished, Mr.. Wilson mentioned the re-
form of the tariff, the passage of the
new currency bill, the passage of the
antitrust bills and the handling OF
foreign problems.
Praising the new tariff. the presi
dent asserted that private control
had shown its sinister face on every
hand in America, had shown it for a
long time, and sometimes very braz.
enly, in the trusts, and in the virtual
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 of competition,
which flourished more easily under
the protection of 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 suffi-
cient time to prove the success of
the act.
The trade commission bill and the
Clayton antitrust bill were spoken of
as designed to make men in a small
way of business as free to succeed
as men in big way, and to kill
monopoly in the Seed" He added
that "monopolies are built up by un-
fair methods of competition" which
would be eliminated by the new leg
islation.
Justice for Laborer.
Justice has been done the laborer,
declares the president, and his la
Dor is no longer to be treated as if
it "were merely an inanimate object
of commerce disconnected from the
fortunes and happiness of living
human being, to be dealt with as an
object of sale and barter"
or the currency bill Mr.. Wilson
said:
1--WE have created a democracy Of
credit such as has never existed in
this country before" He declared
that "credit is now at the disposal
of every man who can show energy
and assets" and because control Of
the system rests with the government;
at is self government as we'll as de-
mocracy."
1t was impossible to complete rural
credit legislation, the letter added,
but the federal reserve act itself "fa-
ciltates and enlarges agricultural
credit to an extraordinary degree"
Speaking of the program of the
next session of congress, the president
mentioned legislation for building up
the American merchant marine and
"the completion of great program
for the conservation of our natural
resources and the development Of the
the water-power of the country"
without a congress in close SYM
pahty with the administration" wrote
the president, "a whole scheme of
peace and honor and disinterestedness
service to the world cannot be brought
to its full realization"