The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-10-18

The democratic party has kept the
faith. We have been true to the
,reories upon which the party was
founded and to the great unwritten
constitution which has regulated and
controlled democratic policies in all
\ the decades which have passed since
the days of Jefferson.
A democratic congress has met
without fear the great problems which
| have been confronting the country
through all the years of republican
rule-problems which have been con
tinually pushed forward into the
future by the republican party
| through all its years of supremacy.
| Under the wise, patriotic guidance
| of the greatest president the country
| has had in a half century of time,
the present congress has remained in
session longer than any congress
| present executive is not yet half over.
| There still remains another session
| of the congress now in session, but
| we have already enacted into law
| nearly all the great remedial meas
ures we promised the country dur
| ing the last campaign for the presi-
dency. We proudly call attention to
| a marvellous record of performance
not equalled by any party in the
same length of time during all our
history as a republic.
We have kept our promises liter
allv and have revised the tariff down
ward We have written into the
laws tariff provisions which have
wiped out every vestige of the old
| war tariffs. We have enacted the
lowest tariff law we have had since
| the Walker tariff of ante bellum
days. Business goes on as usual
Our factories are running, many of
them day and night The predicted
business disasters and panics have
not come.
Already in the wholesale prices of
goods the effect of our revision is
being felt. Long before the next
presidential election retail price re-
ductions and cheapening of methods
of distribution will make impossible
the return to power of any party, in
any section of the country, which
promises or advocates a restoration
of the old republican tariff sche-
dulles.
We have enacted into law efficient
income tax regulations-the kind of
tax which compels the rich to
bear their fair share of the burdens
of running this government. We have
already accomplished the currency
reform demanded by present-day con
ditions. The new federal banking
act is not yet in operation, but will
be before the elections in November
Already the fact that the law will
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reassuring effect upon the banking
and business interests of the country.
Bank panics and extensive business
depressions are now thing of the
past. We have abolished forever the
dollar diplomacy" of the republican
party-the diplomacy WHICH meant
that investments of Wall Street cap
italists and spectators in the weak
er republics Of the western world
would be protected by the armies and
navies of the United States and com
PEELED to yield the return the in
vestors demanded. We have substi
tuted for that policy the doctrine of
human rights. Already feeling of
confidence toward us is being es-
tablished in the weaker republics
south of us. Bonds of friendship are
beginning to hold together the re-
publics of the western world, and it
will not be long before we may eX-
pect profitable trade relations with
the prosperous productive countries
of South and Central America, which
up to the present time have rejected
our overtures and our commercial
advances.
We have driven forever out of
congress the insidious lobby, and no
longer are the corridors of our ma
tional capitol filled with the men who
represent great interests and who
demand legislation at the expense Of
the great producing masses OF our
population.
We can call attention 20 the fact
that We have already by wise legisla-
tion re-established the American
merchant marine, and We have ac-
complished it without subsidies. IN