Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-10-23

Ing eHecC upon the banking and bust
ness interests of the country. Bank
panics and extensive business depres
sions are now thing Of the past
We have abolished forever the dollar
diplomacy" Of the Republican party
the diplomacy which meant that in
vestments of Wall Street capitalists
and spectators in the weaker repub-
lies of the western world be protect
ed by the armies and navies of the
United States and compelled to yield
the return the investors demanded
We have substituted for that policy
). the doctrine Of human rights, AL.
ready a feeling Of confidence toward
) us is being established in the weaker
republics south Of US. Bonds of friend.
ship are beginning to hold together
the republics Of the western world,
and 1t will not be long before we may
expect 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 ad-
vances.
We have driven forever out of Con.
, gress the insidious lobby, and no long.
er are the corridors of our National
Capitol filled with the men who repre-
sent great interests and who demand
legislation at the expense of the great
producing masses of our population
We can call attention to the fact
that we have already by wise legisla-
ton re-established the American mer-
chant marine, and We have accomp-
lished it without subsidies. Under
Democratic laws, enacted by Demo-
cratic majorities in both Houses of the
National Congress, approved by
Democratic President, scores of ships
are applying for registry under the
American flag, and it will not be long
until the American flag flying over
American merchant vessels is as fam
iliar upon the seas of the world as
the flag of any other nation.
We have taken the necessary steps
toward opening up the vast Territory
'. of Alaska, with all it's possibilities.
The policy of the Republican party
was either to give away to the inter-
ests the resources of this great Sec
ton of the continent or to tie them
up forever. The people rebelled
against the former course, and Re-
publican administration, weak and in
efficient, merely tide up these great re-
sources and left the problem for us to
solve. We have met it unflfnchingly;
and today groups of American survey
ors are penetrating the interior Of
Alaska preparing for the great railway
made possible by a 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-sustain-
ing.
We have made effectuar and posi-
BILE trust dissolutions.
We have destroyed Cannonfsm in
the House of Representatives and
have made that body responsive, not
to the will of few political bosses
representing the interests, but we
have made it responsive to the de-
mands 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 already be-
come law. The trust laws we have
enacted are along Democratic lines;
they are based on the Golden Rule.
Under them business will flourish and
trade wars will cease, legitimate, hon.
est competition will prevail, and there
will be restoration of the honest, /
honorable business methods Of the
past Under them the trusts must
obey the DEGREES Of courts. They
must abandon unfair, cut-throat COM
petition. 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 ire
mendous power welded by their inter-
locking directorates must cease. In
other words, the trust laws we have
enacted give to the struggling, ambi- |
tious men of moderate means a bet
ter chance in life.
We have enacted much-needed legis- !
ation providing for cooperative agri-
cultural extension work throughout |
the land and for the fostering and de-
velopment of our commerce at home
and abroad
I am unwilling to believe that the |
people of the nation desire to undo
the work of the nresent administra.