The farmer and mechanic., 1914-02-03
All the Democrats Could DO
Was To Promise What They
Would Accomplish II Given
the PoWer-NOW We Can
Take Pride in the Democratic
Party Because of What Has
Been Done.
tRe thu Associated Press

Muscatiue, Ia, Jan. sl.-Pride in
what the Democratic party has ac
complished since it came into control
of the government less than a year
ago and confidence in the program OF
the administration TO complete the
work Of carrying out the promises
of the party's platform, tonight was
voiced here by Speaker Champ Clark,
in campaign speech for Henry Vol
mer Democratic nominee for Con
gress, TO succeed the late RepreSen-
tative Irvine S. Pepper.
For sixteen long and wearisome
years said the Speaker, "all the
Democrats could do was TO promise.
what they would accomplish if they
were given power.
Now all that is changed. We can.
with pride and pleasure. talk about
what we have done and also about
what we intend to do.
About the New ariff Law.
''At the election in 1912 every intel
ligent man within the confines of the
republic knew that if we carried the
election there would be an extra ses-
sion Of Congress and that the first
great promise we undertook to carry
out would be to revise the tariff. We
proceeded as promptly as possible to
the work of revising the tariff down
ward. In my judgment it is the best
tariff bill ever put on the statute
books. II there were no other good
features in it, the income tax section
would make it rank among the very
best tariff bills
Referring to the currency bill. the
Speaker said, The new law furnished
| substitute for one Of the worst cur
| rency systems in the world.
1T provides a working scheme" he
anyaf1 1n6
rency when the increase is needed and
for contracting it when the public
| good demands it.
| AS Far AA Human Wisdom Extends.
| In addition to this it prevents, as
| TAR as human wisdom extends the
| gambling in stocks and bonds; it pre-
vents the assembling Of all the money
in the country in one big city and
| leaves it at home, where it properly
belongs; 1t authorizes the national
banks to loan money on good farm
lands and it is believed and hoped,
that II Will, to very large extent.
prevent panics.
Power Has To BE Lodged Somewhere
IT IS claimed that it lodges too
much power in the hands Of the presi-
dent and that it will not bear the
ilgnt or day. Power has to be lodged
somewhere. The only question in
mat regard is whether it is better to
| WY AAAihACiloC power conferred
your currency bill in the President OF
the United States, or in the hands Of
some private citizen. So far as I am
concerned, choose the former.
ihtenaon to Redeem Other Promises.
We intend now to proceed to re-
oeein certain other promises in the
Democratic platform by enacting laws
on the subjects OF trusts, the farmers
BANKS and perhaps on the Philip
pines.''
MI. Clark referred briefly to the
Mexlcan situation. saying that it was
being handled by the President who
was IN constant touch with things in
mexico and who knows more about
the situation probably than any Other
man in America"
When Silence Is Golden.
g.. seems to me- he concluded
mat the people of the United State
ousht 10 support him and his policies
ana TO remember that silence is goldaY
"heh We refer to these matters
.a'e no sort of doubt that the presi-
ue,,t and the Democrats in Congress,
"ih WORK along in harmony for the
glory and prosperity of the renuhlic ;