Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-03-12
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is a year old to-day. We arr not
accustomed to measure what q
baby isgoing to amount to when
it has reached its first twelve
month mile post, but we can gen.
orally get a pretty good idea OF
the sort OF statue OF q man into
which it is going to develop by
the showing it makes during that
time. 1t is not otherwise with US
when we come to reckon the pros
pect OF any enterprise. Business
can ordinarily be gauged either
to success or failute by the rec.
ord made during the flrst year
and in the light OF this common
standard Of Judgment, IL is not
amiss to make our calculations
as to the ultimate achievements
OF national democracy from rec
ords accomplished since that day
a year ago when President Viii
son took oath Of Office.
Withoutexaggeratin thecause
at all, we might remark that no
other administration has made
such a remarkable showing as
has the regime Of President VIII
son during the short time it has
been in power. This is true not
only Of what has been planned
during that time to be carried
out at some future date, but &C.
tually Of what has been accom-
plished. The party went into pow
er with a load on it's shoulders.
It has pledged itself to reforms
which it's predecessor has been
promising for years, but which it
had never been able to carry out.
The republicans knew the temper
of the American people in respect
to the tariff and It dickered with
it year afteryearw withoutmaking
a dent upon the adamantine op-
position to revision which W a 8
reserved in financial and manu-
featuring circles. 1t had talked of
the necessity Off new currency
bill, and some of'its leading ex.
ponents knew precisely what the
country wanted, but they could
not get their party around to the
conviction that it was either the
wise or the expedient reform to
engage it.
Wit h these unaccomplished
tasks OF the republicans before
them and without a path having
been blazed upon which they could
travel to the execution of these
plans, the Democrats plunged
straightway into'the program OF
reform and in the course of a few
months, they had smashed the
wall OF the protective tariff and
adopted a schedule of currency
thatpromises to revolutionize the
industries of the American peo.
pie.
These achievements Of course
stand out as the two principal
and the most concrete specimens
of what the administration has
done. Looking at the records o.
the past year from a genera
point OF view, the larger accom-
plishment has been inspiring the
confidence of the American peo'
pie both in the sincerity OF tht
Government to do something re
ally potent for their good and itt
own power Of initiative. Tht
country at large has about 10
covered from the shivers OF feal
with which it was first attacked
when the democracy camein to its
kingdom. They had been so con
tinuously possessed with the be
lief that that the democratic par
ty was a party OF panics that i
was natural for fear to be exper
fenced when the preceding regim'
was banished from the dominan
councils at Washington. Indica
tions now, however, are that th'
people have abundant faith il
democracy and in the exponent
of democracy who are solving