The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-18
DEMOCRACY HAS KEPT
FAITH, SAYS RALNEY
IT Has Done the Things Whch 1t Promised to Do Making
Record of Eighteen Months of Progressive Legisa-
ton Unexceled in Nations History.

, controlled Democratic policies in all
the decades which have passed since
the days OF Jefferson.
A Democratic Congress has net
without fear the great problems
which have been confronting the
country through all the years of Re
publican rule--problems which have
been continually pushed forward into
the future by the Republican party
through all Its years OF supremacy.
Under the wise. patriotic guidance of
the greatest president OF tho country
has had in half century OF time the
present congress has remained in SEES
sion longer than any congress- since
the Civil War. The term of the pro-
sent executive IN not yet half over
There still remains another session
Of The congress now in session. nut
We have already enacted into law
nearly all the great remedial measures
We promised the country during the
last campaign for the presidency We
proudly call attention to a marvellous
record Of performance mot eoualied
by any party in tho same length Of
time during all our history as a
republic.
We have kept our promises literally
and have revised the tariff downward.
We have written into the laws tariff
provisions which have wiped out every
Vestage 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 or them day and night. The
predicted business disasters and panics
have not come.
Feel Effects of Revision
Already In the Wholesale prices CT
goods the effect of our revision is he
ing felt. Long before the next presl-
Dental election retail price reductions
and cheapening of methods OF distri5u-
ton will make impossible the return
to power Of any party. in any section
Of the country. which promises or adj
vocates restoration of the old oppres-
sive Republican tariff schedules
We have enacted into law efficient in
cometax regulations--the kind OF
tax which compels the rich to bear
their fair share Of the burdens OF rum
ming this government. We have al
ready accomplished the currency re-
form demanded by present day cond-
tions. The new Federal Banking Act
is not vet in operation, hat will be be
fore the elections in November AL
ready the fact that the law will soon
be IN operation has had its reasurring
effect upon the banking and business
interests of the country Bank panics
and extensive business depressions are
now a thing Of the past We have abol
ished forever the dollar diplomacy
of the Republican party~~the diplo-
macy which meant that investments of
Wall Street capitalists and spectators
in the weaker republics of the western
world would be protected by the
armies and navies OF the United States
and compelled to yield the return the
investors demanded. We have sub
stituted for that policy the doctrine Of
human rights. Already a feeling o.
confidence toward as is being estab
lshed in the weaker republics south
Of us. Bonds OF friendship are be-
ginning to hold together the republics
~ the western world. and II will not
be long before We may expect profit
able trade relations with the prosper
GUS productive countries OF South and
Central America, which up. to the
present time have rejected our over
lures and our commercial advances.
Lobby Is Driven Out. !
We have driven forever out of Con-