Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-10-23
PRESIDENT LAUDS
DEMOCRATS WORK
R-It sEEES LEGISLATIVE RECORD
AND PREDICTS VICTORYN
COMING ELECTIONS,

WASHINGTON, October "a
PRESIDENT Wilson made public early
ms week letter to Majority Leader
underwood of the house in which he
reviewed the achievements of his ad-
alnIstration, outlined the program
or the next session of congress and
declared "the Democratic party is
loW IN fact the only instrument ready
10 the oountry's hand by which any,
hing can be accomplished"
The president wrote the letter as
an endorsement of all Democratic
members of congress in lieu of
speeches he said he would like to
make in every congressional district.
He predicted victory for his party
in the elections because every
thoughtful man sees that change of
parties just now would set the clock
back, not forward" and because "a
practical nation is not likely to re-
ject such team, full of the spirit of
public service, and substitute, in the
midst of great tasks, either a party
upon which deep decentralization has
fallen or party which has not grown
to a stature that would warrant it's
assuming the responsible burdens of
state"
Outlines Work Accomplished.
Outlining the work already accom-
plished, Mr.. Wilson mentioned the re-
form of the tariff, the passage Of the
new currency bill, the passage of the
antitrust bills, and the handling OF
foreign problems.
Praising the tariff, the president
asserted that private control had
shown it's sinister face on every hand
in America, had shown It for long
time, and sometimes very brazenly, In
the trusts, and in the virtual domina-
tion Of credit by small groups Of
men,"
He said tnat high prices did not
pring directly from the tariff, but out
of the suppression of competition,
which flourished more easily under
the protection of high tarin.
He declared that the panic, which
opponents Of the new bill predicted,
had not come, and that despite the
European war there had been SUM
cient time to prove the success OF the
act.
The trade commission bill and the
Clayton antitrust bill were spoken Of
as designed to make men In . small
way Of business as free to succeed as
men in big way, and to kill monop-
oily in the seed" He added that
"monopolies are built up by unfair
methods Of competition" which
would be eliminated by the new leg
islation-
Justice For Labor-r.
Justice ha.. been done the laborer.
declares the president, and his labor
is no longer to be treated as II 1t
"were merely an inanimate object OF
commerce disconnected from the for
tunes and happiness of living hui
man being, to be dealt with as an OBJ
ject of sale and barter"
or the currency bill Mr.. Wilson
said:
1--WE have created Democracy of
credit such as has never existed In
this country before" He declared
that "credit is now at the disposal of
every man who can show energy and
assets" and because control of the
system rests with the government
said: "It is self government as we'll
as Democracy"
IL was lupOSSlulC " COAhPlCtC uA o.
credit legislation, the letter added.
but the federal reserve act itself
facilitates and enlarges agricultural
credit to an extraordinary degree"
Speaking Of the program of the
next session of congress, the presi-
dent mentioned legislation for build
ing up the American merchant ma
rine and 1.-THE completion of a great
program for the conservation of our
natural resources and the develop
ment OF the waterpower Of the coun-
try"
without congress in close sym
athy with the administration. wrote
the president, "a whole scheme of
peace and honor and disintereted
service to the world cannot be
brought to it's full realization"
Underwood Makes Reply.
An era of peace with foreign ma
tions and prosperity at home was pre-
dicted for the American people by
Representative Underwood, majority
leader in the house, in reply thank
ing President Wilson for his letter
praising the achievements of the De-
mocrats in congress. Mr.. Underwood
said he and his colleagues felt that
what they had accomplished was due
largely to the presidents magnificent
leadership.
L. 1nhN