The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
CERTAINTY AND CONFIDENCE.

The doctrines repudiated by the people in
1912 have not been endorsed by the people p,
1914. AS the results of the election Of last
week are the more closely examined il is recor.
nized that on a straight fight between the reac.
tionaries and those who fight for the ref,rn,s
set forth in the Wilson policies the Wilson
policies have been endorsed. AS the New York
World says. There is certainty and not an
certainty ahead" the country has shown BY its
vote that it endorses the Wilson program. With
a greater Democratic majority in the Senate.
and a substantial majority in the House. the
Democracy is in an actual majority on national
issues. The country has not gone backward IN
it's progress of reform.
In the New York World Of SATURDAY there
appeared an editorial which clearly sets forth
the strong position Of the Democracy before the
country, that the Wilson reforms are here to
stay. In this matter, under the caption OF Ger
tainty and Confidence" that paper says:
The remnants of the old guard Of stand.
patism who have been elected to the Sixty
fourth Congress are full OF boasts and menaces
but they never were more deluded in their lives
"They are not going to wipe out the laws
passed by the sixty-third Congress. for they
nave not votes enough. They are not going to
revise the tariff upward in the interest Of the
trusts. or put the injunction shackles again
upon lawful organized labor, or restore financial
supremacy to Wall Street, or nullify the Shcr-
man law. Or hand Alaska over again TO the
lOoters. or call back the lobby, because they
cannot.
With ample Democraticl majoTities in both
Houses of the next Congress, everything thus
far done by the Wilson administration viii 30
safeguarded; the uncompleted Democratic leg.
lslative program will be carried out. and reac-
ton will b. impossible. Even more to the point
is the fact that the important Democratic gains
in the Senate this fall probably assure control
n f tho hndu for foI,~ $1,000 9TH
but a sweeping political revolution in 1915 could
restore Republication to power in that quarter
before 1918.
las showing how unlikely such an upheaFal
must be regarded, there is another monumental
tact which the elder statesmen have overlooked
The Democratic party in 1912, as they have
trulI~sald, was a minority party. It gained
place through the division Of it's opponents
Ihls year it retains office in the face Of a Ef-
publlcanism that in most places was practically
united. If the Democrats are not in an actual
majority on national issues today, a represTnta.
tive system that gives them a preponderance u
hfteen in the Senate and twenty-five or thirty
in the House is wofully at fault.
The Wilson reforms, then, are here to stay
ihey have been effected under very trying con
ulions at home and abroad. on a straight
issue as to them, they have been sustained IN
force two years longer. the country will be no
more inclined to go back to privilege, plutocracE
ana plunder than to slavery and secession
II Is this prospect of peace and progress that
Il giving confidence to legitimate enterprise al
over the land. 1t is the knowledge that threats
OF political upheavals in the interest Of seif1sh
cilques and repudiated doctrines are futile tha'
supplies honest men everywhere with the one
inspiration that recently they have lacked,
"Ihere is certainty and not uncertainty
aheao, and the certainty is Of equal rights ana
opportunities, of just laws and their impartial
enforcement, and Of government not for ih7
1e" but for the many, all strongly upheld by .
Fresldent and a Congress who believe in them
business is treasured, not because n few
n!ecialmable old reactionaries have come -
life but because the nolitical si,uarion is such
/ d TO render them harmless. Their fangs are
drawn.
me survivors Of HannaisIn who are 10 ap-
| pear il the new Congress will not b. tsTroTs.
| Ihey Will not be leaders. They VIII te warn
| fnsS"