Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-10-20
WILSON WITH ABLE
ASSISTANCE COLLEAGUES
HAS MADE GOOD
(By Hon. Henry T. Rainey, Member OF
Congress from Illinois.)

faith. We have been true to the theor-
les upon which the party was founded
and to the great unwritten constitutiol
which has regulated and controlled
Democratic policies in all the decades
which have passed since the days Of
Jefferson.
A Democratic Congress has met with
out fear the great problems which have
been confronting the country through
all the years of the Republican rule
problems which have been continually
pushed forward into the future by the
Republican party through all its Yeas
of supremacy. Under the wise patri-
otto guidance of the greatest President
the country has had in half century
of time the present Congress has re-
NAMED in session longer than any Con
gress since the Civil War. The term
of the present Executive is not yet
half over. There still remains anoth ar
session of the Congress now in session,
but we have already enacted into law
nearly all the great remedial measures
we promised that country during the
last campaign for the Presidency. We
proudly call attention to a marvellous
record of performance not equalled by
any party in the 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
vesige of the old war tariffs. We have
enacted the lowest tariff law we have
had since the Walker tariff of ante
helIum days. Business goes on as usual
Our factories are running many Of
them day and night. The predicted
business disasters and panics have not
come.
Already in the Wholesale prices of
goods the effect of our revision is be-
ing felt. Long before the next Presi-
Dental election retail price reductions
and cheapening of methods of distribr-
ion will make impossible the return to
power Of any party, in any section of
the country, which promises or adyo-
Gates a restoration of the old appres-
sive Republican tariff schedules.
We have enacted into law efficient
income-tax regulations-the kind of a
tax which compels the rich to bear
their fair share of the burdens of run
ming this Government. We have al
ready accomplished the currency re-
form demanded by present-day condi-
tons. The new Federal Banking act
is not yet in operation, but will be be
fore the election in November. Already
the fact that the law will soon be il
operation has had its reagsuring effect
upon the banking and business inter
ests of the country. Bank panics and
extensive business depressions are now
thing Of the past, We ahye abolish
ed forever the dollar diplomacy Ct
he Republican party-the diplomacy
which meant that investments of Wall
Street capitalists and SPECTATORS in
he 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 in
vestors demanded. We have substituted
for that policy the doctrines of human
rights. Alread, feeling Of confidence
toward us is being established in the
weaker republics south of US. Bonds
of friendship are beginning to hold to-
gether the republics of the western
world, and it will not be long before
we may expect profitable trade rela-
tons with the prosperous productive
countries of South and Central Ana. :,
lea which up to the present time have
rejected our overtures and our COM
mercial advances.
We have driven forever out of Con-
gress the insidious lobby, and no long