The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-26
ALL GET IN LINE, is DEMAND OF
RAINEY TO ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS

| ing felt Long before the next presi-
Dental election retail price reductions
and cheapening of methods of distri.
| button will make impossible the re.
turn to power of any party, in any
section of the country, which promises
or advocates a restoration of the old
oppressive Republican tariff sched-
ules.
Income Tax Law Enacted.
| I'VE 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 con-
| ditions. The new federal banking act
is not yet in operation, but will be be-
fore the elections in November. AL
ready the fact that the law will soon
be in operation has had its reassuring
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 driven forever out of con-
gress the insidious lobby, and no long
er are the corridors of our national
capitol filled with the men who repre-
sent great interests and who demand
legislation at the expense of the great
producing masses of our population.
We have made effective the popu-
lar vote for United States senator's
We have averted great railway strikes
by arbitration. We have destroyed
the telegraph and telephone trusts.
We have made possible an efficient
parcel post Law, and we have extended
it and cheapened it. We have wiped
out the deficit in the postal service,
! and We have made the post office de-
| partment self-sustaining We have
made effectual and possible trust dis
solutions. We have destroyed Cam
I nonism in the house of representa-
/ tives, and We have made that body re-
/ sponsiye, not to the will of a few polit-
I ical bosses representing the interests,
but we have made it responsive to the
/ demands of the people of the United
/ States.
Antitrust Laws of Nation.
| Before the end of the present ses-
/ sion we will have written into the law
all the great trust bills advocated by
/ the present administration. All of
them have already passed the lower
/ house OF congress. One of the most
/ important of them has already be-
| come law. The trust laws we have
enacted are along Democratic lines.
! they are based on the golden rule.
| Under them business will flourish and
trade competition will prevail, and
there win be a restoration Of the hon
orable business methods Of the past.
Under them the trusts must obey the
DEGREES of courts. They must aban.
don unfair, cut-throat competition.
| Discrimination between purchasers of
their goods must cease. They must
abandon the control Of competitors ac-
Quired by them under the holding
company systems. The tremendous
power welded by their interlocking di.
rectories must cease. In other words
the trust laws we have enacted
give to the struggling, ambitious men
of moderate means a better chance In
life
Obliged to Keep Contracts.
Il have called attention only TO a
part OF the wonderful record OF
achievement of one Democratic con.
gress whose life has but half expired
We found confronting us, when we
took charge Of the national govern
ment and the state government, con
tract authorizations made by previous
national and state administrations
which we were compelled to meet anC
which has apparently prevented econ
omies in the administration of tbs
state and the national government
The national administration at thi:
present session Of congress has onl,
authorized, in addition to the neces
sary appropriation bills, the buildin!
of the Alaska railroad and the estab
, lishment Of the war risk insuranc,
, bureau, and the appropriation of 81,
100000 incident to the hostilities il
! Europe.
The party which would promise
, to abandon any one of these con
tract liabilities could not hope to sue
coed in national election. There 4
= an increase in our army appropria
/. lions of over $6,O00000; all of which
/. can be traced to disturbed condition
Z on our southern border and to the SIT
!. Uation at Vera Cruz 1t has therefor
cost us $6,000,00O to maintain peac
in Mexico; and the war in Europe ha
. cost us $1,000,OO This expenditur