The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-21
(Domesticl
WILSON PRAISED THE WORK

sUuDI1C
day letter to Majority Leader I'm
derwood of the House in which he re-
viewed the achievements of his ad-
ministration, outlined the programme
for the next session of Congress, and
declared 1.-The Democratic party is
now in fact the only instrument
ready to the country's hand by which
anything 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 co
make in every congressional district.
He predicted victory for his party in
the elections because every Thought
full man sees that change of par
ties just now would set the clock
back, not forward, and because "a
practical nation is not likely to re-
ject such a team, full of the spirit
of public service, and substitute, i'm the
midst of great tasks, eibher a party
upon which deep decentralization
has fallen. or party which has not
grown to a stature that would war
rant its assuming the responsible
burdens OF state"
The Legislative programme begun
during the present Congress was de-
.clared by the president to have been
begun TO destroy private control and
set business free. He said that the
people of the country had been sery-
ed by this Congress as ''they have
never been served before"
Confines Work Accomplished
Outlining the work already accom-
pIished, Mr. Wilson mentioned the
reform of the tariff, the passage of
the new currency bill, the anti4trust
bills and the handling of foreign
problems. He said he doubted if
There has ever been a finer exhibit
tion of teamwork or of unhesitating
devotion to the lfulfillment of party
pledges"
Praising the new tariff bill, the
president asserted that private con-
troa had shown its sinister face on
every hand in America, had shown it
for a long time and sometimes very
brazenly, in the trusts, and in the
virtual domination of credit by small
groups of men He said that high
prices did not spring directly from
1he tariff but out of the suppression
of competition which fourishes more
easily under the protection of a high
tariff. He declared that the panic
which opponents of the new bill pre-
s1lcted had not come and THAT des-
p1te the Eu opean war there had been
suficient time to prove the success
of that act
The trade commission ibill and the
Clayton antitrust bill were spoken oi
as designed ito make men in a small
way of business as free to succeed as
men i'm a big way, and TO kill monop
oily in the seed. . He added that f'mo
1opolies are built up by unfair meth
DDS of competition" which would b.
eliminated by the new legislation
1tMonopoly is to be cut off at th
roots" he declared.
<sIf our party were to be called UP
on 20 name the particular point o
principle in which it differs from it
opponents most sharply and in wihic
If feels itself most definitely sustain
ed by experience . continued tn
president, 1--WE should no doubt sa
that it was this: That we woul
have no dealings with monopoly bu
reject it altogether; while our oppC
nents were ready TO adopt it into til
realm of law, and seek merely to re:
u1ate it and moderate it in its ope
alton. 1t is cur purpose to destro
monopoly and maintain competitio
as the only effectual instrument
business liberty
Justice has been done the Lahore
declared the president, and his labt
is no longer to be treated as If
were merely an inanimate object (
commerce disconnected from the 70
tunes and happiness of a living h
man being, to be dealt with as a
object of sale and barter
OF the currency bill Mr.. Wilsc
said: 1--WE have created a democr
ey of credit such as never existt
in this country before" He declare
that credit is now at the disposi
OF every man who can show energ
and assets and because control
the system rested with the govern
rnent. said lit is self-government {
~.zo1I &c d.a,nocracy -
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