The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-01-22
ELECTIONS Will
not EFFECT LAWS.
Assertions Made While President Was
Taking Vacation Now Being Rue
fully Taken Back
TALKS WITH NEWSPAPER MEN
Is Guided BY Sense Of Economic Evils
And Certain knowledge Of Way
To Correct Them -
From Congressman C. H. Tavenner.

From Congressman C. H. Tavenner.
Washington, January 22.-The
reactionary newspapers and Progress
sive newspapers attacking the ad-
mnistration for political reasons are
ruefully taking back their recent as
sertions that the administration had
decided to quit in the matter of pro-
gressive legislation until after the
coming congressional elections. The
story of mo more legislation" was
widely printed throughout the
United States, and every correspon-
dent who sent out this "news" made
his story appear to have come d.
rectly from headquarters-sam
the White House.
1t will be noted that these stories
came out while the President was
enjoying a we'll earned rest in Mis-
sssippi. The first day after Mr..
Wilson returned to Washington he
talked to the correspondent and dis
abused their minds of the idea that
having passed tariff and currency
laws dn the record time Of nine
months after inauguration he is now
prepared to sit with folded hands
and declare his work complete. The
correspondent let themselves down
with the assertion that the President
had thought it over" during his va
cation and had changed his mind.
AS matter of fact, the President
has never changed. He is not
tempering his convictions of what is
right to every political wind. There
are some party men who have been
urging him to "let up on business"
But the President (who, as a matter
of fact has never been bearing down
On ibusiness) has at no time been
swerved.
The President is guided by the
great, mastering sense of the eco
nomic evils of the country and a GER
tain knowledge of how to correct
those evils. He went before the
country as the champion of the new
freedom and the people elected him
their President. He is not now the
one to desert the people from a mo-
tive Of political expediency. The re-
forms which the people have de-
manded are going swiftly forward in
spite Of the threat of Big Business
to overthrow the Democratic Party
in the coming elections.
When the reactionary papers said
that the government would let up
on business they meant Big Bust
ness--the industrial trusts and the
Money Trust. Honest, legitimate
business, the kind that engages the
attention of thousands of good citi-
zens of this country need fear no
evil from President Wilson but they
can expect only good. The currency
bill will prove great benefit to
them, since it will remove the ma
tional banking reserves from New
York city and make it possible for
local ventures to be financed locally,
thing that will tremendously
stimulate enterprise of all sorts. Best
OF all, however, for the average bust
ness man will be the trust legisla-
ton.
Before that legislation passes, of
course, there will again be raised the
cry of hard times. That is all the
people can expect. They have learn
ed by bitter experience that when
they attempt to Grub those exploiting
them in countless forms of exploita.
ton they themselves suffer most
during the operation. But eventual.
ly laws will be passed by the present
session of Congress forbidding many
specific kinds of unfair and injuri
GUS trade practices, interlocking di
rectorates will be forbidden, thu
Money Trust will -ibe dealt a heavy
blow, credit will again he liberated
and into the hands of the small bust
ness man will be placed the power O
enforcing the antitrust law withou
recourse to the Department of JUS
tice.
This will be truly striking tn,
shackles from business instead of de
storying it, and instead of plungin!
the country into har times, this lie
gislation should usher in the great
est neriod Of Distributed nrnsnerit