Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-19
WILSON LAUDS
D0|NCS OF OWN
ADMINISTRATION
Outlines Program for
Next Session of Con-
gress S a y S Demo-
Gratis Only Can Now
Accomplish Anything
For Good of Country

Washington, Oct. 1S.-President Wilson
made public today letter to Majority
Leader Underwood of the House in which
he reviewed the achievements of his adj
ministration, outlined the program for
the next session of Congress, and de-
clared the Democratic party is now in
fact the only instrument ready to the
eountry'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 to make in every congress
sional district He predicted victory for
his party in the elections because every
thoughtful man sees that a change of
parties just now would set the clock back
not forward and because "a practical
nation Is not likely to reject such a
team. full of the spirtz of public service
and substitute, In the midst of great
tasks, either a party upon which a deep
decentralization has fallen, or party
which has not grown to stature that
would warrant its assuming the respon-
sible burdens of state"
The legislative program begun during
the present Congress was declared by
the President to have been begun ito de-
stroy private control and set business
free" He said that the people of the
country had been served by this Con-
gress as they havesneve been served
before
Outlining the work already accom-
plished Mr.. Wilson mentioned the re-
form of the tariff, the passage of the
new currency bill the antitrust bills
and the handling of foreign problems
He said he doubted If "there has ever
been a finer exhibition of team work or
of unhesitating devotion to the fulfill
ment of party pledges"
Praising the new tariff bill, the Presi-
dent asserted that private control 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 the tariff. but out of the suppress
sion of competition which fourished more
easily under the protection of a high
tariff. He declared that the panic which
opponents of the new bill predicted, had
not come. and that despite the European
war there had been sufficient time to
prove the success of the act
The trade commission bill and the Clay
ton antitrust bill were spoken of as de-
signed Ito make men in a small way of
business as free to succeed as men in a
big way, and to kill monopoly in the
seed He added that 'monopoles are
built up by unfair methods of COMPETE
ton" which would be eliminated by the
new legislation. Monopoly is to be cut
off at the roots" he declared
IF our party were to be called upon to
name the particular point of principle in
which it differs from its opponents most
sharply and in which It feels itself most
definitely sustained by experience" con-
tinued the President, I'VE should no
doubt say that it was this That we
would have no dealings with monopoly
but reject it altogether; while our oppo-
nents were ready to adopt it into the
realm of law, and seek merely to regu-
late it and moderate ii in its operation
1t is our purpose to destroy monopoly
and maintain competition as the only
effectual instrument of business liberty
Justice has been done the laborer, de-
clared the President, and his labor is no
longer to be treated as if it twere merely
an inanimate object of commerce diseon-
necteo from the fortunes and happiness
of living human being. to be dealt with
as an object of sale and barter
OF the currency bill Mr.. Wilson said
I'VE have created democracy of credit
such as has never existed in this country
before. He declared that credit is now
show energy and assets" and because
control of the system rested with the
government. said lit is self-government
as well as democracy.
1t was impossible to complete rural
credit legis alton the letter auued. but
the federal reserve act itself Facilitates
and enlarges agricultural credit to an ex-
traordinary degree
Speaking of the program for the next
session of Congress. the President men
toned legislation for building up the
American merchant marine, and the
completion of a great program for the
of our natural resources and
the development of the water power of
the country"
without a Congress in close sympathy
with the administration wrote the
President, "a whole scheme of peace and
honor and dsnterested service to the
world can not be brought to it's full
realization"