The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-20
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NUMBER
ADF G0NPI!|I
president Reviews His Achieve
rments in .Soft Soap Lett
terzto UnderMu0d.

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I WASHINGTON. Oct. 30, Presl7
dent Wilson made public teday.a ls9s
/ ter to Majority Leader Underwood 81
1 the House in which he reviewed the
achievements of his administration.
ioutfined the program for the, next
session Of Congress- and declared
1.-The Democratic party Is now in fact
| theAonfy instrum emit ready to the
conntry's hand by which anything
can be accomplished"
A Connie Mack Prediction.
The president wrote the letter as
| an enlargement of all Democratic
members of Congress in lieu OF
speeches he said he would like to
make In every con gresstonal d1strict.
He predicted victory for his perty IN
the elections because every thought
| full man sees that q change OF par
ties Just now would set the clock
back, not forward. and because o
practical nation Is notSlikely to re-
iect sucfa team, full OfJtlhe spirit OF
public service, and substitute, in the
midst of great tasks, either party
upon which q deep Demonstration
has fallen, or party which has mol
grown tosa stature that would war.
rant Its assuming the responsible
burdens Of state.
= The legislative program begun
during the present Congress was de-
cIared. by5tiie president to have been
begun ito destroy private controi
and set business free. He said
| That the people of the country had
been served by this Congress as
they have never been served be-
: Outlining the work: already &C.
/ complished, Mr. Wilson mentioned
| the reform of the tariff. the passage
of the new currency bill, the anti
I trust bills, and the handling OF Tor
efgn problems. He said he doupteq
Eif there has ever been, a inner exnl
bition of teamwork or of unhes1tat
ling devotion to the fulhllment o.
party pledges.
II Praising the new tariff bid. tint
| nresident asserted that "privat
| control had shown its sinister facl
Ion every hand in America. haf
shown 1t for long time, and some
times very brazenly, in the trusts
and in the virtual domination o
! credit by small groups of men. Hs
l said that high prices did not sprint
directly from the tariff, but out o
! the suppression of competition Whfct
fourished more easily under tne
protection of high tarin: He oe
cIared that the panic which oppon
ents of the new uotll pred1cIeo, ~: MAJ ..s
mot come, and that despite the Euro
mean war there had been sumcten
/ time to prove the success of the act
The trade commission bill and tint
! CLAYTON antitrust bill were spoker
| of as designed Ito make men IN
( small sway of business as free to sue
coed as men in a big way, and Y
! lriIl MONOPOLY in the seed. III
/ added that .smonopolies are built u
| by unfair methods OF competition
which would be eliminated by IN
new legislation. Monopoly
| to be cut off at the roots. ne oe
clared.
"If our party were to be calle'
unon to name the particular poin
| of principle in which 1t differs from
| it's opponents most sharply and u
| which it feels itself most dehntteI
sustained by experience, continues
! the president Eve should no doub
ksay that 1t was this: That we woui'
| have. no dealings with monopoly blu
reject it altogether; while our or
! moments were ready to adopt 1t int,
/ the realm of law. and seek merei'
| to regulate it and moderate 1t IN II
| Operation 1t is our purpose to de
StrOy monopoly anu MdiASoAH SSAat
I netition as the only efectual instru
| ment of business liberty.
Merchant Marine.
| Justice has been done the laborel
declared the president, and his labo
| is no longer to be treated as IL
l..were merely an inahimate object Q
commerce disconnected from tn
fortunes and happiness Of Twin
| human being, to be dealt with as a
object of sale and barter.
OF the currency bill Mr.. Wilsol
said we have created a democrac
Of credit such as has never existe
| in this country before. He decla1
ed that credit is now at the dfspos
al of every MANI who can show eneI
Ky and assets. and because contro
Of the system rested with the govern
ment, said at Is self-goyernment a
well as democracy.
1t was Impossible to complete ru
raj credit legislation the letter adde,
but the federal reserve act itsel
facilitates and enlarges agricultur