The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-22

the East. peace in the West, and thank God for Wilson, should be our heart felt feeling tonight. We would be less than patriotic, if we did not support not only Dem9crat. He IS an execu- tive whose chief ideal Of. government His justice for all men, In introducing Secretary Daniels, MT. Cummings declared that the hon or was more than formal one. He. Navy Department head, and stated that for fourteen years he had served on the Democratic National Commit tee, with him. The appearance of the Secretary of the Navy behind the | speaker s table was the signal for the breaking forth of storm of applause l which finally. had to be ended by a, wave of the speakers hand.
 Secretary Daniels began his speech by summarizing the work which Con gress had accomplished under the whip of President Wilson.
 Some regard a platform as Some thing to get in on and not to stand Eupon, ,'' he declared. Voters are keen l and alive and will trust no party that does not keep it's promises If the Wilson administration has not kept 1 the promises which it made in the platform of Baltimore, it does not de- serve vote of confidence.
 .In the early part of the adn1infs- 1 tration, even before the 4th of March had been far past, the supporters of ] the Payne-Aldr1ch tariff law opposed l any action of Congress upon 8 new tariff measure. They went to Presi- dent Wilson and told him that they thought he had better wait a while
 '4The President replied, T must keep fny pledges know nothing about & promise. except that must keep it. My boss won't let me do | otherwise.'
 "And when asked who his boss was. he replied. My conscience,
 HtIIe is the first president, who ever admitted he was boss-contrp1led. I
 would that there had been others so | controlled
 l s.If anything caused the busting of the Republican party, it was, the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, a law not written :gy MT. Payne or MT. Aldrtch, but by those Interests it directly bene- lifted.
 ..In addition to the new tariff law we have passed the income tax, the fairest and most equitable tax that ] can be levied. If man has an in l come he ought to be glad to pay the tax; if a man has not an, income, he 1 pays nothing. Fortunately the in I come tax is in force now, or the Euro pean war would make enormous spe- l ciaI taxes necessary and the higher the tariff the higher would soar these special taxes. E
 seThe panic of 1907 was caused by a currency famine. President Wilson l resolved to help currency, and to make possible a scientific banking | system before the adjournment of lCongress The School-master Presi- dent rang the bell. and said Boys there is more work to be done.
 seThe owen-Glass currency law will be in force fully on November 15. and l neither you, or l. will live to see an 1 other currency panic.
 Bankers first opposed the measure 1 but later co-operated to strengthen l credit and aid business throughout the 1 country Thirty-hve Republicans in the House, and most of the Progress sives voted for it; many Republicans and all of the Progreeeives in the Sen ate cast their ballot for that epoch making bill.
 I s.In fact, not a, measure has been 1 passed during the present adninistra- tion that has not had some Republican votes. Such men as ila-Foiiette--Fs4SS'o 1S . bless hirn---voted for the tarin meas= ure. Senator Weeks, one Of the most hide-bound stand -patters, said he vot- Ee ed. for the currency bill because it was 75 per cent. good
 .Tf any stand d-patter calls Demo- cratic measure 75 per cent. good, I will stake my life that it is loo per cent good.
 s@The present Congress has been in session longer than any other except the one during Andrew Johnson's ad- F 1ninistratio11, and during that session probably no more salutary law has been passed. than the Antitrust one. Ther is a, passage in sthat law which for the first time in American govern | 111ent declares that the labor of man kind is not a. commodity That act alone should win the votes of all fair-Ininded persons This anti trust law takes human labor from the same category as trusts and monopo- lies the position it had been assigned in the sherman law LaboriIlg men from California, to- Connecticut, will
 say that this law gives more reeognl- ton to them than any other measure : during a, generation.
 esIt is a very good thing to be a Democrat this year. but remember way back in 1908 when I sat in a. little office in New York awaiting the re- turns from the presidential election. How dolefuI felt, and when found
 that my party had been oyerwh helm-
 ingly defeated, I packed my little handbag and slipped out of town. It was a serious time for Democrats then.
 It looked as though the Republicans
 had a, mortgage foreclosed on the
 country for a quarter of a, century, but in two years, the 1eaven of Democ- racy was working resultfully- In 1912 we saw more than half the Republican
 party leave it and form a party of it's
 own On the first Tuesday after the
 first Monday in November you will
 see such rock-ribbed states as Penn
 sylvania come into the Democratic
 column.
 ttBut there are real, vital, pulsing
 reasons---not party ones---w11y these states should roll up a Democratic ma