The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-10-23
PRESIDENT WRITES LETTER TO
MAJORITY LEADER UNDER.
WOOD IN LIEU OF CAM
PAlGN SPEECHES.
PRAISES CONGRESS FOR
MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Change Of Power Now, Says Execu.
tive, Would "Set Clock Back, Not
Forward"-Avers Legislators
Have "Served People as
Never Before"

Washington, Oct. 20.-President
Wilson made public a letter to Ma
jority Leader Underwood Of the
house in which he reviewed the
achievements Of his administration,
outlined the program for the next
session Of Congress, and declared the
Democratic party is now in fact the
only instrument ready to the country's
hand by which anything can be ac-
complished.'
In Lieu Of Speeches.
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 congressional district.
He predicted victory for his party in
the elections because every thought
full man sees that a change of parties
just now would set the clock back,
not forward and because "a practi-
cal nation is not likely to reject such
a team-full of the spirit Of public
service-and substitute, in the midst
of great tasks, either a party upon
which a deep Generalization has fall
len, or a party which has not grown
to a stature that would warrant it's
assuming the responsible burdens OF
state.''
The Results Claimed.
HI legislative program begun dur
Ing the present Congress was de-
clared by the president to have been
begun ito destroy private control and
set business free" He said that the
people of the country had been serv.
ed by this Congress as they haye
never been served before"
Outlining the work already accomp
lished, Mr.. Wilson mentioned the re-
form of the tariff, the passage of tho
e 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 worI
or of unhesitating devotion % the ful
flllment OF party pledges"
Points to Tariff Act.
Praising the new tariff bill, tn,
president asserted that private con
troll had shown its sinister face @,
every hand in America. had shown
~ q AOI5 tIIlC, duu sometimes EeTy
~brazenly, in the trusts. and in the viz
tual domination of credit by small
groups Of men" He said that hipl
prices did not spring directly from
the tariff. but out Of the suppression,
OF competition, which fourished NOR.
easily under the protection OF a higl
tarif. He declared that the bani,
which opponents of the new bill pre-
dicted had not come, and that de-
spite the European war, there ha.
been sufficient time to prove the suo
cess Of the act.
Inc trade commission bill and the
Clayton antitrust bill were spoken O,
as designed ito make men in a small
way OF business as free to succeed az
men In a big way, and to kill monopoly
In the Seed He added that "monopo
lies are built up by unfair methods OF
competition" which would be elimi.
mated by the new legislation. "Monopo
~ Is to be cut off at the roots" hs
declared.
Justice Done laborer.
Justice has been done the labcrer
declared the president, and his labo,
IS no longer to be treated as if il
were merely an inanimate object o.
commerce disconnected from the for
tunes and happiness Of a living h.
mar being, to be dealt with as an
object OF sale and barter"
or the currency bill Mr. Wilson
said. we have created a democracy OF
credit such as has never existed in
this country BEFORE"
Demands Of Future.
Speaking Of the program for ths
next session of Congress, the prest
lent mentioned legislation for build.
Ing up the American merchant ma.
rlne and the completion OF a great
program for the conservation OF oul
natural resources and the deyelon
ment of the water power of the conn.
try"
Without a Congress in close sym.
patty with the administration" wrote
the president, "a whole scheme Of
peace and honor and disinterested
service to the world cannot be brought
to its full realization"
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