Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-20

rREsIpnNr MILs0N,s LErrER.

nRSlDENT WILSON has written letter 10 Repre-
sentative Oscar W. Underwood. Democratic leader
in The House OF Representatives. In it he makes an
earnest plea for another Democratic Congress and
serts that the Democratic party is the only one
big enough to rule this country lie ondoavors defend
The workings OF the Underwood tariff insists that pr
yac control broken and asserts that business is
free
The President wrote that private letter for public
consumption IT'S face shows that there was previous
understanding that It should be made public and that it
also should be accepted the keynote for the Demo
cratic side o. the present campaign We incline to the
opinion that il he depends upon and the campaign
uses to which it will be put to dam the great flood of
American sentiment that bids fair restore the Re-
pubicans 10 control Of the House he is destined TO
suffer greyous disappointment
The American public knows from bitter experience
That 1t has not obtained from the Underwood tariff
hose blessings which Democratic statesmen including
the President promised should now from IT, Nor will that
same public accept the Presidents declaration that the
tax Of more than SiOO.OOOOOO, be imposed upon
The American public in time Of peace, made
sary by the European war and not by Democratic.
aria tinkoring and laundering There is nothing in the
Presidents letter that will carry conviction to the thou-
sands of American business men who have suffered in
iury 70 the hundreds OF thousands Of American wage
who have had their earning power destroyed
OF 10 the many thousands OF investors, large and
small. who have had their incomes. upon which they
are dependent diminished or wiped out by a morci-
less and consconless warfare waged against American
business by the Wilson administrations Were those in
jured business men and those idle wagc-earners TO
permit the utteranees the President influence them
IN the face Of their own bitter experiences they would
deserve suffer additional misfortune at TIC hands OF
an incompetent national Democracy.
The American voters will not he led bs the Rresi-
dents letter the campaign OF Democratic
orators to lose sight the Indictment that has been
framed against a national Democracy that has prom
Used much and done little for the benefit of the
American people, and that in only too many instances,
has substituted rremedabe injury for promised benefit
The charges against that Democracy have been SUM
married follows:
business depression, instead of business prosperity
idleness instead of work for hundreds OF thousands
OF American wageeaners
The imposition of Sl05OO0OOO of direct war taxes
upon people that is at peace with all the world
Ruinous warfare upon American business.
Pursuit OF a policy Of starvation against our great
transportation systems
The greatest appropriations ever made
The largest expenditures for the army and navy in
time of peace with one exception
Appropriations nearly hundred million creator
than those made by the last Republican Congress
Appropriations nearly hirty-two millions greater
than last year
new banking law creating Eve new Offices will
salaries Of $4,000 each and increasing the salary o.
The comptroller Of the currency $1,000
The new trade commission act creating FIVE com
missioners at $4,000 each and secretary $4,000
board of appeals created in the Interior Depart
ment, consisting of three members at $4,000 each
One hundred thousand dollars appropriated for com
mercial attaches, with such salary the Secretary
Of Commerce may fix and travelling expenses eacl
with clerk at the salary paid the clerk of a Con
gresham.
Five thousand dollars added TO the salary Of Tn,
Solicitor Of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
minister to Uruguay provided with a salary OF
10000
The salary Of diplomatic representatives to Ar
Eentna Chile and Spain raised $4,000 each
Numerous increases made in the salaries of as
ss'ant attorneys general private secretaries TO cabi-
act ministers and FORTH Of from $1,000 TO $4,000
zach.
ihose arc only some Of the acts committed by a
democratic national administration that was pledged
give the American people prosperity progress and
economy and that Instead has given hard times and
uheAampeo extravaganza in the use of public funds
1t viii require something more than a letter from
president Wilson to Representative Underwood :,
make the people OF the United States forgive or for
get the injury they have suffered at the hands n, M
Wilson administration.
Our President cannot expect an intelligent Ameri
electorate to accept valid argumcne in defens
81 his administration, such mass Of political wa,
lie he has embodied in his letter to Mr. Undc
wood 1t is merely further proof that the Republ
pend upon tho Wilson administration 10 supply the
eith all The campaign material needed.
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Living under any conditions. rather than The h
,o>t OF living. is the thing that is Worrying mllio
d European