The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-18

irresponsible agitators There were real wrongs which cried out to be lighted and; fearless men had ca1I-s ed attention to them, demaxldin@ that they be dealt with by law. We were living under tarif which had been purposely eontriVed to confer private favors upon those who were co-operat1ng to keep the party that originated it in pow CT, and in that all too fertile soil all the bad, interlacesf growth and jungle of monopoly had sprung up. Credit, the very life of trade, tho very air men must breathe if they would meet their oppo1&untttes, was too largely in the control of the same small groups who had planted and Cultivated monopoly The control of all big business, and by consequence of all little bug1- ness, too, wss for the meat part potentially if not actually. in the.r hands. ss And the thing stood so until the Democrats came into power last year. The legdslatton of the past yeazs and half has in very large measure done away with these things With their correction, susticion and nl-w1n will pass a'Way- For not only have these
 
 hsaye been put into action which are sure to prove the instr unents of new Efes in which the mists and dist ternbens which have so enn- barrassed or will be cleared away the wrongs and anisund derstaudings corrected which have brought dis- trust upon so many honest men unl- justly. That is the main ground of my own satisfaction.
 
 view to supporting ths government, rather than supporting the favor- ed benefciarfes Of the government. A system of banking ana currency issues has been created which puts credit within the reach of every man who can show a going busf- ; ness and tass sui 4sion and com trol of the system is in the hands or responsible agency of the gov- ernnent itself A trade tribunal has been created by which those who attenpt unjust and oppressive practices in business can be brought to book. Labor has oeen made som hing else in the view of the law than a mere nercantiIe eoEnn1odtty something human and linked with the privileges Of life it. sei1 Ihe Soil has everywhere been laid bare out Of which mon o'oIy IS slowly to be eraydica4edI And undoS1btAdly the means l5y which credit has been set frea fs af the heart or all these ff,fnas ture " ''.t ;. F
 ms IS the more significant be- cause Aof it's 0pportunness If sa brought to it's final aocompl lfsbYs.eS, S,f Just as 1t ills most imperatfyelv needed The war. which has inz voIved the whole of the heart ;sf hslropa has made it necessary tnaA the United states should mob lllze it's resources in the most af- Iecttve way possible and make her cTsd1t ana her usefu1ness good TOT ne service of the whole world F nas ereate ed :, too, special difffaq7Ftdaz pec1zl liar situations to be dea.lt 8yrit5, Ike the great embar7 assun nenf ir, seil1ne our immense cotton croDy winch all the world needs but against which, for the lime 1,af,,ee the markets of the world ara r, dangeF of being artifcin1Iv ssa1,f s Hflat situation the bankers Of tl,a country are meeting IS far aa posszo4e 1n a businesslilxe fas4lion end n the spirit Of the new fdTne which is opening before us
 Ine radTpads of the country ar,e aIrnosl as much afrected not so Iaoen because their business is cur tailed as because their fre<5;@ 5z called in question by doubt as tc their earning capacity. There is no other interest so central sfr, +ba p11s1ness welfare of the co1lr,4y-v !. : this No doubt, in fhe Ur5,f = the new day. with it's new fs<s,-- s1and1ngs the problems Of inc Ia1 E1 iroa ds VIII also .be met and aeaat with in a. spirit Of candor and
 
 For the future is cIaar bright with promise of tfla hae+ things While there was a.eitaz ton and suspicion and distr,,st ana bitter complaint of wrnnv
 groups and classes were at xvsr with one another, did not sea +V,s z their interests were common and stlnered only when separated and orought into conflict Funda,
 mental wrongs once lighted. as they may now easily and a,,jclxIxz De, all differences will clear away
 We are all in, the same br,st
 though apparently we had forwot- ten it. We now know the po1.t for which we are bound. We have and sllau have, more and more as our new utd erstan din es fdpen, common discipline Of patriotic purposes. We shall ad- vance and advance together with new spirit, a new genthusi- as1n, 2 new cordiality of spirited co-operation- It is an inspiring prospect. Our task is henceforth to work, not for any single Inter est but for all the interests of the country as a united whole
 The future will be very differ ent from the past, which we shall presently look back upon, I ven- ture to say. as if upon a bad dream The future will be differ ent in action and different in spirit, a time of healing because a time Of just dealing and CO., operation between men made equal before the law in fact as well as in name I am speaking g of this because the new banking system seems to me to symbolic all Of it. The opening Of the Fed eraI Reserve Banks seems to me to be the principal agency we have created for the emancipation we Seek. The 18th Of November, 91 4 will 11a 4a0faIo1o aS r71 a king