The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-26


.sss.sss..ss--...ssss,l of special privi-
Iege. faithfully |
serving special interests. A GER
tain Theodore Roosevelt, who was for |
seven years the party chieftain'
turned states evidence against his |
party in 1912 and his evidence as TO |
the subserviency of his party to spe- !
cial interests was given the indorse-
ment of a large majority OF the he
publican voters.
So the Democratic party came into
power with practically three-fourths
OF the people demanding that the ideas
and methods of government so long
maintained by the Republican party
should undergo radical changes. Pres
ident Wilson and the Democratic con-
gress at once set about this task.
Tariff, Currency and Trusts.
The chief points on which changes
were demanded were the tariff, the
currency system and trust regulation.
These were taken up in the order OF
their Importance and congress has
been continuously in session framing
laws to reconstruct these systems.
The country has therefore, during the
Democratic administration, been pass
ing through a reconstruction period.
During this reconstruction period
the United States has been in the con-
dition Of a householder who, finding
his house too small to accommodate
his family, decides to rebuild it on
a larger scale and with modern i'm
provements While the reconstruction
work is progressing the family Is sub
jected to many inconvenience, but
they bear with these patiently and
good-humoredly because they are look
ing forward with pleased anticipation
to the time when they will have their
new and modern home. Then when
the work is done, and they enter upon
the enjoyment of the comforts and
conveniences Of the modern improve
ments and spacious quarters of their
new nome, the Inconvenience through
which they passed during the recon
struction period serve only to heighten
their pleasure in their new surround
ings.
u. S. Business Adjusting Itself.
This is the condition of affairs now
In the United States. The Democratic
party has reformed the tariff in &C
cordance with the advanced ideas oil
modern thought. The business of the
country is adjusting itself to the new
schedules, and there is everywhere
cheerful agreement that no bettel
tariff law could have been devised,
The currency system, long an "OlC
Man of the Sea, frightening fnan
ciers into continual timidity, was mex
taken up by the Democratic congress
under the courageous and patriotic
leadership of President Wilson Gu
of their labors has been evolved +;
currency system, which while yet il
its infancy, has enabled the United
States to withstand without financia
embarrassment the panicky condition
imposed by the European war. Thi
currency system gives absolute assul
ance that nevermore will there be
financial panic such as occurred undo
the Roosevelt administration in 1901
The regulation Of the trusts was tn
third of the gigantic problems tina
engaged the attention of congress.
Laws which insure a square deal an
equality of opportunity in business al
now being given their finishing toucbe
in the national senate, having alread
passed the house.
New Era Is at Hand.
The new and modern home, with q
up-to-date improvements and conve
fences, is ready for the use of Il
American nation, and an era of pro
perity. comfort and enjoyment is
hand, heightened by the knowledl
that true worth and honest effort a
assured of their just reward,
There may be some delay in the fl
realization of the blessings that a
to come from these Democrat
achievements, owing to the unusu
hardships of the European war, b
when we stop to consider what disa
ter might have befallen our nation
this crisis had not Woodrow Wilst
been placed in the executive chair
1913, we are compelled to the co
clusion that this republic Of the fir
Is the most Gnd-favored nation of Il
earth.