Evening star., 1915-01-09
WILSON SAYS DEMOCRATS
STILL REMAIN ON TRIAL
Points to Legislative Reforms Achieved and
Those Yet Faced-Cites Business Con-
ditions and Foreign Affairs

Sentlemen, to select the federal trade
commission, because I wanted to choose
men, and be sure that I had chosen
men. who would be really serviceable
to the business men of this country,
great as we'll as small, the rank and
the fle These things have been done,
and Will never be undone. They were
talked about. and talked about with
futihty, until a democratic Congress
attempted and achieved them.
Party Still on Trial.
But the democratic party is not to
suppose that it Is done with the busi-
ness. The democratic party is still on
trial. The democratic party still has
to prove to the Independent voters of
this country not only that it believes In
these things, but that it will continue
to work along these lines and that it
VIII not allow any enemy of these
things to break It's ranks. This coun-
try is not going to use any party that
cannot do continuous and consistent
teamwork. II any group of men should
dare to break the solidarity of the
democratic team for any purpose or
from any motive, theirs will be most
unenviable notoriety and a RESPONSE
b1lity which will bring deep bitterness
ioh to them: The only party that is serv-
iceaole to nation is a party that can
hold absolutely together and march
with the discipline and with the zest of
conQuering host.
ca, II am not saying these things be-
party will be able to do these things.
but because I believe that, as leader for
the time being of that party, I can
promise the country that 1t will do
at Washington: know their spirit and
their purpose. and I know that they
have the same emotion, the same high
emotion of public service, that I hope
I have.
Lauds Indiana Senators.
II want at this juncture to pay my
tribute Of respect and of affectionate
admiration for the two great demo-
cratic senators from the state of In
diana. I have never had to lie awake
nights wondering what they were go
Ing to do. And the country is not going
to trouble itself, ladies and gentlemen.
to lie awake nights and wonder what
men are going to do. If they have to
do that, they will choose other men,
and that Is all to the business. Team
work all the time is what they are
going to demand Of us. and that Is our
individual as well as our collective re-
sponsibfltty. That is what Jackson
stands for. If a man will not play in
the team, then he does not belong to
the team. You see. have spent a large
O.
what team means when 1 see it: and
I know what the captain Of team
must have 1t he is going to win. So it
is no idle figure with me.
Now, what Is their duty? You say.
Hasn't this Congress carried out a
great program Yes, it has carried out
a great program. 1t has had the most
remarkable record that any Congress
since the civil war has had; and say
since the civil war because 1 have not
had time to think about those befo6e
the civil war. But we are living at an
extraordinary moment. The world has
never been in the condition that it is
in now, my friends. Half the world is
on fire. Only America among the great
powers of the world Is free to govern
her own life; and all the world is look
ing to America to serve it's economic
need. And while this is happening, what
is going on?
"Do you know. gentlemen, that the
ocean freight rates have gone up in
some instances to ten times their ordi-
the United States, those who raise
grain and those who raise cotton
these things that are absolutely neces-
sary to the world as well as to our
selves-cannot get any profit out of
the great prices that they are willing
side Of the sea because the whole profit
is eaten up by the extortionate charges
for ocean carriage? In the midst of
this the democrats propose a tempo
rary measure Of relief in shipping
bill
Must Have Vessels.
1.-The merchants and the farmers of
this country must have ships to carry
their goods, and just at the present
there is no other way Of get
ting them than through the instrument
tality that is suggested in the shipping
bill. And / hear it said in Washington
on all hands that the republicans in
the United States Senate mean to talk
enough to make the passage Of that bill
impossible.
These self-styled friends of business
men who say the democratic
party does not know what to do for
business-are saying that the demo-
Gratis shall do nothing for business. l
challenge them to show their right
to stand in the way of the release of
American products to the rest of the
world. Who commissioned them-a mi
nority, a lessening minority? For they
next Senate than in this. You know
it is the popularity of that great body
that it has rules of procedure which
make it possible for a minority to defy
the nation. And these gentlemen. are
now seeking to defy the nation and
ucts to the suffering world, which needs
them more than it ever needed them
before. Their credentials as friends of
business and friends of America will
be badly discredited if they succeed.
Prefers Prayers to Abuse.
IF I were speaking from a selfish,
partisan point of view I could wish
nothing better than that they could
show their true colors as partisans
and succeed. But 1 am not quite 80
as that. Some of them are
some of them are blind;
most of them are ignorant I would
rather pray for them than abuse them.
But the great voice of America ought
to make them understand what they
are said to be attempting now. L.
have to say are said to be attempting
because they do not come and tell me
that they are attempting them. l do
not know why. 1 would express my
opinion of them in parliamentary Ian
guage, but I would express, l hope, no
less plainly because couched in the
terms of courtesy. This country is
ing to it that the jacket is not only
kept tight, but is riveted with Steel
THE democratic party does know
how to serve business in this country,
and its future program is program
of service. We have cleared the decks.
We have laid the lines now upon which
business that was to do the country
harm shall be stopped and an economic
control which was intolerable shall be