The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-01-12


whole profit is eaten up by the ex-
tortionate charges for ocean car
r!age? In the midst of this the
Democrats propose a temporary
measure of relief in a shipping bill.
THE merchants and the farmers
OF this country must have ships to
carry their goods. and just at the
present moment there is no other
way OF getting them than through
the instrumentality that IT is sug-
gested 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 thu :
bill impossible.
These self-styled friends of bust
ness, these men who say the Demo
cratic party does not know what TO
do for BUSINESS, are saying that the
Democrats shall do nothing for bust
ness. | challenge them TO show their
rights TO stand in the way OF the re-
lease Of American products to the
ed them, minority, lessenins
minority?% Their credentials as
friends Of business and friends OF
America viii be badly discredited II
they succeed
If / We're speaking from selfish.
partisan point of view, l could wish
nothing better than that they could
show their true colors as partisans
and succeed. But l am not quite SO
malevolent as that" would
rather pray for them than abuse
them. But the great voice OF
America ought to make them under.
stand what they are said to be att
tempting now. - This coun-
try is bursting it's jacket, and they
, are seeing to it that the jacket is
not only kept tight but is rivetec.
with steel.
, The Democratic party knows how
to serve business in this country and
its future program is a program OF
service. We have laid the
line now upon which business that
VOC w wv 'hS 'ouhtiN HUI III 5hSli
stopped and an economic contro,
which was intolerable shall be brok
en- up. We have emancipatod
America but America must do some
thing with her freedom.
There are great bills pending in
the United States senate just now
that have been passed by the houslt
OF representatives which are intend-
ed as constructive measures in be
half OF business-one great measur9
which VIII make available the enc.
, nous waterpowers of this coua.-sf
Tor the industry Of iti another u
: which will unlock the resources as
the public domain which the Repull
! iicans desire 10 have locked UP 80,
that nobody could use them.
What we are trying TO do in the
) great conservation bill is to carr
out for the first time in the history
5 OF the United States system by-
| which the great resources OF tn IS
country can be used instead OF be-
ing set aside so that no man can get
at them. l shall watch with q great
deal OF interest what the self-styled
friends OF business try to do to tho Sc
/ bills.
: DO not misunierstand me. There
: are some men on that side of the
Chamber who understand the value
of these things d are stand.lr
valiantly by them, but they are 4
small minority.
The majority that is standing BY
them is on our side OF the chamber,
and they are the friends of America
But there are other things which
we have to do. Sometimes when I
look around. my friends. and see the
great mass Of struggling humau;ty
on this continent. II goes very mach
l" my heart to see how many ,len
ar" at disadvantage and are With.
oat guides and helpers Don. YOU
think Il would be pretty gool i,lea
Tor the Democratic party to sSsr-
take systematic method OF herY,pa
lthe working men of America? Ter,
IS very simple way in whicap<ity
can help the working men. fS IN
were simply to establish a greai 20
era' employment bureau 1t wou.T d
a vast deal; by the federal ages1aA
which spread over this country mon
could be directed to those par.s Of
the country to those undertak, ,sa
to those tasks. where they cauld
find profitable employment. :The
labor OF this country needs q be