Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-09

, 10 be attemDtjn- now. E. This coun
try IL bursting it's Jacket. and they arc
seeing 10 IL that the jacket is not only
: kept tight. hut is rivetcd with steel.
The Democratic party knows how
to serve business in this country. and
us future program is program of
service. 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 in.
tolerablc shall bc broken UP. We have
c'hah"lpated America. but America must
DO something with her freedom
There are great bills pending in
tho United States Senate just now that
nave been passed by the House Of Rep
rcscntatives. which are intended as
constructive measures in behalf of busi-
ness-onc great measure which will
make available the enormous water
powers OF this country for the indus
try OF II another hill, which will I'M
lock the resources of the public domain
which the Republicans desire to have
, locked up, so that nobody could use
them.
What we arc trying TO do in the
great conservation bill is to carry ont
, !or IN. hrst time in The history OF the
| united states a system by which the
great resources of this country can be
, used instead OF being set aside so
, 'hat no man can get at them. I shall
, watch with a great deal OF interest
what the self-stylcd friends Of business
Try 10 do TO those bills.
SOME OF MINORITY
FOR CONSERVATION
DO not misunderstood me. There
are some men on that side OF the cham
/ per VINO understand the value of these
things and arc standing valiantlv nv
thein, hut they are small minority
me majority that is standing by them
~ on our side OF tho chamber, and
they are the friends of America.
but there are other things which
we have to do. Sometimes when look
abroad, my friends. and see the great
mass OF struggling humanity on this
continent IL goes very much to my
heart 10 see how many men are AZ :,
disadvantage, and are without, guides
ana helpers Don't YOU think il would
be pretty good idea for the Demo-
cratic party to undertake a systematic
method OF helping the working men
OF America: There is a very simple
way in which they can help the work
ing men. If you were simply to ns
taplish great Federal empIoymen, I'M
reau, II would do vase deal. nv ,he
J. edcral agencies which spread over
TINS country: men could be directed m
those parts of the country TO those un
uertakinGs TO those tasks. where tncv
couid ma profitable employment. The
ihoor OF tEis country needs to he guided
from opportunity TO opportunity. We
proved il the other day.
we were told that in two States of
inc union $4,000 men were needed 10
gather the crops. We suggested in ,
abinet meeting that the Department
OF LABOR should have printed iuforma-
ton about this in such form tina; /.
could be posted in the post Offices All
over the United States; and that the
Department of Labor should get I'm
touch with the labor departments or
states, so that notice could go out from
snen. what was the result: These
$4,000 men were found and were sen.
10 tho place where they got profitable
employment. 1t will not cost {,
great deal of money and it will do q
great deal OF service if the United
states were TO undertake to do suci,
things Systematically and all the year
round, and 7. for my part. hone that
II VIII do that.
VERY ANTIQUATED WAY
OF COURT BUSINESS
And there is another thing that
needs very much to be done. am not
one OF those who doubt either the in
dustrE or the learning or the integrity.
OF the courts of the United States. hut
do know that they have n very an
tiquated way of doing business.
and say that II is an Immediate and
an imperative call upon us to rcctify
that, because the speediness OF Justice.
the ineNpensiveness OF justice. the
ready access OF Justice Is the greater
part Of justice itself.
And then there is something else.
The Democrats have heard the Repnb-
ltcans talking about tho scientific way
in which to handle tarin, though
tho Republicans have never given any
exhibition of a knowledge OF how to
handle it scientifically. II 1t Is scion
tific to put additional profits into the
hands Of those who are already get
ting the creator part of tho profits,
then they have been exceedingly scien-
tifc 1t has been tho science OF selfish
ness; 1t has been the science OF privl-