The Washington herald., 1915-01-09

ent il this is not the first January in
f, their recollection that did not bring a
money stringency, for the time being,
because of the necessity of paying out
of great sums of money by way OF divi-
dends and the other settlements which
come at the first OF the year. I have
asked bankers if that happened this year
and they say no, II did not happen, II
could not happen under the Federal re-
serve act. We have emancipated the
credits Of this country.
Warns the insurgents.
THE Democratic party is still on trial.
The Democratic party has to prove to the
independent voters of chis country not
only that it believes in these things, but
that it will continue to work along these
lines
This country is not going to use any
party that cannot do continuance and
consistent team work. II any group of
men should dare break the solidarity of
the Democratic team for any purpose or
from any motive, theirs will be a most
unenviable notOriety and a responsibility
which will bring deep bitterness to them.
The only party serviceable to a nation is
a party that can hold absolutely together
and march with the discipline and with
the zest OF conquerlng most.
What We are trying to do in the great
conservation bill now in Congress is to
carry out for the first time in the his
tory of the United States a system by
which the great resources of this coun-
try can be used, instead of being set
aside so that no man can get at them
1 shall watch with a great deal Of in
terest what the self-styled friends Of
business try to do with those bills.
Don't you think it would be a pretty
good idea for the Democratic party to
undertake a systematic method Of help
ing the working men OF America? II
you were simply to establish a great
general employment bureau it would do
vast deal by the Federal agencies
which spread over this country, men
could be directed to those parts of the
country. to those undertakings, to those
tasks where they could find profitable en-
ployment. The labor OF this country
needs to be guided from opportunity to
opportunity.
Courts Must Speed Up.
And there is another thing that needs
very much to be done. I am not one of
those who doubt either the industry or
the learning or the integrity of the courts
of the United States, but do know that
they have a very antiquated way of doing
DuSlnGSS- 40 KNOW IndI Ine united
States in it's judicial procedure is many
decades behind every other civilized gov
ernment in the world. and 1 say that it
is immediate and an imperative call upon
us to rectify that, because the speediness
of justice, the ineXpensiveness of justice,
the ready access of justice, is the geater
part of justice itself
Just before I came away from Wash
ington I was going over some of the
figures Of the last elections, the elections
of November last. The official returns
have not all come in yet. do not know
why they are so slow in getting to US;
but so far as they have come in they
have given me this useful information
that, taking the States where Senators
were elected and where Senators were
not elected. taking the election of gov
ernors, and where governors were not
elected taking the returns for the State
legislatures or for the Congressional del
egates. the Democrats. reckoning State
by State. would. IL 1t had been a Presi-
Dental year, have had a majority of
about eighty in the Electoral College.
sticks by Mexican Policy.
Il want to say a word about Mexico,
or not so much about Mexico as about
out attitude toward Mexico. hold II
as fundamental principle and so
do you. that every people has the right
10 determine its own form of govern
nent; and until this recent revolution
In Mexico, until the end of the Diaz
reign, so per cent Of the people of Mex
leo never had f1ook in" in determin-
ing who should be their governors or
what theLr government should be. Now
[ am for the 80 per cent. II is none
1f my business, and 1t is none OF your
business, how long they take in de- |
it. 1t is none of my busi- |
ness and It is none Of yours, how they |
go about the business. The country |
IS theirs. The government is theirs. |
The liberty, II they can get II, and |
5odspeed them in getting 1t. Is theirs. |
And so far as my influence goes while |
am President nobody shall interfere |
With them.
There may come a time when the |
American people will have to Judge |
whether / know what I am talking |
lbout or not At least for two years |
more am free to think that 1 do with |
/ great comfort in immunity in the
line being"