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

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~ The rear round and ], fey my
r, hoce tIlatsIt viii do thai.
And there 'is.snother thing snstg
4sris, very much to be done. l. am
Asfss enc Of those who doubt either
industry or the 1eprning or de-
eS1,sitssses tie eaart2o OF the Isirsst'
1teA but ! d0tasw taat they hsrs
tssry autiQuated way OF DOING
fssiness. : and l say thar
+ is an immediate and an impsra-
I've call upon US to rsctify that. be-
use the speediness OF justice, the
fexpensiveness OF justice. the ready
fecess OF justice. Is the greater part
y justice itself
And then there is something else.
fhe Democrats aaye heard the Re
fub:icans talking about the scientific
lay I'm which to handle tariff
! stongh the Republicans have neveY
}ssiyen any exhibition OF a kiiSwledge
ia3 how to handle 1t scientifically. II
y IS scientific to put additional profits
1ato the hands of'thoseswho are ar
ready getting the greater part o, TIE
.iSrofits. then they have been exeeed-
dEgly scientific. It has been the
csenee OF Eelishns ss;,, II has been
4 s.rr.ls ssl>i.ee ar iege. gitei J. 4 ind
sI science do not-csre TO knew any,
Ssh;ng about except enough to stop t.
iPut if by scientific treatment OF the
stariff they mean adjustment to the
ssctua! trade conditions OF America
and the world. thep am with them;
tand want to calIRneir attention to
the fact that the bill which creates
the Lew trade commission does that
livery thing. We were at pains TO see
'fthat 1t was put in there. That COM
mission Is authorized and empowered
Ito enquire into and report 10 Con-
gress not only upon all the conditions
4 OF, trade in this country. but upon
the conditions of trade, the cost o.
manufacture, the cost of transpofta-
Jtior-all the things that enter. in,o
eth.. Question Of the tariff-in for .ser
countries as well as in the Uaited
States and into all those questions
Fjef foreign combinations which affect
I International trade between Europe
and the United States. 1t has the
f'iil powers which will guide Co..
lsress in the scientific treatment Of
qdestions Of international trace
r
AT every turn the things that the
progressive Republicans have rro-
{rosed that were practicable the
democrats either have done or are
4nronosing to do. II that is not our
isbIll of particulars to satisfy the in
!, dependent voters of the country J
J would like to have, one prcdu "a
1 There are things that. the progressiy,.
kpresrsm contsirnJ rhich wee peire
81 = "a. asa1 frsr 5csssu e
tsex sapnet ss dasis hy tl.s fon-
-sress ~ tbs yl: :ys.r states.
But SO far as they can be done by
satate legislatures I for one. speaking
Tor one Democrat. am heartily in
favor OF their being done. - ."
4 The President said that Just before
he left Washington he went over the
4. figures from the last election and
that while these figures were as yet
incomplete. they show that the Dem
ocrats reckoning state by state,
would. II 1t had been q presidential
year. have had . majority of 80 in
the electral college.
W
4 Fortunately or unfortunately this
10 not . presidential year; but the
thing Is significant to me for. this
reason.
"A great many people have been
speaking Of the Democratic party N
a minority party. Well II is not
so much Of a minority party as the
Republican and as between the
minorities 1 think we can claim to
lbeiong to the larger minority. The
moral Of that is merely what I have
already been pointing out to you.
that neither party In its regular
membership has a majority. I do
not want to make the Independent
Jsoter too proud of himself. but I
TIhave got TO admit that he is our boss
fand l am bound to admit that the
things that he wants. so far as have
seen them mentioned, are the things
That want. am not an independent
iyoter, but hope I can claim to be
an independent person and want
To say this distinctly. I do not love
any party any longer than it con-
unues to serve the immediate and
pressing needs Of America. ..
n Il want to make every indepen-