The Monte Vista journal., 1915-03-06

TeuCS law lOI tue iidtioH, anu IL has
worked so satisfactorily that our en-.
emies have ceased to criticise it.
Trades Commission
We recast the laws regulating
trusts and created a Trades Com
mission, which will bear the same
relation to big industrial corpora
tions that the Interstate Commerce
Commission now sustains to the rail
roads.
We emancipated the parcel post
and permitted the government to
dominate the express business, thus
effecting a saving of every year of
many millions to the people of the
country.
We unsealed Alaska, with all its
that those resources should be de-
veloped in such a way as to benefit
all the people and not a chosen few
To this end we appropriated thirty
millions for the construction of a
railroad to be owned and operated
by the government
We repealed the absurd law
which permitted the Shipping
Trust to use the peoples Panama
canal without the payment of tolls
and thus provided for the annual
transfer of millions of dollars from
the treasury of the trust to the
treasury of the nation.
Adequate Army and Navy
We resisted the opportunities of
those who declared that the Unitod
States must become a military ma
ton, but while we ignored their hys-
terical clamors we saw to it that
generous appropriations were pro-
vided for the maintainance of an
adequate army and navy.
We voted large sums for the pro-
motion of agriculture, the extension
of commerce between the states and
with other nations and for the safe
guarding of life and limb. The
Smith-Lever bill which sends the ag-
ricultural expert to the farmer in
stead of compelling the farmer to
journey far from home to find the
knowledge needed to make his
labors remunerative is fair ex-
ample of this constructive legisla-
ture. Another bill authorizes the
employment of trained business
agents to seek new markets for our
products in foreign lands and the
Foster bill provides rescue stations
and experiment plants for the
workers in our mines.
Congress has not played favorites
but has displayed an intelligent lib
erality in dealing with all classes.
War Problems
We have met the problems grow
ing out of the European war and
Mexican disturbance with courage
and rare moderation. Here again,
we have insisted on the lingo" tax
ing rear seat.
We have had implicit confidence
in President Wilson and we have
promptly and vigorously seconding
his every act
When he felt the time had come
to kick the murderous Huerta out
of Mexico, we provided the neces-
sary machinery. When he moved
to save this country from the effects
of the commercial chaos produced
by the European war, we passed
without hesitation and almost with
out question the measures he pro-
posed. We failed him once-when
few Democratic traitors permitted
the Ship-purchasing bill to be talked
to death in the Senate. And, above
all, we have placed padlocks on our
lips and uttered nothing which
could give offense to any of the un-
fortunate powers now in a death.
grapple. We have been emphatical-
ly and unswervingly neutrali At
times it has been mighty hard to
keep quiet but we have done it.
Each house has considered many
big questions which have never
come squarely before the other
house and therefore must be
threshed out again at some future
time.
This Congress gave the advocates
of prohibition and woman suffrage
their first chance to secure n record