South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-09

I IN NneSe Things, out tnat II VIII con-
tinue TO work along these lines.
This country is not going 10 use
any party that cannot do continuous
and consistent team work. If any
group Of men should dare 10 break
/ the solidity Of the democratic team
7 for any purpose or from any motive,
theirs Will be most eHviablc nOtorie-
" and a responsibility which will
bring deep bitterness TO them. The
only party that is seTviceable 10 a ma
tion is a party that can hold absO.
lutely together and march with the
discipline and with the zest Of a con-
quering host.
'I am not saying these things be-
cause / doubt that the democratic
party Will be able to do these things,
but because / believe that as leader
for the time being of hat party 1 can
promise the country that IL will do
these things. / know my colleagues
at Washington, I know their spirit
and their purpose and ] know that
they have the same emotion the Same
high emotion OF public service that
hope / have.
Work Is Not Done.
"NOw, what is their duty2 You
say hasn't this congress carried out a
great program Yes 1t has carried
out a great program. 1t has had the
gress since the civil war has had.
But we are living at an extra ordinary
moment. The world has never been
in the condition that IL is now in, my
friends. Half the world is on fire.
Only America among the great pow
ers of the world is free to govern her
own life and all the world is looking
10 America TO serve it's economic
need and while this is happening
what is going on? Do you know gen.
tlemen that the ocean freight rates
have gone up I'm some instances to 10
times their ordinary figure2 And
that the farmers of the United States,
those who raise grain and those who
raise cottOn-these things that are
absolutely necessary TO the world as
we'll as to ourselves-cannot get any
profit out Of the great prices that
they are willing to pay FOR these
things on the other side of the sea
because the whole profit is eaten up
by the extortionate charges for ocean
carriage
Must Have ships.
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 get
ting them than through the instru-
mentality that is suggested in the
shipping bill; and l hear it said in
Washington on all hands that the re-
publicans In the United States mean
to talk enough to make the passage
of that bill impossible. These self
styled friends of business, these men
who say the. democratic party does
not know what to do for business,
are saying that the democrats shall
do nothing for business. Y challenge
them to show their right to stand in
the way of the release of American
products TO the rest OF the world.
Who commissioned them, a minority.
a lessening minority, for they will be
i'm a greater minority an the neXt
senate than in this.
you know it is the peculiarly :.
that great body that it has r'4les #
procedure which make it possible for
a minority to defy the nation; and
these gentlemen are now seeking to
defy the nation and prevent the re-
lease of American products to the
suffering world. Their credentials as
friends of business and friends of
America Will be badly discredited if
they succeed.
"If I were speaking from a selfish.
partisan point of view, l could wish
nothing better than that they could
show their true colOrs as partiSanS
and succeed. But | am not quite
so malevOlent as that. Some of them
are misguided; some of them are
blind; most of them are ignorant.
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 at
tempting now. This country is burst
ing its jacket and they are seeing to
it that the jacket is not only kept
tight, but is riveted with steel.
Program of Service.
1.-The democratic party does know
how to serve business in this country
and its future program is program
of service We have cleared the
decks. 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
intOIerable shall be broken up. We
have emancipated America but
America must do something with
freedom. There are great bills pend
ing in the senate just now that have
sentatives, which are intended as con-
struCtive measures in behalf of bust
ness-one great measure which will
make available the enormous water
powers of this country for the indus
try of it; another bill which will un-
lock the resources Of the public do
main which the republicans desire
could use them The reason l say the
republicans have not had a new idea
in 80 years is that they have not
known 10 do anything but to sit on
the lid. But if you can release the
steam so that il can drive great bust
ness. ii is not necessary to sit on the
lid. l shall watch with a great deal
if interest what the self styled friends
of business try to do 10 these bills.
do not misunderstood me. There
are some men on that side of the
chamber who understand the value of
these things and are standing vail
antly by them. but they are a small
minority. The majority that is standing
by them is on our side of the cham
Der and they are the friends of Amer
lea But there are other things which
we have TO do. Some times when l
look abroad my friends, and see the
great mass of struggling humanity on
this continent it goes very much to
my heart TO see how many men are
at a disadvantage and are without
guides and helpers.
Would Help LabOrer
ssDoDft won think IL would be n