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

ton cannot get any profit
out OF the great prices that they arc
willing to pay FOR these things on the
other side OF the sea, because the
whole profit is eaten up by the eX-
tortiOnate charges for ocean car
riage? In the midst of this tn.
Democrats propose temporary
measure of relief in shipping bill.
THE merchants and the farmers
carry their goods, and just at the
present moment there is no other
way OF getting them than through
the fundamentally that 1t is suG-
gested in the shipping bill; and /
hear it said in Washington on all
hands that the Republicans in the
United States senate mean to talk
enough to make the passage OF tbs :
bill impossible.
These self-styled friends OF busi-
ness. these men who say the Demo
cratic party does not know what TO
do for BUSINESS. are saying that the
Democrats shall do nothing for bust
ness. | challenge them TO show their
rights TO stand in the way of the re-
lease OF American products to the
ed them, minority. lessenins
minority?% Their credentials as
friends OF business and friends OF
; America viii be badly discredited It
they succeed
Ii | We're speaking from selfish.
/ partisan point Of view, l could wish
nothing better than that they could
show their true colors as partisans
and succeed. But l am not quite SO
malevolent as that l would
them. But the great voice OF
America ought to make them under
stand what they are said to be at
tempting now. This coun-
try is bursting it's jacket. and they
are seeing to it that the jacket is
not only kept tight but is riveter.
with steel.
The Democratic party knows how
TO serve business in this country and
its future program is a program OF
line now upon which business that
was TO do the country harm shall be
stopped and an economic contro;
which was intolerable shall be brok
en- up. We have emancipatod
America but America must do SOM
thing with her freedom.
There are great bills pending in
tie tai;ed States senate just ma~,
that have been passed by the housa
o! representatives which are intend-
ed as constructive measures in be
half OF business-one great measurs
which VIII make available the enu.}
nous waterpowers OF this cou5.~,s
for the industry Of IT.. another ~
which Will unlock the resources ot
the public domain which the Repul
licans desire 10 have locked up q,
that nobody could use them.
What we are trying TO do in the
great conservation bill is to carr;
out for the first time in the history
of the United States a system b.
which the great resources OF tn S
country can be used instead OF be-
ing set aside so that no man can get
at them. / shall watch with a great
deal OF interest what the self-styled
friends OF business try to do to tho sc
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
valiantly by them, but they are 4
small minority.
The majority that is standing by
them is on our side OF the chambe
and they are the friends OF America.
But there are other things which
we have to do. Sometimes when I
look around. my friends. and see the
great mass OF struggling huma r;,y
ON this continent. II goes very mach
To my heart To see how many ,ten
are at a disadvantage and are y th-
o4t guides and helpers Don. YOU
think II would be pretty good s,iea
Tor the Democratic party to urS gr-
take systematic method OF heir m
.tthe working men of America? Ter.
Is 'ery simple way in whfc <i+y
can help the working men. If5 ,u
were simply to establish a great !. d
era; employment bureau 1t wou "a d.
a vast deal: by the federal a pr-wxsA
which spread over this country Iaoc
could be directed to those partJ Of
the country to those undortat<.