New Britain herald., 1915-10-02
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 LAUDED BY CLA
Speaker Reviews Legislative
 ord and Predicts Victory in

St. Joseph, Mo. Oct. 2.--sI Champ Clark of the National of representatives in speech democratic state banquet her| night reviewed the legislative of the democratic party and exn confidence in the verdict of Cd CTS in the election of 1916. sI Clark said in part.
 ITO million voters, tho rI political situation is entirely nod every presidential election sincj the republicans have held the n government and the democratl fighting to wrest it from thel| grasp. Now all this is changed as we believe. changed for thI ter.
 Scales Finally Fell.
 For years those who love asserted that democrats were ai of negation, that we did not sense enough to legislate. tunately for the country md of the people believed their jiti for a long. long time. We wal in the wilderness as long as did but at last the scales fell froI peoples eyes and they conciuy entrust us with power once nd
 What happened. Tn two years we placed on the statute more constructive Legislation most highly beneficial characteH the republicans enacted in tv cades-legislation so good that dition to democratic votes, nea the progressives and large pc of the regular republicans vot our great constructive measurd
 Great Tarfn BiIl.
 We passed a great tariff bit greatest ever placed upon the books. It contains many ex changes from the PayRa-a Smooth monstrosity and Ne,, one new feature that wouS Scb the best of all tariff bills "a. rest of 1t were as bad as ixt .,ys publican tarfff bill, whichssc .e phatically it is not. That nSeS is the income tax. I makeN2E predict that the income tax prE never will be repealed. no what party gets hold of the law ing power.
 "It is said the Underwood E bill does not bring in as muc eDue as the Phyne-Aldrioal-s bill. We who made the Underwo knew when we made it that tl enues from revenue taxes wou be as large under the old rept* bill. We drew it so on purposl was one of the ends sought. knowing that the government need about as much money as we made up by the income ts ture the loss in tariff taxes.
 Hits Republican Orators.
 Republican orators assert tl Underwod tariff bill even ind the income tax feature did mol in revenue enough to conduct tf ernment-which is absolutely Everybody knows that there difficulty in tho revenue and th difficulty was caused and still ing caused by the European VI
 We had for more than half tury financial system of shre patches with currency syste most devoid of elasticity.
 Republicans Only Tinkerc,
 For a generation our rep5 friends had been tinkering VI always promising but never Ing currency reform. The den with the assistance of patriot yressives and patriotic continR placed on the books the national reserve oa which is now praised by all bu men.
 We passed an antitrust lay ends to promote legitimets and crush illegitimate ru fer the new law trusts 'aftsS S solved and are re-arranging business on a legitimate basis
 "The people seem to have al in the pilot of the Wilson-and likely to drop him overheard ocean while the storm whips CTS into fury. He did his du democratic house did it's dut lemocratic senate did its duty ubmit that We deserve we'll of us Having charged our duty and been fait ,ur trust-the people will assur NC will do our duty and be q vaY, fn fha and w