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

4 he gear round and /, fer. i:iy
7 e, h0pe thatsit will do that.
And there is~another thing tratI
fscGs. very much to be done. / am
+ tei' cne of those who doubt either !
! e Industry or the learning or tho;
- N.iS4ssfs the eonitxof the g,sjt..d
t-s but l do know taas they ha re
tpyery antiQuated way OF doing
( fisiness. and 1 say that
/ ! is an immediate and an impera-
I've call upon US to rectify that. be-
use the speediness Of justice, the
Responsiveness of justice. the ready
fccess OF justice. is the greater part
y justice itself.
And then there is something else.
he Democrats nave heard the de.
fub.icans talking about the scientific
-A'ay In which TO handle a tariff
s:.ongh the Republicans have never
siven any exhibition of knowledge
b.f how to handle it scientifically. Ii
u Is scientific to put additional profits
fnto the hands OF those who are n
eady getting the greater part ot tie
y-ofts, then they have been exceed
ingly scientific II has been the
.. enee or seihshcS ss;, Il has Been
(, v.le sci>4ee ot-pIs11siege. .Iiiat. 4 md
Of science do not ~care 10 know sfIy-
;sh.ng about except enough TO stop I.
{Put If by stientific treatment of the
.tariT they mean adjustment to the
"actua! trade conditions of America
and the world, thep I am with them;
,and ] want to callFneir attention to
the fact that the bill which creates
the Lew trade commission does shat
} very thing. We were at pains TO see
that it was put in there. That com
!, mission Is authorized and empowered
to- enquire into and report TO Con-
Y gress not only upon all the conditions
Of trade in this country. but upon
4 the conditions Of trade, the cost o:
manufacture, the cost Of transporta-
( t'op-all the things that enter into
countries as well as in the Uaited
states and into all those questions
staf foreign combinations which affect
international trade between Europe
. and the United States. 1t has The
fnil powers which will guide Cob
: gress in the scientific treatment IF
Questions of international trace.
y
Al every turn the things that the
Z progressive Republicans have FRO
P posed that were practicable the
| democrats either have done or are
4nronosing to do. II that is not our
q bill OF particulars to satisfy the in
. dependen, voters of the country
would like TO have one prcdl ia
& 1aere are things that the progreSsiN,
9 Il, las n sssSS., Ilefstsys 70
tseg cannot De 6a,ss BY. the Son
sfess % iD'- Yn.s~.- states.
But SO far as they can be done by
statc legislatures l for one. speaking
Tor one Democrat. am heartily in
favor OF their being done 49,
Tie President said that just before
he left Washington he went over the
+ figures from the last election and
that while these figures were as vet
: incomplete. they show that the Dem
. ocrats reckoning state by state,
/ would, II it had been a presidential
/ year. have had \ majority Of 80 in
, the electral college.
Fortunately or unfortunately this
, Is not a presidential year; but the
. thing is significant to me for. this
, reason
"A great many people have been
speaking OF the Democratic party rs
minority party. Well il is not
: so much Of a minority party as the
, Republican and as between the
minorities 1 think we can claim TO
! belong to the larger minority. The
moral OF that is merely what l 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
voter too proud of himself, but I
/ have got 10 admit that he is our boss
land l am bound TO admit that the
things that he wants. so far as have
/, seen them mentioned, are the things
that want. 1 am not an independent
= voter. but l hope l can claim to be
q an independent person and i want
70 say this distinctly, do not love
any party any longer than it con-
tinues to serve the immediate and
pressing needs Of America. -
't i want to make every indepen-