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

ton cannot get any-proit
out OF the great prices that the, are
willing to pay for these things on the
whole profit is eaten up by the ex-,
tortionate charges for ocean car
riage? In the midst of this the
Democrats propose temporary
measure of relief in a shipping bill.
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 getting them than through
the instrumentality 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 tha.
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
rest of, the world. Who commissions:
ed them. minority. lessenins
minority?% Their credentials as
friends OF business and friends OF
America will be badly discredited if
they succeed.
IF l were 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 / am not quite SC
malevolent as that" . would
rather pray for them than abuse
them. But the great voice oi
America ought to make them under.
stand what they are said to be at.
tempting now - This coun.
try is bursting its jacket. and they
are seeing to 1t that the jacket IL
not only kept tight but is rivetet
with steel.
The Democratic party knows how
to serve business in this country and
its future program is a program OF
service. We have laid the
line now upon which business thai
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 some.
thing with her freedom
There are great bills pending in
the United States States senate ;as: ae%
that have been passed by the housr
OF representatives which are intend
ed as constructive measures in be
half OF business---one great measur%
which VIII make available the enc
nous waterpowers of this couatv.)
for the industry Of Il. ,ap0thert u
which will unlock the resources o,
the public domain which the Republ
hcans desire 10 have locked ur %
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 system by
which the great resources of this
country can be used instead OF be.
ing set aside SO that no man can get
at them. / shall watch with q great
deal OF interest what the self-styled
friends OF business try to do to those
bills.
DO not misunderstand me. There
are some men on that side of the
chamber who understand the yalu>
or these things and are standihs
valiantiy by them, but they are 1
small minority.
The majority that is standing By
them is on our side Of the chamber
and they are the friends of America.
But there are other things which
we have to do. Sometimes when /
look around. my friends. and see the
great mass OF struggling humanity
on this continent. II goes very lns,cf,
TO my heart to see how many men
ara at disadvantage and are with,
oat guides and helpers. Don. WOW
think II would be a pretty good s,lea
for the Democratic party TO urssr-
take a systematic method OF hetfsns
stehe working men of America? Tssrs
is q very simple way in whicaV(iAe 4
can help the working men. III ~
were simply to establish a greaf s q
era; employment bureau 1t wou,a q,
vast deal; by the federal agevhA
which spread over this country ana
could be directed to those parts scf
the country to those nnderfaL. =, IS