Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
REDF|E[D DENOUNCES
CALAMITY HOWLERS'
Secretary OF Commerce Vigorously
Defends Administration OF
President Wilson.
At DEMOCRATIC LOVE FEAST
Invites Criticism, but Asks That Ii
BE Fair and Truthful, and With
All Facts known to American Pco-
pie Has No Fear of Result.

lNDIANAPOLIS, IND, April 2S.-
William G. Rediicld. Secretary OF Com
mcrce addressing Il Democratic love
| fcaSt here tonight denounced "calam-
| itN howlers" and vigorously defended
! the administration OF President Will
son.
Governor Samuel L. Rals,on and
senator John w. Kern were on the
platform with the secretary
Tho secretary defended the tarlfr
lauded the Federal reserve act de-
| clarcd that the Clayton antitrust law
and the Federal Trade Commission
have made palmer the way Of the bust
ness man. and asserted that in the con-
dition OF the country to-day there IS
no happiness for those who would do
evil 10 the administrations"
The secretary quoted several news
paper articles TO show that the country
was on the way to prosperity. and paid
caustic respects to ''purvcyors OF
pessiniSm'
Those preachers Of poverty for per-
sonal purposes" he said. will I'm due
time go to their own places unwept
unhonored and unsunE. followed by
the deserved curses OF the deceived
falling into the limbo OF the calamity
howler who're long ago the muckraker
preceded them. These are they who In
secret places speak evil OF those who
have brought the country through the
most terrible commercial shock lin its
history. and landed her safe and strong
upon tho peaceful shores OF prosperity
and influence"
Three times. the secretary said. the
country had evinccd it's faith In the
Democratic party 10y returning a Dem
ocratic House of Representatives. The
foes or Democracy. he said. could find
small comfort in the reduced majority
OF the Democrats In the next Congress
PARTY HAS Kept IT'S FAITH
CABINET MEMBER DECLARES
Our party has kept its faith" he
continued. 1T has not been given
orders by tho people TO revise the tariff
downward only TO answer by revising
1t upward. One thing at least no one
dares say about the tariff law. namely.
/ that II was prepared by anybody In his
own interest. Never was there a meas
ure Of the kind more free from per-
snral faint. more purely intended for
public as distinguished from private
purposes" The secretary declared that
the tariff was not factor IN "dcprcss-
ing business conditions" and that UNI
der the Underwood bill we have
gained something OF industrial self
respect"
The Federal reserve law, he said
hast released into the channels Of trade
vast sums formerly unnecessarily held
back as reserves, and has taken away
the basis OF fear that produces panic.
| Look and see" he continued. how
many OF our partisan opponents ven
! ture 10 rise in public and dcnounce
| the Federal reserve law. 1t is admitted
on all hands. Il not in words. at least
| In silence. by our adversar.cs that this
thing has been well done. In il with
confidence rest the operations to some
OF tho very men who cry loudcst In
criticism of our policies.
AYE, hut business legislation Wei!
| let face the question OF business
! Legislation boldly, for concerning IL
there is naught we have to fear. We
have made palmer the way Of the
honest business man; our opponents
themselves being witnesses, the Clay
ton law and the Federal trade commits
sion law arc good. They put no oh
stacle in the way of any honorable
man. They make his road more plain
They give him forum in which he
may be heard They give him a point
on which with more confidence he may
| lean.
Let II be that criticism shall come
he concluded I'VE shall be tho better
for it. hut let il be that the criticism
shall he fair and truthful and candid.
+ II ii is not so. the criticism Will fall
| OF its own folly. II II is so the criti-
cism will do us no good. And when We
shall approach in the coming year the
decision for the future, let IL b. ap-
. preached not with a scowl or Il whine.
not with the partial statement OF half
! truths, but leh the facts be known in
all their roundness to the American
| people. and then. In Gods name. let
! the best man win"