Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-09

choose mon and be sure that had
chosen mon who would be rcall. SER
! viccablc TO tho business men Of this
country. great as well as small the
rank and Tile. These things have been
done. ana will never be undonc They
were talked about and talked abou,
with utility until "a Democratic Con-
gross attempted and achieved them.
But tho Democratic party is not to
! suppose that II is done with the bust
ness. The Democratic par:% is still
on trial. ..
This country is not going TO use
any party that cannot do continuous
ana consistent team work. II any
group OF men should dare to break the
solidarity OF the Democratic team for
/! ANY purpose or from any motive. theirs
VIII be most uncnvablc notoriety
and = responsibility which will bring
deep bitterness TO them. The only
party tina, is scrviccablc TO nation
is party that can mold absolutely to-
Ge,her and march with the discipline
and with the zcst OF a conqucring host
CAN PROMISE COUNTRY
THINGS WILL. RE DONE
II ann not saying these things be-
| cause doubt that the Democratic
party VIII be able 20 do these things,
but because believe that as leader
| FOR the time being Of that party can
promise the country tina, il will do
these things"
Here tho President paused 10 pay
tribute to the two Democratic senators
/ from Indiana, saying he never had to
lie awake nights wondering what they
. were going to do. He added that the
| country is not going TO trouble itself
20 Ii" awake nights and wonder what
these men are going to do: that /! the
country has 10 do that, il will choose
~ t.s ,l,;p
that team work all the time is what
thcy arc going to demand OF US. and
that is our individual as we'll as our
collective responsibility. That is what
Jackson Day stands for. If man
will not play in the team. then he
does not belong 10 the team"
''Now, what is their duty? You say
hasn't this Congress carried out a
great program Yes. il has carried on,
great program. Il has had the
most remarkable record that any Con-
Gress since the Civil War has had
But We are living at AN cxtraor-
binary moment. The world has never
been IN the condition that ii is in now
my friends. Half the world is on fire
Only America among the great powers
Of the world is free to govern her own
life; and all the world is looking to
America To serve its economic need
and while this is happening what is
e-oing on!
MEASURE Of RELIEF
IN SHIPPING BILL
DO you know. gentlemen. that the
ocean freight rates haze gone UP in
some instances TO ten times their or
binary figure? And that the farmers
of the United States, those who raise
grain and those who raise cotton.
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 eXtortionate charges for
ocean carriage" In the midst Of this
the Democrats propose temporary
measure Of relief in shipping bill.
The merchants and the farmers OF
this country must have ships to carry
their goods, and just al the present mo-
ment there is no other way of getting
them than through the instrumentality
that is suggested 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 that bill
impossible.
These self-styled friends Of business.
these men who say the Democratic
party does not know what to do for
business, are saying that the Democrats
shall do nothing for business. 7 chaI-
lengc them to show their rights to
tand in the way Of the release OF Amer.
Jean products to the rest of the world
Who commissioned them, a minority, n
lessening minority? Their Gre
dentlals as friends Of business and
friends Of America will be badly dis
credited II they succeed
RATHER PRAY For THEM
THAN ABUSE THEM
III | were speaking from a aeliish,
partisan point of view, I could wish
nothing better than that they could
show their true colOrs as partisans and
succeed. But i am not quite SO nIalevo-
lent as that =. 7 would rather pray
for them than abuse them But the
great voice OF America ought to make
them understand what they are said