Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-15
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What Democrats Have Done.

before,
What Democrats Have Done.
The tariff has been revised, not on
the principle Of repellinE foreign
trade but upon the principle of en-
couragtng it, upon something like
footing of equality with our own in
respect Of the terms of competition,
and tarif board has been created
whose function 1t will be to keep the
relations Of American with foreign
business and industry under constant
observation, for the guidance of our
business men and of our congress.
American energies are now directed
towards the markets OF the world.
The laws against trusts have been
clarified by definition, with view
to making it plain that they were not
directed against big business but only
against unfair business and the pre-
tense of competition where there was
none; and a trade commission has
been created with powers of guidance
and accommodation which have re
lieyed business men of unfounded
fears and set them upon the road Of
hopeful and confident enterprise.
BY the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal Of &C
tive business has been rendered elias
tic, taking its volume, not from fixed
body of investment securities, but
from the liquid assets of daily trade.
Effective measures have been taken
fol- the recreation OF an American
merchant marine and the revival Of
the American carrying trade.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been reorganized to enable
1t to perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more eff
fciently, We have created, extended
and improved the service of the par
GELS post.
For the farmers of the country We
have virtually created commercial
credit, by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act They
now have the standing of other bust
ness men in the money market, We
| have successfully regulated specula-
ton In futures and established
standards in the marketing of grains
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as 8
security for loans from the banks.
For Labor and Children.
The workingmen of America have
been given a yeritable emancipation,
by the legal recognition of mans
labor as part of his life, and not a
mere marketable commodity; by ex-
empting labor organizations from proc
esSes Of the courts which treated their
members like fractional parts of mobs
and not like accessible and RESPONSE
Bile individuals; by releasing our sea
men from involuntary seryitude; By
making adequate provision for com
pensatlon for industrial accidents; by
providing suitable machinery for me
diation and Cancellation In industrial
disputes; and by putting the fedora
department of Labor at the disposal OF
the workingman when in search OF
work.
We have effected the emancipation
Of the children of the country by re
leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have instituted a system Of natiOna
aid in the building Of highroads suCf
as the country has been feeling after
for a century. We have sought tC
equalize taxation by means Of ar
equitable income tax. We have taker
the steps that ought to have beer
taken at the outset to open up the re
sources of Alaska, We have pro
yided for national defense upon s
scale never before seriously proposed
upon the responsibility of an entire
political party. We have driven The
turiff lobby from cover and obliged i
to substitute solid argument for pri
yate influence.
Foreign Policy Stated.
In foreign affairs we have beer
guided by principles clearly con
celyed and consistently lived up tC
Perhaps they have not been fully com
pretended because they have hilbert
governed International affairs only 4
theory, not in practice They are sim
Pile obvious easily stated, and fundG
mental to American ideals.
We have been neutral not only be
cause 1t was the fixed and traditions
policy Of the United States to stan
aloof from the politics Of Europe an
because we had no part either Of az
ton or Of policy In the influences whic
! brought on the present war but ais
2 because 1t was manlfestly our duty t
{ prevent, If It were possible, the indef
: mite extension Of the fires of hate an
t desolatlon kindled by that terrible cor
C fliCt and seek to serve mankind by n
F.; serving our strength and our resource
e for the anxious and difficult days {
+ restoration and healing which mus
r follow, when peace will have to bull
a its house anew.
= The rights of our own citizens {
c course became involved; that was il
3 evitable. Where they did this was OF
Il guiding principle; that property RICH
g can be indicated by claims for dan
d ages when the war Is over, and no mo-
~ ern nation can decline to arbitra
n such claims but the fundamont
!. rights Of humanity cannot be. The To-
n Of life Is irreparable Neither can {
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