The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-02

In the New York World there APP
peared recently an editorial that at
tracted widespread comment wherever
it was read. The editorial carried the
suggestion that it would be fitting
and a manifestation of supreme pa
triotism for the Republicans, at this
time when the world is in the midst of
a crisis, to place President Wilson's
name at the head of their ticket.
Since the publication OF the edit
orial, the World has received numer-
Gus letters of commentator. 1t has
been designated as "a masterpiece. y
One writer said: at is conspicuously
big idea on a broad basis-so big and
so broad that it is hardly likely that
any party would rise to the point of
Undertaking. it,"
The editorial follows in full:
"Were Woodrow Wilson a Republi-
can President, with a record of
achievement identical with his rec
ord as a Democratic President, the
Republicans would renominate him
by reclamation.
'They would point to the revision
of the tariff under his administration
as the fulfilment of McKinley's dy-
ing pledge, which Roosevelt shirked
and in which Taft failed.
"They would point to the banking
and currency law as the greatest
piece of financial legislation yet en-
acted-a law which has made it pos
sible for the United States not only
to weather successfully the most de-
vastating war in human history, but
to aspire to the financial mastery of
the world.
"They would point to the income
tax law as just and equitable means
of making wealth bear its due pro-
portion Of the cost of government,
for which the Republican party was
entitled to a double share of credit
because a Republican Congress had
submitted the amendment to the Con-
stitution which the levying of an in
come tax possible.
"They would point to the corpora
ton tax as the extension of an act
which the Republican party originat-
ed and which helped to transfer to
organized capital some of the burdens
of government previously borne by
poverty and labor
They would point to the repeal of
the coast-wise provision of the Pana-
ma Canal tolls act as proof that the
United States is faithful to its treaty
pledges, and cannot be swayed from
the ways of international honor and
justice by mercenary greed of special
interests
They would point to the Federal
Trade Board as a progressive meas
ure of constructive legislation by
which honest and law-abiding bust
ness was protected from indiscrimi-
nate prosecution and enabled to work
IN harmony with the Sherman anti
trust act, in fairness to competitors
and in fairness to the public.
They would point to the record of
the Department of Justice as proof
that business had been emancipated
from political blackmail and that in |
dustrial organizations were no longer
prosecuted from motives of partisan |
advantage or private revenge.
They would point to the Presi-
dents Mexican policy, identical as it
is with Lincoln's Mexican policy as
evidence that the American people
were no less determined than ever to
give the backward nations of this
hemisphere the fullest opportunity to
work out their destiny, and finally
achieve that liberty under law which
even the most enlightened of peoples
nave had to gain by struggle and sac
rifice.
"They would point to our new rela-
ions with Latin-America as the real
cation of James G. Blaine's dream of
'an-Americanism-a dream that be-
anne a reality only through the far
lighted craftsmanship of Woodrow
Wilson.
"They would point to the foreign
policy of the President during the /
most difficult and critical period of /
history since the civil war as a SUI
rene endeavor to maintain the high :
st American ideal of peace with hon (
+. And they would say of his ulti- [
1atum to Germany as LeMartin of
arts says Of it--voicing the idealism i
'hich makes France and the United t
tates forever iin-one of the noblest S
cts in the history of mankind.
"They would point TO his leadership
Congress as the solution of prob
I'M that has so long vexed American S
overnment, by which comprehensive
gislative programs can be enacted a
ito law without the Presidents CO. h
'cing Congress or bribing it with a
S
"They would point to his rrepar- b
mess measures as full atonemenE for G