The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-10-20
UNDERWOOD FOR WILSON

UNDERWOOD FOR WILSON
In an authorized interview re-
Gently given out F. D. Under
wood, president of the Erie Rail-
road, declared unequivocally in
favor of the reelection of Presi-
dent Wilson.
For many years." he said,
''the Democratic party was one
of opposition, devoted to destruc-
tive attack and barren of con-
structive suggestion. Hungry
for office, impatient of authority,
it constituted a force that seemed
certain to go to pieces whenever
it tried to go forward.
with its accession to power
some of us expected four years
of futility, in place of which it's
accomplishments and actions
have surprised its adversaries.
The President has achieved the
seemingly impossible.
AS to the statement that Presi-
dent Wilson played politics in the
railroad negotiations for an eight
hour day by the brotherhoods in
Washington, l once stated, and
now reaffirm, that my opinion is
he used his best judgment in do
ing as he did. No one could
fairly accuse him of playing
politics, and while my views did
not correspond with his, I concede
that his motives were honest.
He did not carry the burden of
the railroads or the claims of the
brotherhoods as his loan. He
carried that of the people Of the
United States. T he misrepre-
sensations of the brotherhohds,
which he mistook for truth, NOV
ed him to action. His eminent
fairness is shown in the person
nal of the commission that is to
study the working of the Com
mittee on National Defense,
which, with but one exception,
could not be improved on
When asked his opinion of the
Eight Hour law Mr. Underwood
said: What matters how I or
anyone else feels? The Eight
Hour law is past discussion. The
Republican party, as we'll as the
Democratic party, advocate it.
Whether we like it or not, it's
here, to be lived up to so long as
it is the law of the land,,,
How about Wilson and bust
ness?" he was asked.
Prosperity is here" he re-
piled. 1T must depend for it's
continuance largely on our cour-
age, initiative and enterprise,
and not on politicians or political
parties.
There can be no honest de-
NAL of the fact that many of the
so-called Wilson laws have stab
ilized business. The Federal
Reserve act is one. The Rural
Credits act is another. The pas
sage of the Child's Labor act was
a humane, intelligent thing. 1t
waited many years, and it was a
Democratic administration that
put it into effect
According to the Republican
attack" Mr.. Underwood was
reminded, the complaint against
President Wilson seems to be
based on the fact that he has
changed his mind at times.
He laughed and said: Possibly
that is because he has mind to
change. Conditions are always
changing. The man who says
he never changes his mind is
capable of two interpretations:
He may be inaccurate in his
statement, or he may have no
mind to change. Who can mag
inc a worse condition that to
have a President W ho is governed
by preconceptions rather than
by the needs of the present?
I'm my opinion the fight again
st President Wilson has no larger
aspect that a greatly unpatriotic
clamor of the outs for the pos
session of the things now in the
hands of the ms
"A great man has said that it !
is unwise to swap horses in the
middle of the stream Changing
every four years does
not make for good. Leave what
is well enough alone"