Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-10-27
THREE RATTL1NG GOOD SPEAKERS
ADDRESSED CAPACITY AUDI
ENCE AT COURT HOUSE

sentatives and senate
Peter J. Vasaly, chairman of the dem
Ocratic county committee, acted as chair
man Of the meeting and introduced
the speakers of the evening. Before the
meeting the band played several selec-
tons on the street, at the Wilson club
headquarters and at the court house.
w. F. Donohue of Melrose, democratic
candidate for congress from this dis
trict, was the first speaker. Mr.. DcnO-
hue, whose profession is that of attor-
ney, is a forceful speaker and his talk
clearly proved that he is ably fitted for
the Office for which he is a candidate.
In his opening reme rks he said that tor
many years in the past, when the demo-
Gratis came before the voters, they came
as prophets. pointing out the wrongs
and evils and telling what remedies they
proposed for them. To-day the party
stands in a different position, he said.
and instead of coming as a prophet i
tells of it's achievements and what it will
do in the future. There is difference
now from what it was years ago in poll
teal matters People in Yeas past gen
orally voted for all the candidates on
the ticket of their party regardless OF
what the candidates stood for or what
their principles were. That manna of
voting has passed away to a great. .ex~
tent, especially in Minnesota and today
there is no state that has done moro
than Minnesota to eliminate party lines
and to vote for principles and for men.
If the voters in this state do not believe
that the principles of the various can
didates are right, they will not vote for
them, regardless of what ticket they
are on. AS an instance of this Mr.. Dono-
hue pointed out how the state, which
is normally republican, after having had
republican governors for many years,
broke away and elected democratic
governor, John Lind. This was not done
by the democrats alone, because there
were not enough of them to do it, but
many of the republicans joined thorn.
believing in considering the principles Of
the candidates and not particularly the
party to which they belonged.
Mr.. Donohue stated that it is s.. great
danger to do the same thing as you See
someone else do, to let somebody else
do the thinking for you, and he tol6
story to illustrate this which was very
good.
The achievements of the present Gem
ocratic administration were pointed out
by the speaker. He stated that more
progressive legislation has been enacted
and appears on the statute books during
the past three and one-half years than
ever before since the birth Of this la
ton. President Woodrow Wilson has
been largely instrumental in getting this
legislation, he said, and he therefore de-
serves the confidence of the people of
this country. When President Wilson
was inaugurated he Immediately CALLED
special session of congress. At that time
there existed in the nations capitol one
of the greatest lobbies in the world, got
a lobby where men went to go before
committees of congress to argue for or
against certain measures, but a lobby
where corporation heads or their repre-
sentatives went to seek special privilege,
to bride the representatives of the Ieople
to vote for a against certain measures
which they considered would be valuable
to them or vice versa. The first thing
that Wilson did was to drive out THAI
lobby and it has not been there since ard
will not be there as long as Wilson is
president of the United States. If he
, had done nothing else he deserves re-
election on the merits of that accom-
plishment alone. (Applause.)
When Wilson became president, the
speaker said, senators were elected by
the state legislatures. Wilson brought
about the passage of an amendment. to
the constitution providing for the cleo
ton of United States senator's by di-
rect vote of the people. 1t is not claim
ed that the democrats did this all alone;
many republicans voted for the amend
ment, but it was accomplished during a
ing Of senators Mr.. Donohue mentioned
the names of the two candidates for that
Office from this state, Daniel W. Law
Ter on the democratic ticket and F. b
Kellogg on the republican ticket. He
said that before voting the people should
investigate the past record of these two
men, and added that he believed that
after such an investigation they woulc
cast their votes for Mr.. Lawler. ZAP.
plause.)
Panics such as the republicans charge
were created by and during democratic
administrations, but nearly all of which
actually occurred during republican ad
ministratiens, except one during the
Cleveland administration, and then con.
gress was republican and the president
helpless, will hereafter without a doub
be averted, as a result of the passage
by this administration of federal re
serve bank act. Mr.. Donohue said. A
matter of fact, he said, the panics
never were created by any administrd'
ton, as they had no control over S!;e
currency, but they were created by Wal
Street. which then monOpolized thu
finances of this country. The federal re
serve act was not passed by the der,o'
Gratis alone; some republicans helped Ii
get it, but it was during a democratic
administration and if, instead, the re.
publicans had been in power, we wO'llC
not have had that law today, he said
He also cited the income tax law, Through
which each year the government collects
125 million dollars from the immensely
rich people, Also the S-hour law, 'ecent'
ly enacted and which avertad a nation
wide strike and saved the country mil
lions of dollars on its crops alone. An
other good law which has beer passed
during this administration is the .1ura
credits law, by which the farmers, when
the law gets into working order, will be
able to borrow money from the govern
ment with which to improve their farms
This has been tried in other countries
and has proven a success and is there
fore not merely an experiment. Aid has
been appropriated for the building OF
good roads, the sum of IS millions hav-
ing been appropriated for this purpose
each state to get it's share according to
what it provides.
Fifty million dollars have been ;:npro'
priated by this congress as the nucleus
with which to build up merchant ma
rine Years ago 81 per cent OF tie Amer
lean exports were in American vessei:
and over 60 per cent of the imports we're
\ in American vessels. In the Civil wal
hundreds OF merchant vessels were sunk