Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-06-29

SuuScTNcu. ~ Is u legislative monument
in itself to the administration. emitting
j. ~ the approval and endorsement OF
the country.
AT the regular sessions Of the ron
gress which have followed the special
session just noted other great laws
have been passed in the interest OF the
people Prominent among these il the
act creating the federal trade commits.
sion. under which unfair competition in
trade is provided against and generally
the commission is authorized BY appro-
pirate legal proceedings to regulate
trade, keep it within the limits Of fair
dc ling. and thus avoid the creation Of
trusts and combinations. Allied TO this
is the law which is known as the Clay
ton antitrust act. which ! handled in
its passage through the senate. Put 4
general terms il supplemented the Shcr-
man antitrust law of 1890 by making
il legal acts which in themselves may
not amount to trusts but which tend
10 their formation. This law also ron
tains provisions Of transccndcnt impor-
lance to organized labor and which j.
thus Justly characterized BY the nation
al democratic platform which was re-
rently adopted ut ST Louis:
I'VE have lifted human labor from the
category Of commodities ind have &C.
cured tc the w%orkingman the right to
voluntary association for his protection
and welfare. We have protected the
rights Of the laborer against The un-
warranted issuance Of writs Of %injunr-
ton and have guaranteed 10 him the
right Of trial by jury in cases Of alleged
contempt committed outside The pres
encc Of the court
Great interest in the farmer. also.
has been shown by the national demo.
cratic administration. Two years ago
a cotton futures act was passed and APP
proved by the president. At each rccur-
ring season government funds have
been placed at convenient ccnterS Ia as
sist in the movement 0f crops; and
strenuous efforts have been made,
though so far successfully resisted ~
the republican party in the interest Of
the shipping trust, 10 provide ships suf-
ficient to carry our products 10 foreign
markets. Comprehensive good roads
bills have been passed BY the two houses
Of congress and are now in conference.
Under the federal reserve banking sys.
TEN now i'm operation and the rural
credits act whi-h will soon become 4
law. provision has been made whereby
rural credits are made available. By
these acts the farmer has been placed on
equal terms with the merchant. manu-
~farsnrcr and other borrowers in the
utilization Of his capital. Besides these
important matters cf legislation the
administration has given intelligent and
highly profitable al %cntion to the prar-
teal side OF agriculture through farm
demonstrations. which are Of incsti-
mable value to the farming interests
Tf to these things done and accom-
piishcd there he added the fact that
Trvate and special interests have been
driven from power and that popular
government has been r~-c~tahliShed ii
presents a record without parallel in
party history.
| Conspicuous as has been the course
OF the administration in our domestic
affairs it has perhaps been more 20 in
our foreign relations. particularly. with
reference 10 the disorders in Mexico anu
the war In Europe. The Mexican sit
%uation. MP 70 the point Of the invasion
of our territory, the destruction Of our
properly and the murder Of our citi-
zcns here. presented the single broad
question whether this government should
intervene between warning factions in
Mexico and set up a government there
by force Of arms II was simply civil
war there between citizens Of that re-
public with which We we're NOT directly
concerned. X has not reached the stiac
of 4 war which shocks humanity and
would justify Intervention in the inter
est of mankind, ~ was The case In Cuba
- 1S9S. In such conditions the prexi-
drnt, resisting impcrzuitirz and
thrcotn. wisely and brayefy held alcof
ard refused tie demands for interview
tion. When, however our territory v+zz
invoded 6nr property destroyed and onr
IritI~G1e muE1eE<d ~ CoDnmbun, Xeu
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