New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
WILSON ACCEPTS
 PARTY LEADERSHIP
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telligently and energetically? What other party has attempted it at all? The republican leaders, apparently, know of no means of assisting busi- ness but protection" How to stim- ulate it and put it upon a new foot ing of energy and enterprise they have not suggested.
 For the farmers of the country we have virtually created commercial credit, by means of the federal re- serve act and the rural credits act They now have the standing of other business men in the money market We have successfully regulated specu- lation in "futures'' and established staAdards 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 a se- curity for loans from the banks. We have greatly added to the work of neighborhood demonstration on the farm itself of improved method of cul- tivation and, through the intelligent e4tensiOn of the functions of the de- \ partment of agriculture, have made Kit possible for the farmer to learn Systematically where his best markets are and how to get at them.
 The wOrkingmen of America have been given a Veritable emancipation, by the legal recognition of a mans labor as part of his life, and not a mere marketable commodity; by ex- Tempting labor organizations from processes of the courts which treated @their members like fractional parts of mobs and not like accessible and re- sponsible individuals; by releasing our seamen from involuntary servitude: H by making adequate provision for corn pensatiOn for industrial accidents; by providing suitable machinery for mediation and conciliation in indus trial disputes; and by putting the fed H eral department of labor at the dis @ posal of the workingman when in # search of work
 A We have effected the emancipation s ofathe children of the country by re- @ leasing them from hurtful labor. We & have instituted a system of national &&aid in the building of highroads such
 es the country has been feeling after
 for a century. We have sought to Sequalize taxation by means of an "a equitable income tax. We have taken "a the steps that ought to have been 8 taken at the outset to open up the re- E@ sources of Alaska. We have provid-
 ea for national defense upon a scale
 ever before seriously proposed upon Iz he responsibility of an entire po- 4s itical party. We have driven the
 Bariff lobby from cover and obliged z 1t to substitute solid argument for pri-
 vate influence
 2 This extraordinary recital must
 sound like a platform, a list of san $#guine promises; but it is not. It is #8a record of promises made four years
 ago and now actually redeemed ir # constructive legislation.
 & These things must profoundly dis 8 turb the thoughts and confound the VI plans of those who have made them.
 selves believe that the democratic Aparty neither understood nor was
 Ready to assist the business of the
 eountry in the great enterprises which
 Is evident and inevitable destiny #&o undertake and carry through. The N breaking up of the lobby must es &pecially disconcert them; for 1t wa:
 through the lobby that they sough were sure they had found the
 Fart of things. The game of priv.
 sege can be played successfully by nc
 @ther means.
 $ This record must equally astonis1
 those who feared that the democratic
 party had not opened it's heart to com & prehend the demands of social jus
 Ice. We have in four years come
 Very near to carrying out the plat
 form of the progressive party as wei
 IFS our own; for we also are progress
 Ives.
 M There is one circumstance connect # Wd with this programme which ough
 be very plainly stated. It was re