Graham guardian., 1916-11-03
Good Reasons Given for the
Reelection of a Great
President
A TRUE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN
Deserving of the Full Conf,
dence of Every American
Citizen

l. Because ne mas kept Iiie
peace.
2. Because he has abolished
invisible government, dispersed
the corrupt lobby and restored
the Government to the hands OF
the governed.
3. Because he prefers con-
struction to destruction.
q. Because he has secured the
reduction of the tariff, not up
ward but downward, to COM
petitive basis.
5. Because he has secured the
adoption of a dumping clause to
protect American labor, capital
and business against the possi-
bility OF cut-throat competition
when the European war is over.
6. Because he has secured the
imposition of an income tax,
Obliging wealth to share with
want the burdens as well as the
blessings of the Government.
Z. Because he has secured the
establishment of a non-partisan
tariff commission, so that here
after the tariff may be revised,
whether upward or downward,
upon scientific principles and in
the light of all the facts.
8. Because he has been a
friend of legitimate business.
9. Because he has secured the
establishment of a Federal Re-
serve system, dethroning the
money trust, democratizing credit
and reassuring the future against
recurrence of banking and cur.
rency panics.
10. Because he has secured
the establishment of a Federal
Trade Commission to suppress
unfair competition and to protect
and promote honest business and
to safeguard law abiding business
men against needless and vexati-
GUS litigation.
II. Because he has effected
the abolition of tying contracts,
interlocked directorates and hold,
ing companies, the tap roots OF
monopoly.
IL. Because he has been 9
friend of the farmer.
13. Because he has secured
the establishment of a system OF
rural credits designed to emanci'
pate and to enfranchise the farm.
er in the business world.
Ia. Because under his admin:
istration a system of licensed and
bonded warehouses has been au.
thorized which will assist to make
the farmer master of his own
business and his own destiny.
Is, Because under his admin.
istration measures have beer
passed looking to the establish.
ment of official standards anC
grades of cotton and grain, thus
safeguarding the market against
manipulation.
16. Because he has approved
a measure providing for the
establishment of a system of high
ways, through State and Fedora
cooperation, which will, when
completed, according to the esti
mate of experts, save the farmers
more than one million dollars be-
tween the rising and setting Of
every days sun.
II. Because he stands upor
a platform which promises the
prosecution of plans, TO make
agriculture more profitable, anc
country life more healthful. com
Portable and attractive"
18. Because he has been the
friend Of the wage Garner.
10. Because he has approved
a measure declaring that human
labor shall not be dealt with as 8
mere commodity in the market
place.
20. Because he has approved
a measure abolishing the writ Of
injunction as an instrument o1
judicial tyranny, securing to labor
the right to a trial by jury ir
cases of constructive contempt
q. Because he has approved
the Workingmen's Compensation
Act making the United States {
model employer and an example
to all other employers.
%. Because he has approved
the Seamen's Act, liberating the
toilers of the sea from involuntar.
servitude, protecting then
against Imprisonment for debt
and criminal prosecution for the
mere breach of a civil contract
%. Because he urged ant
signed the Eight-hour Act, which
crystallized the enlightened judg
ment of mankind into the law OF
the land in accordance with the
Progressive platform of 1912 ant
the Democratic platform of 1916
and in accordance with the ma
tured conviction that the mar
who tolls should be allowed tt
enjoy a fair share of the treasure
and the leisure and the pleasure
which should be the portion o.