The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

fairly abuse him for that! Their crit. icism' is on a par with their fault. finding of the Child Labor Law. II MT. Hughes followers were in the sad. de, >what would happen? MT. Taf, himself has declared that with g 'jingo' in the White House we would now be at war with Germany!
 President Wilson's foreign policy has been wonderfully successful. He has more than held his own for Am erica against the diplomats of Flu. rope with all their years of expert erlce and last year the whole Ameri. can press approved his statcsmanshiI I and commended diplomacy. Take fol example the New York Sun, a Wal Street organ Hat no one ever aocus- ed of having tro-Wilson leanings. The Sun, on, September 2, 1915, in it's edi torial column said:-
 "The United States has won a
 great diplomatic victory in the
 square acceptance by Germany of
 those principles concerning neu-
 tral rights on the high seas for
 which our State Depatment has been contending. President Will
 son has succeeded in this contro-
 versy in preserving the peace
 with full honor"
 There you. have it in a nutshell not peace. with honor, but peace with full honor.' There was no campaign on, then. No rampant need for an Issue, no torchlight hunt for a na. tional Exigency. On the contrary public opinion throughout America enthusiastically endorsed the Presi- dent and applauded his ability to keeI this country at peace. Public opin' ion hasn't changed-only\ \now these is Republican need for Issues 1
 Take Mexico-He has handled thai difficult situation with consummate skill. Mexico is worse than difficult 1t doesn't stay putt changes it's diff faculties. Tntervention,' till recently was merely good excuse for high way robbery on a national scale! President Wilson, Christian President of a Christian Nation. substituted the law of the Golden Rulei And here's the fine thing about it-it actually works and is getting results! t
 President Wilson did the only thing possible. Had he recognized Huerta, a howl would have gone up all over the United States. Taft him. self would not recognize HuertaH For us to have intervened (and interven- ton means war-make no mistake about that) would have been big ger disgrace and a greater injustice than the Mexican War of 1846. This plan of settling disputes with Mexico through Commission has been a OQd-send to that distracted country. It Is a fine thing for us to have play ed the genuine Big Brother to a coun- try whose people are now coming in- to national consciousness and are just as keen for liberty and justice as we are. ae r 2
 The Greatest Law
 "The greatest single enactment of the Democratic Congress? The Fed eral Reserve Act! I consider that the greatest piece of constructive legisla- ton In the history of American busi- ness. Had President Wilson accom- plished not one other single thing, he would deserve reelection on that act alone. It will open up the mar kets of the world and increase our business enormously. We can really do business with South America now @before we could not But more i'm portant-it became operative just in time to save our country from disas- trous financial panic. Before that act was passed the w. l.. Douglas Shoe Company of whichI am president had to pay<7 per cent interest for money. Since that time plenty of money can be had for from 3 per cent to 4 per cent This law has benefited all bus mess and is the principal factor in the great prosperity which this coun- try is now enjoying.
 Masterpiece of Legislation
 "The Underwood Tariff Law revis- ed the tariff downward, and was a masterpiece of legislation. am op- posed to tariff revision upward. We now need industrial education and ef- ficiency in our manufacturing indus tries! We need young men so edu- cated that they will understand every detail in the manufacturing and mar keting of all classes of goods produc- red in this country. After the war we will have to meet competition from those countries which lead in indus trial education and efficiency. Our great industries lack men competent to take the places of the present, Cap tairs of Industry. Congress should consider this matter and have the In dustrial Commission, or a Special Commission, ascertain what will best promote industrial education and eff ciency.
 For years business men have beer fighting for a Tariff Commission tc take the tariff out of politics. We now have such a Commission. This Commission will gather information and furnish facts hitherto not easy for Congress to get, and is empowered also to recommend to Congress such changes in our tariff laws as may be necessary to protect our industries. After the War Bogey
 After the war? I take no stoc: in this Republican assertion of the need of high tariff to save us from conditions pictured for US by theil spellbinder5 for campaign purposes inundation of a flood of European goods I see just the opposite Oul | tracks are clear for bigger bushes. than ever. We are just at the begin ming offbig things. I look for tre mcndous increase of business after the war Of course, with the beginning of peace talk. there may come little shcrt-lived slump-that is to be ex pccted because of the natural timidity of certain clorse5 of business. As z matter of fact we shall be called up on as never before to help rep1enisf vast areas of Europe>which are 6r vii be more or less completely destroyed Think of the construction work alone to be done in Poland, Galicia, France Belgium and the Balkans; For year. to come the European demand fol