French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-06-22
ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE
WILSON ADMINISTRATORS.
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politics: but the new tariff commits
sion it proposes to take politics out OF
the tariff.
To-day prosperity shines from blaz-
ing furnaces and glowing forges. IL
echoes from busy docks and from
tbronged empor1ums Of trade. It's
message of plenty fills the land with
the chant of the spindle and of loom,
lifting the mortgage from the poor
mans home and promising his chill
dren a future that seemed impossible
before.
During the past -four years this
country has experienced a steady and
continuous Improvement in business.
Wealth has increased Fl per cent, the
value of manufactured products 80 per
cent, capital 43 per cent. wages "a per
cent, and exports II per The
food-tide Of our prosperity has risen
to such an unprecedented height that
the OnIyIlimit 20 trade is our ability
to make transport the commodities de-
imanded at home and abroad. Cur fields
and our factories cry abroad Ior men
and unemployment has ceased to be a
problem. Wages have advanced,
Op6IdCiOuS nave ICouLlSu, lCdI C2IdlN
has recovered it's worth.
There is not an idle a on Il rail
roads OF an idle ship at our docks.
For the first time in history Americas
greatest port mas become the world =
greatest port.
THE purchasing power o. Ii Jicu-
PIE il greater than that OF ary cher
people on the globe. Never was there
as today. The aggregate resources Of
our national banks are three hundred
millions more than the aggregate re-
sources Of the Bank Of England, the
Bank of France, the Bank of Russia,
the Reichbank Of Germany, the Bank
of the Netherlands, the Swiss National
bank and the Bank Of Japan. We have
four hundred and one millions of
ey more than we had a year and a half
ago and u gold supply exceeds by
many hundreds of millions the gold
supply of any other nation on earth.
This avalanche, of money poured in
to our pockets by the rest of the world
as a tribute to u national resources
and our fidelity to peaceful industry is
not the of our prosperity. It
is only the symbol. Compared with
our trade at home this foreign trade is
a mere pitance. Our domestic COM
merce today is larger than the foreign
commerce of all the nations of the
world combined.
Against this actual condition our
opponents raise an argument of "ifs."
With greater truth We can also enter
the realm of conjecture and declare
that if another candidate had been
elected four years ago. the United
States would be at war today. A ton
Of IFS do not weigh as much as a sin
Re fact. Our opponents forget that if
the flight of the seagulIs off the coast
Of the West Indies had not directed his
course, Columbus would not have dis
covered America when he did. But
the seagulls were theTe-'ifs' cannot
Danish them-and Columbus found II
land"
Chairman GIynn concluded with
praise for President Wilson, whoI he
said, has measured up to the best ira
dition3 Of a great office.
He has been wise with a wisdom
that is stepped in the traditions of his
country. with a wisdom that has been
disciplined by training and broadened
by instruction.
He has been firm with the firmness
that proceeds from deep conviction.
with the hrmness that is grounded in a
duty we'll defined.
He has been patient with the pa
thence which believes and trusts that
truth crushed to earth will rise again,
with the patience that can endure and
walt watch and pray, for the certain
~V1ndication of justice, humanity and
right.
He has been patriotic with a pa
tTlotlsm that has lever wavered, a
PATRIOTISM that is as pure and strong
as the faith that moved the fathers
when they made Our country free.
And when the history of these days
comes to be written, and the children
OF tomorrow read their nations story,
When time shall have dispelled all
m~lSconceptlon, n the years shat!
nave rendered their impartial verdict
n name will shine in golden sp1endor
upon the page that is blackened with
The tale of Europe's war. one name will
represent the triumph of American
principles over the hosts of darkness
and of death.
That name will be the name of the
great President who has made Democ-
racy proud that he is a Democrat. and
made Americans proud that he is an
American.
ct will be the name of the statesman
who has kept his country true to it's
faith in a time that tried mems souls;
the name of the student and the schol-
ar who has championed the cause of
American freedom wherever he found
it oppressed; the name of the patriot
who has implanted his country's flag
on the highest peak to which humanity
has yet aspired: the name that carried
the torch of progress to victory once
and will carry it to victory again. the
name of Woodrow Wilson, President
and President to be-"