The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-07-07
Mr.. BRYAN'S SPLENDID
ENDORSEMENT OF WILSON
The Administration Has Kept Faith
With the People and Deserves
Confidence and Reelection


phasize the points of difference. Har-
mony exists in parties because the
members emphasize the points of
agreement rather than the points of
difference. And, as in this nation, the
things that the whole people hold in
common are more numerous and more
important than the things on which
they differ, so in parties men act when
the things upon which they agree are
more numerous or more important
than the things upon which they diff
fer. Today those who stand for the
Democratic party are able to go be-
fore this nation and not only give a
reason for the faith that is in them,
but give defense of the administra-
tons claims to. the confidence of the
people.
In dealing with domestic problems,
our President, our Senate and our
House have joined together in giving
the country a program of obstructive
craftsmanship and of remedial meas
ures that has no parallel in all the
history of this country.
You may take all the administra-
tons from the beginning of our his
tory as a republic to the beginning of
the present one, and you will not find
as many laws written upon the sta
tute books of great importance to the
people as you will find written in the
last three years by Woodrow Wilson,
a Democratic President.
Party Pledges Carried Out.
We found the Republican party in
power, with tariff law written by
the beneficiaries of protection. The
President called Congress together as
soon as it could be assembled. He
presented to them the pledge of our
platform to reduce the tariff, and the
members of our party, cooperating as
the three departments of government
have seldom co-operated before, re-
deemed the pledge and wrote upon the
statute books the best tariff law that
we have had in this country in so
years.
1t has taken away the power of the
trusts to exploit the American people.
1t has done justice to the consumers
of the country, without doing injustice
to any of the producers who have re-
lied upon the favors granted by the
party. And, as a part of
that tariff law, the country now en-
joys an income tax and a degree of
justice in taxation that has relieved
those who have borne an unfair share
of the burden and placed it upon those
whose income properly justified it,
and who have heretofore escaped their
share of the expense of the Govern
ment.
AS soon as the tariff question had
been settled the President summoned
Congress to give consideration to the
question of currency reform. For 20
years the Republican party had advo-
Gated currency reform, but it never
mad the courage to undertake the
question of currency reform.
The Democratic party, true to its
promise and its pledge, prepared a
dill, and that bill is now law.
Thanks to the courage of a President
Who was not afraid of Wall Street.
High Praise for President
No President since jackson has had
% meet such an unholy combination
If the powers Of high finance, and ev-
IN jackson himself never met the
iitxation better than Woodrow Will
ION has met it. We have just com
nenced to learn what that law means
or this nation. Even before il be- !.
anne law we learned what it meant |
o have the White House on the side