The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1916-10-19

or more farmers can form company
and obtain a loan from the govern
ment at the rate of from 5 per cent
to 6 per cent, and in no case, is the
interest to exceed per cent. This
will save annually to the farmer of
this nation millions and millions of
dollars. In Tennessee alone where
| the mortgages on farms are COM
paratveiy small as compared with
other states, it has been estimated
that the interest saved in Tennessee
on the present loans would amount
to more than half million dollars
in interest. The only conditions for
borrowing this money, man must
certify that he is the owner of, or is
about to become the owner of a
farm. The government will make
to him loan of so per cent upon
his land and 20 per cent on the i'm
provements and will give him, if he
so desires, thirty-siX years in which
to pay off this mortgage; and he can
pay the same off at periods or in any
easy payment, if he so desires. This
law no doubt, will prove one of the
greatest blessings that the farmer
has ever had the privilege or oppor[
tunity of enjoying. 1t means that
| the tenants on the farm will decrease
and the men who are now tenants
will own their own farms; and will
enable him to sit under his own vine
and fig tree, and enjoy the fruits of
his. own labor.
While the democratic party was
busy working out these reforms, war
broke out in Europe, which has
proven to be the bloodiest war ever
recorded in the annals of history.
All the leading nations of Europe are
now engaged in struggle either for
supremacy or for existence. Great
armies are marching over the battle
fields of Ancient Troy; they are
marching through the Holy Land
and also through the Garden of
Eden; they are retracing the steps of
Alexander the Great, Xerxes, Napol-
con and Darius. They are concen-
trating to arms on the battlefield of
Hannibal. All the battles of the
Revolution, the war of 1872, the wars
of Napoleon, the Russia-Japanese
war, and our own Civil war, do not
compare with the suffering, carnage,
mutilation, blood shed and loss of
property that have taken place in the
past two years.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The
critics may howl themselves hoarse
because of the presidents Mexican
policy. A few American capitalists
have gone into Mexico, and are try
ing to consume the land and would
have American soldiers taken from
the fields and factories, spill their
blood and die of fever to fill their
money Golfers. They may complain
because some men happened to lose
their lives while riding on belliger-
ent ship, travelling to foreign
countries, but the democratic party
has not, as yet, seen. fit to go to war
with either Mexico, Germany or
England, and we believe that it is
the desire and prayer Of the Ameri-
can people that we keep out of war
if we can do so, and yet maintain the
honor and pride of the American peo-
pie. If there ever was a President
who deserves praise, that President is
Wood ow Wilson.
Americas Prosperity
What speaks loudest for our nation !
today is not the roar of her cannon, 4
but the song of her reapers; it isl
not the blast of the bugle, calling to-
gether mighty armies, but it is the |
sound of her bells from her schools, |
colleges, and universities, calling to-
gether her millions of boys and girls,
young men and young women, and |
educating them for life and life's
great problems; it is not our battle
ships. submarines, aeroplanes, hy-
and zeppelins, but it is the
great American Bottoms, flying the |
flag and carrying the COM
merce of the world. Our prosper
ity is to be seen in the blazing fur
mace, it is heard in the rattle of the
shuttle and the loom; it is heard by
the workman's axe as he fells the
mighty oak and poplar of our gItat
forest; it is heard in the ring of yhe Il
band saw, in the lowing of cattle
and bleating of sheep on the western
Plains; it is heard by the songs of the
larkies in the white cotton feldg of
he South. Prosperity has permihat-
he South. Prosperity has perneat-
country. This is a country not ruled
~ a spurred and booted warrior, but
"a nation where the world may
earn lessons Of true loyalty and
where the valor Of. her =
soldiers in time of war or the Ghival-
y of her citizens in the time of
,eace, finds no higher examplesIin the
worlds history; aland whose music
md poetry have thrilled the world
land whose love of country Ind for
he right are still it's noblest 'charac- .
eristics; a land where hospitality
till reigns and the traveller is ever
Welcome; land where knightho ID ,
5 still in flower, and the clarm of
still holds swayt a land
Jhere the modern spirit Of COM r
lercialism has not deadsned the
oftier feelings and sentiments of it's
eople."
The creed of Democracy, Ladies
nd Gentlemen, that; eve love our
ountry". We believe in her con-
titution, her laws, her institutions,
nd the principles for which she
lands, we believe in her future a
he past is secure. We believe in her
asst resources, her great possibilities i
yes, more, her wonderful certain o
as We believe IN rka-~A nonricap