East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-09-02

TO perform lis great and important
functions more promptly and more ef-
flciently We have created. extended
and improved the service Of the par
cells post.
SO much we have done for business
What other party has understood the
task so well or executed It 80 intelll-
gently and energedcally What other
party has attempted it at all? The
republican leaders, apparently. know
Of no means Of assisting bushes but
protection How to stimulate and
put it upon a new footing Of energy
and enterprise they have not sug-
gested.
Given Farmers Standing.
For the farmers Of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit. by means of the federal re-
serve act and the rural credits act
They now have the standing Of other
business men in the money market.
We have successfully regulated spec
ulatlon in futures" and established
standards in the marketing Of grains.
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted 10 make the standard
crops available as never before. both
for systematic marketing and as a Sc
curity for loans from the banks. We
have greatly added to the work OF
neighborhood demonstration on the
farm itself Of improved methods Of
cultivation, and through the lntelli-
gent extension Of the functions Of the
department Of agriculture, have made
1t possible for the farmer to learn
Systematically where his best markets
are and how to get at them
Much Done for Labor
The workingmen Of America have
been given a veritable emancipation,
by the legal recognition Of a mans
labor as part Of his life. and not a
mere marketable commodity: by ex-
empting labor organizations from
processes of the courts which treat
ed their members like fractional parts
Of mobs and not like accessible and
responsible individuals: by releasing
our seamen from Involuntary servi-
tude: by making adequate provision
for compensation for industrial acci-
lents: by providing suitable machin-
cry for mediation ana Cancellation in
Industrial disputes; and by putting
the federal department OF labor al
the disposal Of the workingman when
in search Of work
Child Labor Forbidden.
We have effected the emaDcipat!on
of the children Of the country by re-
leasing them from hurtful labor. W.
have instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
as the country has been feeling after
for century. We have sought tC
equalize taxation by means of ar
equita BILE income tax We have taker
the steps that ought to have been ta'
ken at the outset to open up the re-
sources OF Alaska. We have pro-
vded for national defense upon q
scale never before seriously proposed
upon the responsibility of an entire
political party. We nave driven the
tariff lobby from cover and obliged
! it TO substitute solid argument fol
pribate influence.
Promises Made and Kept.
This extraordinary recital mus
sound like a platform. list of san
guine promises; but It is not. 1t i!
a record of promises made four year
ago and now actually redeemed il
constructive legislation.
These things must profoundly dis
turb the thoughts and confound th'
plans of those who have made them
selves believe that the democrati,
party neither understood nor wa
ready to assist the business Of tht
country in the great enterprises which
is its evident and inevitable destiny Il
undertake and carry through Th'
breaking up of the lobby must espec
tally disconcert them; for it wa
through the lobby that they sough
and were sure they had found tn,
heart of things The game of privil
ege can be played successfully BY NJ
other means
Democratic PTom'Fcs Are Kept,
I have not spoken explicitly, gen
tlemen, of the platform adopted a
St Louis: but it has been implicit il
all that I have said have sough
to interpret its spirit and meaning
The people Of the United states d
not need to be assured now that tha'
platform is definite pledge, a prac
tical program, We have proved tt
them that our promises are made tC
be kept.
We hold very definite ideals W.
believe that the energy and initiative
OF our people have heen too narrowly
coached and superintended, that they
should be set free. as we have Sc
them free. to disperse themselves
throughout the nation: that they
should not be concentrated in. thu
hands of few powerful guides anC
guardians, as our opponents have
again and again. in effect If not il
purpose sought to concentrate them
We believe moreover-who tina
; looks about him now with compre
hending eye can fail to believe ?-tha
the day of Little Americanism, will
its narrow horizons, when methods o
"protection" and industrial nursini