The Farmington times., 1916-07-07
sQuIRM AT THEIR OWN LOGIC

Our sprightly Republican contem
porary, the Potosi Journal, is yer,
much disturbed over our reference t.
the Doe Run Lead Company's liquid
alton of over two millions of bondet
indebtedness under the Democratic ad
ministration. We cited the old assur
ance of the Republican party in claim
ing partnership with Providence, Civ
ing itself credit for every good thing
no matter from what condition il
arose, even for the sunshine, the rair
and abundant harvests, when that par
ty was in power AS a sequence Of
that brand of logic we suggesed that
"the Doe Run Lead Company has
prospered wonderfully under a Demo
cratic administration" OF course our
Republican sophists don't like to sec
their rotten logic return, like boom
erang thrown by an inexperienced
hand, to smite them in the face.
The Journal asks, "What has the
Wilson administration had to do with
the Doe Run Lead Company's prosper
ity?" Well, it has had this to do with
it: 1t has managed, in the most try
ing situation that has faced our coun-
try since the civil war, when grave
and complicated questions, both for
eign and domestic, have continuously
confronted it, to keep a sane and lev
el head; to meet these delicate and
danger-fraught problems with a wise
pnd firm craftsmanship and patriot
ism, that saved the country from a
threatened financial panic when the
Federal Reserve banking law was in
coures of construction; maintained the
honor and dignity of the country in
its contentious with Germany for the
lives and rights of American citizens
under the rules and precedents of in
ternational law; met with undaunted
courage every problem that arose,
whether from the European war or
the hyphenated conspiracies at home,
and through it all kept our country
at peace and gave confidence and en-
couragement to all lines Of business.
These are few of the things that the
Wilson administrator has done for
the Doe Run Lead Company as well
as for every other legitimate indus
try of the country in spite of the bitter
Republican and hyphenated criticisms
of its policy and all the obstacles that
could be conjured up to thwart its
patriotic aims. They are writ large
in our country's history and cannot be
by the loud rawlings of the
Anything -to-beat- Wilson" conspiracy
of the Lodges, Roots, Smoots and
and their partisan-blind
satellites.
"Let. The Pennington Times, or any
other Democratic paper for that mat
ter, recount the conditions of our lead
and zinc industries under the Wilson
administration up to the time the war
orders began; they are both afraid and
ashamed to do it." says the Anything
Wilson logician of the journal.
Why should we be ashamed or afraid?
The conditions of our lead and zinc
Industries from the inception of the
Wilson administration up to the be-
ginning of the European war We're
The same that they had been for sew
sral years prior to that time under
he Taft administration and that
Of high-pretection tariff
acts, the Payne-Aldrich law, which
vas so discriminatory and unjust that
t was discredited by many of the
adherents of the Republican
,arty and repudiated by the people at
he very first election after its adop-
ion by the Republican party. Taft
wen made apologies in signing it.
But what good did the law do the
cad industry? Lead was then bring
ng higher price in London than in
he American markets, as the mar
,et quotations at the time showed,
nd the lead industry therefore had
lothing to fear from and was not aft
ected by foreign importations of
cad. Then why were lead and mine
rages so low under high-protectionI
republican administration and the
rst year under the Wilson admins
ration? The answer is simple--the
ne that Democrats have always given
nd still give--supply and demand
# course the European war has had
luch to do with the present price Of
.ad- because it has increased in de-
land. And that, too, upholds the
emocratic contention-that supply y
I'd demand regulate the prices of alb
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