The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-09-07

routes. and the methods OF our COM
merce with other countries.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been recognized to enable
It a. perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more
efficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service OF the parcels
post. So much we have done for bus
mess What other party has under
stood the task so well or executed 1t
Sc intelligently and theoretically?
For the farmers of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act They
now have the standing of otter bust
ness men in the money market We
have successfully regulated specula-
ton in futures and established
standards I'm the marketing OF grains.
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops availab BILE as never before both
for systematic marketing and as a Sc
curity for ,Ssns from the banks
THE worDngmen OF America have
been given veritable emancipation by
the legal recognition of a mans labor
as part OF his life and not mere mar
ketable commodity: by exempting la
Dor organizations from processes Of the
courts. which treated their members
Ike fractional parts Of mObs and not
Ike accessible and responsible indi-
viduals: by releasing our seamen from
Involuntary servitude: by making ade-
quate provision for compensation for
Industrial accidents: by providing suit
able machinery for mediation and con-
Citation In Industrial disputes and By
putting the federal department of Ia
Dor Mt the disposal OF the workingman
when In search OF work.
I'VE have effected the emancipation
OF the children OF the country by re
| leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have instituted system OF national
| aid In the building OF highroads such as
the country has been feeling after for
a century. We have sought 70 cqualizs
| taxation by means of an equitable In
come tax We have taken the steps
that ought 70 have been taken at the
outset TO open up the resources OF
Alaska. We have provided for nation
al defense upon a scale never before
seriously proposed upon the responsi
bility Of an entire political party. We
have driven the tariff lobby from cove,
and obliged 1t to substitute solid argu
ment for private influence
A Record Of Promises Kept
This extraordinary recital mus
sound like a platform. list Of san
| guine promises, but IL Is not. Ii is
record Of promises made four years ag
and now actually redeemed in con
structive legislation We have In fou
years come very near to carrying GU
the platform of the Progressive part,
| as well as our own, for we also ar
progressives."
This program, Mr.. Wilson declared
was resisted at every step by interest
which the Republican party had fos
tered at the expense of the country, In
terests which had fought the reforr
of the banking and currency system
and which were now planning for tn
amendment of the federal reserve &C
by the concentration of control in
single bank which the "old famfi1a
group Of bankers" can keep under the1
eye and direction. But while the "bi
men" who used to write the tar1ns an
3 command the assistance Of the treai
ury have been hostile-all but fe'
with vision-the average business ma
knows that he has been delivered ~
less the party that consulted only u
"big men" should return to powe
They still select its candidates ana o.
tate its policy. he said
Foreign Affairs
Concerning foreign affairs, We hav
been neutral because 1t was the trad
: tional policy OF the United States
: stand aloof from European polite
I | Mr. Wilson declared Property r1gne
Of our citizens can be indicated ,
| claims for damages. but the fund
mental rights of humanity cannot b.
The loss OF life Is irreparnbie- %e
Thar can direct violations q . nafaoo