Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-09-08

eioPo aNuHhDlc us never DeIOrc DOtn
for systematic marketing and as n
security 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 intelli-
gent extension of the functions of the
department of agriculture, have made
it possible for the farmer to learn sys-
Dramatically where his best markets are
and how to get at them.
The workingmen of America have
been given veritable emancipation,
by the legal recognition of a mans
labor as part of his life, and not
mere marketable commodity; by ex-
empting labor organizations from pro
cesses of the courts which treated
their members like fractional parts
of mobs and not like accessible and re-.
sponsible individuals; by releasing our
seamcn from involuntary servitude;
by making adequate provision for
compensation for Industrial accidents;
by providing suitable machinery for
mediation and Cancellation in indus
trial disputes; and by putting the
federal department of labor at the
disposal of the workingman when in
search of work.
| We 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 century. We have sought to
cqualize taxation by means of an
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been
taken Mt the outset to open up the
resources of Alaska. We have pro-
vided for national defense upon a
scale never before seriously propos-
ed upon the responsibility of an en-
tire political party. We have driven
ligcd il to substitute solid argument
for private influence.
Redeemed Promises.
This extraordinary recital must
sound like platform, list of SAN
guine promises; but it is not. 1t is a
record of promises made four years
ago and now actually redeemed in
constructive legislation.
These things must profoundly dis
turb the thoughts and confound the
plans of those who have made them
selves believe that the Democratic
party neither understood nor was
ready to assist the business of the
country in the great enterprises which
it is it's evident and inevitable destiny
to undertake and carry through. The
breaking up Of the lobby must espe-
through the lobby that they sought
heart of things. The game of privi-
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other means.
This record must equally astonish
those who feared that the Demo
cratic party had not opened it's heart
to comprehend the demands of So
cial justice. We have in four years
come very near to carrying out the
platform of the Progressive party as
well as our own; for we also are pro-
gressives.
J The Republican party is just the
party that cannot meet the new con-
ditions of the new age. 1t does not
know the way and it does not wish
away from the old leaders and could
not. They still select its candidates
and dictate its policy, still resist
change, still banker after the old con-
ditions, still know no methods of en-
couraging business but the old meth
DDS. When it changes it's leaders and
its purposes and brings it's ideas up
to date it will have the right TO ask
the American people to give it power
again; but not until then. A new
age, an age of revolutionary change,
needs new purposes and new ideas.
In foreign affairs we have been
guided by principles clearly conceiv-
ed and consistently lived up to. Per-
haps they have not been fully COM
pretended because they have hith-
erto governed international affairs
only in theory, not in practice. They
are simple, obvious, easily stated, and
fundamental to American ideals.
Reached to America.
| The seas were not broad enough to
keep the infection of the conflict out
of our own politics. The passions and
intrigues of certain active groups and
combinations of men amongst us who
were born under foreign flags inject
ed the poison of disloyalty into our
ow nmost critical affairs, laid violent
hands upon many of our industries,
and subjected us to the shame of di-
visions of sentiment and purpose in
which America was condemned and
foi gotten. 1t is part of the business
OF this year of reckoning and settle
mcnt to speak plainly and act with
nnmistakable purpose in rebuke of
these things, in order that they may
he forever hereafter impossible. /
am the candidate of a party, but I
am above all things else an American
citizen. | neither seek the favor nor
fear the displeasure of that small
alien element amongst us which puts
loyalty to any foreign power before
loyalty to the United States.
While Europe was at war our own
continent, one of our own neighbors,
was shaken by n revolution. We
have protested to believe and we do
believe, that the people of small and
weak states have the right to expect
to be dealt with exactly as the people
OF big and powerful states would be.
We have acted upon that principle in
dealing with the people of Mexico.
Many serious wrongs against the
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