Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-09-07
set free to move as they never moved
What Democrats Have Done.

The tariff q been revised, not on
the principle of repellIng foreign
trade. but upon the principle of en-
c~ouraging it. upon something like a
footing of equality with our own in
respect of the terms of competition,
and a tariff board has been created
whose function It will be to keep the
relations of American with foreign
business and industry under constant
observation, for the guidance of our
business men and of our congress.
American energies are now directed
towards the markets of the world.
The laws against trusts have been
clarified by definition, with a view
to making it plain that they were not
directed against big business but only
against unfair business and the pre-
tense of competition where there was
none; and a trade commission has
been created with powers of guidance
and accommodation which have re-
lieyed business men of unfounded
fears and set them upon the road of
hopeful and confident enterprise.
BY the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal of ac-
tive, business has been rendered elias
tic, taking its volume, not from a fixed
body of investment securities, but
from the liquid assets Of daily trade.
Effective measures have been taken
for the recreation of an American
merchant marine and the revival Of
the American carrying trade.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been reorganized to enable
it to perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more eff
iciently. We have created, extended
and improved the service of the par
GELS post.
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 other bust
ness men in the money market. We
have successfully regulated specula-
ton in futures and established
standards in the marketing of grains.
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as n
security for loans from the banks.
For Labor and Children.
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 proc
esses Of the courts which treated their
members like fractional parts of mobs
and not like accessible and RESPONSE
Bile individuals; by releasing Jul sea-
men from involuntary s%ervitude; by
making adequate provision for COM
pensation for industrial accidents; by
providing suitable machinery for me-
diation and Cancellation in industrial
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 q system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
I as the country has been feeling after
| for a century. We have sought to
} equalize taxation by means of al
equitable income tax. We have taken
; the steps that ought to have beer
taken at the outset to open up the re
) sources of Alaska. We have pro
vided for national defense upon q
| scale never before seriously proposed
+, upon the responsibility of an entire
political party. We have driven the
toriff lobby from cover and obliged i
! to substitute solid argument for pri
vate influence. .
Foreign Policy Stated.
In foreign affairs we have beef
: guided by principles clearly con
: ceived and consistently lived up to
$ Perhaps they have not been fully com
pretended because they have hilbert
d governed international affairs only il
' theory, not in practice. They are sim
e pie, obvious, easily stated, and funda
mental to American ideals.
0 We have been neutral not only be
cause it was the fixed and traditions
policy of the United States to stan
n aloof from the politics Of Europe an
because we had no part either of az
ton or Of policy In the influences whic
e brought on the present war, but ais
e because it was manifestly our duty t
prevent, If it were possible, the indef
mite extension of the fires of hate an
It desolation kindled by that terrible COZ
fict and seek to serve mankind by r.
; serving our strength and our esource
for the anxious and difficult days {
l. restoration and healing which mus
n follow, when peace will have to bull
a its house anew.
The rights Of our own citizens
ic course became involved; that was IL
s. evitable. Where they did this was OF
al guiding principle !: that property right
re can be indicated by claims for dan
ID ages when the war is over, and no mo,
d. ern nation can decline to arbitrat
N such claims; but the fundamcnt,
d. rights of humanity cannot be. The lol
Of life is ir%reparable.. Neither can d
It. rect violations Of q nations sovereign
i'd ty await vindication in suits for Gar
ne ages.
AS to Mexico.
at While Europe vas at war our oN
Of continent, one OF our own neighbor
f. was shaken by revolution. In TIL
I'd matter, too, principle was plain and
o. was imperative that we should live |
re to 1t IL we were to deserve the trust
I'd any real partisan Of the right ms fir,
ly men see it. We have protested to b
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