The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-25
WILSON ADMINISTRATION INC0MPARABLE, DECLARES
 HARVESTER TO TURKEY
Morgentau Federal Reserve Act Other Measures of WilsOn-Asserts the Farmer Has Been Rescued Bondage and That Big Business Been Fairly Treated
which supplanted an archaic banking

which supplanted an archaic banking | system built up under Republican
 control, through which special priv 1 ilege thn-ived while the commerce of
 the country rested under @ perpetual
 menace of panic and disaster Un-
 der the old system financial tyranny
 was forgotten and danger lurked con- l tinually in our trade centers, but not | even recurrent panics could induce the Republican legislative machine to of-
 fend the powerful group of financ1ers
 who owned it and dictated it's policies.
 The Wilson currency system has
 emancipated the borrowers. Credit had been released and usury forbidden.
 Energy, enterprise and initiative no
 longer wait on the pleasure of few
 men. Then take the Rural Credits | law, which ranks with the Federal
 Reserve act, and is it's companion | piece It rescues the farmer from | financial bondage and opens to him | the same highways of credit as the
 business man."
 You ask me if business men are | against Wilson, and I deny it," said MT. Morgenthau, with emphasis. Some business men may be against | fim-those who have been stripped
 of privileges they have come to be- | lieve were theirs of right But the | spleen of the business tyrant who finds | himself divested of his unjust powers, and is compelled to deal with his con- | temporaries on a just and equitable l basis, is far from representing the | honest sentiment of the American business men The banker, the mer- | chant, the manufacturer, the trades
 men generally, who pursue their vo- cations in legitimate lines and do not seek to win their profits by oppressive methods are not against Wilson. I l firmly believe that they are with him. | The must be with him, for the aver age American business man is patriotic l and intelligent, and is not of a. class | to be stampeded by the outcries of a | selfish few"
 How about Wilson's foreign poli-
 cies?"
 What sane American would have \ them changed? They have kept us
 at peace while the world is at war; l they have strengthened us in honor
 and justice while other nations wran- | gle as to which shall bear the burden
 of a great shame"
 l 'I saw war. I saw its horrors and | it's desolation, and I rejoice as an American that we fate had Preei- | dent who has been strong enough, l steadfast enough, to save the United
 States from a reckless, wanton plunge into the whirlpool of death. There are times when we should fight, but what redress have we had
 to secure that Wilson has not obtain
 ed by peaceful means? He has won
 each contention with the bel1igerents
 of Europe, and in winning has up-
 held international law and bulwarked civilization. Those blinded partisan
 foes of Wilson who seek to make the
 diplomatic correspondence of the
 President a subject of jest are ritter
 ing away their time in foolish pur-
 suits. The diplomacy of Wilson commands the respect of the world '' l Against the clarnmoring of Mexi-
 can concessionaries he has stood as
 firm as against the clamor of the na- | turaHzed citizens who place their ma 1 tive land above America He has re-
 fused to purchase dividends with blood of American youth; he has refused to
 take advantage of Mexico's distress,
 by seizure of Mexican territory; he
 has refused to lend the great weight of American strength toward Sthe re- storation of the tyrannies against
 which the Mexican people have been | for so long in rebellion"
 Dollar diplomacy has been crushed | by Wilson, just as invisible govern | ment has been destroyed. High | finance sometimes has imperial dreams. It wants to exploit the nat
 ural resources held by weak peoples | Of undeveloped countries and some- times seeks to use the State Depart ment for making bargains and the army and navy as their collectors. | This cannot be done with Woodrow Wilson, and that is why certain people are endeavoring to prevent his re- election
 A very quiet man is Henry Morgen-
 thau, usually sitting as placid as
 bronze Buddha, but now his eyes flashed behind his glasses, and he as-
 serted with great emphasis:
 '"The very speeches of the opposi- ton ought to be enough. No one has
 dared to attack a single Wilson law
 or any of the Wilson domestic policies. They hate the latter; they want to re-, peal most of the laws, but they have
 not the courage to come out in the open.
 ''The same is true as to his foreign
 policies! What has his opponent had to say about them? Would he have filed an official protest against the in- vasion of Belgium? Would he have severed diplomatic relations after the sinking of the Lusitania? Would he
 have asked Congress to place an em-
 bargo on the shipment of munitions? Would he have favored warning Amer jeans off the high seas? Would he
 have intervened in Mexico? When Admiral Mayo, acting on his own
 judgment, demanded a salute at Tam
 pico after the arrest of his men by l Huerta officials, would MT. Hughes have backed him up as President Will ] son did, or would he have repudiated the Admiral?
 "In the railroad strike Wilson faced an emergency, in which action and not an abstract argument was demanded. He faced that emergency with his | usual courage and fairness. What | follows? The country was saved from a catastrophe of almost limitless effect. The eight-hour day standard becomes | temporarily effective January l, an ex- pert commission is to observe it's op-
 erations for six months and report its | findings.
 "There!" he finished, sitting down