Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03


come tax. We have taken the steps
that ought 10 have been taken at tho
outset To open up the resources OF
Alaska We have provided for national
dcfensc upon scale never before scri-
ousiy proposed upon the responsibility
OF an entire political party. We huvc
driven the tariff lobby from cover and
obliged ii To substitute solid arEu-
ment for private influence.
This extraordinary recital must sound
like platform. n list of saneuinc
promises: but il is not II is Il record
OF promises made four years ago and
now actually redeemed in constructive
legislation.
These things must profoundly dis
turb the thoughts and confclind 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 i, is it's
| evident and inevitable destiny to under
take and carry through The breaking
up Of the lobby must especially dis
concert them: for il was through the
lobby that they sought and were sure
th"S had found the heart of things.
me game OF privilege can he played
successfully by no other means.
VERY NEAR TO CARRYING or
rROGRESSINE pIhTEUR "
This record must equally astnnish
those who feared that tho 1,cmocra
party Had not opened it's heart ia COM
nr"h"nd the demands 81 social justice
We have in four wears come very near
to carrying out tho platform, IF tho
Progressive party as VOL "a ,ur own:
!cr wc ais" arc procreseive=
There is one circumstance coun--tsI
with his program which ouch, :" 10
very plainly stated. u va resisted ~
evnry atop by tho interests ,vhirh the
Republican party bad catered =" and
f"st"r"d ~ the rKr"nrc IF The ,"untry.
and ihos" aarro intcro-te a-e nov
earnestly pravtre for = rcarttc, winch
VIII save then privile vcs for tbs
restoration "f their 5pnrn friends -
mower before " ,r 10" las - ,E~o,.c,
what tn N-'a'c los, Thoy Cough, nth
particular desperation arI ,rhui,o ~
Sourcof'lln~Ss tho rci"rin ~ tho haul.
| ING aud rurrencv system. knowing that
:" lie tn" rita.i"l RI tlroir ,ontrni aud
most ana i"uelv arc tho, hoping and
planning FOR tho am.,rlnncn, Of tho
Eoderal reserve at hy the r"urrntrs
! ton Of control IN single hanl which
'he old familiar group of h1rL"rz can
3
In, %hil" tho big men WHO usc,i to
wtito the tariffs and command Tho AS
sistanrc of tho Treasury have bcou hos
tilc--all but fcw with visi"u-thc
average business man knows that he
has been delivered. and that the fear
that WAS once every day in his heart.
that The men who controlled credit and
directed enterprise from the committees
rooms OF Congress would crash him. Is.
there no more and viii not return
unless the party that 'onsnit,.. only the
big men" should return l." l",v.r-
the party Of mastery Inactivity .na
cunning r"s"urc"fulncss In standing:
pat To resist change
The Republican party * lus, the
party that cannot meet the new .nndi-
! tionS of new age. II does not know
the way and il does not wish new con-
ditions 1t tried TO break away from
| III" old leaders and could not. They
| sim select it's candidates and dictate
its policy, stil resist charge Stin
banker after tho old conditions sun
know no methods OF encouraging bust
ness but the old methods. When it
/ changes it's leaders and it's purposes
| and brings its ideas up to date. it viii
| have tho right IL asl. tho American
| people Ia give it power again: hut not
uhli' 'h'h' y now age an az" at r"N"-
| i"'l"harN 'nahH'' needs i'W purposes
! and Now ideas
w ''N''S" hHalrf w. hhN" h""n
/ cuih"d by principles clearly conceived
and cnrriat"ntly lived M to- i'.rhar,,
! '"'N nov NJ "''N 'HIlH commencement
! ho"aus" thcy haNo hilbert" governed
International nTairn oniy in theory. no,
! III practice. 1h"y a." ai,urlo. "hvinus,
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