The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-09-08

breaking up Of the lobby must espec-
tally disconcert them; for it was
through the lobby that they sought
and were sure they had found the
heart Of things. The game of privilege
can be played successfully by no other
means,
Progressive Platform Almost Car
riod Out, Too.
"This record must equally astouish
those who feared that the Democratic
party had not opened it's heart to
comprehend the demands Of social
justice. We have in four years come
very near to carrying out the plat
form Of the Progressive party, as
well as our own; for we also are pro-
gressives.
"There is one circumstance connect
ed with this program which ought TO
he very plainly stated. 1t was resist
ed at every step by the interests
which the Republican party had ca
tered to and fostered at the expense
Of the country, and these same inter-
ests are now earnestly praying for a
reaction which will save their priv
ileges-for the restoration of their
sworn friends to power before il is
too late to recover what they have
lost. They fought with particular
desperation and infinite resourcaful-
ness the reform Of the banking and
currency system, knowing that to be
the citadel of their control, and most
anxiously arc they hoping and plan
ming for the amendment of the Fed
eral reserve act by the concentration
Of control in 4 single bank which the
old familiar group Of bankers can
keep under their eve and direction
"But while the big men who used
to write the tariffs and command the
assistance of the Treasury have been
hostile-all but a few with vision
the 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 committee rooms of Congress
would crush him, is there no more, and
will not returil--unless the party that
consulted only the big men should
return to power-the party Of mas
terly inactivity and cunning resource
fitness in standing pat to resist
change.
The Republican party is Just the
party that cannot meet the new con-
ditiOns of the new age. Ii does not
know the way and it does not wish
new. conditions. 1t tried to break
away from the old leaders and could
not. They still select It's candidates
and dictate its policy, still resist
change, still banker after the old con-
ditions, still know no methods CT en-
couraEing business but The old meth
DDS. When il changes its leaders and
its purposes and brings it's ideas up
to date, it will have a 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.
Foreign Policies Truly American.
'In foreign affairs we have been
guided by principles clearly conceived
and consistently lived up to. Perhaps
they have not been fully comprehend
ed because they have hitherto govern
ed international affairs only in theory,
not in practice They are simple, OBJ
vious, easily stated, and fundamental
TO American ideals.
1--WE have been neutral, not only be-
cause it was the fixed and traditional
policy of the United States 70 stand
aloof from the politics Of Europe and
because we had had no part either of
action or of policy in the influences
which brought on the present war,
but also because it was manifestly
our duty to prevent, if it were posi-
BILE, the indefinite extension of the
fires of hate and desolation kinded by
that terrible conflict and seek to serve
mankind by reserving our strength
and resources for the anxious and diff
ticult days of restoration and healing
which must follow when peace will
have to build It's house anew.
"The rights of our own citizens, Of
course, became involved; that was in
evitable. Where they did this was our
guiding principle; that property rights
can be vindicated by claims for dam
ages, and no modern nation can decline
to arbitrata such claims; but the fun
damental rights Of humanity cannot
be. The loss of life is ifreparable. !
Neither can direct violations Of ma
TONS sOyereigney await vind,cation
in suits fer damages. The nation that
violates these essential rights must
expect to be checked and called to
account by direct challenge and re-