The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16
maintain its neutral rights against

maintain its neutral rights against every belligerent.
 This convention must make 1t plain that all divisions among the Ameri- can people stop at the oceans edge.
 Over and above every other reason that the nation may have for uphold ing It's president is the necessity Of proving to the world that we are a united people.
 So long as the other nations of the earth realize that the millions under Americas flag think as one, believe as one and act as one in the face of for eign war, we shall be free from for eign intrigue, and all that it entails.
 High above every other issue rnat this convention offers to the Ameri- can people we must therefore write a vindication of American loyalty.
 Our Domestic Policies.
 Four years ago the people of this country entrusted their government to man and to party who prom ised that they would liberate the na-
  tyranny, who pledged themselves to break down the barriers behind which special privilege sat entrenched; who engaged themselves to emancipate business, to throw wide the gate of lawful enterprise, to restore to the men and women of America the paths of progress which had been choked and blocked by long years of invisible government.
 That promise has been kept; that pledge has been redeemed. We must content ourselves here with a brief consideration of the great landmarks which chart the change from govern ment for the fortunate few to an even- handed government in the interest of all
 The first of these is the federal reserve act which freed the business man and the farmer from the financial domination of the money changers and lifted the menace of panic from our industrial life.
 In the same spirit and with the same motive that inspired the fed eral reserve act this administration has devoted itself to the stimulation of American industry agriculture and trade through all the agencies of gov ernment
 New Meaning to Laws.
 It has given a new meaning and a new force to the laws restraining big business from stirling competi- ticn.
 It has crest"I trade commission to afford to business generally more direct and prompt administration of the laws relating 70 business
 It has established government rep resentatives throuS bout the world, whose sole duty isl Ito foster the ex- pansion of Americah trade.
 It has created A closer union of economic, comme1cial and financial interests betweeI the United States and the nations of South America.
 It has declared in language that 10 court and no employer can compel lis men to work, for him against their will.
 It has freed Ithe farmer from the 'hains of a fifancial system which vas devised fof business and not for 
 cannot cl1kss is sthis revi9 of wh2t 2 rs stEsfss 5 s aecoaon acc plished without adver.ing to it's cour- ageous and statesmanlike solution of the nations tariff problem.
 Of all the tariffs we ever enacted this is the fairest and the best.
 By the Underwood law this admin istration has taken the tariff out of politics; by the new tariff commits sion it proposes to take politics out of the tariff
 Under the present administration the United States has enjoyed won- derful era of good business and good times.
 Foodtide of Prosperity.
 The f1ood-tide of our prosperity has risen to such an unprecedented height ability to make and transport the com modities demanded at home and abroad.
 The purchasing power of our peo- pie is greater han that of any other people on the .stobe. Never was there as much money in our vaults as today.
 Nowhere else on earth is there a more equitable distribution of what the energy of labor hammers into ex- istence out of the material which capi- tai places in it's hand.
 Measured by every possible stand ard-by the volume of exports and imports, by the expansion of domes tic trade, by the condition of labor by the rate Of wages, by the size of bank deposits and clearing house re turns, by the balance of trade or by the amount of gold in the country, by any and all of these standards, this country today is enjoying prosperity such as no other country has ever en l joyed before.
 Wilson the Man.
 Americanism and peace, prepared ness and prosperity-these are tht issues upon which the Democratic party stands, and the heart of Dem ocracy swells with pride that is more than pride of party, as it halls th' man, who has asserted this Ameri canism, assured this peace advocates this preparedness and produced thi prosperity.
 L The man who is preSident of th,