Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-14

Glynn made particular reference tc
our industrial condition.
To-day prosperity shines from blaz
ing furnaces and glowing forges. Il
echoes from busy docks and from
thronged emporiums of trade. Its mes
sage Of plenty fills the land with the
chant of the spindle and of loom, lift
ing the mortgage from the poor mans
home and promising his children
future that seemed impossible before
Great Increase in Wealth.
During the past four years thi:
country has experienced steady am
continuous improvement in business
Wealth has increased y per cent, tht
value of manufactured products SO PEI
cent, capital AZ per cent, wages "a pei
cent. and exports n per cent. The
| fiood-tide of our prosperity has riser
to such an unprecedented height tina
| the only limit to trade is our ability
to make and transport the commod
tiles demanded at home and abroad
| Our fields and our factories cry alouC
for men and unemployment has ceased
vanced, building operations have re
sumed, real estate has recovered it,
( worth.
| There is not an idle car on oul
railroads or an idle ship at our docks
For the first time in history Amer
lcas greatest port has become the
worlds greatest port.
The purchasing power of our PEG
| pie is greater than that of any Other
people on the globe. Never was there
as much money in our vaults as today
! The aggregate resources of our ma
| tlonal banks are three thousand mil
lions more than the aggregate resour
ceS of the Bank of England, the Banl
! of France, the Bank of Russia, the
| Reichbank of Germany, the Bank o
| the Netherlands, the Swiss Nationa
bank and the Bank of Japan We have
| four hundred and one millions o
money more than we had year and {
half ago and our gold supply exceeds
/ by many hundreds of millions the golt
supply of any other nation on earth.
This avalanche of money poured
| into our pockets by the rest of tn,
| world as tribute to our national re
sources and our fidelity to peaceful in
dustry is not the measure of our pros
perity. 1t is only the symbol. Com
pared with our trade at home this for
eign trade is mere pittance. Our do
nestle commerce today is larger thai
the foreign commerce of all the ma
tions of the world combined.
Hits sis" OF Opponents.
Against this actual condition oul
opponents raise an argument of ifs.
the realm of conjecture and declare
that if another candidate had beer
elected four years ago, the United
! States would be at war today A tor
of ifs do not weigh as much as {
single fact. Our opponents forget tina
if the flight of the seagullS off the
coast of the West Indies had not di
rected his course, Columbus wOulC
not have discovered America when hi
did But the seagulls were there
ifs cannot Danish them-and Column
bus found our land"
Praises President Wilson,.
Chairman Glynn concluded will
praise for President Wilson, who, HI
said, has measured up to the best ira
ditions Of great office.
He has been wise with a wisdom
that is STEPPED in the traditions of hi!
country, with wisdom that has beer
disciplined by training and broadenet
| by instruction.
| He has been firm with the firmnes!
| that proceeds from deep conviction
with the firmness that is grounded il
a duty we'll defined
He has been patient with thu
patience which believes and trust:
that truth crushed earth will riSt
again, with the patience that can en-
dure and wait, watch and pray, for thu
T, certain vindication Of justice, human
ity and right.
He has been patriotic with a pa
| triotism that has never wavered, {
patriotism that is as pure and stronl
as the faith that moved the father.
when they made our country free.
And when the history Of these day!
! comes to be written, and the children
of tomorrow read their nations story
when time shall have dispelled al
misconception and the years shall
have rendered their impartial verdict
our name will shine in golden splen
dor upon the page that is blackeneC
with the tale of Europes war, ont
name will represent the triumph o
American principles over the host!
of darkness and of death.
That name will be the name of thu
great president who has made democ
racy proud that he is a democrat, ant
made Americans proud that he is al
American.
| 1T will be the name Of the states
man who has kept his country true Il
! its faith in a time that tried men:
| souls; the name of the student ant
1 the scholar who has championed thu
cause Of American freedom wherever
! he found it oppressed; the name O
the patriot who has implanted hi.
| country's flag on the highest peak tt
| which humanity has yet aspired; thu
name that carries the torch of prog
ress to victory once and will carry /
to victory again-the name OF Wood
row Wilson, president and president
| to-be"