South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-02
bARNHART URGES
WILSON RETURNED

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.)
| He is making no promises. He is
/ only growing.
THE good roads law which the
! democrats have passed benefits the
city as well as the country people.
/ / have advocated a good roads law
because the city people had left the
entire burden upon the country peo-
pie until the democrats came into
power. We passed a law apprOpri-
ating SS5.OOO.OOO for building up
roads over which the mail Is carried
and Indiana is going TO get nearly
1 100000 OF this amount.
Defends Eight Hour Bill.
Mr.. Barnhart defended the
Adamson eight hour law, saying
| that the responsibility of the rail
/ road man required that he work
only eight hours. He said that by
the time the commission reports on
! its investigation Of the eight hour
bill a law will have been passed
preventing the possibility Of another
crisis such as the country faced at
/ the time OF the threatened railroad
| trouble.
The Mexican situation, the chill
! dren's bureau law, the anti-child
/ labor law and other democratic
measures were discussed.
II have been your representative
in congress for eight years, he said.
When l made my first campaign L
said that / would vote for all good
! legislation regardless OF the party
| that introduced il and that l would
vote against all bad legislation. re-
| gardless of the party that introduced
| it. The personal misfortunes OF life
| have almost taken the political am
| bitiOn OFT OF me, but IL you people
want to send me back TO congress
as your representative I shall serve
you as / have in the past.
MY progressive friends, you were
| in earnest two and four years ago
when you demanded progressive
policies and progressive legislation,
were you not? And you got it from
| the democratic administration.
You wanted an income tax
law. which Mr.. Hughes tried TO de-
! feat in New York. and you got it.
You demanded election OF
! United States senators by direct
vote OF the people. You got it.
You urged abrogation Of bossism
in congress. You got it,
You declared for publicity Of
campaign funds You got it.
You asked for clean election
and primaries through corrupt
practice legislation. You got it.
You asked for a federal trade
commission to regulate unfair bust
ness. You got it.
You declared for an antitrust
law. You got it.
You proclaimed your desire for
tariff commission. You got it.
You declared for better and safer
banking laws. You got them.
You declared for short hours
/ for labor. for the children's bureau
and for the restriction Of child labor.
and you got all three OF them.
You were loudly in favor OF
conservation of national resources
and you got it.
Safety for Labor.
You wanted more safety for
/ labor and a workmen's compensa-
| ton law. The democrats gave them
to you in both state and nation.
You asked for better pensions
for old soldiers and their widows
and the democratic program has
given that.
You favored good roads legisla-
ton and congress has passed a
splendid act giving government aid
of one-half toward good road max
ing.
You declared for larger possibili-
/ ties for agriculture education and
our Lever law meets you there.
Indeed. many OF your platform
planks Of two and four years ago
we're similar to the democratic plat
! form and / feel quite sure that the
democrats have done all they prom
Used and gone farther and enacted
many of your policies into law.
And now some progressives are
turning their backs on safe and pro-
gressive Woodrow Wilson and re-
turning 10 the stand-pat organization
of Root, Lodge, Reed. Smoot,
Murray, Crane, Jim Hemenway.
Jim Watson. Jim Goodrich and
/ Harry New. Just how you can do
this and keep faith with your posi-
tons OF two and four years ago
surpasses my understanding and l
don't believe you are going to do it.
Sweet Home.
The black pail OF war hangs over
/ the leading countries OF the old
world like a funeral grief. You have
read the awful reports of the de-
structiOn of lands and property
which the ages cannot reproduce;
/ of the thousands yes millions of
useful men and boys being shot TO
death: of the rivers floating full Of
the bloating dead; Of the blood
soaked battlefelds: and OF the sick
ening sorrow that besets nearly
every one OF the homes Of this war
cursed land. You have stood in fear
and embling lest our own blessed
happiness and prosperity be sud
denly changed into murderous ruin.
I You mothers who have given SUI
fering and self denial and sleepless
I nights that your husbands and your