The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-15
OLLIE JAMES GREAT SPEECH,
REVIEWING WILSON'S WORK
fContinued from PAGE ID

to carry out such a policy, and after
te Republicans on the House Naval
Affairs committee, in June, 1916,
unanimously opposed the presidents !
policy. they now say they favor the !!
, continuous policy"
The Republican plank, declaring !
for IAN effective system of rural
credits as opposed to the ineffective
law proposed by the present Demo-
cratic administration" was assaiied
by Senator James, who declared that
almost every Republican in the
House and Senate had voted for the
administrations rural credits bill
and that none had charged that it
was ineffective or had proposed
substitute.
The senator also replied to Repub-
lican criticism of the administra-
tons shipping bill which, he de-
clared would have given the United
States an adequate merchant marine
by now had it not been killed at the
last session of Congress by a Repub-
lican filibuster.
For the first time in the hitory of
our country" said Senator James, af-
ter reviewing riefiy Democratic leg
islation which he declared had made
prosperity possible, "the United
States leads the world in exports.
We are more prosperous than ever,
and mill which have not turned a
spindle for years are now busy. All
} the laborers of the United States are
J employed as never before. With the
world-war raging, our country is the
} only neutral one that is not in dis
2 tress and the only one that has not
+ declared a moratorium. Every de-
mand of the stress OF war, the Demo
cratic party has met quickly. We
have freed business from the black
) mail of the politician as we have
emancipated it from the clutch OF
a monopoly"
g The senator likened President vii.
s sons Mexican policy to that of Lin.
It coln, and quoted from declaration
d of the latter to show that he hat
e declined to intervene when condi
l. lions were much the same as now.
D. 1T is perfectly easy thing" ht
q continued, for the president of tbs
E. United States to plunge his country
a. into war IL he is politician befor,
u he is a patriot. He wonld seek hi
IL twn reelection as he came upoI
ID horseback up the bloody highway o
contending armies. OF course ou
u army could invade Mexico and marcel
y in triumph to it's capital, but afteI
" the war was over other armies woul,
march-an army of widows and or
20 phans, an army OF cripples and mel
: broken In health, an army of pen
- sioners, and an army of tax collect
. ors gathering up the earnings of tn
people to pay the great war debt :.
= The president had acted quickly
the senator said, when there was a
:, invasion of American territory, an
the punitive expedition now was d.
= ing all that this country could. d
with honor in Mexico.
mo president during the life
this republic" said the senator, cha
ever had to deal with so many del
cate and dangerous problems as thoi
- which have confronted Presidel
Wilson. With more than half of u
world in arms in Europe, with Me
= leo in revolution at our border, the
difficult and compucating probler
have confronted him almost dali
and he has handled them as becom
patriot and a statesman. When Il
Lusitania was sunk the militia
voice of Theodore Roosevelt cri
out for war, and If he had be
- president of the United States
that time, today 100000 bra
American sons would be contendil
around the forts of Verdun in tt
mighty maelstrom Of blood-tho
= sands would have been buried
:. bitches. Our president, patient, 7
=, triotic, far-sighted, the real stat'
man, handled this question with I
greatest ability. and won for Amt
y, lea its greatest diplomatic victor
w There are happily two kinds
courage, the courage of the man W
is willing to undertake the dang
himself and the. courage of the m
~ that sends others to the confii'