The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-14
MIR. WILSON'S ACCEPTANCE

MIR. WILSON'S ACCEPTANCE
Most elegant in diction, filled
with that simplicity Of expression
that reveals the trained scholar
so far as the literature goes the
paper is a masterpiece But there /
is nothing small in Mr.. Wilson's .
claims for what his party has done.
1t is reminder of the story of
the rooster which on Easter morn
ing found some collored eggs which
mischievous boys had put in the
nests of the old polygamist's hen.
He looked at the eggs, then look
ed at the hens. They all appeared
to be innocent. Then the rooster
at the eggs, then poised his wings
ing out OF peacock in the next |
of a high fence, flaped his wings
and crowed Justify.
Indeed, it is parallel case, ex-
cept that he did not lick the peacock
The eggs are all collored all right,
the old hens look innocent and there
is no discount about the Growing.
President Wilson that the reason
that there are any eggs at all in the
nests is due to conditions altogether
unnatural. A foreign war started
a host of unnatural industries and
poured hundreds of millions of dol
lars into the industrial channels of
our country and the stream is yet
in full flow. That is the reason he
is tapping his wings on the fence
post and Justify growing.
He declares that the reason the
Republican party was put out OF
power was because of it's practical
and moral failure to keep up with
the country's needs.
That requires no answer. Nine
whole republic will brand that for
what it is worth.
He charges most OF the failure
to Republican tariff legislation.
How did his party in congress vote
when tariff revision was attempted?
And what country ever progressed
as swiftly as ours under that tariff?
He declares that the Republican
Tor its farmers as did the Republic
can party between the time Mr.
Cleveland went out of office and Mr.
Wilson came in?
lie claims wonders for the rural
credit law. We believe it is a good
law, but why not state the real facts
which are, that it is simply a modi~
lication and application of law
that has been in force in Germany
for centuries, and framed for this
country by an ex-German banker?
Mr.. Wilson tells how the country
was held under the control of the
great banking interests for years.
Under what was that CONTROL OBJ
tanned? Was it not a leagacy left
! the country by Mr.. Cleveland?
Mr.. Wilson is strong in laudation
Of the way the Democratic party
. has kept the pledges Of it's platform
Of 1912.
Why, that is to laugh!
How about the prices that were
! to be lowered?
How about the revision of the tar
, if? Is humiliation revision?
How about a free Panama canal
to American coast shipping?
How about a great merchant mar
inc that was to be established and
run at generous profit without
bounties or subsidies?
ed
When speaking of what his party
has done for the farmers, why did
not Mr.. Wilson explain, as in con-
nection with the tariff, that it was
an insult to the American farmer to
imagine that he could not on even
terms prosper and educate and feed
and clothe his children in direct
half-naked races who dwell in huts
and live in utter squallor and de-
gradation?
But Mr.. Wilson does not become
really facetious until he comes down
to defending his foreign policy; not
really hilarious until he undertakes
to defend his Mexican policy
OF course, it is deplorable that
some hundreds of American citizens
| should be robbed and murdered, but
we must put up with such little
things until some devils and slaves
| that have been raising hell for nine
ty- six years can become civilized
and establish justice in their land.
If there is anything else in the presi-
dents windy declarations. we can
not see it.
The chief feature of the accept
| ance is the claim that the Democrat
ic party is the party of wisdom, of
| progress and that holy patriotism
that is needed more than all else in
this country just now to meet the
problems that are liable to be
sprung upon the country at any