Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-11-02

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tunes of men everywhere. No wonder
that in such an age men IN America
should be cried awake and feel once
more. as they felt them in the days
when their great republic was set up,
the compulsions of humanity and of
justice!
These are the freshening winds blow
ing out of the life of mankind every
where, that have brought on a new
day in American politics. We have
looked once more very critically at our
" laws and our own practices and
have set about to square them with the
actual conditions of our life and the life
of the world.
-Four years ago there were two par
ties in the field whose programme was
conceived under the influence of these
great forces OF poogress and adjust
ment, the Democratic party and the
Progressive party. This year there is
but one, the Democratic party. In the
presidential election of four years
ago some fifteen million votes were
cast. OF these, nearly ten and a half
millions were cast for the candidates
of the two progressive parties, only
three and a half millions for the can
didate of the Republican party, the
party which fingered in the old ways
and felt none of the new impulse of a
new day. More than two thirds of
the voters of the United States favor
ed then, and favor now, a programme
whose object is to serve the changing
needs of humanity and progress.
The Democratic party was entrust-
ed with the task. These powerful
forces of the new age were put under
its direction. And under that direc-
ton what have they accomplished?
They have put both the business and
the life of the country upon a new
footing. They have released the
financial credit, upon which com
merce and production alike depend,
from the control of small groups of
financiers and bankers at the specula-
tive centers. They have released the
commerce and industry of the
try from the domination of those who
we're building up their power by sell
fish and unfair methods of competi-
ton. They have supplied those who
wished to conduct their business in
conformity with the spirit of the laws
with friendly guidance and delivered
them from a nervous fear of the
courts. They have released our for
eign trade from the shackles of a
tariff cOntrived in the interest of
special groups of favored producers,
and have created a Tariff Commits
sion intended to substitute public for
private influences, facts for theories
pretensions, in all future legislati on
with regard to duties and restrictions
on imports They have made pro.
vision for the immediate and syste-
matte development of our carrying
trade on the seas. They have at last
supplied the Q by which the ma
ton may be bound together, mater
tally and spiritually, by q network of
good roads upon which both com
modities and sympathies may move
freely from community to commun-
ity. They have put the farmer upon
q footing Of perfect equality with
business men and lei Of all other
callings in respect Of his access to
commercial credit; have placed .
great bureau Of the government at
his service In seeking and finding his
best markets; haye protected him by
the establishment of definite stand
ards In the sale of his products, and
have put scientific knowledge Of the
world ct his disposal by practical
denomination at the expense of the
Government upon the farms them
selves. They have emancipated the
shhsreEs g IL country fEoa the mn.