The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-09-08
PRESIDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS.

1T is service which has prepar-
ed the nation for its defense; SER
vice to fair and equal treatment to
all men by destroying a subsidy fed
toan American monopoly. a service
to the farmers Of our country who
yearn for home and Preside to
call their own by enacting into law
a Federal rural credits system that
makes credit and home building
easy to the tillers OF the soil, SER
vice that In the stormiest hours of
Americas life and the bloodiest
days Of the life Of the world, you
have kept our people at peace with
all the earth; a service that has kept
homes happy, family circles unbrok-
en-, while the old world staggers be-
meath its weight Of sorrow, mourn
Ing and doeth; a service whose VIC
tories for fine freedom Of the seas,
the rights of neutral life, the protec-
ton Of American citizens and Amer
lean rights stands respondent in
the worlds international law and in
the earth's diplomacy. This great
triumph which you achieved for
America and the world gave pro-
lection to non-combatants and neu-
trails that war mad countries must
respect, and this diplomatic achieve
ment will be the guiding, protecting
precedent to millions of lives of the
innocent and unoffending long after
you are gone. This triumph Of
yours will not be told in history by
q great war debt, a mammoth pen
sion roll, vacant chairs at unhappy
fresides, and Decoration day SER
vices to place flowers upon the
mounds of those who achieved it,
but it will be told in the victory of
matchless diplomacy and Of ire
sistible logic. presenting in an un-
equaled manner the everlasting
principle Of justice.
Under your unrivaled and fear
sless leadership you have rescued
the little children Of America the
failure fathers and mothers of our
race-from the grinding slavery OF
the sweatshop and the factory. No
dividends or fortunes in the future
will bear the stain of their toll and
tears: their youthful days will be
spent in the fresh air of growing
life and in the schoolrooms of the
land, where they will be properly
prepared in strength and mind to
become the future citizens of a
great, humane and free republic.
"You behold your country after
three and a half years of your adj
miffistaation more prosperous than
ever in its history. The earnings of
the laborers OF America exceed by
three billion dollars their earnings
under four years of tho administra-
ton Of your predecessor; the saw
ings CT the people deposited in the
banks of our country amount to six
billion dollars more than was de-
posted under the four years Of the
administration Of Mr.. Taft.
GREAT EXPORT TRADE.
Our exports for the first time in
our history lead the world; our far
mers are more prosperous than
ever; business is free; individual en-
deavor is no longer denied irs re-
ward The increase in the business
Of the commercial world is so great
that 1t almost stageers the mind to
contemplate it, Notwithstanding a
worlds war has called for legislation
to stay the process Of the courts In
debt collections in all the neutral
countries Of the world except here,
where plenty blesses and prospers
our people. Your beloved country
marches forward to a prosperity
never dreamed Of. Your opponents
i ore unwillingly forced to admit this
happy condition of our people,
which they say is not permanent,
3uk INV shall be no more regarded
h M T0& hets now than they were
y = NV said it could not come.
Mn wears ado in accepting the