The broad ax., 1916-09-16

routes. and the methods of our com
merce with other countries.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been recognized to enable
1t to perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more
eHc1ently. We have created, extended
and improved the service of the parcels
post. So much we have done for bus
mess. What other party has under
stood the task so we'll or executed il
SO 1ntelligently and energetically?
For the farmers of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act They
now have the standing of other bust
ness men In the money market. We
have successfully regulated specula-
ton in futures and established
standards in the marketing of grains.
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
Tor systematic marketing and as a Sc
curity for loans from the banks.
"The workingmen Of America have
been given veritable emancipation by
the legal recognition of a mans labor
as part of his life and not a mere mar
ketable commodity; by exempting Ia
Dor organizations from processes Of the
courts, which treated their members
like fractional parts of mobs and not
like accessible and responsible indi-
viduals; by releasing our seamen from
Involuntary servitude; by making ade-
quate provision for compensation for
Industrial accidents; by providing suit
able machinery for mediation and con-
Citation in industrial disputes and by
putting the federal department of Ia
bcr Mt the disposal Of the workingman
when in search of work.
I'VE have effected the emancipation
Of the children of the country by re-
leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such as
the country has been feeling after for
century. We have sought to equalize
taxation by means Of an equitable in
come tax. We have taken the steps
that ought to have been taken at the
outset to open up the resources Of
Alaska. We have provided for nation
al defense upon a scale never before
seriously proposed upon the RESPONSE
bility of an entire political party. We
have driven the tariff lobby from cover
and obliged il TO substitute solid argu-
ment for private influence.
A Record of Promises Kept
'ThiS extraordinary recital must
sound like platform. list Of san
guine promise but it is not. 1t is a
record of promises made four years ago
and now actually redeemed in con-
Structive legislation. We have in four
years come very near to carrying out
the platform of the Progressive party
as we'll as our own. for we also are
progresSiveS."
This program, Mr. Wilson declared,
was resisted at every step by interests
which the Republican party had fos-
tered at the expense of the country. in
terests which had fought the reform
of the banking and currency system
and which were now planning for the
amendment Of the federal reserve act
by the concentration of control in a
single bank which the 'old familiar
group of bankers can keep under their
eye and direction. But while the big
mi md
command the assistance of the treas
ury have been hostile-all but a few
with vision-the average business man
knows that lie has been delivered I'M
less the party that consulted only the
"big men, should return to power.
They still select its candidates and die
tate its policy. he said.
Foreign Affairs.
Concerning foreign affairs, we have
been neutral because it was the tradi-
tional policy of the United States to
stand aloof from European politics,
Mr.. Wilson declared. Property rights
Of our citizens can be indicated by
claims for damages, but the funda-
u NC.
'.The loss of life is irreparable. Nei-
Their can direct violations of nations
sovereignty await vindication in suits
for damages. The nation that violates
these essential rights must expect to
be checked and called to account by
direct challenge and resistance. 1t at
once makes the quarrel in part our
own. These are plain principles, and
we have never lost sight of them or de-
parted from them. The passions and
intrigues of certain active groups and
combinations of men among US who
were born under foreign flags injected
the poison of disloyalty into our own
most critical affairs, laid violent hands
upon many of our industries and sub
jected US to the shame Of divisions of
sentiment and purpose in which Amer
ica was condemned and forgotten. 1t
Is part of the business of this year OF
reckoning and settlement to speak
plainly and act with unmiStakable pur