Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-06-15
CHAIRMAN JAMES ADDRESS TO THE
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
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and in keeping the country at peace
without sacrifice oi the national honor
We're pronounced epoch-making in Am
erican history by Senator Ollie NJ.
James. of Kentucky. in his address.
to-day as permanent chairman of The
Democratic National Convention.
During three years Of lis national
CONTROL said Senator James. "democ-
rae. has enacted into law more progres-
sive remedial legislation than the ma
ton has ever had written upon its stat
ate books since it> birth. Ia former ma
tional contests in The las two decades
our party rame a. a prophet. Today We
come with deeds, not words: with per
inrmalce, not promise. The Democratic
party has kept lis word with the Amer
ican people. We have made good.
The chairman reviewed AZ length the
legislative record of the admims ralio
and culogizeI the president Tor his Iii
rection Of foreign affairs The demo-
cra,s he said had enartcd a tariff law
under which monopotics were curhe,I
and uncxampl"l prosperity attained; Il
banking law taking the money control
out of the hands Of an oligarchy aud
making panics no longer possible: and
many reform measures 81 lesser impor.
tance.
In a CONCLUDING appeal for the tri
umph of patriotism above politics. Sen
ator James said the reorganization oi
such a president III partisan convention
ought not to he necessary and that "a
could write the peasre treaty of the wornl
Al the outset the senator referred
briefly 10 President Wilson'S campaign
against lobbying in congress and point
cd out that under this administration
the constitution had been amended for
the first time since the Civil War when
we freed the senate from the control
Of the great interests by making il eiec-
tive by the people AT the polls" He then
eUlOgiZed the Underwood Simmons tar
if at as one of which the party was
justly proud.
Not a schedule in il fosters a monop-
oily he said. Our republican friends
told Us we would close the factories. fill
the streets with idle men. produce \
panic. create soup houses and distress
would reign everywhere; but We reioi :
today to point do an unexampled pros
perity in the nation with labor more
generally employed. at higher rates.
shorter hours. and better conditions
than ever before. Our republican
friends tell rs hat after the war is over
poor, stricken. pros rate. torn. bleed
ing Europe wiz TAX our home market
from ms. | have 10 such fear. America
j. going 70 take the markets of the
world. Rut we snail cut from thcra the
last hope IF having even a false Issue.
for We shall pass 4 bill creating 4 tari1
board 70 gather the fa-tS created nv new
war conditions
Turning to the federal reserve law.
Senator James declared il alone ave-.
ted a panic at the outbreak of the Euro
war.
What would have been the result a
the Oil %rcpunrican system had been i'll
he asked. The stock exchan-
res III r,rry city III the world were
closed. Europe poured lis vast hold
Ing> in rir haF4ir streams upon our
shores. Who ini.ES that the old rcnub
llran system oi nance under the guild
ancc sc tht~.' patrintic "uardiau> would
been lhlc To withstand this mighty
l;ut what was The result
Not = bank CLOSED it> drnr~: ne. q ia
hurcr WAS thrown ont w ,Wuln,mrnt
not i business was forced into bankrupt
IN: hut there stood >tru',.. serving tht