Crittenden record-press., 1916-09-07
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routes. and the methods Of our 90
merce with other countries.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been reorganlzed to enable
II 70 perform Its great and important
functions more promptly and more
efficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service Of the parcels
post So much we have done for bus.
iness. What other party has under
stood the task so well or executed II
% intelligently and energeticallyi
"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.
tion 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
for systematic marketing and as q Sc.
curity for loans from the banks.
"The workingmen Of America have
been given a verltable emancipation by
the legal recognition OF a mans labor
as part OF his life and not a mere mar
ketable commodity; by eIempuns In.
Dor organizations from processes Of the
courts. which treated their members
ike fractional parts Of mobs and no,
like accessible and responsible inoi.
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.
ciliation in industrial disputes and by
putting the federal department of H..
bor at the disposal OF the workingmnn
when In search Of work.
"We have effected the emancipation
Of the children of the country by rc-
leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have instituted system OF national
aid IN tho building OF highroads such =
the country has been feeling after for
century. We have sought to equallze
taxation by means Of an equitable In.
come tax. We have taken the stems
that ought 10 have been taken at the
outset 10 open up the resources Of
Alaska. We have provided for nation.
al defense upon scale never before
seriously proposed upon the responsl.
bility Of an entire political party We
have driven the tariff lobby from cove
and obliged II TO substitute solid argu.
ment for private influence
A Record ef Promises Kspt
This extraordinary recital must
sound like platform, a list Of san
guine promises, but II Is not II Is q
record OF promises made four years a~i
and now actually redeemed In Goa
structive legislation. We have in foul
years come very near 20 carrying oBl
the platform OF the Progressive party
as well as our own, for we also are
progresslyes."
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 syste,f
and which were now planning for IN,
amendment Of the federal reserve acl
by the concentration Of control In Q
single bank which the -old familiar
group Of bankers" can keep under thell
eye and direction. But while the "bll
men" who used TO write the tariffs ant
command tie assistance Of the treas
ury have been hostile-all but n few
with visiop-the average business met
knows that be has been delivered un
less the party that consulted only the
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