Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-09-07
set free to move as they never moved
What Democrats Have Done.


The tariff has been revised, not on
the principle of repelling foreign
trade, but upon the principle of en-
couraging it, upon something like
footing of equality with our own in
respect of the terms of competition,
and tariff board has been created
whose function 1t will be to keep the
relations of American with foreign
business and industry under constant
observation, for the guidance of our
business men and of our congress.
American energies are now directed
towards the markets of the world.
The laws against trusts have been
clarified by definition, with IL view
to making 1t plain that they were not
directed against big business but only
against unfair business and the pre-
tense of competition where there was
none; and a trade commission has
been created with powers of guidance
and accommodation which have re-
lieved business men of unfOunded
feLrs and set them upon the road of
hopeful and confident enterprise.
BY the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal Of ac-
tive business has been rendered elias
tic, taking its volume, not from fixed
body of investment securities, but
from the liquid assets of daily trade.
Effective measures have been taken
for the recreation of an American
merchant marine and the revival of
the American carrying trade.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been recognized to enable
1t to perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more eff
ficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service of the par
GELS post.
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
for systematic marketing and as a
security for loans from the banks.
For Labor and Children.
The wOrkingmen of America have
been given verltable emancipation,
by the legal recognition of a mans
labor as part of his life, and not n
mere marketable commodity; by eX-
empting labor organizations from proc
esses of the courts which treated their
members like fractional parts of mObs
and not like accessible and RESPONSE
bic individuals; by releasing our sea-
men from involuntary servitude; by
making adequate provision for COM
pensatiOn for industrial accidents; by
providing suitable machinery for me-
dlation and Cancellation in industrial
disputes; and by putting the federal
department of Labor at the disposal of
the wOrkingman when in search of
work.
We 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 n century. We have sought to
equalize taxation by means of an
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been
taken at the outset to open up the re.
sources of Alaska. We have pro
vided for national defense upon q
scale never before seriously proposed
upon the responsibility of an entire
political party. We have driven the
tariff lobby from cover and obliged il
to substitute solid argument for pri
vate influence.
Foreign Policy Stated.
In foreign affairs we have beer
guided by principles clearly con
ceived and consistently lived up to
Perhaps they have not been fully com
pretended because they have hilbert,
governed international affairs only il
theory, not in practice. They are sim
pie, obvious, easily stated, and funda
mental to American ideals.
We have been neutral not only be
cause it was the fixed and traditional
policy of the United States to stant
aloOf from the politics of Europe am
because we had no part either of &C
ton or of policy in the influences whicl
brought on the present war, but ais
because it was manifestly our duty +
prevent, if 1t were possible, the indef
mite extension of the fires of hate an
desolation kindled by that terrible cor
G tiict and seek to serve mankind by re
; serving our strength and our resource
e for the anxious and difficult days @
: restoration and healing which mus
r follow, when peace will have to bull
a its house anew.
= The rights of our own citizens c
C course became involved; that was IL
/ evitable. Where they did this was Ou
! guiding principle: that property right
e can be indicated by claims for dan
i ages when the war is over, and no moe