The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
Kentucky Scion Delivers Key
nOter at st. Louis Meet.
Breaks All Records for Renee
M dial Laws in 3 Years.
PEACE WITHOUT SACRIFICE
Shows Proof OF Preparedness
80 without MiIitarism.
He Attacks Republican Plat
forms Defense Plank.

ct Io,.is Mo, June 15.-The
achievements of the Wilson admins
tration in cnacting beneficial lesisla-
-tTcn and in keeping the country at
peace without sacrifice of the national
honor we're pronounced epoch-maklns
in American history by Senator Olhe
II lanes Of Kentucky in his address
-tedav as permanent chairman OF the
Democratic national convention
During three years of its national
4 control" said Senator James, De
rocracv has enacted into law more
progressive remedial legislation than
the nation has ever had written upon
~ statute hooks since its birth In
+ former national contests in the last
4v-o decades our party came as a
prophet Today we come with dceds.
not words; with performance not
premise The Democratic party mas
leett its word with the American peo-
pie We have made good
The chairman reviewed at length
the legislative record of the admins
tration and eulogized the president for
his direction of foreign affairs The
Democrats. he said had enacted a
I tariff law under which monopoiies
were curbed and uuexampled prosper
itN attained: a banking law taking the
money control out of the ma mas cI an
oligarchy and making panics no longer
possible: and many reform measures
Of lesser Importance
Challenges Admiration of World.
The text of the speech follows:
Mr. Chairman. Fellow Democrats,
Ladies. and Gentlemen: greet my
Democratic brethren of the republic
the representatives of a proud, vic
lorious, and uncomfortable Democracy
"a Democracy whose life, achieve
rnents, and history challenges the ad-
Yniration of the world. We cheerfully
meet face to face the public we have
not betrayed to point with delight to
rnatchIess record of promises we have
kept.
control Democracy has enacted into
law more progressive remedial legisla-
ton than the nation has ever had
written upon its statute books since its
birth In former national contests in
the last two decades our party came as
a prophet. We could only point out
wrongs and promise remedies; but to-
day we come with deeds, not words;
with performance, not promise Our
deeds in the nation have been greater
than our words upon the hastings; our
performance as the lawmaker greater
than our promise as the campaigner-
in other words. the Democratic party
has kept its word with the American
people We have made good. We
have by our conduct of the affairs of
this nation deserved the renewed con-
fidence of its people by proving
worthy Oh llG confluence OilCS DC-
slowed
The Democratic party rejoices that
under this administration for the first
time since the Civil War it was enabled
10 amend the Constitution of the
United States in the interest of good
government and the masses of the
people. We freed the senate from the
control of the great interests by max
ing it elective by the people at the
polls. We wrote into the Constitution
itself a an1PndnRn SVScRnfihlR of
dispute. that wealth should bear its
proper burden of the taxation neces-
sary to run the government efficiently,
economically and honestly.
~ The Lobby.
President Wilson drove invisible
government out of Washington and
uncovered the mightiest lobby that
ever ramified republic or had its
rendezvous in its capital He drove
the lobbyist out; he turned the Ameri-
can people in
The Tariff
The Democratic party undertook to
enact new tariff law in keeping with
the historic principles of the Demo-
cratic party and justice to all the peo-
pie. The Democratic party believes
that the right of taxation can only eX-
list for the purpose of raising suffi-
cient revenue to run the government
Taxation never did justly exist and
never will in free government fol-
the expense of all the rest of the
people. We undertook the reforma-
zion of the tariff with open minds and
Solean hands, unowned, unpledged to
any interest except that of the public
welfare, and we are proud of oul
achievement in writing into law the
present Underwood-Simmons tariff
Dill Not a schedule in its fosters a
monopoly; not a rate in it protects a
trust We made nearly free oil
Taxation as possible the necessities OF
life. One of the greatest features OF
This law is the income tax, which
RAISES from the fortunes of the rich
of the nation S12O. 100000 per annum
~ md lifts this burden off the tables
-lhd backs of the poor. To my mind
no law is more just than that of al
Income tax. Those that prosper under
the government ought to be willing t.
pay taxes to perpetuate it. 1t is a tai
that forecloses no mortgages, force!
no sales. II is collected only wher,
riches abound and prosperity smiles
Would the Republican party dare t,
suggest the repeal of this part of tn.
tariff law? Will they be specific il
What schedule would they repeal
What rate would they increase
81 Would they substitute the Dingle!
rate or the Payne-Aldrich rate? l
they were given control again, would
they reenact the tariff law that tn
Democratic party repealed, bill tina
was repudiated by the Republican
party itself at the polls?
Who is il. anyhow. that desires zeal
III the repeal eff the present law. mad
IS honest mon for ar honest purpose
shat of raising revenue sufficient I,
-,efray the expenses of the govern
saent and substitute in its stead tin,