The Dermott news., 1916-06-15


 every belligerent This convention must make il plain that all divisions among the Ameri- can people stop at the oceans edge. Over and above every other reason that the nation may have fer uRAeta- | ing its president is the necessity of proving to the world that We are united people.
 So long as the other nations Of the earth realize that the millions under America $ flag think as one believe as | one and act as one in the face or Tor | eign war We shall be free from for oign intrigue and all that ii entails
 High above every other issue raat this convention offers to the Ameri. can people We must therefore write | a Elnateation Of American loyalty.
 Our Domestic Policies.
 Four years ar1 the people ot thts country entrusted their government to a maa and 10 party vho prom ised that they would uhrratc tua aa- ton trom Che chains of industrial 1 Tyranny. who pledged themselves t3 break down che barriers uebaaa Winch ! special pgIsIese sat cutreueaea 4ao | engaged themselves tu eWauesH~te business. tu throN wide taa= a-.te 4s la&l9I enterprise. to restore to tze lle1t all women ot America =tae# #J.=.e.s of ptoer1#s winch had been ,GaagI and blocked by long years ol laslaiale government
 TEat ffaHase has been t-at Cat pledge has been redeemed. We must 1 content ourselves here with brief consideration oi the great landmarks which chart ttte. change from govern ment for the fortunate few to all efea- handed government in the interest of all
 The first of these is the federal reserve act which freed the business man and the farmer from the financial 1 domination CT the money changers and lifted the menace of panic from our industrial life.
 In the same spirit and with the same motive that inspired the fed eral reserve act this administration has devoted itsoI to the stimulation Of American industry, agriculture aud trade through all the agencies ot gov 1 crameat
 New Meaning to Laws.
 It has given new meaning and a new force to the laws restraining big business from strlhiug comfeti | tiCn.
 It has created trade commission to afford to business generally q more direct aud prompt administration Of the laws relating to business
 It las established government rep resentatiyes throughout the world. whose sole duty is to foster the ex. lansioa of American trade
 II has created d closer union ot economic. commercial and daaueiai interests between tho United states and the nations of south America
 II has declared in language that no court and uo employer can compel his men 10 work for hIm against their will.
 IL has freed the farmer from the chains of financial system which was devised for business and not for farming.
 cannot close this review of what the present administration has accom- plished without adycrtinE to it's cour- ageous and statesmanhke solution of the nations tarif problem.
 Of all the tariffs we ever enacted this is the tairest and the best
 By the Underwood law this admin. istration has taken the tariff out of politics. by the new tarin commis- sion 1t proposes to take politics out of the tarf
 Under the present administration the United States has enjoyed a won derful era Of good business and good | times.
 Foodtide of Prosperity.
 The flood tide of our prosperity has risen to such an unprecedented height that the only limit to trade is our ability to make and transport the com. modities demanded at home and abroad
 The purchasing power of our peo- pie is greater than that of any other people on the globe. Never was there