The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-19
Why Wilson Should Be Elected.

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elected to the presidency:
l. Because he has kept the peace
2. Because he has abolished invis
ible government dispersed the cor
rupt lobby and restored the govern
ment to the hands of the governed
3. Because he prefers construction
to destruction.
4. Because he has secured the re
duction Of the tariff, not upward bu
downward, to a competitive basis.
3. Because he has secured the
adoption of dumping clause to pro
tect American labor, capital and bus
mess against the possibility Of cut
throat competition.
G. Because he has secured the i'm
position of an income tax, obliging
wealth to share with want the bur
dens as well as the blessings of the
government.
Z. Because he secured the estab-
lishment OF a non-partisan tariff
commission so that hereafter the tar
if may be revised. whether upward
or downward upon scientific princi-
pies and in the light Of all the facts.
s. Because he has been a friend
of legitimate business.
9. Because he has secured the es-
tablishment of federal reserve sys-
TEN, dethroning the money trust, de.
mocratizing credit and reassuring the
future against a recurrence of bank,
ing and currency panics.
10. Because he has secured the es-
tablishment of a federal trade com
mission to suppress unfair competi-
tion and to protect and promote hon
est business and to safeguard law
abiding business men against need
less and vexatious litigation.
II. Because he has effected the
abolition of tying contracts, interlo6t-
ing directorates and holding compa-
nies, the tap roots of monopolies. |
12 Because he has been a friend |
of the farmer.
13. Because he has secured the
of a system of rural
credits designed to emancipate and
to enfranchise the farmer in the bus
mess world.
II. Because under his adminstra-
ion a system of licensed and bonded
has been authorized
which will assist to make the farmer
4 master Of his own business and his
,wn destiny.
-. Because under his administra-
ion measures have been passed look
ne to the establishment of official
and grades of cotton and
rain, thus safeguarding the market ]
ganst manipulation. {
16. Because he has approved ,
Measure providing for the establish
nent of a system Of highways through /
tate and federal cooperation, which
ill, when completed, according to a
he estimate of experts, save the 7
lrmers more than one million dol G
lrs between the rising and setting ,
( every sun.
Il. Because he stands upon plat
lrm which promises the prosecution
( plans "to render agriculture more
rofitahle and country life more
oalthful, comfortable and attractive
IS. Because he has not adopted
le tack hammer and pair of hold
g-back-straps as the sole instru-
ents and emblems of progress.
10. Because he has been a friend
the wage Garner
%. Because he has approved
easure declaring that human labor
.all not be dealt with as a mere
mmodity in the market place.
2l Because he has approved a
easure abolishing the writ Of in
notion as an instrument OF judicial
ranny.
%. Because he has secured to Ia
II the right TO trial by jury in
ses of constructive contempt
%. Because he has approved the
,rkinEmen's compensation act. maxi
Z the United states model en-
yer and an example to all other
lployers.
"a. Because he has approved the
,men's act liberating the toilers
the sea from involuntary servi-
le. protecting them against impris-
ment for debt and criminal prose
ion for the mere breach Of a civil
ltraCt
IS. Because he urged and signed
oight-hour act. which crystalized
enlightened Judgment OF mankind
o the law Of the land. embodying
spirit Of the Republican platform
1905, the Progressive platform Of