The Farmington times., 1916-10-27
THESE SHOULD SUPPORT
WILSON AND DEMOCRACY

Wilson and the Democratic party be-
cause they have given him Farm
Loan Bank, now in process of organi-
zation, through which he may borrow
money when needed at low rate of
interest, and which will free him from
the usurious rates of loan sharks; be-
cause they have given him United
States Warehouse that enables him
to store his products safely and OBJ
tain negotiable warehouse receipts,
upon which he may make loans read
lily in due proportion to the value of
his products; because they have given
him the Agricultural Extension Act
which puts within the reach of every
farmers wife and children the infor-
nation, science and practical knowl-
edge of the agricultural experts of the
national Department Of Agriculture;
because they have given him the Grain
Standard Act, which furnishes to
grain growers the protection and ad-
vantages of established grades of
their commodities; because they have
given him a Bureau of Markets and
Rural Organization, and through them
a news service that aids him in SELL
ing his products; because they have
given him the Federal Good Roads
law with a large appropriation to aid
in building good roads in all the
States.
The Laboring Man and organized
labor should support Mr.. Wilson and
the Democratic party, because they
have given them the Workman's Com
pensation Act, which protects every
employe of the national government
who suffers physical injury in the
service of the nation, and has set an
example for every State and employ
ing industry to follow; because they
have given the laboring man laws es-
tablishing the principle that human
labor is not a commodity but force
to be reckoned with; because they
have given the country long-needed
Child's Labor Law that emancipates
the children of the nation from indus
trial serfdom; because they have Civ
en- labor an injunction limitation law,
curbing the power of courts and reg
ulating contempt proceedings; be-
cause they have established by nation
al law the principle of an eight-hour
day for labor; because they have in
augurated an Employment Bureau
alike to laborer and manu-
facturer.
The Business Man should support
Mr.. Wilson and the Democratic par
ty, because they have given the coun-
try stable financial system, main
tanned by the Federal Reserve Banks,
placing the industrial and commercial
interests of the nation on a sound and
scientific bGsis and freed them from
the domination of high finance and
special interests; because they have
given the country non-partisan Tar
If Commission, thus tending to take
this disturbing and disquieting ques-
tion, that comes up every four years,
out of the realms of partisan politics;
because they have established a Fed
eral Trade Commission to arbitrate
commercial disputes, prevent unfair
competition and do justice between the
public and great industrial corpora
tions; because they have instituted
and organized Department of Com
merce, promoting both domestic and
foreign commerce; because they have
established a more friendly feeling
with our South American neighbors
and opened up the way for larger and
better commercial relations with them.
Every Patriot should support Mr..
Wilson and the Democratic party, be-
cause they represent the true spirit
of Americanism; because they have
kept the country from entangling al
liances with any of the beliigerent ma
tions Of Europe which are now in the
most destructive and bloody, wap-
grapple in the worlds history; be-
cause they have kept our country out
of war and at peace, maintained her
honor and established the principle of
American rights and protection Of
American lives on the high seas; be-
cause they have resisted the pressure
and withstood the abuse and misrep-
resentation of American concession
aires in Mexico, and refused to inter-
vene at their behest with armed force
in the domestic concerns of that coun-
try in its revolutionary struggles TO-
ward a Mexico for Mexicans, that
they might resume, under the pro
lection of United States arms, the
spoilation of that country that they
enjoyed under the avaricious Diaz re-