The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-09-08

For the farmers of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit, by means of the federal re-
serve act and the rural credits act.
J They now have the standing OF other
business men in the money market.
We have successfully regulated specu,,
lation in futures" and established
standards in the marketing OF grains.
By on intelligent warehouse act, we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as a Sc
curity for loans from the banks: We
have greatly added to the work OF
neighborhood demonstration on the
farm itself of improved methods OF
cultivation, and, through the lntelll-
gent extension of the functions of the
department of agriculture, have MADE
it possible for the farmer to learn sys-
tematically where his best markets
are and how to get at them.
I The workingmen of America have
been given a veritable emancipation,
by the legal recognition OF a mans
labour as part of his life, and not a
mere marketable commodity; by eX-
empting labour organizations from
processes of the courts which treated
their members like fractional parts OF
mobs and not like accessible and re-
sponsible individuals; by releasing our
seamen from involuntary servltude;
by making adequate provision Tor
compensation for industrial accidents;
bv providing suitable machinery for
mediation and conciliation in indus
trial disputes; and by putting the fed
eral department of labor at the dis
posal of the workingman when IN
search of work.
Emancipated Children.
We have effected the emancipation
of the children of the country by re-
leasing them from hurtful labour. We
have Instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
as the country has been feeling after
for q century. We have sought to
euualize taxation by means of an
EQUITABLE income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been TAX
en- at the outset to open up the re-
sources of Alaska. We have provided
for national defense upon scale neV-
err before seriously proposed upon the
responsibility of an entire party. We
have driven the tariff lobby from COW
err and obliged it to substitute solid
ARGUMENT for private influence.
This extraordinary recital must
sound like a platform, list of san
guine promises; but it is not. 1t is
a record of promises made four years
ago and now actually redeemed in con-
strrctive LEGISLATION.
These things must profoundly dis
turb the thoughts and confound the
plans Of those who have made them
selves believe that the Democratic
party neither understood nor was
ready to assist the business OF the
country in the great enterprises which
it is its evident and inevitable destiny
to undertake and carry through. The
breaking up of the lobby must espe-
cially disconcert them; for it was
through the lobby that they sought
and were sure they had found the
heart of things. The game of privi-
lepe can be played successfully by no
other means.
This record must equally astonish
those who have feared that the Dem
ocratic PARTY had not opened its heart
TO comprehend the demands of social
Justice. We have in four years come
very near to carry out the platform
of the Progressive party as well as
our own; for we also are progressives.
There is one circumstance con-
nected with this program which
ought to be very plainly stated. It
was resisted at every step by the in
;erests which the Republican party
lad catered to and fostered at the ex-
oense of the country, and these same
are now earnestly praying
or reaction which will save their
restoration of their
sworn friends to power before it is
90 late to recover what they lost.
Tney fought with particular desper-
ltion and infnie resourcefulness the
eform of the banking and currency
ystem, knowing that to be the citadel
# their control; and most anxiously
re they hoping and planning for the
mendment of the federal reserve act
" the concentration of control in
ingle bank which the old familiar
,roup of bankers can keep under their
ye and direction. But while the
big men" who used to write the tar
ifs and command the assistance of
he treasury have been hostile-all
nut a few with vision-the average
BUSINESS man knows that he has been
and fear that was once ev-
ry day in his heart, that the men
Who controlled credit and directed en-
erprise from the committee rooms Of
ongress crush him, is there no more,
nd will not return-unless the par
Y that consulted only the "big men"
hould return to power-the party of
inactivity and cunning re-
ourcefulness in standing pat to re-
ist change.
The Republican party is just the
'arty that cannot meet the new con-
Iitions Of new age. 1t does not