The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-11-03
Reasons for
Voting for Wilson

the corrupt lobby and restored the government to the hands Of tho
governed.
8. Because he prefers construction to destruction.
A. Because he has secured the adoption Of a dumping clause
to protect American labor, capital and business against the posi-
.biHty Of cutttroat competition.
&. Because he has secured the imposition Of an income tazs
obhging wealth to share with want the burdens as we'll as the
blessings of the government.
Z. Because he secured the establishment of a non-partsan
tariff commission, so that hereafter the tariff may be revised,
whether upward or downward, upon scientific principles and in
the light Of all the facts.
g. Because he has been a friend Of legitimate business.
9. Because he has secured the establishment Of a Federal
Reserve system dethroning the money trust democratizing credit
and reassuring the future against a recurrence Of banking and cur
rency pancs.
10. Because he has secured the establishment Of a Federal
TRADE Commission, to suppress unfair competition and to protect
and promote honest business and to safeguard law abiding BUSH
ness men against needless and yexatOus litigation.
Il. Because he has affected the abolition. of tying contracts,
interlocked directors and holding companies, the tap roots Of
monopoly.
u. Because he has been a friend of the farmer.
10. Because he has secured the establishment of a system
Of rural credits designed to emancipate and to enfranchise the
farmer in the business world.
IA. Because under his administration a system of licensed
and bonded warehouses has been authorized which will assist to
make the farmer a master Of his own business and his own destiny.
Is. Because under his administration measures have been
passed looking to the establishments Of official standards and grades
of cotton and grain, thus safeguarding the market against manipu-
lation.
10. Because he has approved a measure providing for the
establishment Of a system of highways through State and Federal
cooperation, which will, when completed, according to the esi-
t mate Of experts, save the farmers more than one million dollars
between the rising and setting Of every sun.
H. Because he stands upon a platform which promises the
persecution Of plans ito render agriculture more profitable and
country life more helpful comfortable and attractive"
! IS. Because he has not adopted the tack hammer and a pair
of holdng-back straps as the sole instruments and emb1ems Of
progress. Ii
10. Because he has been the friend of the wage Garner
IN pecrso he hos onoroved a r,o,s,-o d,.i,-;,- 49, -.
labor shall not be dealt with as a mere commodity in the market
place.
d 81 Because he has approved a measure a%boEshing the writ Of
e injunction as an instrument of judicial tyranny.
10 %. Because he has secured to labor the right to a trial by Jury
he in cases of constructive contempt
20, Because he has approved the Workingmens Compensation
St Act, making the United States a model employer and an example
g to all other employers.
"a Because he has approved the Seamens Act, liberating the
toners Of the sea from involuntary servtude, protecting them
re against Imprisonment for debt and criminal prosecution for the
mere breach OF a civil contract.
rs. Because he urged and signed the eighthour Act, which
nn crystalized the enlightened judgment of mankind into the law of
es the land. embodying the spirit of the Republican platform Of 1908
the Progressive platform Of 1912, and the Democratic platform Of
\, 1916, and in ACCORDANCE with the matured conviction that the man
or who tolls should be allowed to enjoy a fair share OF the treasure
and the leisure and the pleasure which should be the portion Of
lot civilized man in a civilized society.
~t &c. Because he has said suffer little children to come out Of
Its the mines and the mills and the s~weatshops"
81 Because he believes in the conservation of human resour-
is lces as well as in the conservation Of natural resources.
ma 28. Because he is not an ex post facto statesman.
be- 80. Because he has made the principles Of social and indus.
rs trial justice a reality rather than an ideal. rather than a mere vision
re of untitled desire.
so Because he has prevented the horrors and the sorrows Of
IRE war,
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, Because by taking the American
p%s people into his confidence he has deserved the confidence OF the
American people.
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ed In the early days Of the republic when manufactures and indus
ids trial enterprises of various kinds were in their incipiency, a protec
icy tive tariff might have had its use in establishing these businesses OF
me a paving basis as our workers were inexperenced and the TOOLS n
The hand crrrie but since that tine orr yvorlrmen hive been aie ~ Z,
ate loerfo.t her,set.ss - ~ rasha.s.at 80 49, 4o.Js~~It. - !
will 80 =" = - ~ 800 aS u' q wy , YIN "Re
his "" , 'S mSu 40 WOtNn"" ~m VomPAsn m d wee.
es aiMl, the american Workmah gets ue money commensurate with III
Re. skH INC mtelngence. ~ IS ar Insult 10 the great American soVer
we, egn to compare his earning capacity and his needs with the paupe
air. labor OF the older countries.
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