The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-09-28
Department of Agriculture.
will double the productiveness o
the farms of America.

given in every high school in the
country, and domestic science
the coming women Of the land.
The Public Health Service
broadened to take il rural sani-
tation and vocational diseases.
The Workme rs Compensation
Act protects the workmen in the
employ of the National govern
ment who suffer physical injury
in the service of the nation.
Labor laws which constitute a
Magma Charta to laborers of the
country have been enacted. The
principle is established that hu-
man labor is not a mere CON-
modify.
The Child Labor Law emancip-
ates the children of the nation
from industrial oppression.
The Industrial Employees Act
Established a national Board of
Mediation and Cancellation. It
gives the government great fac
ilities and influence in prevent
ing or settling great industrial Or
labor disputes.
The Cotton Future Act protects
the cotton growers from gambl-
ing manipulatioas of the market
and from false and artificial
standards of exchanges.
The Grain Standards Act
gives to grain growers the protec
tion and advantages of establish
ed grades of their commodities.
The United States Warehouse
Act enables farmers to store
their products safely and obtain
negotiable warehouse receipts
whereby they can obtain loans
readily and in due proportion to
the value of their products.
The Alaskan Railway Bill
breaks the grip of great private
interests on Alaska and open that
lald to all Americans.
The tremendous resources Of
the nation, its public lands, coal.
Oil and gas fields, its water power
have been conserved for the ben
eft Of the people now and in the
future, while vast areas of suit
able land have been made avail
able of homesteads.
The Filipinos have been given
a greater measure of freedom in
accordance with the fundamental
principles of our government and
our pledged word. /.
CarZism in the House of Re-
representatives. has been abolished
and Congress is once more de-
Lucrative body.
The principle has been mater
ialized into law that eight hours
constitutes a lawful days work.
and the country saved from a
great strike.
The foregoing record of ac-
accomplishment has not only been
made possible but has been
pressed 10 completion by Presi-
dent Wilson's unceasing labor,
firmness, patience, drought and
wisdom.
In addition. through President
Wilson, the invisible government
has been driven from the Nations :
Capital. Popular government
has been restored. Close rela-
tions. as i'm the days of George
Washington, between the presi :
dent ald Congress, have been re-
established.
And never since Lincoln's day
have the American people felt so
strongly and so surely that 'hey
had personal representative at
the nations head whom no fear
or favor could move from the
straight course of duty.
Under President Wilson the
various departments of the
Government have pusued al ac-
tive and progressive course.
The Department Of Labor has
Established an employment bur-
eau, beneficial alike to labor and
manufacturer.
The Department of Justice has
enforced real dissolution of mono-
poles and combinations. Il has
kclarified the anti-trust laws and
Tits conduct of its functions has
been such that instead Of years of
long drawn out litigation, the
cases against truts have been
settled and the laws obeyed. l >
terlockjng directorates are now
no more.
The Post Office in the fiscal
year just ended returned a profit
of over million dollars. The Par
GELS Post has been developed in
to a gigantic useful service to all
the people of the nation. The
Postal Savings deposits have
grown from thirty to eighty mil
Ion dollars under the Wilson ad-
Iministration.
The Treasury Department be-
sides putting into effective work.
ing the Federal Reserve Law and
the Farm Loan Law, has by wise
placing of the surplus treasury
funds into western and southren
/ banks at crop moving periods
greatly aided both the farmers