The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-02

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.
They now have the standing of other
business men in the money market.
lation in futures" and established
standards in the marketing of grains.
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted to make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as a
security 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 inteili-
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.
Points to Good Roads Bill.
The workingmen of America have
been given a veritable emancipation,
by the legal recognition of a mans
labor as part of his life, and not a
mere marketable commodity; by ex-
empting labor organizations from
processes of the courts which treated
their members like factionaI parts of
mobs and not like accessible and re-
sponsible individuals; by releasing our
seamen from involuntary servitude;
by making adequate provision for
compensation for industrial accidents;
by providing suitable machinery for
mediation and Cancellation 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.
We have effected the emancipation
of the children of the country by re-
leasing them from hurtful labor. We
have instituted a system of national
aid in the building of highroads such
as the country has been feeling after
for century. We have sought to
equaliZe taxation by means of an
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been
taken at the outset to open up the re-
sources of Alaska. We have provided
for national defense upon a scale new
er before seriously proposed upon the
responsibility of an entire political
party. We have driven the tariff lob
by from cover and obliged it to sub
stitute solid argument for private in
fluence.
This extraordinary recital must
sound like a platform, list of san
guine promises; but it is not. 1t is
record of promises made four years
ago and now actually redeemed in
constructive legislation.
These things must profoundly dis
tuID the thoughts ana COnIOunQ 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 thru. The
breaking up of the lobby must espe-
cially discomfort them; for it was thru
the lobby that they sought and were
sure they had found the heart of
hi 0f -ix he
played successfully bv no other means.
This record must equally aStoniSh
those who feared that the Democratic
party had not opened its heart to COM
We have in four years come very near
to carrying out the platform of the
Progressive party as well as our own;
for we also are progressives.
Cannot Meet Conditions.
There is one circumstance connected
with this program which ought to be
very plainly stated. 1t was resisted
at every step by the interests which
the Republican party had catered to
and foStered at the expense of the
country, and these same interests are
now earnestly praying for a reaction
which will save their privileges,-for
the restoration of their sworn friends
to power before it is too late to re-
cover what they have lost They
infinite resourcefulness the reform of
the banking and currency system,
knowing that to be the citadel of their
control; and most anxiously are they
hoping and planning for the amend
ment of the federal reserve act by the
concentration of control in a single
bank which the old familiar group of
bankers can keep under their eye and
direction. But while the big men
who used to write the tariffs and COM
mand the assistance of the treasury
have been hostile,-all but few with
vision,-the average business man
knows that he has been delivered, and
that the fear that was once every day
in his heart, that the men who con-
trolled credit and directed enterprise
from the committee rooms of congress
would crush him, is there no more,
and will not return,-unless the party
that consulted only the big men,
should return to power. the party of
mastery inactivity and cunning re-
sourcefulness in standing pat to resist
change.
The Republican party is just the
party that cannot meet the new con-
ditions of new age. 1t does not
know the way and it does not wish
new conditions. 1t tried to break
away from the old leaders and could
not. They still select it's candidates
and dictate it's policy, still resist
cHdHSe, SIlII nanker arter the old con-
ditions, still know no methods of en-
couraging business but the old meth
DDS. When it changes its leaders and
its purposes and brings it's ideas up
to date it will have the right to ask
the American people to give it power
again; but not until then. A new age,
an age of revolutionary change, needs
new purposes and new ideas.
In foreign affairs we have been
guided by principles clearly conceived
and consistently lived up to. Perhaps
they have not been fully comprehend
ed because they have hitherto gov
erned international affairs only in the
DRY, not in practice. They are sim
pie, obvious, easily stated and funda-
mental to American ideals
Explains Peace Party
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