Mexico Missouri message., 1916-06-15
maintain its neutral rights against

that all divisions among the Amert' |
can people stop at the oceans edge. |
over and above every other reason |
that the nation may have for uphold
ing it's president, is the necessity Of
proving to the world that we are a
united people.
SO long as the other nations of the
earth realize that the millions under
Americas flag think as one believe as
one and act as one in the face of for
eign war, we shall be free from for.
eign intrigue and all that it entails.
High above every other issue rnat
this convention offers to the Ameri-
can people we must therefore write
a vindication of American loyalty.
Our Domestic Policies.
Four years ago the people of this
country entrusted their government
to a man and to a party who prom
Used that they would liberate the ma
tion from the chains of industrial
tyranny, who pledged themselves to
break down the barriers behind which
special privilege sat entrenched; who
engaged themselves to emancipate
business, to throw wide the gate of
lawful enterprise, to restore to the
men and women of America the paths
of progress which had been choked
and blocked by long years Of invisible
government.
That promise has been kept; that
pledge has been redeemed. We must
content ourselves here with a brief
consideration of the great landmarks
which chart the change from govern.
| ment for the fortunate few to an even.
handed government in the interest
of all.
The first of these is the federal
reserve act which freed the business
man and the farmer from the financial
domination of the money changers and
lifted the menace of panic from our
industrial life.
In the same spirit and with the
same motive that inspired the fed.
eral reserve act this administration
has devoted itself to the stimulation
of American industry, agriculture and
trade through all the agencies of gov.
eminent.
New Meaning to Laws.
1t has given a new meaning and
a new force to the laws restraining
big business from stirling competi
tion.
1t has created a trade commission
to afford to business generally more
direct and prompt administration Of
the laws relating to business
1t has established government rep
resentatives throughout the world
whose sole duty is to foster the ex
pansion of American trade.
1t has created a closer union o.
economic, commercial and fnancia
interests between the United States
and the nations of South America.
1t has declared in language tina
no court and no employer can compe
his men to work for him against theil
will.
1t has freed the farmer from thu
chains of a financial system whicl
was devised for business and not TO
farming.
/ cannot close this review of wha
the present administration has accom-
plished without adverting to its cour
ageous and statesmanlike solution o
the nations tariff problem.
OF all the tariffs we ever enacted
this is the fairest and the best.
BY the Underwood law this admin
istration has taken the tariff out o
politics.; by the new tariff commits
sion 1t proposes to take politics GU
of the tariff.
Under the present administrator
the United States has enjoyed a won
! derful era of good business and goo
times.
FIoodtide of Prosperity.
The flood-tide of our prosperity ha
! risen to such an unprecedented heigh
that the only limit to trade is on
ability to make and transport the con
modities demanded at home an
: abroad.
I The purchasing power of our pei
pie is greater than that Of any othe
people on the globe. Never was theT
r as much money in our vaults as toda!
: Nowhere else on earth is there
more equitable distribution of whs
3 the energy of labor hammers into e:
: istence out of the material which cap
tai places in its hand.
4 Measured by every possible stan
ard-by the volume of exports an
0 imports, by the expansion of dome
Y tic trade, by the condition OF labo
. by the rate of wages, by the size (
r bank deposits and clearinghouse r
r turns, by the balance of trade or /
5 the amount of gold in the country, /
n any and all of these standards, tn
0 country today is enjoying prosperit
= such as no other country has ever e
r joyed before.
Wilson the Man.
t Americanism and peace, prepare
, ness and prosperity-these are Il
Q issues upon which the Democrat
/. party stands, and the heart of Der
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