The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-10-06

tai principles Of our government and our pledged
word.
Czarism in the House of Representatives has
been abolished and Congress is once more a de-
Lucrative body.
The principle has been materialized into law
that eight hours constitutes a lawful days work,
and the country saved from a great strike.
The foregoing record of accomplishment has not
only been made possible but has been pressed to
completion by President Wilson's u~nceasing labor,
frmness, patience, thought and wisdom.
In addition. through President Wilson, the in
visible government has been driven from the Ma
tons Capital. Popular government has been re-
stored. Close relations, as in the days of George
Washington, between the President and Congress,
re-established.
And never since Lincoln's day have the Amer
lean people felt so strongly and so surely that they
had a personal representative at the nations head
whom no fear or favor could move from the
straight course of duty.
President Eliot On the Wilson Administration.
President Emeritus Charles w. Eliot of Har-
ward University, in the Atlantic Monthly for
October, has an article reviewing "The Achieve
ments of the Democratic Party and its Leader"
Some striking phrases of it are given:
'The most distinct announcement of a policy
contained in Mr.. Hughes speech of acceptance re-
lates to woman suffrage. Believing that woman
suffrage is inevitable, he declares in favor of it
now, but assigns as his reasons the bitterness of
the woman's struggle for the suffrage and his APP
prehension that a long continued feminist agita-
ton will subvert the normal political issues For
a brave man this seems a strange submission to
what he thinks destiny and an Incorporate agita-
ton.
"The Democratic administration accomplish
ed within a few months of its accession the revis-
ion of the tariff downward. This revision was mod
crate and conservative.
"In the repeal of the act concerning the Pan
anna Canal Tolls, President Wilson did his country
and all democracies a great service which the in
dependent voter would do well to remember. Some
political philosophers have prophesied that demo-
cracies would lack the finer honorable Instincts"
In speaking of the Federal Reserve Law,
President Eliot says: mo American administra-
ton has ever before accomplished so great a con-
tribution to the stability and efficiency of Ameri-
can business credit and financial enterprise.
can income Tax properly laid, is the justest
and most expedient of all taxes in a democracy.
1t is certainly fair that the party which put the
income tax on the statute books should be en-
trusted with the continuous improvement of the
act.
"To President Wilson's administration the
country owes it's thorough cOmmittal to a policy
which nearly concerns its righteousness and its
dignity-No war with Mexico.
1.-THE obvious fact is that President Wilson
without going to war with Germany has forced
from her a recognition of neutral rights; and HI
accomplished this result alone, without visible
support from any other state.
President Wilson is far in advance of the
average American voter as to preparedness. Presi
dent Roosevelt's martial temperament and EN-
phatic language brought little to pass. President
Wilson, favored by extraordinary circumstance
which he thoroughly understood, brought much
to pass.
anyone who surveys the extraordinary ser
les of legislative and executive acts accomplished
by the Democratic party in three years and a hal
will realize two things: First, that President vii
son has proved himself a party leader of unusua
power; and secondly, that the party thus led ha!
done much more for the country than the Repub
lican party accomplished in five times as man,
years"
This New England professor of world-wid
reputation for scholarship and wisdom and charac
ter, concludes thus:
"On the whole, the independent voters ar
likely to act next November on two simple, we
grounded convictions: First, that the Democrat
party has done such an extraordinary amount o
good work during the present administration tina
the period from 1912 to 1916 will be memorabl
in the history of the United States; and secondly
that the man chiefly responsible for this consun
mate service to the American people should b
again made their chief servant"
Mr.. HUGHES WAR.
From the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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