The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-09-02
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confounds the Enemy.


confounds the Enemy.
These things must profoundly dis
turb the thoughts ana confound 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 through. The
breaking up OF the lobby must espe.
cially disconcert them; for it was
through the lobby that they sought
and We're sure they had found the
heart Of things The game OF privi.
le8e can be played successfully by no
other means.
This record must equally astonish
those who feared that tine Democrat.
ic party had not opened its heart to
comprehend the demands Of social
Justice. We have in four years come
very near to carrying out the plat
form Of the Progressive party as wen
as our own; for we also are progress
siyes
Fought by Wall Street.
There is one circumstance connect
ed with this program which ought to
be very plainly stated. 1t was resist
ed at every step by the interests
which the Republican party had ca.
tered to and fostered at the expense Of
the country and these same interests
ar now earnestly praying for reac.
ton which will save their privileges
for the restoration of their sworn
friends to power before it Is too late
to recover what they have lost. They
fought with particular desperation and
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 to the Federal Reserve Act by
concentration of control in a single
bank which the old familiar group Of
bankers can keep under their eve and
direction But while the "big men,
who used to write the tariffs and
command the assistance OF the treas.
ury have been hostie-all but a few
with vision, average business
man knows that he has been deliver.
ed. and that the fear that was once
every day in his heart, that the men
who controlled credit and directed en-.
terprise from the committee rooms of
congress- would crush him. is there no
more, and will not return to power
the party of mastery inactivity and
cunning resourcefulness is standing
pat to resist change.
Republicans Helpless,
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 its candidates
and dictate its policy, still resist
change, still banker after 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 its ideas up
to date it will have the right to ask
the American people to give it power
again; but not until them. A new age,
an age of revolutionary change, needs
new purposes and new ideas
Foreign Policy.
In foreign affairs we have been
guided by principles clearly conceived
and consistently lived up to.
We have been neutral not only be-
cause it was the fixed and traditional
policy Of the United States to stand
aloof from the politics of Europe and
because we had had no part either Of
acllon or OF pollcy In the influences
which brought on the preseE- wal, rut e
also because it was manifestIy our
duty to prevent, if it were possible,
the indefinite extension of the fires
Of hate and desoation kindled by that
teriiole conflict and seek to serve
by reserving our strength
and our resources for the anxious
and difficult days of restoration and
healing which must follow, when
peace will have to build its house II
anew. :
Drawing the Line.
The rights of our own citizens of :
course became involved; that was in y
svitable. Where they did this was our ,
guiding principle: that property u