The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-28
WILSON REVIEWS WORK OF
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
Tells Of Great Good Accomplished In Past Four
Years Financial Credit Released Great
Work Not Finished Many Hear Him. Y.

where. No wonder that in such m
age men in America should be cried
awake and feel once more, as they
felt them in the days when their great
republic was set up, the compulsions
Of humanity and Of justice
These are the freshening winds
blowing out Of the life Of mankind
I everywhere, that have brought on
new day in American politics. We
have looked once more very critically
at our own laws and our own ptac.
tices and have set about to square
them with the actual conditions Of our
life and the life Of the world.
-Four years ago there were two par
ties in the field whose programme waR
conceived under the influence Of these
great forces Of progress and adjust
ment, the Democratic party and the.
Progressive party. This year there
is but one, the Democratic party. III
the presidential election Of four years
ago some fifteen million votes were
cast. Of these, nearly ten and j haK
millions were cast for the candidates.
OF the two progressive parties. only
three and half millions for the can-
didate Of the Republican party, the.
party which fingered in the Old ways
and felt none Of the new impulse of )
new day. More than two-thirds Ut
the voters of the United States fav-
ored then, and favor now, pro-
gramme whose object is to serve the
changing needs of humanity and
progress.
The Democratic party was entrust-
ed with the task. These powerful
forces of the new age were put under
its direction. And under that direc- Y =.
iionS what have they accomplished? /?
they have put both the business and
The life of the country upon . new
'ooting. They have released the f.
iancial credit, upon which commerce
md production alike depend, from the
ontrol of small groups of financiers
md bankers at the speculative CEN
ers: They have released the commerce
nd industry of the country from the
domination of those who were build
ng up their power by selfish and UNI
air methods of competition. They
ave supplied those who wished to
onduct their business in conformity
18th the spirit of the laws with friend
Y guidance and delivered them from
ervous fear Of the courts. They have
eleased cur foreign trade from the
hackles of tariff contrived in the
1terest Of special groups Of favored
roduoers, and have created Tariff
Commission intended to substitute
ublic for private influences, facts for
aeories and pretensions, in all future
agislation with regard to duties and
estrietions on imports. They have
lade provision for the immediate and
ystematic development Of our carry
lg trade on the seas. They have at "
'st supplied the means by which the
alton may be bound together, ma
erally and spiritually, by network
{ good roads upon which both COM
lodities and sympathies may move
ceely from community to community.
hey have put the farmer upon foot
lg Of perfect equality with business
len and men of all other callings in
aspect of his access to commercial
reait; have placed great bureau Of :
ne Government at his service in seek
lg and finding best markets; have
rotected him by the establishment Of
atlnite standards in the sale of his
roducts, and have put the scientific
of the world at his dis
osal by practical demonstration at
he expense Of the Government upon
he. farms themselves. They have
nancipated the laborers Of the coun-
~ from the unjustified restraints
,hich the courts had put upon them
y mistaken applications Of old law to
ew circumstances and conditions.
hey have released the children Of the
ountry in large part from hurtful
abor; have sought to safeguard the
ives and the health of our laborers in
angerous occupations; and have put Il
gencies Of the Government itSsk .st
he service Of those who seek en-
loyment. And most Of these things
ave been done within - bris1 alsAits ts,,s'
tcontiausd On rkss ysus.l i NJ
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