The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-11-03
ReaOns for Reelection Of Wilson

/. Because he has kept the peace.
2. Because he has abolished invisible govern
ment, dispersed the corrupt lobby and restored
the government to the hands Of the governed
8. Because he prefers construction to destruct-
ion.
4. Because he has secured the reduction Of the
tariff not upward but downward to a competitive
basis.
5. Because he has secured the adoption of
dumping clause to protect American labor capital
and business against the possibility of cut-throat
competition when the war is over
6. Because he has secured the imposition of an
income tax obiging wealth to share with want
the burdens as well as the blessings of the govern
ment
z. Because he has secured the establishment of
a non-partsan tariff commission, so that here
after the tariff may be revised, whether upward
or downward, upon scientific principles and in the
light of all the facts.
8. Because he has been friend Of legitimate
business.
8. Because he has secured the establishment of
a Federal Reserve system, dethroning the money
trust, democratizing credit and reassuring the fu-
ture against recurrence Of banking and currency
panics
10. Because he has secured the establishment
of a Federal Trade Commission to suppress un-
fair competition and to protect and promote hon.
est business and to safeguard law abiding busi-
ness men against needless and vexatious litiga
tion.
ii. Because he has effected the abolition Of ty-
ing contracts, interlocked direct0rates and hold
ing companies, the tap roots of monopoly.
IL. Because he has been friend of the farmer.
13. Because he has secured the establishment
of system of a rural credits designed to emanci-
l. fo~, ~ 41o hToi-
ness world.
Ia. Because under his administration system
of licensed and bonded warehouses has been au-
thorized which will assist to make the farmer
master of his own business and his own destiny
Is. Because under his administration measures
have been passed looking 80 the establishment OF
official standards and grades of cotton and gram,
thus safeguarding the market against manipula-
= tion.
16. Because he has approved measure provid-
ing for the establishment of a system of high
WAYS through State and Federal cooperation,
which WILL when completed according to the es-
innate of experts, save the farmers more than one
million dollars between the rising and setting Ct
every days sun.
II. Because he stands upon platform which
promises the prosecution of plans ito make agri-
culture more profitable, and country life more
healthful, comfortable and attractive"
lS. Because ne mas Deen One lrlend OF Ine wage
Garner.
49, Because he has approved measure abolish
ing the writ of injunction as an instrument OF
judicial tyranny, securing to labor the right to a
trial by jury in cases of constructive contempt
2l Because he has approved the Workingmen's
Compensation Act making the United States
model employer and an example to all other en-
poyers.
o. Because he has approved the Seamen's Act,
liberating the toiers of the sea from involuntary
servitude protecting them against Imprisonment
for debt and criminal prosecution for the mere
breach of a civil contract.
%. Because he urged and signed the Eight
hour Act, which crystallzed the enlightened iudg-
ment Of mankind into the law of the land in ac-
cordance with the Progressive platform of 1912
and the Democratic platform Of 1916, and in ac-
cordance with the matured conviction that the
man who tolls should be allowed to enjoy fair
share Of the treasure and the leisure and the
pleasure which should be the portion OF civilized
men in civilized society.
"a. Because he has said, "suffer little children
to come out of the mines and the mills and the
sweatshops."
>25. Because ne believes in the conservation of
human resources as well as in the conservation
of natural resources.
26 Because he has made the principles of So
cial and Industrial justice a reality rather than an
ideal something more than a mere vision of un-
fulfilled desire
o. Because by taking the American people in
to his confidence he has deserved the confidence OF
the American people.
%. Because by upholding and maintaining In
ternational law when great warning nations
sought to disregard it, he has performed monu-
r,,o~tnl ootttoo fo ottYilyotion and humanity and