The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-02
AD00 PRESENTS 0vERWlHE Ming ARGUMENTS FOR WILSON

and the rights of the nation and We
keep 1t out of war, in these perilou
times when civilization has lost it
equilibrium and nations their powe
Of reckoning.
OF transcendent Importance to tn
American people is the continuance IL
the office Of president of a man o
courage, poise, experience and states
mansh1p. We do not gamble upol
the future, we do not trifle with des
tiny, we do not imperil honorable
peace if we keep at it's head the grea
1 man who has guided this nation
destinies during the past three years
If it had not been for President Will
sons courage and calmness, intelli
gence and judgment, exalted patrio
| tiSm, passionate love of humanity an(
justice, and stern insistence upon tn,
maintenance of American rights anC
American honor through the mos
brilliant and intellectual contest il
the history of diplomacy, hundreds OF
| thousands of the best of America!
youth would now be rotting in name
less graves, other hundreds of thou.
sands would be hopeless invalids anC
cripples, billions of war debt would
be pressing upon the backs of the
masses of the American people, pros
perity would have been destroyed, and
gloom and mourning would be stalk
ing in the land.
| None know better than the women
of this great land what a calamity
war is, and what an unspeakable
crime unnecessary war is. Women
are, in some respects, greater suffer
ers from war than men, but none are
| more willing than women to make
supreme sacrifices for their country
| if war becomes necessary, and none
| have a greater right than women to
demand that every honorable means
shall be employed to peacefully settle
| international controversies, before a
resort to war.
Are the thinking men and women
of America, who are not blind follow
ers of parties but who love honorable
peace and prosperity, going to turn
out of office our great president, who
has gone through the fiery furnace
for them these past three years and
has rendered such noble service to
his own country and to the cause of
humanity, and put in his place a man
without any experience whatever in
the complex and perilous problems
which confront us, and who has not
offered a single convincing reason for
the dismissal of a faithful, loyal and
truly. great public servant? Is, that
the way to- reward great men? Has
the president had a square deal, or
even a decent deal, by the men who
seem lost to every sense of magnanim-
ity and fairness in their criticisms?
They have not uttered a generous or
just word about him.
For the first time in our history
partisan politicians have deliberately
sought to embarrass the President of
the United States in the conduct Of
our foreign affairs for the purpose Of
gaining party advantage. These noisy,
mischievous and unpatriotic men have
on number Of occasions almost de-
feated the presidents efforts to keep
the country at honorable peace with
the world. They have done their ut
most to twart the presidents efforts
and to impegil the country. The SUI
preme test of American patriotism is
today, what it has been from the
foundation of the republic, that the
impious hand of partisan politics shall
not be laid upon delicate internation-
al problems and that partisan warfare
shall be silenced in the face of in
ternationa1 controversy. This sacred
principle Of elemental patriotism has
been grossly offended against by par
tisan politicians, and the American
people should visit upon them the
sternest retribution. We must always
party allegiance last.
no 10 Of
in the near future, I deliberately
the partisan attempts now being made
to get control Of the American gov
eminent, at the sacrifice Of peace,
than from all other causes combined.
The rights and honor of the American
people are safe in the hands of Wood
row Wilson and will be upheld I'M
flinchingly in the face of the entire
world.
The Federal Reserve System
The wonderful prosperity Of this
country, aside from the preservation
of peace, is due more to the creation
of our new financial system than to
all other causes combined. Without
the Federal reserve banks it would be
impossible to finance our phenomenal
domestic business and foreign trade.
Who gave the country this new finan-
cial system? President Wilson and
the Democratic party, by the enact
ment Of the Federal Reserve law on
the 23rd of December, 1913. This
law was forced through Congress by
the President and the Democratic par
ty in the face of the combined oppo-
sition of the Republican leaders and
their allies, that small but powerful
group of Wall street financiers who
did not want their control over the
credit resources of the country to be
destroyed.
Our great business expansion, both
domestic and foreign, could not have
occurred without the enlarged finan-
cia1 resources provided by the Demo-
cratic Federal Reserve System. Bust
ness cannot grow and prosper without
adequate credit facilities and efficient
credit machinery. The Federal Re-
serve Act has supplied both. For the
first time in our history business men
know that they can get> ample credit
whenever they need it for wholesome
and legitimate business; they know
that these credits are now elastic and
automatically responsive to the bust
ness needs Of the country; they know
that they can now engage in business
enterprises and undertakings with the
certainty that essential credit is avail
able at all times and at lower rates
of interest than ever before known;
they know that they can go forward