The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-06-15

friends told us it would close the
factories, fill the streets with idle
men, produce a panic. create soup
houses and distress would reign ev-
erywhere; but we rejoice today to
point to an unexampled prosperity in
the nation with labor more generally
employed, at higher rates, shorter
hours, and better conditions than ever
before. Our Republican friends tell
us that after the war is over. poor,
stricken, prostrate, torn, bleeding
Europe will take our home market
from us. have no such fear. Am
kerican is going to take the markets of
| the world. But we shall cut from them
the last hope Of having seen false
ISSUE for we shall pass bill creating
created by new war conditions"
| Turning to the federal reserve law,
Senator James declared that it alone
averted a panic at the outbreak OF the
European war.
what would have been the result
| if the old Republican system had been
in effect?" he asked. "The stock ex-
changes in every city in the world
were closed. Europe poured it's vast
| holdings in plethoric streams upon
our shores. Who thinks that the old
Republican system of finance under
| the guidance of those patriotic guar
dians would have been able to with
| stand this mighty cataclysm? But
what was the result? Not a bank
closed its doors; not. laborer was
thrown out Of employment; not a
business was forced into bankruptcy;
but there stood strong, serving the
masses of mankind, this great legis-
lative achievement of the Democratic
party. AS the master achievement OF
Woodrow Wilson, to my mind, next to
keeping the hundred million people at
peace with the world, the historian
| IHrri1J fIn fn5 1o,rry
Declaring that "self defense and
preparation for it is as necessary now
as ever before" the speaker pointed to
the administrators preparedness pro-
gram as a proof that the party be-
llieved in preparedness without mill
tarism.'' .a
"In 1906" he continued, ST attended
the great peace conference held in
London. I thought that the millennium
of peace had come and such thing
but that day when the Christian heart
shall rule the world is not in sight.
We must not mistake dishonor for
sion for peace. Woodrow Wilson and
the Democratic party advocate an
army big enough, to make aggressors
strike blow. Democracy wants an
army and navy in keeping with the
dignity, preservation. and worth of
foot of anybody else's soil, by the
eterna! Cod, they shall not take
foot of ours.'
During this administration we have
done more to build up an army and
navy in three years than the Repub-
lican party did in forty years of its
existence. More has been done to give
in three months than Colonel Roose-
welt and Mr.. Taft did in eleven years."
Senator James spoke of the Repub-
lican platform declaration for "a con-
tinuouS policy of national defense"
declaring that only two propositions
for a continuous policy ever had been
general board of the navy in 1903,
which was pigeon-holed by a Repub-
lican secretary of the navy. and the
other by President Wilson in his ad-
dress to Congress last December.
But what happened when this mat
ter was under consideration in the
continued the senator. Every Repub-
lican member on the committee decided
to oppose the presidents continuous
program and would vote for no pro-
gram longer than one year. After six
teen years of failure. even to let the
public know of the continuous policy
to carry out such policy, and after
the Republicans on the House Naval
Affairs committee: in June. 1916. un-
animously opposed the presidents po-
licy, they now say they favor the con
tinuous policv'"
The Republican plank, declaring for
as opposed to the ineffective law pro-
posed by the present Democratic ad-
ministration." was assailed by Sem
every republican in the House and
Senate had voted for the administra-
tion's rural credits bin and that none
had charged that 1t was ineffective or
had proposed a substitute.
The senator also replied to Repub-
lican criticism of the administrations
shipping bill which. he declared would
have given the United States an ad-
equate merchant marine by now had
1T not been killed at the last session
For the first time in She history OF
our country" said Senator James af-
ter reviewing briefly Democratic legis-
prosperity possible. "the United States
leads the world in exports. We are
more prosperous than ever. and mills
years are now busy. All the iaborers
of the United States are employed as
never before. With. the world-war
raging. our country. is the only neu-
tral one that is not in distress and the
Ionly one that has not declared a
moratorium Every demand of the
has met quickly. We have freed bust
ness from the blackmail of the poll
tician as we have emancipated it from
the clutch of MONOPOLY"
The Senator likened President Will
sons Mexican policy to that of Lin
coin; and quoted from a declaration
IOl lHS ldtler TO snow tnat ne mad
Ideclined to intervene when conditions
:. were much the same as now.
1T is perfectly. easy thing" he
| continued, for the president of the
United States to plunge his country
4 into war If he is politician before he
is a patriot. He would seek his own
re-election as he. came upon horse
tending armies. OF course our army
lcould invade Mexico and march i'm
triumph to it's capital. but after the
war was over other armies would
tmarch--an army of widows and or
Iphans, an army of cripples and men
broken in health. an army of PEN
sioners. and an army of tax collectors
gathering UP the earnings of the peo-
pie to pay the great war debt"
The president had acted quickly,
the senator said, when there was an
invasion of American territory. and
the punitive expedition now was do
ing all that this country could do with
honor in Mexico.
mo president during the life of this
republic. said the Senator. has ever
had to deal with so many delicate and
dangerous problems as those which
have confronted President Wilson.
With more than half of the world In
arms in Europe. with Mexico in rev0.
luton at our border. these difficult and
complicating problems have confront-
ed him almost daily. and he has
handled them as becomes patriot and
a statesman. When the Lusitania was
sunk the militant voice of Theodore
Roosevelt cried out for war. and if he
had been president of the United
brave American sons would be con-
tending around the forts of Verdun in
this mighty maelstrom of blood
thousands would have been buried in