The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-15
TOM MARSHALL'S SPEECH.


the truth, like divining rod, no matter
how deeply buried beneath false issues,
Tom Marshall accepted the nomination for
Vice President and analysed the Demo
cratic cause,
AS Wilson will not make a campaign,
Tom Marshall, the map who is not seeking
additional honor but whose only hope is that
he may assist in the reelection of Wood
row Wilson, who has not walked where the
path has led, but who has walked where
there was no path and who has left trail,
will take a more prominent part than is
usually assigned the Vice President in the
great drive. He will be the standard bear.
er, the personal representative of the Pres-
dent Leading dozen Democratic orators
of national fame-among them Under
wood, Hoke Smith, Shafroth, Robinson,
Lewis, Stone, Reed and Bryan-Marshall
will speak in practically every Western
state. The West, normally Republican in
the past, but with pronounced Democratic
leaning today, will be where the great bat
tie of the campaign will be fought; and no
more capable leader than Marshall could be
chosen
Referring to the tariff question, Marshall,
after saying that "the Democratic party is
a growing-a progressive party" makes
this significant statement:
at valves its ancient views as to a tariff COM
mission, that the tariff has been lowered and
wealth has been made to bear its fair proportion
of the burdens of the government, and it proposes
to ascertain the real purchasing difference between
the wage here and abroad, and to put that differ,
that the manufacturer agrees that the difference
shall go into the pay envelope and not into divi-
dends"
It is not the championship of labor to
which we wish to draw attention, for that
is too we'll known to be considered news any
more, but to President Wilson's attitude on
the tariff question-probably the most lib
era1 in the history of the Democratic party.
Too clear-visioned not to see that all tariff
duties protect to some extent the indus
tries concerned, no one knows better than
| Wilson that free trade could not yet be ap-
| piled to the American system of economics
without wreaking untold disaster. Wilson,
| therefore, favored the non-partisan Taffm
Commission, which by non-partisan study
of conditions will adjust levies on purely
non-partisan basis and enable the fullest de-
velopment of our commercial resources.
| Regarding the international relations of
this Government, Marshall interprets the
| spirit that has guided Wilson through such
difficulties in these words: so long as there
is no manifest intention or deliberate pur-
pose on the part of a government to insult
our Government" there is no outrage on
national honor.
A changed administration, as Marshall
declared, would not dare repeal single one
of the important measures put on the stat
ute books since March 4, 1913; and lacking
an issue, the Republicans are driven to such
specious phrases as Firm Americanisn.
care you dissatisfied with present condi-
tions?" the Vice President asks in one OF
those swift appeals to reason that brook. no
quibbling. And adds:
"Don't you know that the one thing which would
have rendered the reelection of the president
certainty would have been to engage in war ?sDo
! you want to pu nish him for the peace?"
What is this firm Amerieanisr" Mar
sist of Hughes and Roosevelt, of Hughes
and Hohenzollern, or of Hughes surviving
partner of the firm of Hughes and Huerta
closing out shabby stock of shelfworn po-
1itical patent medicines not guaranteed IN
der the Pure Drug Act?"
Airy badinage on the face of it, but how
it does summarize the situation! Huerta
shedding American blood for oil; Hohen
zo1lern-"undiluted Americanism," appeal
ing to an anti-American vote; Roosevelt
buncombe and treacheryl
In this same Illuminating manner, Mar
shall discusses the other issues of Democ
racy; not defending them, mind, but inter
preting them; and forecasting the futu e.