East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-28
PRESIDENT Is PRAISED
BY SENATOR GORE

6. Because he has secured the i'm
position Of an income tax, obliging
wealth to share with want the bur
dens as we'll as the blessings Of the
government.
Z. Because he secured the estab-
lishment of non-partisan tariff
commission, so that hereafter the
tariff may be revised. whether up
ward 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 es-
tablishment of federal reserve sys-
tenn, dethroning the money trust,
democratizing credit and reassuring
the future against a recurrence OF
3 banking and currency panics.
| 10. Because he has secured the
establishment Of a federal trade COM
mission. to suppress unfair competi.
ton and to protect and promote
I honest business and TO safeguard law
abiding business men against need.
less and vegat.ous litigation.
II. Because he has effected the
abolition of tying contracts inter
locked directorates and holding com
panies, the tap roots of monopoly.
10. Because he has been n friend
of the farmer.
13. Because he has secured the
establishment Of a system Of rural
credits designed to emancipate and
to enfranchise the farmer in the bus
mess world
14.-Becanse under his adm'ntstra-
ton a system of licensed and bonded
warehouses has been authorized
which which will assist TO make the
farmer a master of his own business
and his own destiny.
IS. Because under his administra.
ton measures have been passed look.
ink to the establishment of official
standards and grades Of cotton and
grain, thus safeguarding the market
against manipulation.
l6. Because he has approved
measure for the establishment of 4
system of highways through state
and federal cooperation which will
when completed, according TO the es-
timate Of experts. save the farmers
more than one million dollars between
the rising and setting OF every sun.
H. Because ne stanus upon
PLATFORM Wnlch promises the prose-
cution OF pians 10 renuer agricu.- ,.l-
ture more proiitaoie anu country Hie
more heaithiui coHiiOr'apie anu at
tractiVe''
is. Because he has not adopted
the tack hamer and pair OF holding
back-straps as the sole instruments
and emblems OF progress
lS. Because he has been the friend
OF the wage Garner.
20 Because ne has approved
measure declaring that human laoor
shall not be dealt with as mere
commodity in the market place.
Il. Because he has approved
measure abolishing the writ Of injunc-
ttion as an instrument OF judicial ty'
ranny
90 Because he has secured to la
Dor the right TO a trial by jury in
I cases of constructive contempt
%. Because he has approved the
Workingmen's Compensation Act
making the United States a model
/ employer and an example to all 9TH
er employers.
"a. Because he has approved the
Seamen's act, liberating the toilers of
the sea from involuntary servitude,
protecting them against imprison-
ment for debt and criminal prosecu-
tion for the mere breach Of civil
contract.
rs. Because he urged and signed
the eight hour act, which crystallized
the enlightened judgment of mankind
into the law of the land embodying
the spirit OF the republican platform