Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-05-11

made United States
successfully the devastating human history but to
aspire to the financial mastery of the world.
They would point to the income tax law just and equ
table of making wealth bear its due proportion OF the
of government for which the republican party entitled
double share of credit because republican congress had
submitted the amendment to the constitution which made the
levying of an income tax possible.
They would point to the corporation tax the extension
of act which the republican party originated and which
helped transfer to organized capital of the burdens of
government previously borne by poverty and labor.
They would point to the repeal of the coastwse provision
the Panama canal tolls act proof that the United States
faithful to its pledges and cannot be swaed from the ways OF
international honor and justice by the greed OF
special interest
They would point to the federal trade board progress
sve of constructive legislation by which honest and
abiding business protected from prose
cuon and enabled to work harmony with the Sherman anti
trust ac and in fairness to the public
They would point to the record of the department of
ce proof that business had been from political
backmail and that industrial organization longer
prosecuted from motives partisan advantage private
revenge
They would point the president Mexican policy den
teal is with Lncon Mexican policy evidence that the
American people less determined than to the
backward nations Of the hemisphere the fullest opportunity to
work out their destiny and finally achieve that liberty under
law which the of people have had to
by struggle and sacrifice.
They would point to relations with atin-Ameri-
the realization of James G. Banes dream of
cansma dream that became really only through the far
sighted craftsmanship Of Woodrow Wilson.
They would point to the foreign policy of the president
during the most difficult and critical period of history since
American ideals of with honor And they would of
his utmatum to Germany LIE Matn of Paris says of it
vocng the easm which makes France and the United States
forever kinone of the nobles acts in the history of
kind"
They would point his leadership congress as the
ton problem that so long vexed American government
by which comprehensive legislative programs be enacted
into law without the presidents coercng congress brbng
with patronage
They would point to his preparedness
ment for past derecons the of the republican party
and example of leadership that knows how
national peril to bring rreconcilabe political elements into
harmony for the public welfare
They would point the administration Wilson as
second only to the administration of Washington and Lincoln
the record of mighty achievement in behalf of the American
people
All this and would republicans say of Woodrow Will
son he republican president Why should the fact
that he democratic president preclude their saying it?
They have no presidential candidate of their who
measures the situation and they do not where
find They have ISSUE Why not nominate Woodrow
Wilson, the democrats going do and give the world
the most impressive demonstration of American unity in the
great crisis that it has ever known.
We do that the republican party should ul
shop make itself to the democratic party That
would be calamity for party Of opposition is essential tc
republican Institutions The republican party could nominate
its candidate for vice president It could its
candidates for senators and representatives in congress- its
candidates for in the various states and for al
local offices Only the presidency would be excluded
time being from the arena of partisan strife.
No other nation with leader like Woodrow Wilson would
enough in the midst of world crisis change
attempt to bring about change We know of
why the American people should be less than other
people, why they should permit their vital interests
deviled for the edcation of ambitious professional polt
1t will always the discredit of the democratic
party that in the strain and stress of the Civil nominal
ed candidate against Abraham Lincoln and sought for par
tsan advantage to dscredit the Lincoln administration
Surely the republican party time like this desire
emulate that miserable example of copperhead bourbonsm
desire weaken the influence of the United States
abroad by partisan campaign against the president
at home.