The Pulaskian., 1916-09-08
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What Democrats Have Done.

What Democrats Have Done.
 The tariff has been revised, not on the principle of repelling foreign trade, but upon the principle of en- couraging 1t, upon something like footing of equality with our own In respect of the terms of competition, and a tariff board has been created whose function it will be to keep the relations of American with foreign business and industry under constant observation, for the guidance of our business men and of our congress. American energies are now directed towards the markets of the world.
 The laws against trusts have been clarified by definition, with a view to making 1t plain that they were not directed against big business but only against unfair business and the pre- tense of competition where there was none; and a trade commission has been created with powers of guidance and accommodation which have re- fears and set them upon the road of hopeful and confident enterprise.
 By the federal reserve act the sup ply of currency at the disposal of ac- tive business has been rendered elas- tic, taking its volume, not from a fixed body of investment securities, but from the liquid assets of daily trade
 Effective measures have been taken for the recreation of an American merchant marine and the revival of the American carrying trade
 The interstate commerce commits sion has been reorganized to enable it to perform it's great and important functions more promptly and more eff fieiently. We have created, extended and improved the service of the par cells post
 For the farmers of the country we have virtually created commercial credit, by means of the federal reserve act and the rural credits act They now have the standing of other busi- ness m~i in the money market We have successfully regulated specula- ton in futures and established standards in the marketing of grains. By an intelligent warehouse act we have assisted to make the standard crops available as never before both for systematic marketing and as security for loans from the banks.
 For Labor and Children.
 The workingmen of America have been given a veritable emancipation, by the legal recognition of mans labor as part of his life, and not a mere marketable commodity; by ex- enlpting labor organizations from proc esses of the courts which treated their members like fractional parts of mobs and not like accessible and responS- ble individuals; by releasing our sea men from involuntary servitude; by making adequate provision for eom- pensation for industrial accidents; by providing suitable machinery for me diation and coneiliation in industrial disputes; and by putting the federal department of Labor at the disposal of the workingman when in search of work.
 We have effected the emancipation of the children of the country by re- leasing them from hurtful labor We have instituted system of national as the country has been feeling after for a century. We have sought to equaliZe taxation by means of an | equitable income tax. We have taken the steps that ought to have been l taken at the outset to open up the re-
 sources of Alaska. We have pro- | vjded for national defense upon a scale never before seriously proposed i upon the responsibility of an entire | political party. We have driven the | tariff lobby from cover and obliged it to substitute solid argument for pri- vate influence.
 Foreign Policy Stated.
 In foreign affairs we have been guided by principles clearly con ceived and consistently lived up to-. | Perhaps they have not been fully com | prehended because they have hitherto l governed international affairs only in theory, not in practice. They are sim | pie, obvious, easily stated, and funda- mental to American ideals.
 We have been neutral not only be- cause it was the fixed and traditional policy of the United States to stand aloof from the politics of Europe and because we had no part either of ac- tion or of policy in the influences which brought on the present war, but also because it was manifestly our duty to prevent, if it were possible, the indefi- nite extension of the fires of hate and desolation kindled by that terrible con l fiict and seek to serve mankind by re- serving our strength and our resources for the anxious and difficult days of restoration and healing which must follow, when peace will have to build its house anew.
 The rights of our own citizens of course became involved; that was in- evitable. Where they did this was our guiding principle: that property rights