The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-16
6. O.P. ISLANDERS
 REFUTED BY DEM. PARTY'S RECORD

l Chicago, H., June 16.-The last six years have been the most momen- ! tous in the life of the American peo- | pie and in the history of Christian l civilization, declared Attorney -Gener- 1 al A. Mitchell Palmer in an address | before the Democratic National Com i mittee at it's recent meeting in this
 1 city. And not the least significant and { important achievement of these years has been the manner in which the 1 old islanders against the Democratic
 | party have been refuted, said MT.
 Palmer. So long and so often had
 these islanders been repeated by those
 who sought political profit that they
 became almost a tradition of our pol
 itical life. MT. Palmer continucd:
 In the great court of public opin-
 ion. with the Republican party on
 ! trial for islander, the defendant can
 not now plead the truth in justifi-
 cation; for the achievements of he
 Democratic party during it's six years
 | of power, both in the domestic fieId
 and in the larger field of the worlds
 | affairs, have shown that every charge
 made against it was without founda-
 ton.
 They say the Democratic party
 i lacked the experience and training il | statesmanship which made for con | structive leadership in solving the
 l complicated problems on the far | flung line of our governmental ac-
 tivities We produced the acknow1edg-
 ed leader of the liberal thought of
 l the world, under whose standard i gather the tried statesmen of every
 civilized nation, holding up his hands.
 as with clear vision and superb cour- ! age he leads the peoples of the world | in their victorious charge agains. the arch enemy of civilization. Tariff Law own Trade.
 They said we were a free trade party, willing to sacrifice the pros perity of the country to an economic | theory. We answered with a tariff 1 law built upon the principle of fair | competition, which American indus
 try, self respecting and courageous, 1s willing and able to meet and under
 which. as never before, the American | producer has successfully entered the markets of the world and established
 a great balance of trade in his favor. | They said we were incapable of providing for the revenue needs of ] the Government We forced the I,i l come Tax Amendment to the Consti-
 tuition and under it levied taxes upon 1 the income of the idle wealth and
 the excess profits of corporations and | individuals who, without such a check | would have scandalized the nation with the enormous profits made in | the unusual conditions of war time. l They called us insincere in our pro- | fession of interest in labor. It was
 not till a Democratic majority ap peared in the House of Represents tives that the appeal of labor for a l special department of the govern meut to guard it's interests was hear q and answered. $ We passed a | Workmen's Compensation Law and extended the eight-hour day. We ere ated a Childrens Bureau and stopped l the exploitation of children in lab- ] i or: l Farmer Gets Legislation. l They said we were infmicaI to the | interest of the farmer. A Farmers
 Free List Bill, though vetoed by Pre- | ident Taft, afterwards found it's way | into the Underwood Tariff law. We | perfected the system of countrywide | rural delivery of mails, put the farm l ] CT at the city's gate by the parcel | post, inaugurated the system of Fed | | eral aid for building highways, gave him a savings bank in every post | office, esta ablished a rural credit sys- ] tenn with the Federal Land Banks as l 8 guaranty of proper financial sup | port of agriculture in the futute. They said we were the friend of | unsound money and the enemy of i | legitimate business. We re1egated 10 l the scrap heap of political and econo- | mic blunders, that archaic and inad- | eouate system of finance whose mi | quities and failures the Republican | | party had condoned for forty years, l and built upon it's ruins the greatest l banking structure ever erected by nor | tai man, for the Federal reserve sys- | 1 tenn is today the model of the finan- l cial world upon which no political party, however jealous of our achieve |
 ment, will ever dare to lay its im- l pious hand. 1 And the one great islander which | they have been fond of repeatinIS | since the days of the Civil War, was | that we could not fight a war It | was said that the Republican party | was the historic war party of the | nation, and the Democratic party | might have some value in opposition, | but to trust it to persecute a great | war would be national suicide. And | those who fed this islander to the | | American people were the leaders of the party which blundered through | the Spanish war.
 Fought War to Victory.
 When the time came for the na- ton to arm, the young men went to | the camps and across the seas, while | behind them every side, there | were mobflized the great supporting forces from capital and industry, | from labor in mill and factory, from the soil on farm and in garden patch. These were ready and they made an army of a hundred million strong. They were ready because their coun- try had prepared, while the Demo- cratic party was in power, by the new system of taxation, the new sys- f tenn of finance, the new consideration
 for labor and the new support to the farmer. These were che measures
 which marked the real preparedness of the nation for the great war With out them, the magnificent courage of two million men on the Western
 front would have been but reckless stage playS disaster would have come
 to American arms and ruin to Chris