Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-28
Cur,mings's Keynote
Aggressive in Tone

coc,,nued from Pass One
~. have been made, $4,000, 900 wasted
wJ nthe result has been to. prove that
\ nnr voa the cleanest war ever fought In
.so history Of civilization"
tne .,The Republican party became so
.u.d in It's incorrigible habit of con-
59.et;ro investigations that II finally
asned au.d 10 the fruitful task of investiga
t,nn Itself. They dlscovered fraud and
unt s, and gross and inexcusable expen-
s,mres ss The revelations disclose the
get get that the meeting at Chicago was
ia ot a convention but an auction. The
hh;"bsst H.. bidder. however, did not get the
n,Sus nrsze The publicity which overlook the
pproceedings frustrated the initial pur-
p,.s. po.s The Chicago convention left the
Remocratic party as the sole. custodian
~ The honor of the country
Democratic Peace Achievements
pooce achievements of the Democratic
,.rtv Mr.. Cummings asserted. freed
tpha farmer from the deadening effects
~ ~ nsurious financial control. Labor
wos given its Magma Charta of liberty.
nusiness and finance were released from
the thralldom of uncertainty and
p'Ssrb .@rbe income tax law" he said, Gre
Neved our law Of the reproach OF being
mniustly burdcnsome to the poor. The
s,trayagances and inequities of the
tariff system were removed and a nom
nartisan tariff commission created.
Pan. .Americanism was encouraged and
the bread thus cast upon the waters
came bnck to us many fold. Alaska was
enened TO commerce and development.
Dollar diplomacy was destroyed. A
corrupt lobby was driven from the ma
tionai Capitol. An effective seaman's
sct was adopted. The Federal Trade
Commission was created. Child labor
LEGISLATION was enacted. The parcel
most and the rural free delivery were
dcyeloppd. A good roads bill and
rural credits act were passed. A secre-
tary of labor was given seat In the
cabinet of the President. Eight hour
laws we're adopted. The Clayton
amendment to the Sherman anti trust
act was passed, freeing American labor
and taking It from the list Of commod-
tiles. The Smith Lever bill for the
Improvement of agricultural conditions
was passed. A corrupt practices act
was adopted. A we'll considered ware
house act was passed. Federal en-
ployment bureaus were created. Farm
loan banks, postal savings banks and
the federal reserve system were estab-
hshed.
'The federal reserve system. passed
over the opposition of the leaders of the
; Republican party, enabled America to
withstand the strain of war without
shock or panic and ultimately made our
country the greatest creditor nation of
the world
Republican Record Barren
Turning to the record of the Repub-
lican Congress since 1918. Mr.. Cum
mings said it was barren of achieve
ment, shameless in waste Of time and
money and without parallel for its in
competencies, failures and repudi-
stions.'
President Wilson's two appeals before
Congress for legislation dealing with
profteering, reduction of taxation, aid
for soldiers and laws to Improve rela-
tions of capital and labor were ignored,
Mr.. Cummings declared, and latter
year Of sterile debate our country has
neither peace nor reconstruction
He dwelt particularly on attacks
lowed him to the peace table, he said,
and widespread propaganda made it i'm
perative when he returned from Paris
to make struggle for that which
had been won at incalculable cost. This
meant wreck of health, sickness for
months on bed of pain, and worse, the
sickness of heart which comes from the
knowledge that political adversaries are
; savagely destroying not merely the work
Of mems hands, but the worlds hope of
settled peace. This was the af-
flction-this the cfucifxion."
Mr.. Cummings continued that in one
sense ''it is quite immaterial what peo-
pie say about the President. Nothing
We can say can add or detract from the
fame that will flow down the unend-
ing channels of history"
League Of Nations
He cited the Republican and Progress.
sive platforms of 1916 as part Of the
record placing this country in favor OF
the League of Nations.
'The Republican platform contains a
vague promise to establish another or a
different form of association among
nations of tenuous and shadowy char
acter, Our proposed copartners in
such a project are Unnamed and un-
namable. It is not stated whether 1t
is proposed to invite the nations that
have establised the present league to