Republican farmer., 1920-05-07
American People Paying
 Staggering Penalty For Election Of Republicans
National Chairman Homer S. Cummings Greeted With
 Enthusiasm Women Speakers Well Received As sociate} State Committee of Women Recommended and Tat Delegation to San Francisco Vote As Unit.

I Hanford Ns Weed; 27th, John A. 1 Walsh; 2Sth: Asa M. Ross; 29th, Val ent1ne Murply; 3Oth. r. E. Coe; 31st, O. E. Wag;r: 32nd, John F. Addis; 5Srd, TholAas F. Griffin; 34th, s. K. i stevens; 18th. Osro Hanks.
 l ChalrHan Cummings address fol- lows inlfun:
 SrId Testing of Governments.
 Ne live in a world which today is teseng. by every possible standard l ny only men and measures and par Us, but institutions and forms of l Sacrament. That American ana lAmerican leadership will meet this
 Ast and emerge triumphantly, I have T%o shadow of doubt. sometimes think. that as an aftermath of tn e war, we have come upon Pefloo ot un nJ'1stIfabIe pessinisrn- we ma critics everywhere in a lana when was never before so prosperous or my own part, have no share In thls spirit of pessinisrn. I believe in America, I think that it has rendered a service to humanity greater than was rendered by any other country since the world began.
 ''I think too, that every Democrat has a right to rejoice in the un- paral1eled record of our party, en- riched as it has been a by a leader ship which has carried America to greater heights of prosperity and glory than she has ever before known. It is a literal fact, that dur ing our control of the government, prior to the war, we placed upon the statute books, more useful and con- structive legislation than the Repub- lican Party had placed there in a generation
 Many Details.
 'I shall not pause to speak in de- 1 tail of the various pieces of essential Legislation which the country had long needed. and which it had been unable to secure under Republican rule. We have made the Income Tax 1 a permanent 1art of the revenue pro ducing agencies of the government. l We cured the inequities of our tariff; we established a non-partisan Tariff Commission. Pan-Americanism was encouraged; dollar diplomacy was destroyed; the Clayton Act was destroyed; the Clayton Act was pass ed, taking labor forever out of the category of a mere commodity. We created Federal Employment Blu reaus. We made a place in the i Cabinet for a Secretary of Labor. A 1 bill was passed known as The Philip pine Self Government Bill which has /; not only brought prosperity to the 1 Philippine Islands, but has set its l self government, and made then l peaceful and contented, thereby re l moving the need for military con. i troI. We created the Federal Trade i Commission. We passed Child Iabol 1 Legislation. We established a Rura 1 Credits Act and a, Farm Loan Bank l ing System. We passed the Smith Lever Bill for the improvement O. l agricultural conditions, and we es 1 tablished the Federal Reserve Sys tenn. So admirable have these act | been in operation, and so quickeninE have been their effects upon indus 1 try and commerce, that there is no a 1aan in public life today who ha. 1 the courage to rise and ask for thei | repeal in whole or in part.
 | When the war came, our part, | leadership rose to still greate | heights. To convert the processes O | peace into the activities of war re 1 quired leadership of uneEamplet skill. All the necessary Legislation was promptly supplied. We es tabished Vocational Training. w created the War Risk Bureau. w, l established the Office of Alien Prop l erty Custodian. We passed the neces sary food and fuel regulations. w l established a Shipping Board an created a Merchant Marine. Indus | try was successfully mobilized-
 Defense Councils Created. l Councils of Defense were create in every State of the Union, unde the guidance of the National Counc: i of Defense. The war was finance 1 without making it a burden on tn 1 American people. Prodigious loan were negotiated at low rates of in terest and floated in a manner dis closing extraordinary ability in fl nance. The Selective Draft Law wa passed at a time when it require
 courage to propose such a neasur to the American people. The Nav was expanded until it became tn second in size and the first in ef
 ficiency in all the world. It was nc
 by mere chance that an army c
 more than two million men was safe 1y transported across three thous
 and miles of U-boat infested sea:
 where, wel1-armed, we'll -offfcerec
 well equipped and indomitab4e i
 spirit, it turned the tide of battL
 won inperiShable glory and tr
 umphed in the greatest war tn
 world has ever known.
 'tThe war was won, and I chaIleng
 the critics of the Administration
 suggest how, within the limits (
 human possibility, the war could hay
 been won more promptly and wit , less loss of American life. The Rt
 publican management is renderin
 small service to America when seeks to convert the machinery of i
 organization into an instrument
 attack upon American leadership an American honor. When the histo1 , of this great period is written, it wi , be known as a golden era of Amer
 can honor.
 I Partisan criticism of minor d. :, fects or individual officials may for
 time attract a superficial attentio a ] but the great facts, the outstandi1 ! facts of the last seven years, plea eloquently for the Democrat | | cause.
 ''Only a progressive and far -seei1 :, 1 leadership could have broug1 ; America to her present place ' honor and power, and yet, the vel e 1 men who have stood in the way . all these measures of progress, a l. the ones who are now criticising u conduct of the war and the activiti l. of the American President IT gentlemen who are now leading u