Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-06
CUMMINGS MAKES
POTENT CONTRAST
OF PARTY RECORDS
Accomplishments OF Democratic
Administration Stand Forth
Without Parallel.
REPUBLICAN, SHOWING
ONE OF OBSTRUCTION

Before the Connecticut Democratic
State Convention at New Haven last
night, Homer s. Cummings. chairman OF
the Democratic National Committee,
spoke as follows:
We live in world which today is
testing, by every possible standard, not
bnlv men and measures and parties, but
institutions and forms Of government.
That America and American leadership
will meet this test and emerge triumphant
H. | have no shadow of doubt. ] some
times think, that as an aftermath OF the
war, we have come upon period OF un-
i,istifiable pessimism. We find critics
everywhere in a land which was never
before so prosperous. For my own part,
| have no share in this spirit of pessimlsIn.
| believe in America. think that II has
rendered a service to humanity greater
than was rendered by any other country
since the world began. ] think too, that
every Democrat has a right 10 rejoice IN
the unparalleled record of our party
enriched as it has been by leadership
which has carried America to greater
heights of prosperity and honor and glory
than she has ever before known. 1t IS
literal fact, that during our control OF the
government. prior 20 the war, We placed
upon the statute books more useful and
can party had placed there in generation
WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE.
| shall not pause to speak in detail
Of the various pieces OF essential leglsla-
ton which the country had long needed
and which il had been unable to secure
under Republican rule We have made
the income tax a permanent part OF the
revenue producing agencies OF the govern
H., rs
tariff system: we established non-parti-
san tariff commission Pan-Amerlcanism
was encouraged dollar diplomacy was
destroyed; the Clayton act was passed,
taking labor forever out Of the category
If mere commodity We created
Federal employment bureaus. We made
Z place in the cabinet for a secretary of
labor A bill was passed known rs the
Philippine self-govcrnment bill, which
has not only brought prosperity 20 the
Philippine Islands, but has set its people
on the road to freedom and seIf-govern
ment, and made them peaceful and CON
tented Thereby removing the need for
military control We created the Federal
trade commission, We passed Child
Labor legislation We established a
rural credits act and . farm loan banking
svstem. We passed the Smith-Lever
6iIl for the Improvement OF agricultural
conditions, and We established the Federal |
reserve system So admirable have these
acts been in operation, and so quickening
nave been their effects upon industry /
and commerce, that there is not a man In
,ublc life today who has the courage 80 /
Use and ask for their repeal in whole or
part.
When the war came, our party leader (
hip rose 10 still greater heights 70 I
'onvert the processes Of peace into the |
lctivIties of war required leadership OF I
lnexampled skill All the necessary
egislation wss promptly supplied. We
sta nlished vocational training. VIC ere
4ted the war risk bureau. VIC established
he office of alien property custodian
We passed the necessary food and fuel
equations We established a shipping
,oard and created a merchant marine
Industry was successfully modified
Councils Of Defense were created in every
Stste Of the union, under the guidance
# the National Council Of Defense
The war was financed without making
1t q burden on the American people
ProdiCous loans were negotiated at low
rates Of interest and foated in 4 manner
disclosing extraordinary ability in finance /
The selective draft law Was passed at 4
time when it required courage to propoSe.
such a measure IN the American people
The navy was expanded until il became
the second in size and the first in effi-
cheney in all the world II was not by
mere chance that an army Of more than
two million men was safely transported
across three thousand miles Of u-boat
infested seas, where, welI-armed, we'll
ofhcered, well-equipped and indomitablc
10 spirit, it turned the tide Of battle won
lnperishable glory and triumphed in the
greatest war the world has ever known.
The war was won, and ] challenge the
critics Of the administration Ia suggest
how, within the limits Of human posi-
lIlity, the war could have been won more
promptly and with less loss of American
life. The Republican management i
rendering small service 70 America when
1t seeks to convert the machinery Of its
organization INTO an instrument OF attack
upon American leadership and American
honor. When the history OF this great
period is written, it will be known as q
golden era of American achievement.