Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-04-13
IN GRIEVANCES
SAYSC0X, PARTY
HAS ITS CHANCE
Congressional Victory
Ahead if Democrats
Articulate Neglect.
allure to Enter Nations
League One Issue He
Would Press.

| Louisville, KY. April 1o.-James NJ
Cox. former democratic candidate for
president. speaking before the Wood
row Wilson club at its first annual din
ner here Wednesday, outlined the is
sues which. in his judgment, will be
presented in the congressional cleo
tions this year.
1T simply will be necessary he
said, Ito articulate the grievance
against the present administration
which has fastened itself upon every
community in America
He also touched upon the tariff. the
federal reserve system and the
League of Nations. The Wilson ad-
ministration. he said. demonstrated
that a high tariff was not necessary to
prosperity. Without the federal re-
serve system. he asserted, the war
could not have been won and the claim
of plurality against the League of
Nations he declared ''is mere bum
combe"
Failure Of Rivals Platform
I'm short he said at the outset of
his address, the issue will be the sins
of omission and of commission on the
part of the administration. When we
have chronicled the bad things that
have been done and the goods things
that might have been done, the record
will be ample for a successful cam !
paign. Into the sins of omission will, |
Of course. come Americas failure to |.
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operation by becoming member of the /
League of Nations. The man in the |
street does not regard the League of !
Nations now as mere affair of ideal |
SIN. He recognizes that his own eco I
ionic condition is affected by eco
ionic conditions elsewhere. He also |
,nows that prosperity must be pre-
eded by order and that existing dis
rider is being abated in Europe by con-
erence and cooperation.
Democrats Showed Capacity
Speaking Of issues, an old campaign
ssociate of the republicans will be
Kissing this year. Since the war be-
ween the states they have contended
hat the democratic party was party
t opposition and thoroughly lacking
1 the qualities of constructive leader
hip The record of eight years Of
rogress. justice. reform and recon-
truction is so thoroughly outlined in
he memory of the people that it will
e waste of time for republican ora
,rs TO challenge democratic accom-
lishment. Not only did the Wilson
demonstrate that a high
lrlff system was not necessary to our
but that an unprecedented
came under tariff schedules
If.h a ,Noy So, r.. 4
Dclaimed TO be dangerous.
Real Prosperity Under Wilson |,
Not only was the country prosper
IS under MIR. Wilson. but it was a diff ,
rent kind of prosperity :han the coun- {
y had known before The products
activity were widely diffused and 4
'osperity touched the humblest cot
ge in the land. The democratic
'osperity played no favorites. II
Under the federal reserve system :
e resources of America were avail il
lie for the fiscal salvation, not of b
cups. but of all America. Without it
e could not have won the war. I'm n
r its administration, the American {
liar was the only symbol of value in A
e world that made it's parity. As a b
pplement to this very wise legislation
Is the farm loan act Not only were
r democratic candidates more salts I
ctory than in all the history of the
untry. but under democratic leader
ip plan was evolved to make war
actically impossible. to turn the cost
heavy armaments into other courses
d to. make certain early readjust-
'nts following the great war. If we
d entered the league and given the
operation of the greatest creditor,
ton in the world. our economic re-
Justment would have been in the
m of light fever instead of stroke
commercial paralysis II