Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — WILSON THE ABLE GUIDE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILSON THE ABLE GUIDE.

Shortsighted Not to Elect Him, Says Mrs. Joseph Fels. “1 have a deep conviction that the hope of Democracy lies with Woodrow Wilson. If we fail to re-elect him, we have much to fear.” Thus speaks Mrs. Mary Fels of Philadelphia, an independent in politics and one of the two American delegates to the Stockholm Peace Conference held in January, 1916. Since the death of her husband, Joseph Fels, she has continued his work in the Fels Commission, founded by him to promote the Single Tax Movement. “I see no use,” she says, “in picking out specific measures, either things done or tilings left undone. I geo

them all as a '.part of a great man striving in a situation incomparably difficult to do what is best for the country that he is trying to save. In this situation and through this endeavor he is becoming muse and more the people’s friend and the man Who can most ably guide the country in the difficult days that lie ahead. “To me it is so clear that I cannot understand how people may venture to vote for anyone except Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson is the man who will inevitably serve the interests of all, except those who are moving heaven and earth to serve their own selfish ends. It is not only Mr. Wilson, it is the people of the United States, that I am thinking of.”

tne tariff beneficiaries, the seekers and holders of special privilege, the exploiters of Mexico, the munition manufacturers, the railroads, the bankers, united plutocracy, even its women folks, all enemies of fundamental Democracy, who hope to prostitute government for selfish gain. What prominent statesmen are supporting Hughes? William Howard Taft, foremost apostle of reaction; Theodore Roosevelt, disciple of Bernhardi and advocate of war for war’s sake; Elihu Root, attorney for malefactors of great wealth, and all the Tory mouthpieces of privilege. Why are the “interests” supporting Hughes? Because they expect in return for financial aid, special legislation that will add enormously to the wealth of the few at the expense of the many; because they see*in Woodrow Wilson the greatest exponent of Democracy since Jackson, and seek to destroy him lest this nation become a real democracy. What will Hughes do, if elected? The nearest he has come to saying what he would do, if elected, was at Milwaukee, when he declared that La Follette’s Seaman's bill must be repealed, the Underwood tariff replaced by a higher tariff, and the “whole administrative legislative accomplishments wiped off the books for the good of the country." What is included in these legislative accomplishments? The Income Tax, the Inheritance Tax, the Child Labor Law, the Federal Reserve banking system, the Farm Loan system, the Good Roads program, the Federal development of Alaska, the Tariff Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Shipping bill, autonomy for the Philippines, thp Clayton Act curbing government by injunction, the preservation of neutrality, the maintenance of peace, and the enlarged army and navy. What would Hughes’ election signify? The triumph of reaction and all that it signifies in thwarting human progress.

Was there ever a worse-bungled campaign than Mr. Hughes’ to date? The New York Evening Post asked that question in an editorial on Hughes and Roosevelt, and frankly answered its own question. "We cannot readily recall one ’’

MRS. MARY FELS.