Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — DAVID LUBIN ADVOCATES RE-ELECTION OF WILSON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAVID LUBIN ADVOCATES RE-ELECTION OF WILSON

Father of American Rural Credits Another Leading Republican to Join President’s Standard. David Lubin, founder of the International Institute of Agriculture and father of the rural credits movement in America, has joined the list of prominent Republicans openly advocating the re-election of President Wilson. Within a fortnight Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Henry Ford, all Republicans and men of international .fame, have made similar declarations. David Lubin Is a wealthy California farmer. His interest in securing a

square deal for the farmer led him to make research abroad, and out of his efforts grew the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. This institution does for the staples of agriculture of the world what the American Chamber of Commerce does for the products of the American manufacturer. Through his connection with the International Institute of Agriculture Mr. Lubin became interested in the rural credit systems of Europe and led the movement which resulted in the passage of the Rural Credits by the Wilson Administration. Just before departing for Italy, recently, Sir. Lubin authorized an interview of 4,000 words in which lie gave liis opinion of those acts of the Wilson Administration which directly affect 1 the farmer, his home and his market. This interview lias been furnished without cost to every leading farm paper in the United States. If the farmer does not read it in his farm paper it will probably be because the Editor does not care to use his col umns for discussion of economic questions and government policies that vitally affect the interest of the farmer. Mr. Lubin said: “In the application of business methods of distribution, America, until the present Administration, was about 150 years behind Germany and several decades behind the rest of Europe. And yet in the very thing in which America is backward, she should lead the world. She does not, because a clique of special interests dictated public opinion and controlled legislation through the bosses of the Republican party. So cleverly have they worked that the average man is hypnotized, his critical faculties dulled.

“President Wilson is neither Tooled nor led by this crowd. He is tireless, patientr far-seeing. He has a historic sense of the past, a sympathetic sense of the present and a prophetically spiritual sense yf the future. While his head is above the clouds, ids feet are always upon the earth. He is Idealistic on the one side, on the other practical. He ts a good business man. “He knows that good politics and good economics are the same thing He is fearless; in all my relations with him. direct or indirect. I fail to find anything or anybody he is afraid of.’ When you want a real good lead pencil—something better than you can get elsewhere—try the pencils for sale in the fancy stationery department at The Democrat office.

DAVID LUBIN.