South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 307, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 November 1916 — Page 5

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

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After Four Years as President of flue United States Republican spell binders, pen pushers and advertisement writers, are seeking to make capital out or a speech made by Woodrow Wilson, while president or Princeton University, in 1 909 as though that had brought the end of the world. He criticised organized labor. Samuel Gompers, Grand old man of the American labor movement, and president of the American Federation of labor, and through years of confidence reposed in him by 2,500,000 workingmen, better qualified to speak for labor than any other living man, said at the High School Auditorium, South Bend, Oct. 26, 1916: "Since he has been president, Wilson has chang i. Divorced from the theories of the college chair and brought Into direct contact with the world's real needs, he now believes that the greatest asset of this republic is its men, women and children. Mr. Hughes, too, has changed. He shows a disposition to repudiate now even those few bills bettering labor conditions of which he once approved. In any of the statements of Pres't Wilson uttered from tho tune of his Inaugural speech to his last address at Shadow Lawn, you will find that there breathes a spirit of freedom and justice to laborers and to the masses of humanity. Here I hold In my hand a 16-page pamphlet containing only the titles of the laws passed by the congress of the United States and signed by Pres't Wilson in the interests of the rights to which the tollers are entitled. These prove his reformation sufficient for us; sufficient for latter day sincerity." Mr. Gompers, on another occasion, gave the following additional as Labor's Opinion of laghes After six years as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. By his concurrence in the D anbury Hatters and Buck Stove decisions, he did to the tabor movement in America exactly what the Dred Scott decision, did to the anti-slavery movement of ante-bellum days. Neither decision was necessary. Both established a new and dangerous precedent. It was accordingly the result cf a condition of the mind. They were the application of capitalistic ideals to laws theretofore unconstrued as to the particular state of facts same as the Dred Soott decision was, and this regardless of Mr. Hughes' 1916 appropriation of Chief Justice Taney's appendix. "Labor can thank heaven that we did not have to wait for war, or for a constitutional amendment, as did the southern slaves, to free us from the effects of this decision. We had Woodrow Wilson and a democratic congress. They gave us the Clayton amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law, and now no longer can workers be denounced as criminals, and their homes be taken from them, or their right of free speech be destroyed, merely because of a fight they are making to better their conditions. We are done with government by injunction, unless Mr. Hughes transferred from the supreme bench to the white house, is empowered to thrust the old yoke back upon us." News-Times Advertisement

AllPiT URGES

WILSON HETURHE

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Mexico and who leads us in safety through Khot and shell and hell aJl about us you are incomparably safer than if you had a man in the presidential chair ready to order you to war that KTeed or rrsonal ambition misht be gratified. Wliat WiUou "iKm't forget that Wilson's cool head and steady hand have Kuided us safely through whirlpools of war and panic, don't forget that hia policies have given our people larger opportunities for well beins than ever before and don't forget that you take a desperate chance when you vote to change our peace and our prosperity from what you and I know to be in safe hands into the keeping of those who would change all that has been done. No living man knows so much of the complex conditions and the whys and wherefores of them as Woodrow Wilson and when you vote to reelect him you vote, for a continuation of peace, prosperity and home sweet home." "Why it is that for the first time within the recollection of any man here we have no business scare and calamity hew! in this campaign? Vo:i know why it is. It is becaus the tariff has been fo fairly revised that manufacturers cannot complain, for they have more orders than they can fill. The democratic tariff commission assures the business world that the tariff question shall no longer be used as a party football by politicians. Trade Commission. "The democratic federal trad commission assures business men of all clashes that they cannot be imposed upon by combinations of 'bis business.' The democratic banking and currency law makes bankers safe, makes depositors in the banks safe, and as a result of this confidence, nobody fears hard times and the banks are overflowing with money and the people In all walk? of life are prosperous and happy. The price of farm products and wide spread activity in industrial lines have everybody up and doing and business is the best today it ha-s been in 50 years. "Our stand-pat republican friends have always stood ready to crow over prosperity as the direct result of their, being jn office but now that the democrats are in power and prosperity is rolling the highest ever, they concede no credit whatever to the wholesome democratic legislation which is fair deal to all and

J thereby makes business lively.

Hughes Not Fair. "Kven the republican candidate for president, who but recently left the U. S. supreme court to mix In politics, is not fair to the democrats. He steadfastly refuses to admit In his speeches that any of the many wholesome democratic laws are commendable. There's the income tax law, the tariff commission law, the law giving both soldiers and their widows pensions, the banking and currency law, the children's bureau and the anti-child labor law, the fair trade commission law, the government aid to good roads law, the agriculture extension law and many, many other acts of legislation that the people had been asking for for years. Not one of these good laws does Mr. Hughes approve. Don't you believe he means to wipe them all out and go back to the class legislation the republican gave us when they were in power, I believe he will for he has always heretofore stood with the big financiers of Wall street and he acts like he will do it if elected president. Wliy Cliangc? "Woodrow Wilson has made a progressive and safe president. His policies have given us gTeat prosperity and kept us out of war. Why change from a tried and true man to Hughes who steadfastly refuses to tell what legislation he will repeal and what he will do if elected." "The rural credits law" will put the farmer on an equal footing with corporations in the matter of low rates of interest on loans. "In many states farmers are paying 10 and 12 percent for farm loans, including commissions of loan agents, while in the same localities corporations are getting their loans at four and five percent. And that too in face of the fact that a farm mortgage is the safest' security in this country. Low Interest. "The rural credits law will afford the farm owners mortgage loans at not to exceed six percent and probably as low as three and a half or four percent. It will give him live to 40 years to pay off this loan and he may pay it a little each year. This low rate will be possible because their mortgages and the land cannot both be taxed as now, there will be no cost of any kind in securing the money and the money itself will be fun! 'shed by the government, if the capitalists who have it to loan do not furnish it at rates within the six percent fixed by the rural credits law. This will give the farmer as cheap interest rates as corporations pay. it will enable him to secure his loan on long time on easy terms of payment, and he will thui be on an equal footing with everybody else who borrows money to help financial progress. "The democratic house gave you old soldiers the Sher.vood pension law that increased all of your rates and ?ave most of you a dollar a day. It passed an increase soldiers' widows pension law giving all widows over 70 years, $20 per month instead of $12. The house has passed a bill giving pensions to the widows of Spanish-American soldiers and I hope and believe the senate will enact it into !aw. Also

the new military l.w provides that

He is making no promises

only growling. "The good roads law which the democrats have passed benefits the city as well aa the country people. I have advocated a good roads law because the city people had left the entire burden upon the country people until the democrats came into power. Ve passed a law appropriating SS5.000.000 for building up roads over which the mail Is carried and Indiana is going to get nearly $1,000,000 of this amount. Defends rjght Hour Hill. Mr. liarnhart defended the A damson eight hour law, saying that the responsibility of the railroad man required that he work only eight hours. He said that by the time the commission reports on its investigation cf the eight hour bill a law will have been passed preventing the possibility of another crisis such as the country faecd at the time of the threatened railroad trouble. The Mexican situation, the children's bureau law, the anti-child labor law and other democratic measures were discussed. "I have been your representative in congress for einht years", he said. When I made my first campaign I said that I would vote for all good legislation regardless of the party that introduced it and that I would vote against all bad legislation, regardless of the party that introduced it. The personal misfortunes of life have almost taken the political ambition ov.t of me, but If you people want to send me back to congress as your representative I shall serve you as I have in tl.e past. "My progressive friends, you were in earnest two and four years ago when you demanded progressive policies and progressive leKislatlon, were you not? And you got it from the democratic administration. "You wanted an income tax law, which Mr. Hughes tried to defeat in New York, and you got it. "You demanded election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. You got it, "You urged abrogation of bossism in congress. You gxt It. "You declared for publicity of campaign funds. You got it. "You asked for ;lean election and primaries through corrupt practice legislation. You got It. "You fvsked for a federal trad6 commission to regulate unfair business. You got it. "You declared fcr an anti-trust law. You got it. "You proclaimed your desire for a tariff commission. You ot it. "You declared for better and safer banking laws. You got them. "You declared for short hours for labor, for the children's bureau and for the restriction of child labor, and you got all three of them. "You were loudly in favor of conservation of national resources and you got it. Safety for Tabor. "You wanted more safety for labor and a workmen's compensation law. The democrats gave thera to you In both state and nation. "You asked for better pensions for old soldiers and their widows and the democratic program has given that. "You favored good roads legislation and congress has passed a splendid act giving government aid of one-half toward good road making. "You declared for larger possibilities for agriculture education and our Leever law meets you there. "Indeed, many of your platform planks of two and four years ago were similar to the democratic platform and I feel quite sure that the democrats have done all they promised and gone farther and enacted many of your policies into law. "And now some progressives are turning their backs on safe and progressive Woodrow Wilson and returning to the stand-pat organization of Root, Lodge, Heed, Smoot. Murray, Crane, Jim Hemenway, Jim Watson, Jim Goodrich and Harry New. Just how you can do this and keep faith with your positions of two and four years ao surpasses my understanding and I don't believe you are going to do it. Sweet Home. "The black pall of war hangs over the leading countries of the old world like a funeral grief. You have read the awful reports of the destruction of lands and property which the ages cannot reproduce: of the thousands yes millions of useful men and boys being shot to death: of the rivers floating full of the bloating dead; of the blood soaked batt'efields; and of the sickening sorrow that besets nearly every one of the homes of this war cursed land. You have stood in fear and trembling lest our own blessed happiness and prosperity be suddenly changed into murderous ruin. You mothers who have given suffering and self denial and sleepless nights that your husbands and your boys may be a comfort to you in the valley and shadow of old age. you Know what the dread of war means and you know how thankful you are every day of your life that your family is at home with you instead of in the foul smellinir deadly trenches of war. And this blessed night in twenty million homes In

America tne iatners ami mo . ,f m.n J?ave deJpn(Jent famlies can gather their children about them , when th assame m the and thank Woodrow Wilson 'or government will make an allowance working heroically to preserve our,Mffif,.nt tn . T1 B, . n ...

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honor and at the same time preserve peace and happiness in our

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and his stand-pat folowers to sneer and criticise and abuse but when we have a president who thinks more of the value of your boy's lifeblood than he does of the speculative possessions of the Hearsts, DuTonts and Morgans in

paredness if trouble should come. for those who go to the front will be assured that the government will take care of their dependent ones."

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