The Commoner
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Secretary McAdoo on Republican Calam
ity Howlers and the Outlook
Secretary McAdoo sent the follow
ing message to'Mr; Robert B. Van
Cortlandt, president of the Westches
ter County Democratic club, to be
re"ad at the club dinner in New
York:
"Washington, D C April 10, laid.
"Robert B. Van Cortlandt,
President, Westchester. County1
Democratic Club,
cp Knickerbocker Club,
New York.
"Please tell the members-of the
Westchester County Democratic club
how deeply 1 appreciate their invita
tion to attend the annual. dinner to
night, and how keenly disappointed
I am not to be able to do so. Noth
ing but illness could 'have kept me
away. If this had accommodatingly
begun two weeks earlier or if the
dinner had taken place two weeks
later, I would have answered pres
ent at tho roll call tonight.
"I am delighted that one of my
colleagues, the distinguished secre
tary of war, is your guest, and I am
sure you will make him feel the
warmth and joy of Westchester hos
pitality. "A prominent republican is quoted
as saying: '1 do not look for a return
of general business activity until af
ter the election.? next year.'
"This is what, republican leaders
are streiiuously trying to make the
people believejthls is what they hope
for; this is what they are striving to
accomplish j but they may as well try
to suppress the tides of the ocean as
to prevent the prosperity which, now
planted upon secure economic foun
dations, is becoming 'more- pro-
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nounced and widely diffused each
day. It is only through national dis
aster hat tho republican party and
the selfish interests that rinminntn if
hope for success. Every uttorance
and every action of republican lead
ers convict them of wanting to pre
vent prosperity in order to gain con
trol of the gdvernment. This once
gre.at party; the alleged champions
of business, trying to destroy busi
ness to gain its ends! It is a sorry
spectacle, and failure is its inevitable
reward.
"The treasury department has just
published a summary of the reports
of ninety bank examiners whose
combined jurisdictions cover every
portion of tho United States. Among
muHu cAuuiiuurB aro numerous re
publicans. A democratic administra
tion has kept the capable republican
examiners, because of their experi
ence and becauso bank examiners
must bo skilled men and competent
to deal with intricate matters of ac
counting and other banking prob
lems. It is essential to tho safety of
the national banking system, and to
the great business structure founded
upon the security of tho banks, that
such examiners shall be men of char
acter and merit. A democratic ad
ministration has not permitted this
service to be prostituted to political
ends. This may appear unorthodox
to some eminent republican govern
ors, to whom the spoils of office seem
paramount t the public interest.
"For the reasons stated the reports
of the national bank examiners are
free from political bias and can
therefore be relied upon. They show
that in every section of the country
Jhere is pronounced business revival
except in'Maitfe 'and in a few isolated
districts, and that confidence and op
timism prevail everywhere.
"The financial and economic situa
tion in the United States is the
strongest in the world. With such
inherent power tho only thing that
can overtake us is prosperity, unless
some -catastrophe beyond human con
trol should intervene.
"Aside from this consideration
there are two outstanding facts upon
which the sober and intelligent opin
ion of the people of the United States
must dwell; first, in the greatest cri
sis that ever has confronted the civ
ilized world a democratic administra
tion saved this country from an ap
palling and threatened business and
financial panic. Contrast this with
1907, when the republican adminis
tration so blunderingly and incom
petently handled the situation that a
panic of unparallelled proportions
swept the country; second, with half
the civilized world engaged in the
most gigantic and disastrous war of
all time, a democratic president has
kept this nation in the paths of recti
tude and peace. Durinj all the critical
days since August, 1914, and despite
all the complex and unprecedented
problems that have confronted, him,
and in the face of difficulties in
creased and accentuated by partisan
prejudice, the great democratic sen
tinel in the White house hasf with
unswerving devotion to tho public
interest, and without regard to per
sonal consequences, conducted the af
fairs of the nation with such sagacity
and high purpose that neutrality has
been uncompromisingly maintained,
American rights have been upheld
and peace, with honor, has been pre
served. God grant that we may con
tinue in this path!
"A nation saved from the disasters
threatened by the European war;
prosperity restored; peace preserved;
government administered in the in
terest of all tho people; Back door
influences destroyed; high moral
standards maintained; legitimate
business safeguarded; the tariff in
telligently reformed; tho federal re
serve act enacted and a new ane safo
financial system established; these
arc, in part, democratic achievement
during the brlof noriod of two vnurM.
Tho party can face tho country on its
record with conlldenco in itself and
trust in tho people.
W. G. M'ADOO."
say, 'No, thank you, I have already
dined.'"
It turned out Just an papa had an
ticipated. "Como along, Marjorlc," said her
little friend's father, "you must have
a bito with us."
"No, thank you," said the Utile
girl with dignity; "I have already
bitten." Boston Globe.
ASSAILING MR. 1JUYAN
The renewed assaults on Mr. Bryan
como from those Journals most
friendly to tho liquor trafilc, and in
dicate that it is not the secretary of
state that has offended, but the ad
vocate of temperauce who is to be
destroyed.
The New York World gave a fair
support to the Mexican policy of tho
administration until Mr. Bryan wrote
an article and made a speech for pro
hibition. Then the World began a
crusade against the secretary such as
New York is familiar with. Those
provincial newspapers seek to demon
strate their power by singling out
one individual in office, and daily as
sailing him, in hope of destroying
him, or making life a burden.
Tho New York World and the New
York Post thus assailed Mr. Roose
velt in season and out of season,
chiefly to their own discomfiture.
The Hea'rst papers selected Presi
dent McKinley as their victim, and
by the cartoon and the brickbat edi
torials, sought to make him odious.
Many believe it was these Hearst
cartoons that nerved the arm that
assassinated the president.
The Sun invented this method of
warfare, and Dana's heart gloried In
the exercise. President Cleveland
once gave offense to Dana, and that
malignant journalist followed him
relentlessly, with all tho power a
heart full of hate could command.
The Courier-Journal joined In this
anti-Cleveland crusade, as now it
follows the World in its assaults on
Mr. Bryan, supplying in coarse hyp
ocrisy what it lack in ingenuity or
verbal swordsmanship. Louisville
Post.
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President Wilson, speaking in be
half of Berea college, which was
founded for the education of the
mountaineers of eastern Kentucky,
emphasized a new phase of conser
vation. It is estimated that there
are three million people in the
mountains and hills of the south who,
lacking education, aro living the
primitive, almost sterile, life of their
ancestors who camo to these wild
mountain homes from British alms
houses and debtor's prisons in the
early colonial days. Rather than
work for the slave-holding aristoc
racy of the south, they pushed on in
to the wilderness where, though na
ture was niggard, she was yet kinder
than a man-owner. They have main
tained a high sense of honor and in
tegrity, and are inefficient in the
modern sense only through lack of
education. Said the president:
"What America has vindicated
above all things else is that native
ability has nothing to do with social
origin. It is amusing sometimes to
see tho airs that high society gives
itself. -The world could dispense with
high society, and never miss it. High
society is for those who have- stopped
working'-r-Public.
8he Had Already Bitten
She was a little girl and very po
lite. It was the first time she had
been on a visit .alone, and she had
been carefully instructed how to be
have. "If they ask you to dine with
them," papa had said, "you must
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