Speech #620130054

It has demanded an incometax law. to the end that the wealth of the country may bear Its proportionate part of the burdens of the Government that protects that wealth. it has supported purefood laws. that the people of the States. under the interstatecommerce laws. may be protected against unwholesome food. it has favored amendments to the Constitution to elect Senators by direct vote of the people. it has favored railroadregulation laws and enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. that it might properly enforce its decrees in all cases of freightrate discrimination. it has sopght to protect the people against the greed of monopoly under any and every condition. It favors appropriations for rivers and harbors. which can not. in my opinion. be made available to their full extent until the Government of the United States shall ultimately grant aid. in connection with States and counties. for the construction and building of great highways under the postoffice and postroads clause of the Constitution. it has favored the admission of the States of Oklahoma. Arizona. and New Mexico. now constituting a lart of the Union. it favored a policy of conservation of Alaska. it has favored more stringent laws for the control of the trusts and corporations. it now. as ever. favors a tariff for revenue only. it favored the farmers free list and reciprocity and the reduction of revenues on schedule K. and the reduction of all the tariff schedules to a revenue basis for the purpose of suppressing monopolies. it favors an efficient Navy and a small but efficient Army. it opposed the establishment of postal savings banks as unnecessary and as entailing untold cost oil the people and as a forerunner of a great central nhtional bank in the control of the money powers. spending our currrency at will against the interest of the laboring man and the man of small property. it has favored a reasonable and just parcelpost law. it favors a law prohibiting gambling in farm products and to further restrict undesirable immigration. it has ever been the friend of labor. it opposed the repeal of the eighthour law on the Isthmus of Panama. it opposed the anticompulsory pilotage bill. it favored hours of service bill for railway employees. it opposed the shipsubsidy bill. including � conscript provision of seamen. it favored the employers liability bill. affecting employees on railways engaged in interstate commmerce. it favored the childlabor bill for the District of Columbia. it opposed the repeal of the employers liability bill enacted by the Legislature of New Mexico when a Territory. it opposed compulsory investigation of labor disputes. it has favored the payment of just war claims against the Government. It has ever favored the proper exercise by each of the coordinate branches of the Government of the functions that belong to them under the Constitution and has opposed the encroachment of the one upon the other. Her Representatives have held firmly to the doctrine that a Representative in Congress is not merely a Representative of the district he represents. but is a Representative of the whole people of the United States.