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Show ANOTHER WILSON LETTER President Wilson Is a ready letter writer. Ho wroto a ten page letter to A. Mitchell Palmer, heading off the resolution carrying out the Democratic Demo-cratic platform pledge for a single Presidential term. Ho has Just writ-ton writ-ton another letter to Oscar Undor-wood, Undor-wood, expressing his "admiration for the fidelity arid intelligence with which the program outlined In April and December last year has been carried car-ried out." But a more Interesting letter Is one ho did not write to Speaker Clark. It comes nearer telling the real truth about things than any oth-er oth-er ono Mr. Wilson has written. Here It Is: "My dear Mr. Speaker: "I've already written many letters disingenuous, psychological campaign cam-paign letters, but I am constrained to write ono more an honest, candid expression that will reflect my real feelings. "Viewing tho vtork of tho administration adminis-tration and Congress, I confess that ns Fitzgerald would say, we hove made "a horrible mess ot It." As for appropriations tho first duty ot tho Government I must say, as Sis-son Sis-son has put It, "you hare written yourselves down in the history ot the country as being the most outrageously outrageous-ly and most criminally extravagant Congress that ever sat on the American Amer-ican continent," and It has all brought these unjust and unnecessary taxes In time of peace and at a time vthen we should have been a nation ot plenty and prosperity. "First, of courso, our destructive tariff law Is largely to blame, and we must admit that It has been a falluro and that It has brought disaster, disas-ter, Idleness and loss ot rovenuo, that It has slmp)y been nnothor Democratic Demo-cratic toriff and Uko all Democratic tnrlffs ,has resulted In ruin and al&-tress al&-tress to many of our people A plonk In our platform pledged that wo "would not injure- or destroy any legitimate Industry," and yet there Is hardly an Industry that wo havo not injured or destroy od. Surely, our tariff law has been moro than a rn.ll-uro rn.ll-uro It has been a crlmo against American Am-erican labor nnd Induutry and It has Increased rather than decreased the co,st ot living. ' "Of our currency legislation thoro is llttlo to say, for It is not yet in working order. I ponfess that there is approhonslon nnd anxiety; among financiers and business men that It will prove a falluro. Ot course my appointment to tho federal reserve board of Thos. D. Jonos, n director Ij what Senator Vardaman calls "tho most Iniquitous obnoxious, outrogo-ous, outrogo-ous, indetenslblo predatory trust in nil America" was another of my many mistakes. Dut I hope I am not un-gratoful un-gratoful and I havo tried to pay somo debts, and right here I may add tlu.t tho campaign fund which tho Oomo- cratlc Congressional Committee has at its command from the Sugar Trust aud other trusts ought to compensifc for the damage wo have done for of course, after all, the first thing to think ot Is holding on to the offices My Job Is secure until 1917 and I want you boys up at tho Capitol to keep yours. "Speaking of losing Jobs, I understand under-stand that 7,000,000 or 8,000,000' wagu earners nre out ot work throughout tho country; a worse condition man wo have ever known. "Perhaps the less, I say about antitrust anti-trust legislation tho better. The arraignment ar-raignment by Senator Reed was all deserved and I fear that what w.e have done will after all help rather than hurt the trusts and monopolies of the country. "I suppose I must allude to the, repeal re-peal ot free tools ot course, I .am not going to divulge my true reasons fpr insisting on that "act ot party perfidy and dishonor" but Champ,' 1 put It over even it you did prove that you are not "a rubber stamp Representative, Repre-sentative, or Speaker." "I do not need to enuraerato all wo have dono in the extra and pro-.sont pro-.sont Bosslons I rofer you to tho text book which gives us credit for all tho laws wo havo put In tho statute books, and some that wo hnvo not. Wo might havo done more it you boys had Btnyed on your Jobs with 145 majority, thoro Bhould always havo been n quorum nnd yet I find that on 139 roll colls you Democrats tolled to maintain a quorum 104 times and for weeks you could do no business without Republicans and in this dorollctlon ot duty I refer to the Senato as well as the House you might havo enacted tho good roads law, something neoded by every ev-ery community in tho countrj' you might havo put through somo rural credit law. Tho foct of tho matter Is, Champ, wo havo treoted tho farmers farm-ers of this country outrageously but as for that wo havo treated every ono outrageously tho business man, tho working man, nud tho old poldlera all our pooplo and now wo aro taring tar-ing them to deth In addition, It that pork barrel bill had gone tnrough cnrrylng $55,000,000 It would havo flipped tho climax, but tho Republicans Republi-cans proventod that, j "Champ, tho whole business Is suro m ly rotten, it is one great Democratic Fizzle. "I have been going over our platform plat-form pledges and I find that there Is hardly one that we have not broken, or failed to keep. I guess It was "molasses "mo-lasses to catch files" after all. As Senator Williams said, "It has been the same poor old foolish Democratic Democrat-ic party," Incapable of government nnd so Incompetent that it cannot last long. You will notice that I havo quoted only Democrats In this letter. I well know how disgusted some ot you aro, but what are you going to do about it? A Democrat's highest function is to hold office not legli-late legli-late or administer. I am afraid thero will not be much comfort for you on, November 3, as I guess tho next House will be Republican and it ought to be but as I said before I will be on the Job until 1917. "Come and see me. Yours, etc., W. W, |