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Show WANAMAKER IS MOST OPTIMISTIC Philadelphia. Jan. 1 "We have lots of room in this country for courage, energy and enterprise, but there is no room or reason for a panic What the president wants and the country wants are strong men, unselfish and1 hread-visioned able to help him and his cabinet to lead the way. The motto for the new year is, 'Don't !e blue." " With these words almost at the end oi a forceful anil spirited address John Wanamaker today, at the Union League banquet, urged the members of i that stalwart Republican organization to give an opportunity to the Democratic Demo-cratic national administration to prove of the new tariff and currency legislation. "The Republican party, long in pow-1 er, added to the unrest of the people; with a tariff unnecessarih high in ; spots." said Mr Wanamaker. That party was deaf, dumb and blind to j j the widespread evidences of a deter-I deter-I minatiou to force changes in the tar-; tar-; iff corresponding to the improved i ministry and greater skill of Ameri-I Ameri-I can workmen "The day of judgment, came to the j Republican party in November, 1912. ; Good Republicans, worn out by brok-j brok-j en pledges, resolved to punish their party's deaf, dumb and blind leadership leader-ship They united against radicalism 'and deliberately joined forces with I the Democratic brethren to turning I over the national government to I Woodrow Wilson, who took office dis-I dis-I tinctly pledged to two objects of pro-I pro-I found interest to the business world: "First A lowered tariff. ! "Second A revisal of the monetary law to improve the old banking act i of the civil war time, j "In less than one vear both these l sreat undertakings have been accom- plishetl. All honor to the persistent I president and the Democratic states-I states-I men who have made their word good." |