Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-09-09
HAS kept FAITH,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Record Shows Promises Full
filled, Declares MIR. Wilson,
HIS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE

il Revised, BANKING oystem ne'orh-
~ Remedial Measures Benefit Work.
;,sn,en and Farmers and Merchant
Marine Revived.
In his address at Shadow Lawn,
Long Branch, y. j., accepting the Dem
,eratic nomination for president, Wood
row Wilson said:
senator James, Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee, Fellow Citizens
i cannot accept the leadership and
responsibility which the national Dem
ocratic convention has again, in such
generous fashion, asked me to accept
without first expressing my profound
gratitude to the party for the trust it
reposes In me after four years of fiery
trial in the midst of affairs of I'M
preeedented difficulty and the keen
sense of added responsibility with
which this honor fills q had almost
said burdens) me as I think of the
great issues Of national life and policy
Involved in the present and immediate
future conduct of our government. |
shall seek. as | have always sought, to
Justify the extraordinary confidence
thus reposed in me by striving to
purge my heart and purpose of every
personal and of every misleading party
motive and deyoting every energy l
have TO the service Of the nation as a
whole. praying that | may continue to
have the counsel and support of all
forward looking men at every turn of
the difficult business.
"For | do not doubt that the people
Of the United States will wish the
Democratic party TO continue in con
troll Of the government. They are not
IN the habit of rejecting those who
have actually served them for those
who are making doubtful and conjec-
tural promises of service. Least of
all are they likely to substitute those
who promised to render them partic-
nlar services end proved false to that
promise for those who have actually
rendered those very services.
Roasting is always an empty bust
ness, which peases nobody but the
boaster, and / have no disposition to
boast Of what the Democratic party
has accomplished. 1t has merely done
It's duty. 1t has merely fulfilled its ex-
plicit promises. But there can be no
violation of good taste in calling atten-
lion to the manner IN which those
promises have been carried out or in
adverting to the interesting fact that
many of the things accomplished were
what the opposition party had again
and again promised to do, but had left
un6one. Indeed, that is manifestly part
Of the business of this year of reckon
ing and assessment. There is no means
Of judging the future except by assess
Ing the past Constructive action must
be weighed against destructive com
ment and reaction"
Mr.. Wilson asserted that the Repub-
lican party was put out of power be-
cause Of practical and moral failure,
because it had served special interests
and not the country at large. Banking
reform, the interests of the farmer and
the army and navy had been neglected.
Set Free to Move.
so things stood when the Demo
cratic party came into power. How
DO they stand now? Alike in the do
nestle field ana in the wide field of
the commerce of the world, American
business and life and industry have
been set free to move as they never
moved before.
The tariff has been revised not on
the principle of repelling foreign trade,
but hpon the principle of encaura ging
II upon something like a footing of
equality with our own in respect of
the terms of competition, and a tariff
board has been created whose function
II viii be to keep the relations of
American with foreign business and
industry under constant observation
ior the guidance alike of our business
men and of our congress. American
energies are now directed toward the
markets Of the world.
t laws AGAINST trusts nave been
clarified by definition with a view TO
making it plain that they were not di-
fected against big business, but only
against unfair business and the pre-
tense of competition where there was
none, and trade commission has been
treated with powers of guidance and
accommodation which have relieved
business men of unfounded fears and
set them upon the road of hopeful
anu confident enterprise
BY the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal of ac-
iNe business has been rendered elastic.
taking its volume not from a fixed
body of investment securities. but
from the liquid assets of daily trade.
ana these assets are assessed and ac-
eepted not by distant groups of bank
eIS IN control of unavailable reserves.
nut by bankers at the many centers of
local exchange who are in touch with
mcal conditions everywhere.
Effective measures have been taken
Tor the recreation of an American
merchant marine and the revival Of
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