The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-28
(By Associated Press.)

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Long Branch, Oct. 2S.-Making his
motto Cooperation" President Will
son spoke here today at the principa
meeting of a series throughout the
United States, arranged in celebration
Of "Wilson Day." Delegations from
New York, comprised of the organized
Democrats, Independents, Progress
sives and women were present.
The President spoke for woman suf.
frage. He declared that "Americar
law hasn't kept pace with American
sentiments" and outlined the legisla.
tive achievements of his administra.
tion.
The Presidents address follows:
My Fellow-citizens:
This is called "Wilson Day" only be-
cause for six years, first as Governor
Of New Jersey and then as President
Of the United States, ! have been per
mitted to lead first great state and
then great national party along the
ways of progress and Of enlarged and
regenerated life which our people had
SO long sought and SO long been held
back from by the organized power Of
selfish interest, and because the great
honor has fallen to me Of being chosen
once more spokesman and representa-
| tive Of the men who mean to hold the
country to these ways Of peace, hu-
manity and progress. 1t is Of these
that shall speak and not Of myself,
who am merely their servant.
What are these forces? Whence do
they spring? What have they ac-
complished, and what is their pro-
gramme and purpose for the future?
1t is plain what they are. They are
the forces of humane, righteous, and
patriotic purpose which have sprung
up in our day in the minds of those
who perceive the shortcomings Of the
law as it has hardened in America and
who look forward with purpose and
conviction to new age in which gov
ernment shall be indeed the servant of |.
liberty and not Of privilege. These,
are men who perceive that American
law has not kept pace with American
sentiment; that our law has been hold
ing US rigid and immovable, until class
has begun, in free America, to be ar
rayed against class; until what was
legal has begun to play more i'm
portant part in our thoughts and de-
examinations than what is human and
right; and until America has begun to
iag instead of lead in reconciling what
is with what ought to be.
A new age had dawned upon us
while those who were attempting to
iead US were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, in
tent upon preserving the conditions
Of day that is gone. America had
changed and, the whole world had
changed. Our commerce and industry
had grown to such bulk that the do
mestic markets of which our former
leaders were almost so solicitous were
ylutted and we were bound, unless we
were to burst our jacket, to find g
free outlet into the markets. of the
world. The time had come when oul
commerce needed freedom and woul6
be throttled by further restraints. We
lad acquired foreign possessions, had
been drawn into the politics of. the
world, had begun to play part whicl
,ould not be played by provincials but
must be played by citizens of the
great world of nations. And yet We
had not altered our policy or our point
If view. The great European war has
served at least to show us this one
hing, that the world itself had chang
I'd; that it had become at once too big
4 world and too little world to sub
nit its destinies to the hostile rival. |
ries and ambitions now Of this ant
again of that member of the great
family Of men; too compact, too in
innate in its contracts, too universe. }
n its ways of intercourse, to make it (
any longer possible to limit the effects
If any nations action to a single, sep.
arate sphere where the rest would be
Untouched. An inevitable partnership
II interests has been thrust upon the
nations. They are neighbors and must
accommodate their interests to one
mother. or else disturb the lives and
smhaysSI. the tcytuusa oS men svery-A