New Britain herald., 1916-11-02

seized the opportunity to pound home again demands for a united America | Much of his speech was devoted to this tightening of the bonds, not mere ly between citizens of all foreign na- tionalities, but between all classes of the nation and of the community.
 Our Hearts at Home.
 Foreign nations, the president said, should not be misled by the noise" of 1 the present campaign into believing i that part of the nation had it's heart "outside America No matter how loud the voices of those who sought tc involve us in Europe's war, he 1 said, America would never allow her | self to be drawn into a quarrel against which she had set her face. l we are not going to be drawn into l quarrels which mean nothing to us. We are not interested in seeing one nation or group of nations prevail against another,' he said. 1 We are not afraid to fight and we are not disinclined to fight for the i things that America stands for.
 We are waiting for the call we have always waited for. We have 1 fought for humanity. God forbid that
 
 | tion or for aggression
 The loudest cheers of the evening interrupted, showing that "peace'' was the presidents strongest claim on the | audience. Combats Tariff.
 Tariff arguments now being ad- vanced vigorously by MT. Hughes were also assailed by President Wilson. He declared that "any man who tries to apply the economic policies of ten years ago will be running a risk of a l disastrous mistake.'
 Mr. Wilson further asserted: No one can predict at present the steps necessary to protect American com 1 merce after the war"
 | The president reasserted his deter | imitation to treat the tariff question as apart from politics, and he declared that he was withholding his appoint | ment of the members of the tariff l commission not only until he could find the men he desired, but also until he was sure they would be confirm ed by the senate. Politics in connection with such a question, the president declared, was much of an i'm | pertinence" as religious belief.
 Legislative Field Wider.
 Tn his afternoon speech the presi- dent said in part:
 "I Wont you to notice that the field of political action is widening ] about us in way that fairly daunts the judgm ent of thoughtful men. We used to think that we saw the field of 1 legislation tOlerably we'll defined, but you perceive, I take it for granted that the field has not only greatly Wtdened but indefinitely widened. There are a great many social ques- tions now with which legislation has to deal, very profound and radical questions
 There are questions of justice 1 there are questions even of moral | health; one of the things that Ameri- ca Is beginning to perceive is that court of law, for example, is not nec- essarily court of justice. Law too seldom has any heart in it, too sel- 1 dom has any bowels of compassion, too seldom has any quick sympathies of perce ption.
 Wanted Social Justice. Let me make an allusion, which may seem like a political allusion but 1t is not so intended The reason that the progressive party was formed four years ago was that the large body of men who formed that party made m their minds that the party they were separating themselves from had not thought out the questions of social justice. Is that not so? The nro- eramme of that new party, aside from the items that you would expect in al,