The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1916-11-03

what is human and right; and until
America has begun to lag instead of
lead in reconciling what is with what
ought to be.
Dawn Of a New Age.
"a new age had dawned upon us
while those who were attempting to
lead 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
domestic markets of which our for
mer leaders were always so solicitous
were glutted sand we were bound, I'M
less we were to burst our jacket,
to find free outlet into the markets
of the world. The time had come
when our commerce needed freedom
and would be throttled by further re-
straints.
"We had acquired foreign possess
sions, had been drawn into the poll
tics Of the world, had begun to play
part which could not be played by
provincials, but must be played by cit-
zens of the great world of nations.
And yet we had not altered our policy
or our point Of view. The great
European war has served at least to
show us this one thing, that the world
itself has changed: that it had be-
come at once too big world and
too little a world to submit it's des-
TIMES to the hostile rivalries and am
billions now of this and again Of that
member of the great family Of men;
too compact, too intimate in it's con-
facts, too universal in it's way Of
intercourse, to make it any longer
possible to limit the effects of any
nations action to a single, separate
sphere where the rest would be- I'M
touched"
can inevitable partnership of inter-
ests has been thrust upon the nations.
They are neighbors and must accom-
modate their interests to one another,
or else disturb the lives and embarrass
the fortunes of men everywhere. No
wonder that in such an age men in
America should be cried awake and
feel once more, as they felt them in
the days when their great republic
was set up, the cOmpulsions of hui
manity and of justice!
Squarng Laws With life. y
"There are the freshening winds
blowing out of the life of mankind
everywhere, that have brought on a
new day in American politics. We
have looked once more very critically
at our own laws and our own prac-
tees and have set about to square
them with the actual conditions of
our life and the life Of the world"
-Four years ago there were two
parties in the field whose programme
was conceived under the influence of
these great forces of progress and adj
justment, the Democratic party and
the Progressive party. This year
there is but one, the Democratic party.
In the presidential election of four
years ago some fifteen million votes
were cast. OF these, nearly ten and
a half millions were cast for the cen
didates of the two progressive parties
only three and half millions for the
candidates of the Republican party, the
party which fingered in the old ways
and felt none of the new impulse OF
a new day. More than two-thirds of
the voters Of the United States
favored then, and favor new, pro-
gramme whose object is to serve the
changing needs of humanity and
progress.
THE Democratic party was entrust-
ed with, the task. These powerful
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