Williams news., 1916-11-02
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
 GREATER PROGRESS
Laws Must Fit New Life Mr.. Wilson Tells the American
 People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE
U. S. Rights Upheld With Honor, Farmers Aided, Business and Labor Benefited, Children Protected
 -Women's Votes Needed.

Shadow Lawn, N. J., Oct. 2S.-To the American people Woodrow wilson today gave an accounting of his ad- ministration as their President. He "balanced his books" so that the rec ord stands clear. Promises fulhlled' great deeds donel That, in short, tells the story And yet the story is not finished. Other chapters in the great Book of Human Progress re main to be written. It rests with you, American Voters, to say whether the man who began the book shall finish it.
 Here, in the Presidents own words, is a plain statement of what he, as leader not only of the Demo cratic party, but of the nation, has accomplished in your behalf and Of what he plans for your future statement made not alone to the thou sands who journeyed here, but to you and the hundreds of thousands throughout the country who celebrat- ed "Wilson Day."
 THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
 My Fellow-citizens:
 '"This is called Wilson Day only because for six years, first as Cover nor of New Jersey and then as Presi- dent of the United States, have been permitted to lead first a great state and then a 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 representative of the men who mean to hold the country to these ways of peace, humanity and progress. It is of these forces that l 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? It 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 a new age in which government shall be indeed the servant of liberty and not of privi- lege.
 ''These are men who perceive that American law has not kept pace with American sentiment; that our law has been holding us rigid and immovable, until class has begun, in free America, to be arrayed against class; until what was legal has begun , to play more important part in our thoughts and determinations than 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 a day that is gone. America had changed and the whole world had changed. Our commerce and industry had grown to such a bulk that the domestic markets of which our for mer leaders were always so solicitous were glutted and we were bound, un- less we were to burst our jacket, to find a free outlet into the markets of the world. The time had come
 
 and would be throttled by further re StraintS.
 we had acquired foreign posses sionS, had been drawn into the pOli- tics of the world, had begun to play a part which could not be played by provincials, but must be played by citi- 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 a world and too little a world 10 submit it's des- tinies to the hostile rivalries and am- bitionS now of this and again of that member of the great family of men 1; too compact, too intimate in it's con- tacts, 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 un- touched"
 "An inevitable partnership of inter- ests has been thrust upon the nations. They are neighbOrs and must accom- plodate 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 hu- manity and of justice!
 Squaring Laws With Life.