The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-30

Laws Must Fit New Life, He Tells
the American People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS CONE.

American Rights Upl,e'J With Honor
Farmers Greatly Benefited. Business
Unshackied, Labor Protected, Chill.
dren Set Free - Nctce of Women
Needed-WorII Peace Desired.
Shadow Lawn y. j., Oct. $50 the
American people Woodrow Wilson to
day gave an accounting of his admin
istration as their President He bal
anced his books" so that the record
stands clear Promises fulfilled. great
deeds done. That. in Shrrt tells the
story. And yet the story j. net fin,
ished. Other chapters in the great
Book of Human Progress remain I" be
written. 1t rests with you. American
Voters, to say whether tie MAN who
began the book shall finish it.
Here. in the Presidents own words,
is a plain statement of what he. as
leader not onlE of the democratic
party but of the nation. has accom-
plished in your behalf and of what he
plans for your future-a statement
made not alone to the thousands who
journeyeG here but to you and the
hundreds of thousands throughout the
country who also celebrated Wilson
Day"
The Presidents Speech.
my Fellow cit iIGHS:
'This is called Wilson Day only be-
cause for six years. first as Governor
of New Jersey and than as President
of the United States, have been per-
nitted to lead first great state and
then a great national party along the
ways of progress and of enlarged and
regenerated lie which or people had
so long sought and so long been he'd
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. hui
mainly and progress. 1t is of these
forces that | shall speak and not of
myself. who am merely Their servant.
'sWhat are these forces: Whence do
they spring? What have they accom-
plished, and what is their programme
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 per
cciye the shortcomings Of the law as
1t has hardened in America and who
look forward with purpose and convic-
ton to a new age in which govern
ment shall be indeed the servant of lib
erty and not of privilege.
.sThese 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
10 be arrayed against class; until what
WAS legal has begun to play more
important part in our thoughts and de
rminations than what is human and
ght; and until America has begun tt
instead of lead in reconciling whai
With what ought to be.
Dawn Of New Age.
Ia new age had dawned upon us
Rhile those who were attempting t.
Head us were stumbling a!ong Will
&heir heads over their shoulders iEten
upon preserving the conditions of ;
ID to al,
and the whole world has changed. Oul
commerce and Industry hal grown t
such a bulk that the domestic market,
of which our former leaders were al
ways so sOlicitouS We're glltted arr
rye were bound. unless W" were t.
burst our jacket. to find a free cutie
into the markets. Of the void TIL;
time had come when our commerce
needed freedom and would be throt
tied by further restraints.
"We haC acquired foreign posses,
sions. had been drawn into tie polite.
of the world. had begun to piAy Il par
which could not be lIaved by lrovin
Gals but must I've played by citizens ("
the great world of nations. And vet w,
had not altered our policy or our poin
Of view The great European war ha:
served at least 10 show us this ont
thing. that the world itself had chan"
ed; that it had become at once too hi:
world and too little a world to sub
NIT it's destinies to the hostile rivalrie:
and ambitions now Of this and agail
of that member of the great family o
men: too compact, too intimate in it!
contacts, too universal in its ways O.
Intercourse. to make it any longer pos
sible to limit the effects of any nation.
action to single separate sphere where
the rest would be untouched
San 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 embar
raSs the fortunes of men everywhere
No wonder that in such an age men il
America should be cried awake ant
feel once more. as they felt them IL
the days when their great republic wa:
set up. the compulsions of humanity
and o. justice!
Squaring Laws With Life.
''TheSe are the freShening wind:
blowing out of the life of mankind ev
anywhere. that have brought on a new
day in American politics.
awe have looked once more very crit
icalIy at our own laws and our owl
practices and have set about to squar
Them with the actual conditions of on
life and the life of the world.
"Four years ago there were two par
ties in the field whose programme wa
conceived under the influence Of thes
great forces of progress and adjust
ment, the Democratic party and tn,
Progressive party. This year there /:
but one, the Democratic party. In the
presidential election Of four years age
some fifteen million votes were cast.
"Of these. nearly ten and Il half nil
lions We're cast for the candidates OF
the two progressive parties. only thIet
and half millions for the candidate
nf tho RppnhIipan pnrty mart y