Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-22
pREsIDENT WILSON STATES HIS CASE.

paign document. 1t is too long to reproduce in any
thing except summarized form. Comment on it is
naturally different in Democratic and Republican
papers. That il has several loopholes has already
been discovered by the Republican editors and they
are shooting through these loopholes with some
eject
Yet even the most anti Wilson organ admits that
the president has made very skilful presentation
Of the case for the Democratic party. He slid
ceverly past several weak points in the administra
ton record and bore down heavily on its strong
points
Since this speech unquestionably is the partys at
titude for the national campaign well begun,
its principal points are worth summary. Here they
are
sThe tariff has been revised not on the principle
Of repeing foreign trade but upon the principle
Of encouraging it, upon something like footing Of
equality with our own in respect Of the terms OF
competitioh.v
american energies are now directed toward the
markets of the world
"The laws against trusts have been clarified BY
defnition, with view to making it plain that they
were not directed against big business, but only
against unfair bushes and the pretense of compet-
ton where there was rone."
by the federal reserve act the supply of currency
At the disposaof active business has been rendered
elastic, taking its volume, not from fixed body Of
Investment securities but from the liquid assets Of
daily trade
~EHectiYe meastres have been taken for the re
creation Of an American merchant marine and the /
revival of the American carrying trade"
"The Republican leaders, apparently know of no
means Of assisting business but protection
The wofkingmen of America have been given I
fefitabie emancipation by the legal recognition Of
mans labor as part Of his life, and not q mere
narketable commodity
*iDforsign afairsswe have been guided by princi-
p|eseeariy conceived and consistently lived up to-
The passions and iptrigues of ceg.tain actiyel
groups and combinations Of men among Us who were
born under foreign flags injected the poison Of dis
loyalty intS our own most critical affairs laid yo
lent hands upon many Of our industries, and sub /
pcied to the shame Of divisions Of sentiment and
purpose in which America was condemned and for.
eotten.r
= am The candidate Of party, but I am, above !
all things else an American citizen. neither seek
the favor fear the displeasure Of that small alien
element among US which puts loyalty to any foreign
power before loyalty to the United States
1.-The nations OF the world must unite In joint
guarantees that whatever is done to disturb the |
whole worlds life must first be tested in the court
Of the whole worlds opinion before it is attempted
nWe have already formulated and agreed upon a
policy of law which will explicitly remove the ban
now supposed to rest upon cooperation among our
exporters nseeking and securing their proper place
III the markets of the world
AT home, also, we want to see to it that the men
who plan and develop and direct our business enter
prises shall enjoy definite and settled conditions
law policy accommodated to the freest progress
1--WE must coordinate the railway systems Of the !,
country for national use, and must facilitate and
promote their development with view to that co
ordination and to their better adaptation whole
to the life and trade and defense of the nation
eI4e people of Mexico have not been suffered to
own their own country direct their own institu-
tons Outsiders men out Of other nations and with
interests too often alien to their own have dictated
what their privileges and opportunities should be
and who should control their land. their lives and
their resources--some of them Americans pressing
for things they could never have got their own coun
e.[he unspeakabe Huerta betrayed the very com
...de< he served traitoronsy overthrow the govern
,nehf Of which he was trusted part impudently
smoke for the very forces that had driven his people
Is the rebellion with which he had pretended to sym
,.,fkize The men who overrame him and drove him
out representeat least the fierce passion of recon
nction which lies at the very heart of liberty; and
~ long MS they represent, however imperfecty, such
tr6rple for deliyeranee, am ready to serve their
.nir whenever can. So long as the power of rec
.f;on rests with me, the government of the United
tfss will refuse to extend the hand of welcome to
any one who obtains power IN sister republic by
treachery and violence.