The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
GREATER PROGRESS
Laws Must Fit New Life, He Tells
the American People.
: MS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE.

American Rights Uphold With Honor,
Farmers Greatly Benefited, Business
unshaeI<led, Labor Protected, Chill
dnsn Set Free Votes Of Women
Nseded--WorId Peace Desired.
Shadow Lawn, N. j., Oct. 2S.-To 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 donei That, In short, tells the
story. And yet the story is not fin
1shed. Other chapters in the great
Book of Human Progress remain to be
written. 1t rests with you, American
Voters, to say whether the man who
began the book shall finish 1t.
Here, In the Presidents own words,
I II plain statement of what he, as
Nseader not only OF the Democratic
party but Of the nation, has accom-
plshed in your behalf and Of what he
plans for your future-a statement
made not alone to the thousands who
3ourneyed here but to you and the
hundreds of thousands throughout the
country who also celebrated Wilson
Day"
The Presidont's Speech.
"My FellOw-citizens:
This is called Wilson Day only be-
cause for six years, first as Governor
nf
Of the United States, 1 have been per-
mitted to lead first great state and
then great national party along the
ways of progress and of enlarged and
Tegenerated life which our people had
60 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 representa-
tive of the men who mean to hold the
country to these ways of peace, hu-
manity and progress. 1t is Of these
forces that shall speak and not OF
myself, who am merely their servant.
"What 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-
eeive the shortcomings Of the law as
9t has hardened In America and who
look forward with purpose and convic-
tion to q new age In which govern
ment shall be indeed the servant Of lib
0rty and not Of privilege.
"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,
20 be arrayed against class; until what
was legal has begun to play a more
important part in our thoughts and de-
examinations than what is human and
right; and until America has begun to
lag instead of lead In reconciling what
3s with what ought to be.
Dawn Of n Now Age.
"a new age had dawned upon US
while those who were attempting to
their heads over their shoulders, intent
upon preserving the conditions Of a
day that is gone. America has changed
and the whole world has changed. Our
commerce and industry had grown to
such q bulk that the domestic markets
of which our former leaders were al
ways so solicitous were glutted and
we were bound, unless we were to
burst our jacket,-to find free outlet
into the markets of the world. The
time had come when our coIDrnerce
needed freedom and would be throt-
tied by further restraints.
1--WE had acquired foreign posses
eions, had been drawn into the politics
of the world. had begun to play part
which could not be played by prOvin-
cials but must be played by citizens 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 had chang.
ed; that It had become at once too big
q world and too little world to sub.
NIT it's destinies to the hostile rivalries
and ambitions now OF this and again
of that member of the great family OF
men; too compact, too intimate in its
contacts, too universal In Its ways OF
intercourse, to make 1t any longer pos
! sible to limit the effects of any nations
action to single separate sphere where
the rest would be untouched.
"An inevitable partnership OF inter
ests has been thrust upon the nations
They are neighbOrs and must accom-