The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20


 the midst of the most arduous, intri- cate and conflicting conditions has kept this country ho9orably out. o1 war"
 This was about all the introduction that the President needed, and hi: kindly sponsor was compelled tt pause while the women in the audi ence indulged in demonstration al most as spectacular as that rendered the Progressive convention, a fascin ating thriller during the early optim | istic stages just preceding it's dissolu ton.
 Miss Young, continuing her tribute to the President, declared that ht had proved himself to be the true friend of humanity by his placine above his personal interests the. pro- lection of children and in perform ing other like services.
 He does not come" said Mis-. Young, "to argue in legal or scholas tic phraseology for votes, but to givt to us his splendid knowledge of ex isting onditions, so that (the concep ton of America shall be invigorated.'
 T, / ."sFellow Citizens" f.
 The President flushed like school. girl at the greeting given him. He joined in the laughter that followed the declaration of a voice in the gal, lery that We want yoa, Uncle Woody, we want you.'' When the storm of cheers that followed the trebled declaration, You kept us out of war; had died down the President aroused his fair audience, and it was fair in every sense of the word, by saying quietly, Fellow citizens"
 MT. Hughes, who uses much the same form of salutation to women au- diences never got half the ''hand'' that followed the Presidents employ ment of the term. The President was not <only in splendid voice but in ex- cellent spirits. He informed his au- diehce at the start that he did not intend to make a political speech, be cause,'' he said, "the fundamental principles of a government and tits people are of far greater importance than of any political ambition"
 The President defined his message t the women as follows: v
 Society is now organizing its WHOleN power III OTueT tldI IL iIldy understand itself, in order that it may have a new organization and instru- ment of civilization, and I am ambi- tious that America should show the way in this great enterprise"
 He did not touch on votes for women. ~t
 The President declared that some of the difficulties in the foreign re- lationships of the United States have been due to the fact that other na- tions have not realized that this na- ton was disinterested. When the nations of the world come to love America he said, they wills7obey and follow America" N"'R 5srs "
 His speech follows in part:
 There never was a time when it was more necessary for the nations of the world Ito exercise possession to acquire self-knowledge. to, deter mine their direction and purpose and to relate themselves to the general work tof establishing justice among mankind.
 "I think that every one of us Amer jeans would be ashamed if America did not know exactly what she was about and by what means and instru- mentalities she is going to act. therefore thought that you would in dulge me this afternoon if I tried to point out what seemed to me the lead ing peculiarities of the task that lies, before me.
 You can best illustrate it by the relations between employers and em- p1oyes. Justice can no longer be cold. It is beginning to have warmth and sympathy and emotion in 1t. And all the problems of society are chang ing under our very eyes and there is coming the time, unless I am very much mistaken, when this same qual- ity of sympathy and mercy will come into the hitherto cold and untouched field, when nations shall agree with nations that the rights of humanity are greater than the rights of sov- ereignty.
 Therefore modern. society has a new set of problems to meet. It has to say If the employer will not volun- tarily establish the proper conditions of labor the law must oblige him to establish. If he will not voluntarily be human anc fair, he must be oblig- ed to be human and fair"
 Partners in HumanityI,
 The President made complimentary references to a big manufacturing company which recently voluntarily esta ablished an eight hour day without reducing pay, and continued:
 The spirit of the thing is even better than the thing itself. It is the recognition of their partnership as human spirits with the men who are doing their work. q am happy to say that I am not singular and isolated in this, because all over the United States men. have begun to have that sort of enlight- ened humahitarianism which ought to have been obvious from the first, that if your treat a man like a human he will work for you with a heart as we'll as hand.
 t"There are several things which are necessary in such a society, and we ought to set all our thoughts and all our energies to accomplish these .nec7 essary things. The first thing is that one another.
 q have said before and say it again, that one of the things that most deeply distresse me in the re- cent conference of the heads of the railways and their employees was to find that there was a profound mu- tual misunderstanding, distrust and hostility.
 Tt ought not to be so. Something is wrong when the men who are