Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-05
President Wilson'S Letter OF Accept
ance

On Saturday President Wilson, at
Shadow Lane, his summer home,
accented the nomination for the
presidency from the democratic notl-
fication committee, before an audi
ence of 10000 people. 1t was to the
point and defended the acts OF his
administration. He said that all
promises were kept by the democrats,
not one broken. He told of the wide
reforms accomplished. His foreign
and Mexican policies were ably de-
Tended.
In his letter he never mentioned
the name of Hughes but he did, in
choice language, read a lesson to the
republican party which will not soon
be forgotten.
The following are few extracts
from the letter:
"We have been neutral not only
because it was the fixed and tradi-
tional policy of the United States TO
stand aloof from the politics OF
Europe and because we had had no
part either of action or of policy IN
the influences which brought on the
present war, but also because it was
manifestly our duty to prevent, II 1T
were possible, the indefinite extern
sion of the fires of hate and deSOla-
tion kindled by that terrible conflict
and seek to serve mankind by reSerV-
ing our strength and our resources
for the anxious and difficult days OF
restoration and healing which must
follow, when peace will have to build
it's house anew.
The unspeakable Huerta betrayed
the very comrades he served, traitor
ouSly overthrow the government OF
which he was a trusted part, i'm
pudently spoke for the very forces
that had driven his people to the
rebellion with which he had, pre-
tended to sympathize. So long as
the power of recognition rests with
me the government of the United
States will refuse to extend the hand
of welcome to anyone who obtains
power in a sister republic by treach-
can be given the affairs of any re-
public by title based upon intrigue
and assassination. | am more inter
ested in the fortunes of oppressed
men and pitiful women and children
than in any property rights what
ever.
The tariff has been revised, not on
the principle of repelling foreign
trade, but upon the principle of en-
cOuraging it, upon something like a
footing of equality with our own in
respect of the terms of competition,
and tariff board has been created
whose function it will be to keep the
relations of America with foreign
business and industry under constant
observation, for the guidance alike Of
our business men and of our congress.
American energies are now directed
toward the markets of the world.
There must be a just and settled
peace, and we here in America must
contribute the full force of our en-
thuSiaSm and Of our authority as a
nation to the organization of that
peace upon worldwide foundations
that can not easily be shaken. No
nation should be forced to take side
in any quarrel i'll which its own
honor and integrity and the fortunes
of its own people are not involved;
but no nation can any longer remain
neutral as against any wilful dis
turbance of the peace Of the world.
l am the candidate of party, but
l am above all things else an Ameri-
can citizen. l neither ask the favor
nor fear the displeaSure of that small
alien element among us which ruts
loyalty to any foreign power before
loyalty to the United States.
Alike in the domestic field and in
the wide field of the commerce of the
world, American business and life
and industry have been set free to
move as they never moved before.
Republican leaders, apparently, know
of no means of assisting business but
protection" How to stimulate it
and put it upon a new footing of
energy and enterprise they have not
suggested.
The workingmen of America have
been given a veritable emancipation
by the legal recognition of a mans
labor as part of his life, and not a
mere marketable commodity.
For the farmers of the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit by means of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act. They
now have the standing of other bust
ness men in the money market"