The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-11-03
RESIDENT PLEDGES
GREATER PROGRESS
.vs Must Fit New Life Mr..
wilson Tells the American
People.
h RECORD OF DEEDS DONE
stahts Upheld With Honor,
amer. Aided, Business and Labor
a.r.fted, Children Protected
women's Votes Needed.

WnnGn8
r..dow Lawn, N. j., Oct. 8.-TO
American people Woodrow Wilson
Nav gave an accounting OF mis- ad
G '"I..rat,op as their President. He
a,oncad his books" so that the rec
stands clear. Promises fulfilled,
..t deeds done! That, in short,
NE the story. And yet the story
not enIshed. Other chapters in the
..ot Book Of Human Progress re
ain to be written. 1t rests with
u American Voters. to say whether
man who began the book shall
nIsh II.
uoro In the Presidents own
,ords, is a plain statement of what
as leader not only OF the Demo
ratio party, but of the nation. has
rcomplIshed In your behalf and OF
that he plans for your future-a
,otOment made not alone to the thou
ands who journeyed here. but to you
md the hundreds of thousands
throughout LHe COuudS ""O NS'S"'"t
a "Wilson Day.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
my Fellow citizens:
This is called 'Wilson Day only
eeause for six years, first as Cover
nor of New Jersey and then as Presi-
lent of the United States, l have been
permitted to lead first a great state
nd then great national party along
he WAYS of progress and of enlarged
Ind regenerated life which our people
had SO long sought and so long been
eld back from by the organized
power of selfish. interest, and because
he great honor has fallen to me a!
being chosen once more spokesman
Ind representative of the men who
mean to hold the country TO these
Eays of peace, humanity and progress
II Is of these forces that shall speak
Ind not Of myself. who am merely
heir servant.
What are these forces7 Whence
DO they spring? What have they ac-
cOmplished, and what is their pro
Tamme and purpose for the future
i is plain what they are. They are
the forces Of humane, righteous, ant
patriotic purpose which have sprung
up In our day in the minds of those
VINO perceive the shortcomings of the
law as it has hardened In America
and who look forward with purpose
and conviction to new age in which
government shall be indeed the
servant of liberty and not of priv,
ege.
These are men who perceive thai
American law has not kept pace
With American sentiment; that OuI
aw has been holding US rigid and
mmovable, until class has begun, in
tree America, to be arrayed against
dass; until what was legal has begun
% play more important part In Oul
houghts and determinations thar
Saat is human and right: and unit
america has begun to lag instead OF
ead In recOnciling what is with wha
ought to be.
Dawn OF q New AGE.
A new age had dawned upon u'
"mie those who were attempting Il
cad US We're stumbling along witt
'heir heads over their shoulders, In
eat upon preserving the conditions o.
Jay that is gone. America hat
vaahged and the whole world haC
Insnged. Our commerce and industr!
lsa grown to such bulk that th'
1oinesuc markets of which our for
-lef leaders were always so solicitOui
we're gIutted and we were bound, un
We were TO burst our jacket
y und free outlet into the market
the world. The time had COM
'uen our commerce needed freedom
SUI would be throttled by further re
stralnts.
we had acquired foreign posses
s'Ous' mad been drawn into the poll
y Oi the world. had begun to pls.
pafI which could not be played b,
s.O'lneals, but must be played by citi
- OF the great world OF nations
au' yet We had not altered our polio,
our point of view. The grea
I''opean war has served at least t,
~, -" Us this one thing. that the worl'
mas changed: that ii had be
al once too big q world an
n'ue world to submit its des
s.l ,a,s TO the hostile rivalries and am
,Ioas now Of this and again of tha
sHoef OF the great family Of men
"mpact, too intimate In its con
- TOO universal in its way O
n.'lIourse, slCourse, to make II any Ionge
,..s.e .sslo.e to limit the effects Of an
r1s -aou action to q single. separat
'ouched.r "U ~ III
AZ Inevitable partnership OF inter
r. aas been thrust upon the nations
are neiEhbors and must accom-