The Twin Falls times., 1916-10-31
Laws Must Fit New Life Mr..
Wilson Tells the American
People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE
U. S. Rights Upheld With Honor,
Farmers Aided, Business and Labor
Benefited, Children Protected
-Women's Votes Needed.

today gave an accounting Of his al
ministratiOn as their President. lie
balanced his books" so that the rec
ord stands clear. Promises fulfilled,
great deeds done That, in short
tells the story. And yet the story
is not finished. Other chapters in the
great Book of Human Progress re
main to be written. 1t rests with
YOU. American Voters, to say whether
the man who began the book shall
finish it.
Here. in the Presidents own
words is a plain statement of what
he. as leader not only of the Demo
cratic party, but of the nation, has
accomplished in your behalf and OF
what he plans for your future-a
statement made not alone to the thou
sands who iourneyed here, but to you
and the hundreds of thousands
throughout the country who celebrat-
ed "Wilson Day"
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
MY Fellow-citizens:
"This is called Wilson Day only
because for six years, first as Cover
nor of New Jersey and then as Presi-
dent Of the United States, have been
permitted to lead first a great state
and then a great national party along
the ways of progress and of enlarged
and regenerated life which our people
had so long sought and so long been
held back from by the organized
power of selfish interest and because
tI ho fol
being chosen once more spokesman
and representative Of the men who
mean to hold the country to these
ways of peace, humanity and progress.
1t is of these forces that l shall speak
and not of myself, who am merely
their servant.
"What are these forces7 Whence
do they spring? What have they ac-
complished, and what is their pro-
gramme 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 perceive the shortcomings of the
law as it has hardened in America
and who look forward with purpose
and conviction to a new age in which
government shall be indeed the
servant of liberty and not of privi-
lege.
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 to be arrayed against
class until what was legal has begun
to play a more important part in our
thoughts and determinations than
what is human and right; and until
America has begun to lag instead of
lead in reconciling what is with what
ought to be.
Dawn of a New Age.
"A new age had dawned upon us
while those who were attempting to
lead us were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, in
tent upon preserving the conditions Of
day that is gone. America had
changed and the whole world had
changed. Our commerce and industry
had grown to such a bulk that the
mer leaders were always so solicitous
were glutted and we were bound, un.
less we were to burst our jacket
to find a free outlet into the markets
of the world. The time had come
when our commerce needed freedom
and would be throttled by further re-
straints.
I'VE had acquired foreign posses
sions, had been drawn into the poll
tics of the world, had begun to play
part which could not be played by
provincals, but must be played by citi
zens of the great world of nations
And yet we had not altered our policy
or our point of view. The grea
European war has served at least tC
show us this one thing, that the worlC
itself has changed: that 1t had be
come at once too big a world anC
too little a world to submit its des
TIMES to the hostile rivalries and am
bitions now of this and again of tina
member of the great family of men
too compact, too intiT"te in its con
tacts too universal in its way o.
intercourse, to make it ny Longer
possible to limit the effects OF any
nations action to a single, separat,
sphere where the rest would be un
touched"
IAN inevitable partnership of inter
ests has been thrust upon the nations
They are neighbors and must accom-
modate their interests to one another
or else disturb the lives and embarras.
the fortunes of men everywhere. Nc
wonder that in such an age men IN
America should be cried awake anC
feel once more, as they felt them IL
the days when their great republi
was set up, the compulsions of r <
manity and Of justice n
Squaring Laws With Life.
There are the freshening winds