The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-10-28
President Wilson Delivers Mastery Ad-
dress on Wilson Day to Immense
Gathering at ShadOwlawn
COOPERATION ONLY CAN
MAKE AMERICA GREAT
Union and Not Hostile Rivalry Of Forces
Of Society Must Reign Within Nation
and Family Of Nations

Long Branch, N. j. Oct. 2S.-To an
immense gathering which assembled
at Shadow Lawn today President VIII
son delivered masterpiece, his adj
dress being on Wilson day. Follow
ing is the text in full of the presidents
speech:
The presidents address follows;
My fellow citizens:
This is called Wilson Day" only be-
cause for six years, first as governor
of New Jersey and then as president
of the United States, have been per-
mitted 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 the great
honor Of being chos-
on -.~v .uvav SPOKESMAN and repre-
sentative of the men who mean to
hold the country to these ways OF
peace, humanity and progress. 1t is of
lhese forces that shall speak and not
of myself, who am merely their SER
want
What are these forces? Whence do
they spring? What have they accom-
pliGned. aAa hat iaI their program
and purpose for the future? 1t is plain
what they are. They are the forces on
humane, righteous, and patriotic pur
pose 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 privilege. These are men
who perceive that American law has
not nept pace with American senti
ment; 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 more important
part in our thoughts and determine
tions than what is human and right;
and until America has begun to lag in
stead of lead in reconciling what is
with what ought to be.
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 do
nestle markets Of which our former
leaders were always 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 COM
merce needed freedom and would be
throttled by further restraints. We
had acquired foreign possessions, had
been drawn into the politics of the
world, had begun ia play a part which
could not be played by provincials but
must be played by citizens OF the
great world of nations. And yet we
n-u 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
a world and TOO little world to sub
nit its destinies to the hostile rival
ries and ambitions now Of this Jand
again of that member of the great
family of men; too compact, too inti-
nate in its contacts. too universal in
its ways Of intercourse, to make it any
longer possible to limit the effects Of
any nations action to a single sepa-
rate sphere where the rest would be
untouched An inevitable partnership
of interests has been thrust upon the
nations. They are neighbors and
must accommodate their interests TO
one another. or else disturb the lives
and embarass the fortunes Of men ev-
erywhere. No wonder that in such an