The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-11-03
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.

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 ii.
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 II OF
what he plans for your future-a
statement made not alone to the thou
sands who %journeyed 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 Presl-
lent 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
the great honor has fallen TO me OF
be lg chosen once more spokesman
and representative of the men who
mean 70 hold the country 10 these
ways of peace, humanity and progress.
II is of these forces that | shall speak
1 and not Of myself. who am merely
their servant.
What are these forces? Whence
do they spring? What have they ac-
compli<hed. and what is their pro-
gramme aHd purpose for the future?
Ii is plain what they are. They are
the forces Of humane. righteous, anil
patriotic purpose which have sprung
UP in our day in the minds of those
who perceive the shortcomings of the
law us IL has hardened N America
cnd who look forward with purpose
anu conviction to q new age III which
government shall be indeed tie
servant of liberty and not of privi-
lege.
These are rlen who perceive that
American law has not kept pace
with American sentiment; that our
law has been holding us rigid and
i%mmovable. until class has begun. IN
free America. TO be arrayed against
class; until what WAS legal has begun
10 play a more important part N OR
thoughts and determinations than
what is human and right; and until
America has begun 10 lag instead of
lead in reconciling what is with what
ought ID be.
Dawn Of a New Age.
~ new age had daWned upon us
while those W were attempting 10
lead us were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders. in-
tent upon preserving the conditions OF
Il 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
domestic markets of which our for
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 needed freedom
and would be throttled by further re.
straints.
w had acquired foreign posses
sionS. had been drawn into the poll
Tics Of the world, had begun TO play
a part which could not be played by
p~rovincialS. 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 great
European war has served at least Il
show us this one thing, 1hat the WORLD
itself has changed: that ii had be
come at once too big a world ant
TOO little q world 10 submit its des
TIMES 70 the hostile rivalries and am
billions now of this and again of tina
member OF the great family of men
too compact. too intimate in its con
facts, TOO universal In its way q
intercourse To make IL any Longer
possible 10 limit the effects Of any
nations action To a single. separat,
| sphere where the rest would be un
touched"
IN inevitable partnership OF inter
eSts has beer thrust upon the nations
They are ~neighborS and must accom-
modate their interests 10 one another
or else disturb the lives and embarras.
the fortunes of men everywhere. VI
wonder that in such an age men ii
/, America should be cried awake an,
feel once more, as they felt them ii
! the days when their great republic
: was set up, the compulsions of hu
manlty and Of %justicel
squarins avs With Life.
!. There are the freshening wind
blowing out Of the life OF mankin'