New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
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 LOOKING GBACkWARD WILSON DECLARES
President Makes Telling Assault on Those of Opposition Party
 Who Try to Block His Work
DOESN'T BELIEVE THEY
 REPRESENT REAL PARTY

nUT nUOUNI uUAu AIe1 | Says Opponents Do Not know the
 Problems of the Day and Spoil His
 Efforts to Place F'orward-LoOl>ing
 Men in Office-Amcrica Has Big
 Must Be Ready For Role.
 Salisbury, N. C., May 20.-President Wilson, addressing a large crowd at the railroad station here today, at tackled leaders of the republican party as men who are Hooking backward.' Members of the presidents party de- clared he was referring to the fight led by Senator Gallinger, defeating the nomination of George Rublee to the federal trade commission.
 SsI These are very serious things to z be done nowadays, ladies and gentle S men, said the president and it is a gsatisfa ction to be associated with men who know how serious they are, and with what spirit they must be ap preached, because, whether he will or not, we are at the beginning of a new age for the world, and America will have to play a very great part in that new age.
 And we will have to be very sure mot to encourage or give counrenance to the men who are trying to hold us back.
 Hits At Blockaders.
 There are some men, I do not be- . lieve they represent the great rank and file of the republican party, but the men who now control the repub- . .lican party are looking backward. not { forward. They do not know the prob for example, try jto show my yWmpa- their own party &A Aominating men < of that sort they at once try to Block the pregns1s They have no sympathy with the tofward- looking men of their town party. Now I am for forward looking men not for backward look ing men. We have come down to cele- brate an historical episode, but we have not done it because we are looking backward; we have done it mersly 4Saprder8to give ourselves the skycuse t6get together and fee, the. S5E of. befn americans and living ffn an aEe whe1zt is worth while be- Ing Anssrsea D s'
 suntainted A me effcanism" Needed.
 Charlotte! N. C., May 20-President Wilson today addressed a crowd es- timated at more than 100, ,00O, gather ed here for the Hist anniversary of the signing of the Mecklenburg de- claration of independence He was Introduced by Gov. Craig of North < eGarolina. who spoke of the president ( as one of the greatest leaders the ssnation has ever seen. The president x began speaking at 12:3o o'clock. z The president spoke only briefly and devoted himself almost wholly to discussion of the ideals of the United States. He declared "un- tainted Americanism" was needed, and that the United States must pre- serve its ideals in order to be of assistance in helping the world He ! was enthusiastically applauded.
 'I have come back for brief visit to a region dear to my heart N.said the president ''I do not know q whether I can interpret for you the spirit of this occasion. It is necessary - There were only 3,000,O0O people in this nation when it became indepen- dent. Now there are 100000, 1000 people. There have been changes, but we have the same clements What I want to impress on you is that we have always been in the making Among the men who founded this nation there was a very great passion for human liberty.
 Material Side Uppermost.
 What want to call your attentior to Is that this nation has devoted it. self almost too much to materia things. There have been other na lions, just as rich as the United States We must think of what we are goius Ito do with our wealth and our pros Iperity.
 America did not come out of tn, south and it did not come out O the middle states, where there was mixture of different races.''
 The president spoke of the Flu ,ropean war What are the ele ments of this warp he asked. I Is a clash of different elements Europe is fighting out in the war tn question we are fighting out in peace As the processes of communicable. have grown better nations ant peoples have grown closer together Men can now learn more about eacl other. So that now the melting DO Is bigger than America. It is as bi as the world. See, then, what a nev world we have come into.
 ''Here in America we have tried t. set the example of peace by. keepint together. Isn't it the sign and daWl of a new age that the one thing nov (Continued On Ninth Page.)