The Washington times., 1916-04-14
Wilson Would Apply Ideal to De-
mestic as Well as Foreign
Matters.
AGGRESSION FOR HUMANITY
Chief Executive Outlines Views
on Policies at Jefferson Day
Banquet.

Non partisan pODtics IN uOmebtiC' hs
we'll as foreign affairs. and agGres-
sion wherever the interests OF hu-
manity and the United States were
coIncident, with a Willingness to step
aside whenever humanity has been
served, form the keynote OF the
speech in which Woodrow Wilson's
Econd- term campaign has been
launched.
The speech was delivered last night
at the New Willard. upon the occa-
sion OF the Jefferson Day banquet
Eight hundred Democrats gathered at
the tables and cbeerAd the Presidents
utterances.
Even while messages were coming
hourly to the War Department, bring.
ing details OF the latest Mexican crisis
arising from the firing upon Amer.
lean cavalrymen at Parral. the Preai-
dent made his speech n purely poll
teal one and practically all reference
to Mexico was avoided.
Foreign Problems.
Aiiusion to the foreign problems be-
setting the Administration was made
by the President In the following Ian
guaRe:
These are the days that search
mems hearts. These are the days that
ought to quiet ill-considered counsel
These are solemn days. when all the
moral standards of mankind are about
IN be finally tried out.
"And the responsibility II with us
Democrats, because the power for the
America under our leadership shall
hold those eternal balances even or
shall let some mallRn influence depress
orc balance and lift the other"
Before the President spoke. Senators
walsh and Hollis. and Representative
Carter Glass, reviewing the accomplish
ments OF the Democratic party. Furnish
ed the setting against which Mr.. WILL
sons utterances became significant.
Senator Walsh reviewed the tariff sit
uation. and declared the Democratic
party. called upon to restore popular CIV
ernmcnt. had done so.
Senator Hollis told what the Demo-
cratic party has done for the farmer.
man of the House Committee on Bank
ing and Currency, hailed Woodrow Will
son as "the master mind" In the draft
ing OF the Federal reserve legislation.
Presidents Speech.
The President said in part:
This country demands service which
Is essentially and fundamentally nom
partisan. Some gentlemen will learn
this soon. some will learn It late. but
they will all learn II so thoroughly that
II will be digested.
This country demands at this time
as II never did before absolutely dis
interested and non-partisan service. And
affairs, where everybody Processes 10
be non-partisan; refer Just as much to
domestic affairs. for in saying non-par-
tisan do not mean merely as between
also and more fundamentally as be-
tween classes ana interests.
ANY man who nights for my class IN
this country is now fighting against
the interest OF America and the well
as between classesh as between inter-
ests, al between political ambitions. as
between those who desire power and
those who have It, For power will
thing of It's temper. long be intrustej
hoof.
testY God forbid that we should ever
become directly or indirectly enbroiled
In quarrels not OF our own choosing,
ana that do not affect what we feel
responsible to defend, but II we should
ever be drawn in. are you ready to 20
in only where the interests OF America
are coincident with ne interests OF
mankind. and to draw out the moment
the lnteTebt CentoTb III AnepCA ana is
narrowed from the wide circle of hu-
manity? Are you ready for the test?
Have YOU the courage to go in? Have
you the courage to come out accord
Ing as the balance is disturbed or
rcadJusted for the interests of humani-
ty:"
Pleased by T. r. References.
Some OF President Wilson's audience
thought they saw reference TO Colonel
Roosevelt in one or two expressions, and
laughed and applauded until the room
rocked.
Other striking expressions In the
Presidents speech were:
Prosperity for the great masses has
never sprung out of the soil of privilege.
Prosperity and right, prosperity and
liberty have never come by favor; they
have always come by right.
Frankly. l am not interested In per-
sonal ambitions, l am not enthusiastic
over mere party success.
This country has not the time, II is
not now In the temper to listen to the
violent. to the passionate, to the ambi-
tious"