Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1916-11-03
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
GREATER PROGRESS
Laws Must Fit New Life, He Tells
the American People.
HIS RECORD or DEEDS DONE.

American Riahts Upheld With Honor,
Farmers Greatly Benefited, Business
Unshsoklsd, Labor Protected, Chill
drsn Get Free - Votes Of Women
Nsedsd-World Peace Desired.
Shadow Lawn, N. J., Oct. 2S.-To the
American people Woodrow Wilson to-
day gave an accounting Of his admin
istration as their President. He "bal.
anced his books" 80 that the record
stands clear Promises fulfilled. great
deeds donel That, In short tells the
story. And yet the story Ia not hn-
ished. Other chapters In the great
Book of Human Progress remain to be
: written. It rests with you, American
Voters, to say whether the man who
began the book shall finish 1t.
Here, In the Presidents own words
Is a plain statement Of what he, as
leader not only Of the Democratic
party but Of the nation, has accom-
plished in your behalf and Of what he
plans for your futures statement
made not alone to the thousands who
tourneyed here but to you and the
hundreds Of thousands throughout the
country who also celebrated Wilson
Day"
The Presidents Speech.
sMy Fellow-citizens:
'This Ii called Wilson Day only be-
cause for six years, first as Governor
OF New Jersey and than as President
Of the United States, have been per-
mitted to lead first a. great state and
then q great national party along the
ways Of progress and of enlarged and
regenerated life which our people had
10 leng sought and 30 long been held
back from by the organised power Of
selfsh interest, and because the great
: honor has fallen to me Of being chosen
once more spokesman and representa-
tive Of the men who mean to hold the
country to these ways Of peace, hu-
manity and progress. 1t Is Of these
forces that shall speak and not Of
myself, who am merely their servant.
"What are these forces2 Whence do
they springf What have they accom-
plished, and what Is their programme
and purpose for the futuref 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 per-
ceive the shortcomings Of the law as
It has hardened in America and who
look forward with purpose and convic-
ton to q new age In which govern
ment shall be indeed the servant Of lib
erty and not Of privilege.
"These are men who perceive that
American law has not kept pace with
American sentiment; that our law has
been holding US rigid and immoyable,
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 de-
termina lions than what is human and
right; and until America has begun to
lag instead Of lead In reconciling what
u with what ought to be.
| Dawn Of New Age.
"A new age had dawncd upon %
while those who were attempting to
lead us were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, intent
upon preserving the conditions Of q
day that Is gone. America has changed
and the whole world has changed. Our
commerce and industry had grown to
such bulk that the domestic markets
OF which our former leaders were al
ways 30 solicitous were glutted and
we wers bound, unless we were to
burst our jacket. to find free outlet
into the markets OF the world. The
time had come when our commerce
needed freedom and would be throt-
tied BY further restraints
ave had acquired foreign posses.
sions, had been drawn into the politics
Of tho world. had begun to play a part
which could not be played BY provin-
ciais but must be played by citizens 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 to show US this one
thing, that the world itself Ind chang
ed; that II had become at once too big
d world and too little d world to snb-
init its destinies to the hostile rivairIes
and ambifiona now OF this and arain