Evening star., 1916-10-22
"These Gentlemen Not to Have
a Chance to Make a Mess OF
It," He Tells Farmers.
WANTS THIRD DEGREE" TO
TEST LOVE FOR NATION
Glad Campaign Is Nearly Over; in
Hurry to Get Down to Business.
Would Mobilize Resources.

By the Associated Press.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Octo-
| Der 21.-In a speech devoted prl-
marily to a discussion OF the need
| for economic preparedness IN the
United States, President Wilson
told a delegation of farmers,
architects and engineers here to-
day that he did not expect the
United States to get into war.
81 know that the way in which
we have preserved peace IS OBJ
jected to- said the President.
"and that certain gentlemen say
they would have taken some
other way that would inevitably
have resulted in war, but l am
not expecting this country to get
into war, partly because am not
expecting these gentlemen to
have chance to make a mess
of it."
Work Done for Farmers.
Taking the work done by the admin
istration for the farmers as his text,
Mr.. Wilson declared:
I'VE want the privilege of represent
ing the whole force of the nation"
He demanded that men be put
through third degree" in respect to
where they stand with regard to love
of the United States. and said he was
glad the campaign was nearly over.
to business again"
There is a great deal of irresponsi-
Bile talk being INDUCED in" declared
the President fn discussing the cam
paign. Men are saying things they
know perfectly well they cannot make
good on and it disturbs the national
counsel On the 7th Of November we
will call time
with Counsel of Whole Nation"
Mr.. Wilson said the democratic party
had been trying to take the government
out Of the control of small groups and
square it with the counsel of the
whole nation"
In detail he told of work being done
20 mobilize the Industrial resources OF
the nation, saying, "One Of the great
lessons of the European war has been
that the economic coordination and CO.
operation of the country is just as i'm
portant as the military cooperation Of
it."
The occasion of the Presidents ad-
dress was the celebration Of Farmers
day" at Shadow Lawn, but A delegation
Of architects and engineers from New
York, led by a band, came to the West
End railroad station by train and
marched to the Presidents summer
home to hear the address. Farmers
from New Jersey and other nearby
states came to the celebration, several
hundred Of them in automobiles.
Presidents Speech.
in his speech here today President
Wilson said, in part:
We owe this much to our republican
predecessors, that they exercised such
long and systematic neglect that it was
necessary for US 10 undertake system
attic performance. Things will not walt
forever to be performed. Not only that,
but circumstances Will not wait upon
everything that ought to be done; some
of the things must be done and done
promptly.
This administration has had the
body of national sentiment behind it
which had long stood ready to support
such measures as it adopted. / do not
know whether the systematic neglect
to which referred to was deliberate or
not. ! only know that it was thorough :
going, and that an absolutely free field
was left for the present administration.
You as farmers nevere We're told. l
| take it. that you were getting the di-
rect benefit of the tariff. You were
told you were getting the indirect
| benefit of the tariff. You were getting
| II with extreme indirection. because
placed upon almost everything that
you had to use and, therefore. the cost
of almost everything you had to use
| was enhanced. and you were promised
| country prospered you would neces-
| sarily prosper with the country-but
you would pay for the prosperity at a
very considerable price. That was not
added, but that was implied.
"Decline to Live as Ward"
| And the whole point of view of our
| legislation has been this. that Il special
set of men, who thought they could guide
the nation better than anybody else and
preferred to guide it In private, asked
certain chief beneficiaries of the tariff to
come together and suggest what the
schedules of the tariff should be. So
that these gentlemen have the idea that