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PRESIDENT i'.i PLEDGES .
GREATER PROGRESS
laws Must Fit New Life, He Tells
the American People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE.

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Nssdsd-Worid Peace Desired.
Shadow Lawn. N. j., Oct. 28.-To the
American people Woodrow Wilson to-
day gave an accounting Of his admin
istration as their President. He "bal-
anced his books" so that the record
stands clear. Promises fulfilled, great
deeds done! That in short. tells the
story. And yet the story Is not I'm
ished. Other chapters in the great
Book Of Human Progress remain to be
written. 1t rests with you. American
Voters, to say whether the man who
began the book shall finish it.
Here, In the Presidents own words,
is plain statement Of what be, 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 future-a 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.
''My FeliOw-citiZenS:
''This is 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-
tntn
then a great national party along the
ways Of progress and of enlarged and
regenera ted 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 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 l shall speak and not OF
myself, who am merely their servant.
"What are these forces? Whence do
they spring? What have they accom-
plished, and what is their programme
and purpose for the future? 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 immovable,
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-
Examinations than what IL human and
right; and until America has begun to
Lar instead Of lead in reconciling what
IL with what ought to be.
Dawn Of New Age.
"A new age had dawned upon 10
while those who were attempting to
lead W were stumbling alons with
their heads over their shoulders, intent
upon preserving the conditions of
day that Is gone. America has changed
and the whole world has changed. Our
commerce and industry had grown to
such a bulk that the domestic markets
OF which our former leaders were a.
ways 20 solicitous were glutted and
We were bound, unless we were to
burst our jacket, to ind 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.
1--WE had acquired foreign posses
sions, had been drawn into the politics
of the world, had begun to play part
which could not be played by provin-
Gals 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 had chang
ed; that It had become at once too big
q world and too little world to sub
NIT its destinies to the hostile rivalries
and ambitions now Of this and again
OF that member of the great family Of
men; too compact, too intimate in Its
contacts, too universal In its ways Of
Intercourse, to make it any longer pos.
sible to limit the effects of any nations
action to single separate sphere where
the rest would be untouched.
IAN inevitable partnership OF inter
eets has been thrust upon the nations
They are neighbors and must accom-
Hodate their interests to one another.
q else disturb the lives and embar'
taas the fortunes Of men everywhere.
NO wonder that in such an age men In
America should be cried awake and
tel once more, as they felt them In
IL days when their great republic was
- up. the compulsions of humanity
ara % Justice!
oqusrins Laws With Life.
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