New Britain herald., 1916-10-28
WILSON RAPS
 REACTIONISTS
(Continued From First Page).

US ways Of intercourse, to make it
 any longer possible to limit the effects
 of any nations action to a single, sep
 prate sphere where the rest would be
 Untouched An inevitable partner
 ship of interests has been thrust open
 the nations. They are neighbors and
 must accommodate their interests to
 one another or else disturb the lives and embarass the fortunes of men
 everywhere. No wonder that in such
 an age men in America should be
 cried awake and feel once more, as
 they felt them in the days when their
 great republic was set up, the com
 pulsions of humanity and of justice!
 These are the freshening winds
 blowing out of the life of mankind everywhere, that have brought on a new day in American politics. We rave looked once more very critically at our own laws and our own prac- tices and have set about to square them with the actual conditions of cur life and the life of the world.
 Changes in Four Years.
 -Four years ago there were two parties in the field whose program N3as conceived under the influence of these great forces of progress and adjustment, the democratic party. Tn the presidential election of four years ago some fifteen millions votes were cast. Of these nearly ten and a half millions were cast for the candidates pr the two progressive parties, only three and a half millions for the can- c>ldates of the republican party, the tarty which fingered in the old ways and felt none of the new impulse of aanew day. More than two-thirds of voters Trit vored then, and favor now, pro- gram whose object is to serve the changing needs of humanity and pro- gross.
 The democratic party was en- trusted with the task. These power- ful~ forces or the new age were put under it's direction. And under that direction what have they accomplish ed They have put both the business and the life of the country upon a new footing. They have released the financial credit, upon which com merce and production alike depend, of financiers and bankers at the spec u!atlVe centers. They have released the commerce and industry of the country from the domination of those who were building up their power by selfish and unfair methods of com pet1tlon. They have supplied those who wished with friendly guidance and delivered them from a nervous fear of the courts. They have re- leased our foreign trade from the shackies of a tariff contrived in the interest of special groups of favored producers, and have created a tariff commission intended to substitute public for private influences, facts for theories and pretensions, in all fu- ture legislation with regard to duties and restrictions on imports. They have made provision for the immedi- ate and systematic development of our carrying trade on the seas. They have at last supplied the means by which the nation may be bound to- gether, materially end spiritually, by network of good roads upon which both commodities and sympathies may move freely from community to community. They have put the far mer upon 6 footing of perfect equal ity with business amen and men of all other callings in respect of his access to commercial credit; have placed a great bureau of the government at his service in seeking and finding his best markets; have protected him by the establishment of definite stand ards in the sale of his products, and have put the scientific knowledge of the world at his disposal by practical demonstration at the expense of the government upon the farms them selves. They have emancipated the laborers of the country from the un- Justified restraints which the courts had put upon them by mistaken ap-
 plications of the old law to new cir f cumstances and conditions. They
 have released the children of the
 country in large part from hurtful
 labor; have sought to safeguard the levels and the health of our laborers in dangerous operations and have put
 agencies of the government itself at
 the service of those who seelz-employ- ment And most of these things
 have been done within the brief linn it's of a single administration
 Task Not Completed.
 And still the great work is not fin ished It can never be rounded off and concluded so long as circum- stances change and the fortunes and relations of men shift and alter. The question you have to decide one week from next Tuesday is whether it shall be prematurely interrupted, perhaps fo a generation to come, and all the generous forces of the age and of the world thrown back upon themselves in Sdiscourage and confusion. The program remaining is as S great as the program accomplished The procedure of our courts is anti quated and a hindrance, not an aid in the just administration of the law. We must simplify and reform it as other enlightened nations have done and make courts of justice out of our courts of law. We must simplify and reform it as other enlightened nations have done. We must seek the means of bringing capital and labor to a l clear understanding of their common S interests, which are no other than