The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-11-02
PRESIDENT P[EDGES
GREATER PROGRESS
Laws Must Fit New Life Mr..
Wilson Tells the American
People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE
q. 8. Rights Upheld With Honor,
FARMERS Aided, Business and Labor
Benefited, Children Protected
-Women's Votes Needed.

-Women's Votes Needed.
Shadow Lawn, N. j.. Oct. 2S.-To
the American people Woodrow Wilson
today gave an accountingSSof his adj
ministration> SIS their President. He
balanced hts books" so that the rec
ord stands clear. Promises fulfilled.
great deeds done! That, in snort,
tells the story. And yet the story
is not finished. Other chapters in the
great Book of Human Progress re-
main to be written. It rests with
you, American Voters, to say whether
the man who began the book shall
finish it.
Here, in the Presidents own
words, is a plain statement Of what
he, as leader not only of the Demo-
cratic party, but Of the nation, has
accomplished in your behalf and OF
what he plans for your future-a
statement made not alone to the thou
sands who journeyed here, but to you
and the hundreds Of thousands
throughout the country who celebrat-
ed "Wilson Day"
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
"My FellOw-citizens:
'"This is called Wilson Day only
because for six years, first as Cover
nor of New Jersey and then as Presi-
dent of the United States, have been
permitted to lead first great state
and then a great national party along
the ways of progress and Of enlarged
and regenerated 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 representative Of the men who
mean to hold the country to these
ways Of peace, humanity and progress.
It Is Of these forces that I shall speak
and not of myself, who am merely
their servant.
"What are these forces? Whence
do they spring? What have they &C.
complished, and what is their pro-
gramme 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 perceive the shortcomings of the
law as it has hardened in America
and who look forward with purpose
and conviction to new age in which
government shall be indeed the
servant Of liberty and not of privi-
lege.
''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 a more important part in our
thoughts and determinations than
what is human and right; and until
America has begun to lag instead of
lead in reconciling what is with what
ought to be.
Dawn Of q New Age.
"A new age had dawned upon Us
while those who were attempting tC
lead US were stumbling along witt
their heads over their shoulders, in
tent upon preserving the conditions OF
q day that is gone. America hat
changed and the whole world hat
changed. Our commerce and industr.
had grown to such bulk that the
domestic markets of which our for
mer leaders were always so solicitor.
were glutted and we were bound, un
less we were to burst our jacket
to find free outlet into the market.
Of the world. The time had com,
when our commerce needed freedom
and would be throttled by further re
straints.
1--WE had acquired foreign posses
sions, had been drawn into the poll
tics Of the world, had begun to pla,
a part which could not be played b,
provincials, but must be played by citi
Gems of the great world of nations
And yet we had not altered our polio,
or our point of view. The grea
European war has served Mt least t,
show us this one thing. that the worl,
itself has changed: that 1t had be
come Mt once too big a world an
too little world to submit its des
TIMES to the hostile rivalries and am
billions now of this and again of tina
member of the great family of men
too compact, too intimate in its con
facts. too universal In its way. o
intercourse, TO make it any longe
possible to limit the effects Of an,
nations action to single, separate
sphere where the rest would be uu
touched"
"An inevitable partnership of inter
ests has been thrust upon the nations
They are neighbors and must accom-
lnodate their interests to one anothe,
or else disturb the lives and embarras
the fortunes of men everywhere. n
wonder that in such an age men Il
America should be cried awake am
feel once more. as they felt them Il
the days when their great republi
was set up. the compulsions Of h,
manity and of Justice!
squarino Laws With Life.