Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-02
Laws Must Fit New Life Mr..
Wilson Tells the American
People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE
U. 8. Rights Upheld With Honor,
Farmers Aided, Business and Labor
Benefited, Children Protected
--Women's Votes Needed.

ministration as their President. He
balanced his books" so that the rec
ord stands clear. Promises fulfilled,
great deeds donel That, In short,
tells the story. And yet the story
is not finished. Other chapters in the
great Book of Human Progress re-
main to be written. 1t 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 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 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.
1t is of these forces that l shall speak
and not Of myself, who am merely
their servant.
"What are these fOrceSf Whence
do they spring2 What have they ac-
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 1t 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 prlvI-
lege.
"These are men who perceive that
American law has nor 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 determinations than
what Is human and right; and until
America has begun to lag instead of
lead in rCcOnciing what is with what
ought to he.
Dawn Of New Age.
"A new age had dawned upon us
while those who were attempting to
lead us We're stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, in
tent upon preserving the conditions of
day that is gone. America had
changed and the whole world had
changed. Our commerce and industry
had grown TO such bulk that the
domestic markets of which our for
nCr leaders were always so solicitOus
were glutted and we were bound, un-
less 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 throttled by further re-
Stralnts.
I'VE had acquired foreign posses
siOns, had been drawn into the poll
tics of the world, had begun to play
part which could not be played by
prOvincials but must be played by cti-
zens 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 has changed: that It had be-
come ut once too big world and
too little a world to submit its des-
TIMES to the hostile rivalries and am
billions now of this and again of that
member of the great family of men;
too compact, too intimate in its con-
facts, too universal in its way of
intercourse, to make 1t any longer
possible to limit the effects of any
nations action to a single, separate
sphere where the rest would be un-
touched"
IAN inevitable partnership of inter-
ests has been thrust upon the nations.
They are neighborS and must accom-
mOdHte their interests to one another,
or else disturb the lives and embarrass
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 compulsions of hui
manity and of Justice
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