The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06

1 last become as. wide as the horizon, and the thing we have to be careful about is that we do all this in a new way. It has hitherto been done by those who wanted to exploit the world. It has got to be done now in a way that will deserve the confidence of the world. American character, as well as American enterprise, is going to be put to the test. American ideals are for the first time to be exhibited upon a worldwide scale. American purposes are going to be tested by the purposes of mankind, and not by the purposes of national ambition The nearest approach to any refer ence to the accomplishments of his administration made by the President was in the form of prediction that the currency and antitrust laws en- acted by the Democratic Congresses during the last three years will prove of incalculable value in preparing the American people for the new condi- tions which confront them. His ex- planation of the purposes and methods l made possible by the new laws pro- l vOked general applause, but the great est enthusiasm aroused by any period FoA HIS duOI cSS tAolloWeu -IulS UeCldTd- | ton:
 We have heard great deal of talk about big business getting no sympathy. That was not the trouble. Big business had plenty of sympathy, but bad business ought not to have had any, and what our laws stood in need of was the definition of what was good and what was bad" The audience rose to it's feet as he made this statement:
 Effect of War on America.
 There areS many circumstances that make one feel that the present state of the world is beyond measure tragical," said the President And yet I believe that this great catas- | trophe which has fallen upon the world in the shape of war, is going to do us in America, at any rate, a great service. It is going to oblige every man to know that he lives in new age and that he has got to act not according to the traditions of the past but according to the necessi- ties of the present and the prophecies of the Future. America up to the present time has been as if by delib- crate choice confined and provincial, and it will be impossible for her to remain confined and provincial.
 "Henceforth she belongs to the
 world and must be as part of the world, and all of the attitudes of America will henceforth be altered. | All the destiny into whose great fruition America has promised to lead the world is now open to be l achieved under her leadership ,if she will see and take the way. All of this is in the abstract, but in the l concrete it means a very interesting variety of things and I want you to know that it ought not, that 1t does not in my conception, make any
 difference who does these things pro- Uded you see to it that they. are
 done. But America will never for | give herself if she does not do them. And I want you to believe me when
 say that certain things that have recently been accomplished by legis- lation have been accomplished with these ideals. and purposes in mind." Wins Women's Cheers. The Iowa politicians. who, next to
 those of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
 are most expert in the game, held to
 the background. The shows ar
 ranged by the Iowa folks belonged to
 the people and made no provision for
 partisan politicians.
 | In the half dozen sentences uttered
 by him in acknowledgement of the
 greetings in Iowa the President made
 no reference to the pending political
 contest. He graciously expressed his
 thanks, and appeared to be much
 more pleased with the interest dis ] played in Mrs. Wilson than in the
 tribute paid to himself At one of
 the stations ht nodded his smiling | approval Of chords sung by young
 women who pronounced Mrs. Wilson
 to be wonderful to the refrain of a
 song that is supposed to be more popular on Broadway-than in Iowa. A Non-Partisan Reception. ] At Council Bluffs. Across the river | from Omaha, the President told a | crowdN of 5000 people that gathered
 around the platform of his car: ''It is
 mighty fine of you to come and greet
 me in this way. It cheers me very much"
 Several voices: We are going to vote for you, too. Everybody" The President: This is SubStan- | tial evidence of it."
 A woman's voice: T wish the wo-
 men could vote."
 The President: q wish they could"
 If some of the advocates of Votes for Women who have been proclaim ing MT. Hughes their only champion could have heard all of the women and most of the men that were in the Council Bluffs crowd cheer in mighty unison they would have been compell- ed to revise their declaration that all the women of the United States are for the Republican presidential can- didate. v
 The President's impromptu en-