Milford chronicle., 1916-06-23
KEPT NATION At PEACE.
WescOtt, Nominating Wilson,
Calls Administration Best
of Recent Times.

st. Louis. June 17.-Judge John W.
WescOtt attorney general Of the state
Of New Jersey, who nominated Wilson
for president four years ago, again
placed his name in nomination at the
Democratic convention here. He said:
The nation is at work. The nation is at
peace. The nation is accomplishing the
destiny Of Democracy. Four years ago
the nation was not at work with re-
sources boundless, with a hundred mill
lion people eager 10 achieve and do. COM
merce languished. industries halted men
we're idle. The country struggled in the
tolls OF an inadequate financial system.
Credit was at the mercy OF piracy. The
small business man was bound hand and
foot. Panic hung like a storm cloud over
the business world.
Now bursting granaries, teeming facto-
ries, crowded railways and overladen
ships distribute wealth and comfort to un-
counted millions the world over. Produc-
tion outruns the means OF distribution
The parallel OF American prosperity Is
not found IN Industrial history: nor is It
causeless When the European cataclysm
struck the world moratoria fell like a
blight upon many OF the neutral nations.
but not upon the United States
There stands the astounding phenome-
non OF American prosperity. What is its
explanation? The Euclid OF financial the
ory worked to a demonstration measures
for the cOuntry's relief. He promptly put
into effect the legislative expression OF a
great program. lie did not talk He did
things He dynamited the monetary dams
and let credit flow to the remotest corners
Of the land. its spray dashlng even upon
foreign shores He released the nations
resources and set the energies Of all men
Tree to exploit them He DESTROYED COM
mercial slavery. He struc6 Off its shackles. !
The prosperity Of the nation is the prod /
uct OF craftsmanship and financial genius /
The schoolmaster is. statesman. the states |
man is financier the hnancier is emanci- ]
pator.
From the vantage ground OF imperish-
able Americanism the matchless craft Of
a real pacifst has not only avoided all
war. but is leading the world into the
ways OF peace. What Is peace but the
assertion OF moral progress? What Is the
assertion Of moral progress but the inde-
.tructible civilization Of Europe and
American From the smoldering ruins OF
thousand cities, over the graves OF mil
ions OF brave men, out of the blaeknezs
u the battle smoke. arising from the OBJ
curities OF national passions, already the
'eoples OF the earth recognize the dim
utlines, growing ever more distinct Of
he composite soul OF America IN the pa
rent atlo humane wisdom or the worlds 7
cal pacificator. OF what avail all the
1ealth Of our beloved land II It had been
In the destructiveness OF war?
Vhat avail the travail OF human progress
or ten thousand years had not the school.
iaHter and statesman been pacificatorf
lis achievement Is so vast that ambitions
zen are blind to its reality. But the plain
iillions. OF all creeds and nationallties.
scognize IN II the imperishable glories OF
Christian civilization.
Therefore, my fellow countrymen, not
but his deeds and achievements; not /,
1t the spirit and purposes OF America;
u !, but the prayers OF just mem
u ], but civilization itself. nomlnates to
lcceed himself 20 the presidency OF the
nited States, to the presidency Of a hun.
ed million free people, bound IN impreg-
lble union, the scholar. the statesman
Q nnancier, the emancipator, the pacid-
tor. the moral leader Of democracy
oodrow Wilson
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