The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-25
(By George Creel.)

ed why it was that Henry Morgenthau left the ranks of Big Business to be-
 come Ambassador to Turkey, and doubtless they wondered again when
 he resigned the post, in an hour of
 glory, to enter upon the drudging du- ties of chairman of the finance com- mittee of the Woodrow Wilson cam paign. I put the questions to him squarely.
 "I felt the call of religion" he be- gan. ''The religion of the new De- mocracy of America. which, if it
 means anything, means the whole, not the part. It means Justice, not charity, it means equality of oppor- tunity instead of special privilege. All my life I have believed these things but had never fought for them. What I did was to decide to fight.
 "At the time of my decision l was not entirely clear as to how and where I should make response to my desire for service to real Democracy. Wood row Wilson, appearing at the thresh- hold of his public career, came as an answer to my uncertainty. I had been observing his course for years. His stand against the Princeton societies | first attracted me to him and felt in
 stinctively sympathy. with his pur- | poses. There his field was small, but the issues with which he was striving were fundamental. His struggle to democratize g. great university bring the students into the perform ance of the precepts of the American | Declaration of Independence-is anal | agous to the struggle that continues in a broader field in the United States to- day. I read his books, I talked with him, I grew to feel that Woodrow l Wilson, more than any other man since Lincoln, had Democracy in his heart and in his soul, that it was noth- ing less than a passion with hdm.
 I admired, him as Governor of New Jersey. His gladiatorial contest with political bosses, and the way in which he forced remedial legislation in which
 he believed demonstrated that he was not only a scholar with vision and ideals but also an executive with tre- mendous driving force. When he be- came candidate for President I as- sisted him in every way, I knew" How did you come to take the Turkish post?"
 "It looked to me like a chance for real work" he answered simply. III I tried to get him to talk about his
 experiences in Turkey, for the record
 of Henry Morgenthau's service to hu-
 manity in behalf of wretched Armenia
 is a great story. He held back from the purely personal and talked of
 other things. Well" said, finally.
 "Why did you resign the post?" 'I found bigger one. I felt that ] not only this country but the nations
 of the world had vital interest in
 Woodrow Wilson's reelection, for fail-
 ure tp endorse and vindicate' him
 would be a blow to Democracy. To avert such catastrophe I would have
 been willing to do the utmost. Rais- ing a campaign fund to beat Wilson is an easy task" he continued. Millions are to be had for the asking. Raising money to help re-elet Wilson is not so simple. The money must come from | the people, not in large amounts but in small sums. It is the people alone | that he has served. It is from the | people alone that he can ask campaign aid. It was thought that I could fill the place, and accepted the work just as would have willingly dug trenches had it been necessary to Woodrow | Wilson's success"
 | He rose from his chair and walked up and down the room and when he | spoke his voice had a trumpet ring. "It is fight as tremendous in the significance of it's issues as the Ameri- can Revolution or war against human slavery. Let Wilson be defeated" he declared. I've will not only lose every inch of ground that we nave gained, | but the Democratic movement will re- | ceive a most serious reverse, from which 1t will take years to recover. I l consider our success vital, if we are | to continue on the high road to a greater Democracy, animated by the | principle of human justice and inspir- ed by the spirit of progress.
 Consider the work of Wilson-his | accomplishments. Those who charge | him with vacillation and cowardice speak words of the veriest folly stupid, indeed. No American Presi- dent has ever faced such problems, fraughtl with the importance of life and death, and no President in our | history has ever met his difficulties with greater resolution and decision. Let us enumerate a few things that stand out boldly in the marvellous re- l COTO OI HIS WOTk. 1n0 ouoTdl fl0- serve Act. Rural Credits, an honest and just tariff act, the child labor law, l the workman's compensation act, the Clayton antitrust law, that bars mo- nopoly and lifts labor out of slavery, the seamans' act, the repeal of the Panama tolls exemption, the various measures for the opening and devel- | opment of Alaska, the Federal Trade Commission-the Supreme Court of Commerce; the shipping bill, through which the American merchant marine is to recover it's old-time prestige, lost through Republican neglect; the in come tax and inheritance tax laws, the agricultural education act each a piece of wise legislative achievement, oppos- I ed by the leaders of the Republican minority occasionally aided by mis- guided Democrats, but eah measure finally receiving the approval of fore sighted men of both parties.
 '"The record of the Wilson admins tration Is incomparable; it has no | counterpart in American history. No | other administration, however pa triotic or jealous in the public service, has ever had placed to its credit such a wonderful sum of great things | done"
 | You are a business man." inter- rupted. What about this insistence that Woodrow Wilson has injured | busness?"