Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-11-03
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
GREATER PROGRESS
Laws Must Fit New Life, He Tells
the American People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE

American Rights Upheld With Honor,
Farmers Greatly Benefited, Business
Unshackied, Labor Protected, Chill
dren Set Free Votes Of Women
Needed-WorId Peace Desired.
Shadow Lawn. N. j., Oct. 2S.-To the
American people Woodrow Wilson to-
day gave an accounting of his admin
istratioa az their President. He "bal-
anoed his books so that the record
stands clear. Promises fulfilled. great
deeds done! That, in short, tells the
story. Aud yet the story is not fin
ished. Other chapters in the great
Book Of Human Progress remain to be
written. 1t rests with you, American
Voters, to say whether the man who
began the book shall finish it.
Here. In the Presidents own words,
is plain statement Of what he, as
leader net only Of the Democratic
parAv bat of the nation, has accom-
plished Ia your behalf and Of what he
plans for your future-a statement
made not alone to the thousands who
journeyed here but to you and the
hundreds of thousands throughout the
country who also celebrated "Wilson
Day."
The Presidents Speech.
MY MeNow-c citizens:
This is called Wilson Day only be-
cause for six years, first as Governor
Of New Jersey and than as President
Of the Gated States, have been per-
mitted to lead first great state and
then a great national party along the
ways sf 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
homer has fallen to me Of being chosen
once more spokesman and representa-
tive Of the men who mean to hold the
country to these ways of peace, hu-
man1y and progress. 1t is of these
forces that I shall speak and not of
mysex. Who am merely their servant.
"Wlat are these forces? Whence do
they ags1ne7 What have they accom-
plfshed, and what is their programme
and purpose for the future? 1t is plain
whit they are. They are the forces
of h1nane. righteous, and patriotic
purpose which have sprung up in our
day IN the ,1inds of those who per-
ceive the shortcomings of the law as
1t has hardened In America and who
look 1erwau with purpose and convic-
ton - new age in which govern
ment 4hal be indeed the servant Of lib
erty and aet of privilege.
'1ebese are men who perceive that
Ame1iesa law has not kept pace with
Anaeyisoa sentiment; that our law has
been holding US rigid and immovable.
untN slnas has begun, in free America,
to- be asrayed against class; until what
was iesal has begun to play more
1mporsnak part in our thoughts and de-
tern1tnA&ioas 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 New Age.
"A new age had dawned upon us
whAe those who were attempting to
lead - were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, intent
upon preserving the conditions of a
day that Il gone. America has changed
and ne whole world has changed. Our
commerce and industry had grown to
such q bulk that the domestic markets
Of ud,icA our former leaders were al
ways - soNcitous were glutted and
we we've bound, unless we were to
burst esr jacket, to find a free outlet
1nho he markets Of the world. The
time had come when our commerce
needed freedom and would be throt-
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