Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-28
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President Makes "Co-0pera-
ton" the Theme of His ''WiI-
son Day. Speech.
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Making his motto "Co-operation,"
President Wilson spoke here today At
the principal meeting Of . SERIES Of
gatherings in many states arranged b.
the democratic national committee IN
celebration Of Wilson day" The oc-
casion was also known ~ 'Dmptrs
State day" hero because delegations Of
organization democrats. indepsndsnts,
progressives and women from New
York journeyed on special trains from
New York city and state to greet the
President and assure him Of their sup
port isSi
The President spoke for woman suf-
frage. declared that American law has
not kept pace with American senti-
ment," and that what was legal has
begun to play q more important part
in our thoughts and determinations
than what is human and right" out
lined the Legislative achievements of
his administration and sketched broad
ly a program for the future. including
the making of courts Of Justice out of
our courts of law" and the establish
ment of permanent peace.
Many From Tammany Hall.
With bands playing and banners wav-
Ing several thousand democrats came
from New York to hear the President.
Several special trains brought the
New York democrats to the Presidents
summer home. Two of them carried a
big delegation from Tammany Hall,
one accommodated representatives of
the Bronx democracy. and fourth the
Brooklyn contingent. The Tammany
braves were led by Grand Sachem John
R. voorhis. Mr.. voorhis is eighty-six
years old. Delegations from neighbor-
ing counties also made the journey.
After the pilgrims return to New
York city from Shadow Lawn upward
Of 100 meetings will be held through
out the city. At each of these will be
read the address delivered by President
Wilson earlier in the day.
The President returned here last
night from his trip to Cincinnati.
which marked his last appearance in
the middle west before the election. He
arrived here at 9:45 o'clock and
motored directly to Shadow Lawn.
The Presidents speeches between
now and the election will be devoted
chiefly to efforts to carry New York
and his home state Of New Jersey.
to the largest gathering yet assembled
at Shadow Lawn to hear his Saturday
afternoon campaign speeches.
President Wilson's Address.
The Presidents address follows:
my Fellow-citizens:
This Is called Wilson day only be-
cause for six years, first as Governor OF
New Jersey. and then as President of
the United States, I have been permit
ted to lead first a great state and then
a great national party along the ways
of progress and of enlarged and re-
generated life which our people had
so long sought and So long been held
selfish interest, and because the great
honor 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-
manity and progress. 1t is of these
forces that / shall speak and not Of
myself, who am merely their servant.
What are these forces? Whence do
plished, and what is their program and
purpose for the future? 1t is plain
what they are. They are the forces OF
humane, righteous and patriotic pur-
pose 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 a new age in which government
shall be indeed the servant of liberty
and not of privilege. These are men
who perceive that American law has
not kept pace with American senu-
ment: 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 a 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 reconciling what is with what
ought to be.
Says New Age Dawned.
"a new age had dawned upon us while
those who were attempting to lead us
were stumbling along with their heads
over their shoulders. intent upon pre-
serving the conditions of day that is
gone. America had changed and the
whole world had changed. Our COM
merce and industry had grown to such
bulk that the domestic markets of
which our former leaders were always
SO solicitous were glutted and we were
bound. unless we were to burst our
markets of the world. The time had
come when our commerce needed free-
dom and would be throttled by further
restraints. We had acquired foreign
possessions, had been drawn into the
politics of the world, had begun to
play a part which could not be played
by provincials but must be played by
citizens of the great world of nations.
And yet we had not altered our policy
or our point of view. The great Euro
pean war has served at least to show
US this one thing-that the world itself
had changed; that 1t had become at
once too big a world and too little a
world to submit it's destinies to the
hostile rfvalries and ambitions now of
this and again of that member OF the
great family of men; too compact, too
intimate in its contacts, too universal
in it's ways of intercourse, to make 1t
any longer possible to limit the effects
of any nations action to a single. SEN
arate sphere where the rest would be
of interests has been thrust upon the
nations. They are neighbors and must
their interests to one an
other, or else disturb the lives and en-
barrass the fortunes of men every
where. No wonder that in such an ago
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 human-
Ity and Of justice!
These are the freshening winds
blowing out of the life of mankind
that have brought on
new day In American politics. We
nave looked once more very critically
1t our own laws and our own prac-
ices and have set about to square