Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-22
PRESIDENT WILSON STATES HIS CASE.

President Wilson's speech of September 2, accept
ING the Democratic denomination, is notable cam
paign document 1t is too long TO reproduce in any
thing except summarized form. Comment on il il
naturally different in Democratic and Republican
papers That il has several loopholes has already
been discovered by the Republican editors and they
are shooting through these loopholes with some
eject
Yet even the most anti.Wilson organ admits that
the president has made very skilful presentation
OF the case for the Democratic party. He slid
cIeyerly past several weak points in the administers
ton record and bore down heavily on its strong
points
Since this speech unquestionably is the partys at
titude for the national campaign now we'll begun
its principal points are worth summary. Here they
The tariff has been revised, not on the principle
o. repeing foreign trade, but upon the principle
d encouraging it, upon something like footing Of
e1nalitK with our own in respect of the terms OF
competitioh.'
eAmefican energies are now directed toward the
markets Of the world
HThe laws against trusts have been clarified by
1e1nifion, with view to making ii plain that they
Ne1e not directed against big business, but only
against unfair bushes and the pretense of competi
ton where there was noner
the federal reserve act the supply of currency
II the disposal Of active business has been rendered
<'astic, taking it's volume not from fixed body Of
Investment securities but from the liquid assets Of
aaiIy trade
eEdectise measures have been taken for the re-
creation Of an American merchant marine and the
|1fiyal Of the American carrying trade
The Republican leaders, apparently, know of no
means Of assisting business but protection
The workingmen Of America have been given a
tritable emancipation by the legal recognition Of
mans labor as part Of his life, and not mere
.1lkftable commodityn
IpAforeign affairs we have been guided by prinei-
PIES clearly conceived and consistently lived up to- 2
The passions and intrigues of certain active
.|0lps and combinations Of men among as who were
born under foreign Tags injected the poison Of dis
0faIty into our own most critical affairs laid yio-
Int hands upon many Of our industries and sub
|ttcd to the shame of divisions of sentiment and
purpose in which AmesSsa was condemned and for
.olien.s
q nm the candidate Of 4,party, but / am, above
A. thugs else an American citizen. neither seek
tie favor fear the displeasure Of that small alien
Element among US which puts loyalty to any foreign
.1nef before loyalty to the United States.
The nations of the world must unite in joint
.01rdntees that whatever is done 60 disturb the
whole worlds life must first be tested in the court
Of the whole worlds opinion before it is attempted
I'VE have already formulated and agreed upon
&''cy Of law which will explicitly remove the ban
BOW supposed to rest upon cooperation among our
Iorters In seeking and securing their proper place
. ne markets Of the world"
home, also, we want to see to it that the men
ne plan and develop and direct business enter
.e< shall enjoy definite and settled conditions of
-. B policy accommodated to the freest progress. =
We must coordinate the railway systems of the
.|1{ry for national use, and must facilitate and
|'0ote their development with view to that co
.'nntion and to their better adaptation as whole
TIE life and trade and defense of the nation
|IIe people Of Mexico have not been suffered to
.I heir own country or direct their own institu-
|4 Outsiders men out of other nations and with
|IItts too often alien to their own, have dictated
hit their privileges and opportunities should be
md Who should control their land their lives, and
..'I resources of them Americans, pressing
things they could never have got their own coun-
HE unspeakable Huerta betrayed the very com
..es he served, traitorousy overthrow the govern
.I[ Of which he was trusted part, impudently
.0ke for the very forces that had driven his people
4. the rebellion with which he had pretended to sym
.1Ihioe. The men who overcame him and drove him
I1l represent at least the fierce passion of recon
Traction which lies at the very heart of liberty; and
IS long as they represent, however imperfectly such
struggle for deliyeTance, am readyto serve their
ends whenever can So long as the power of rec
nifion rests with me, the government of the United
states will refuse to extend the hand of welcome to