Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-09-02


functions more promptly and more
efficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service Of the parcels
post. so much We have done for bus
mess What other party has under
stood the task so well or executed It
so intelllgently and energetically?
For the farmers OF the country we
have virtually created commercial
credit by means Of the federal reserve
act and the rural credits act. They
now have the standing Of other bust
ness men In the money market We
have successfully regulated specula-
ton I'm futures" and established
standards I'm the marketing Of grains.
BY an intelligent warehouse act we
have assisted TO make the standard
crops available as never before both
for systematic marketing and as a Sc
curlty for loans from the banks.
The worllingmen Of America have
been given n verltable emancipation by
the legal recognition OF a mans labor
as part OF his life and not a mere mar
ketable commodity; by exempting la
Dor organizations from processes OF the
courts which treated their members
like fractional parts Of mobs and not
like accessible and responsible indi-
viduals; by releasing our seamen from
involuntary servitude; by making ade-
quate provision for compensation for
industrial accidents; by providing suit
able machinery for mediation and con-
citation in industrial disputes and by
putting the federal department OF la
Dor at the disposal Of the workingman
when I'm search OF work.
I'VE have effected the emancipation
Of the children OF the country by re-
leasing them from hurtful labor We
have instituted n system Of national
aid in the building Of highroads such as
the country has been feeling after for
n century We have sought to equallze
taxation by means OF an equitable In
come tax. We have taken the steps
that ought 20 have been taken ut the
outset TO open up the resources OF
Alaska. We have provided for nation
al defense upon a scale never before
seriously proposed upon the RESPONSE
bility OF an entire political party. We
have driven the tarifr lobby from cover
and obliged Il 10 substitute solid argu-
ment for private influence.
A Record Of Promises Kept.
"This extraordinary recital must
sound like n platform, a list OF san
guine promises, but It is not. Il is 9
record OF promises made four years age
and now actually redeemed IN con
structive legislation. We have in foul
years come very near to carrying ou
the platform OF the Progressive party
as we'll as our own for we also are
progresslvcs."
This program, Mr. Wilson declared
was resisted at every step by interests
which the Republican party had fos-
tered at the expense Of the country, I'm.
terests which had fought the reform
OF the banking and currency system
and which were now planning for the
amendment OF the federal reserve ACT
by the concentration OF control In a
single bank which the "old familiar
group Of bankers can keep under their
j eve and direction. But while the "big
men" who used to write the tariffs and
command the assistance Of the treas
ury have been hostile-all but few
with vision-the average business man
knows that he has been delivered un
less the party that consulted only the
big men" should return TO power
They still select It's candidates and die
tate its policy, he said.
Foreign Affairs.
Concerning foreign affairs. we have
been neutral because II was the tradi.
tional policy Of the United States to
stand aloof from European politics
Mr.. Wilson declared. Property rights
OF our citizens can be indicated by
claims for damages, but the funda.
mental rights of humanity cannot be.
'The loss OF life Is irreparable. Mel
Their can direct violations OF a nations
sovereignty await vindication in suits
for damages. The nation that violates
these essential rights must expect tC
be checked and called 10 account by
direct challenge and resistance. It al
once makes the quarrel In part oul
own. These are plain principles, and
we have never lost sight OF them or de
parted from them. The passions and
intrigues OF certain active groups anC
combinations OF men among US whS
were born under foreign flags injected
the poison OF disloyalty into our owl
most critical affairs. laid violent hands
upon many Of our industries and sub
iected us to the shame OF divisions o.
sentiment and purpose in which Amer
lea was condemned and forgotten. I
is part Of the business OF this year o.
reckoning and settlement 10 speal
plainly and act with unmistakable pur
pose IN rebuxe OF these things IN ordel
that they may be forever hereafter I'm
possible. l am the candidate OF a par
", but I am above all things else AT
American citizen. neither seek tn,
favor nor fear the displeasure Of tina
, small alien element among us which
! puts loyalty TO any foreign power be
fore loyalty TO the United States"
p The Mexican Trouble.
: Concerning Mexico the president stat
:, ed that We believed that small anC
d weak states have the right 10 expect {,
L be dealt with exactly as big and pow
;. srful states would be- Our recent pur
: suit OF bandits into Mexican territor,
+ was no violation Of that principle. W,
5, ventured 10 enter Mexican territor,
4 only because there vvena no militia :,