The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-02
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
GREATER PROGRESS
Laws Must Fit New Life, He Tells
the American People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE.

Fsr"ors Sreaslv Eerehted, Business
UnshaekIed, Labor Protected, Chill
drsn Set Free -Vetes of Women
Needed-World Peace Desired.
Shadow Lawn. n. j., Oct. 2S.-To the
American people Woodrow Wilson to-
day gave an accounting OF his admin
istration as their President. He bal.
anced his books" so that the record
stands clear. Promises fulfilled. great
deeds done! That, In short, tells the
story. And yet the story is not flu
ished. Other chapters I'm the great
Book or 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 a plain statement OF what he. as
leader not only Of the Democratic
party but OF the nation, has accom-
plished In 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 Fellow-citizens:
This is called Wilson Day only be-
cause for SIX years, first as Governor
Of New Jersey and than as President
OF the United States, have been per-
mitted to lead first a great state and
then great national party along the
ways OF progress and OF enlarged and
regenerated life which our people bad
so long sought and so long been held
back from by. the organized power Of
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 l shall speak and not Of
myself, who am merely their servant
What are these forces? Whence do
they spring? What have they accom-
plished, and what is their programme
and purpose for the future? 1t is plain
what they are. They are the forces
of humane. righteous, and patriotic
purpose which have sprung up In our
day In the minds of those who per-
ceive the shortcomings OF the law as
II has hardened In America and who
look forward with purpose and convic-
ton to a new age In which govern
ment shall be indeed the servant OF lib
erty and not OF privilege.
"These are men who perceive that
American law has not kept pace with
American sentiment; that our law has
been holding US rigid and immoyable,
until class has begun. In free America,
to be arrayed against class; until what
was legal has begun to play a more
important part I'm our thoughts and de-
examinations 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
while those who were attempting tn
lead us were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, intent
upon preserving the conditions OF a
day that Is gone. America has changed
and the whole world has changed. Our
commerce and industry had grown 10
such n bulk that the domestic markets
Of which our former leaders were al.
ways so solicitous were glutted and
we were bound. unless we were to
burst our jacket, to find a free outlet
into the markets OF the world. The
time had come when our commerce
needed freedom and would be throt.
. tied by further restraints.
1--WE had acquired foreign posses
siOns. had been drawn into the politics
Of the world. had begun to play a part
which could not be played by provin.
eials 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 European war has
served at least TO show US this one
thing, that the world Itself had chang
ed; that II had become at once too blp
world and too little world to sub
NIT It's destinies to the hostile rivalries
and ambitions now OF this and again
Of that member OF the great family OF
men; too compact, too intimate in hs
contacts, too universal I'm It's ways of
intercourse, to make It any longer pos
sible TO limit the effects OF any nations
NAAAVAA W n HAMkAN HEknAMAN oNNNAE " NtAf
the rest would be untouched
"An inevitable partnership OF inter
ests has been thrust upon the nations
They are nelghbors and must accom-
mOdate their interests 70 one another
or else disturb tho lives and embar
rass the fortunes OF men everywhere
No wonder that In such an age men n
America should be cried awake and
feel once more, as they felt them 10
the days when their great republic wa
set up. the cOmpulsions OF humanity
and o. justicel
squsrina Laws With Life.
These are the freshenlng wind,
blowing out OF the life Of mankind ev
erywhere. that have brought on new
day I'm American politics.
I'VE have looked ones more very crit
loslly 81 our own laws snd our owl
practices and have set about 70 squsr
them with the aetUsl conditions Of ou
llfo and the life of the world.
-Four years ago there were two psg
tee IN the field whose programme VA
conceived under the influence Of thes
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