Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-29

ppatberings in many states arranged
% Tho democratic national committee
y: w oolebration of "Wilson Day. The
n ~ was also known as "Empire
800 So nav" here, because delegations
~ areanization Democrats, 1ndepend-
onts progressive and women from
Now York journeyed Oh special trains
from New York city and state to greet
tho president and assure him of their
support.
rhe president spoke for woman
outrage declared that american law
hoe not kept pace with American
sentiment" and that "what was legal
hoe begun to play more important
mart in OUR thoughts and determine
lions than what is human and right
outlined the legislative achievements
~ his administration and sketched
broadly a program for the future, in
1nudins the making of courts of jus
tice out of our courts OF law" and
the establishment of permanent peace.
Mr. Wilson'S address was delivered
IN the largest gathering yet assemb!-
ed at Shadoy Lawn to hear his
Saturday afternoon campaign
speeches. =, ,-n
This is called "Wilson Day" only be-
cause for six years, first as governor
If New Jersey and then as president
Of the United States, l have been per-
n,itted to lead first a great state and
then a great national party along the
WAYS of progress and of enlarged and
reeenerated life which our people had
50 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-
five 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 my
self, who am merely their servant.
What are these forces? Whence Go
they spring? What have they accom-
plished, and what is their program and
purpose for the future? 1t is plain
what they are. They are the forces for
the future? 1t is plain what they are.
They are the forces of humane, right
eous, and patriotic purpose which ahve
sprung up in our day in the minds
of those who perceive the shortcom-
ings of the law as it has hardened in
America and who look forward with
purpose and conviction to a new age n
which government shall be indeed the
servant of liberty and not of privilege.
These are men who perceive that Am
erican law has not kept pace with AM
erican sentiment: 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 i'm
portant part in 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.
A new age had dawned upon US
while those who were attempting to
lead us were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, in
tent upon preserving the conditions of
a day that is gone. America had
changed and the whole world had
changed. Our commerce and industry
had grown to such a bulk that the do
nestle markets of which our former
leaders were always SO solicitous were
glutted and we were bound, unless
we were to burst our jackets, to find
free outlet into markets Of the
worlds The time had come when our
commerce needed freedom 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 part which
could not be played by provinicals 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.
Inc great European war has served
at least to show us this one thing,
that the world itself had changed; that
IT had become at once too big a world
and too little world to submit its
destlnies to the hostile rivalries and
ambitions now Of this and again of
mat member of the great family of
men; too compact, too intimate in it's
contracts, too universal in it's ways
OF intercourse, to make it any long
er possible to limit the effects of any
natlon's action to single, separate
sphere where the rest would be UNI
touched. An inevitable partnership
OF interests has been thrust upon the
nations. They are neighbors and
must accommodate their interests to
one another, or else disturb the lives
and embarass the fortunes Of men ev-
efywhere. No wonder that in such an
age men in America should be cried
awake and feel once more, as they
lett lett them in the days when their
great republic was set up, the COM
pu LIS of humanity and of justice!
, lhese are the freshening winds
blowing out of the life of mankind ev-
ggrywnere., that have brought on a new
gay IN American politics. We have
looked once more very critically at
our own laws and our own practices
ana nave set about to square them
With the actual conditions of our life
ana the life of the wolrd.
Republican Party of Past.
4: four years ago there were two par
sies IN the field whose program was
conceived under the influence of these
great forces of progress and adjust
nneht, the Democratic party and the
aggressive party. This year there is
puC one. the Democratic party. In
me presidential election of four years
ago some fifteen million votes were
, saS1: vi these, nearly ten and half
InilllOnS were east for tho cord;do+or