New Britain herald., 1916-10-28
Old America Travelin in Narrow Rut h stead of Broad Higt way of 1916
THOUSANDS PRESENT
 AT SHADOW LAW.

State Day" Bringing Tratnloads
 Admirers From New York to sur
 mer White House-Presiden Tez
 Them of New Forces for Pea
 Humanity and Progress.
 Long Branch, N. J., Oct 2s.- double celebration, Woodrow vi son Day" and Empire State Dah was in progress at Shadow Lawn day.
 While democratic meetings in hd1 or of the president were being h Z in other states MT. Wilson prepar1 an address for delivery here befd delegations of organization denf crats, Independents, progressives aI women and children, most of tn \ from New York.
 The vanguard of the New Yd visitors began arriving here cal this morning. Democratic leadl expected the largest crowd vet sembled at Shadow Lawn to hear < presidents speeches. For the fl time a large delegation of Tamnal democrats arranged to make the tr| Headed by bands they planned march from the railroad station Shadow Lawn.
 A special car carrying women d children of the factories and sweI shops was a feature of the progra The president was asked to 1Dd briefly to this delegation, discussI the child labor law particularly the close of his principal ad6rd His main speech follows:
 President Wilson's Iddre-e.
 The presidents address follow
 My Fellow citizens:
 This is called Wilson Day. oI because for six years, first as goyerl of New Jersey and then as presid| Of the United States, I have been p| mitted to lead first a great state a then a great national party along ways of progress and of enlarged d ~egenerated life which our people H so long sought and so long been h| back from by the organized power| selfish interest, and because the gr| honor has fallen to me of bel chosen once more spokesman d representative of the men who md to hold the country to these ways peace, humanity and progress. It Of these forces that I shall speak d rot of myself, who am merely tn ervant
 What are these forces? WheI do they spring? What have they complished, and what is their p| gram and purpose for the future? is plain what they are They are \ forces of humane, righteous, and Il triotic purpose which have sprung i'll our day in the minds of those Ws perceive the shortcomings of the as it has hardened in America who look forward with purpose conviction to a new age in which g crnment shall be indeed the serva Of liberty and not of privilege. ThN are men who perceive that Americf law has not kept pace with Ameriel sentiment; that our la whas bsI holding us rigid and immovable, urT class has begun, in free Amer1cas be arrayed against class; until VI was legal has begun to play mf important part in our thoughts aI determinations than what IS hum and right; and until America has gun to lag instead of lead in reed cling what is with what ought to
 Severing Old Ties.
 "A new age had dawned upon while those who were attempting lead us were stumbling along wk their heads over their shoulders. tent upon preserving the conditid| of a day that is gone. America h changed and the whole world H1 changed. Our commerce and indI try had grown to such a bulk tll the domestic markets of which q former leaders were always so sd citous were glutted and we wd bound. unless we were to burst cI Jrcllet, to find a free outlet into n markets of the world. The time hI come when our commerce need freedom and would be throttled further restraints. We had acouirI foreign possessions, had been dra into the politics of the world, hl begun to play part which could ri be played by provincials but must played by citizens of the great wod of nations. And yet we had not \ tered our policy or out point of vieS The great European war has servI at least to show us this one thing, tl5 the world itself had changed; that had become at once too
 world and too little a world submit it's destinies to the hostile | valries and ambitions now of this al again of that member of the gre family of men; too compact, too
 Continued On Eleventh PaGcl.