The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-28
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS


 Making his motto "Co-operation," President Wilson gave afNaddress that
 was notable. His remarks were con- | tinually cheered.
 ] The President declared that "Amer-
 ican law" has not kept pace with
 American sentiment and that what | was legal has to play a more import ant part in our thoughts and deter
 mutations than what is human and right"
 He outlined the legislative achieve
 ments of his administration and
 sketched brdadIy a program for the
 future, including the making of courts of justice out of our courts ofi law" --~A
 a The Presidents address follows:
 My Fellow-citizens: N~; IiN
 This is called wilson Day" only4 because for six years, first as Cover, nor of New Jersey and then as Presi- |, kdent of the United States, have been permitted to lead first a great state and then a great national party along the ways of progress and of enlarged and regenerated life, which our people had 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 representative of the men who mean to hold the country to these ways of peace, humanity and prog ress. It is of these forces that I shall speak and not of myself, who am merely their servant.
 What are these forces? Whence do theylspring? What have they ac- coInplished, and what is their pro- gram and purpose for the future? It 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 perceive the shortcomings of the law as 1t has hardened in America and who look forwdrd with purpose and conviction to @ new age in which government shall be indeed the ser-' van. of liberty 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 im- movable, until class has begun. in free; America, to be arrayed against class; until what was legal has begun toi play g. more important part in our
  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 dawped 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 Our commerce and indus try had grown to such l. bulk that the domestic markets of which our former leaders were always so solicit ous were gultted and we were bound, unless we were to burst our jacket. to find free outlet into the markets of the world. The time had como when our commerce needed freedom and would be throttled by further re- straints. We had acquired foreign possessions, had been drawn into the politics of the world, had begun to / play a part which could not be play ed by provincials but must be played by citizens of the great world of na- tions. And yet we had not altered our policy or our point of view. The, grcat European war has served at/ least to show us this one thing, that. the world itself had changed: that 1t had become at once too big a world and too little world to submit 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 it's
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