Fergus County Democrat., 1916-09-28

opened his campaign for reelection
with a speech replying to republican
criticism OF his settlement OF the re-
Gently threatened railroad strike.
With emphatic gestures, before a
large crowd assembled at Shadow
Lawn, he defended the eight-hour day
and declared also that the nation must
be freed from the possibility of in
reference with its commerce. Busl-
ness men from various parts of New
Jersey interrupted the president with
handclapping and cheering.
"The chief cloud that is upon the
domestic horizon is the unsatisfactory
relations OF capital and labor the
president said, adding that 80 long
as labor and capital stand antagonistic
the interests of both are injured and
the prosperity of America is held
back from the triumphs which are
legtimately it's own
Mr.. Wilson spoke of the bright
future for American business and then
launched directly into discussion OF
the railroad situation. Without di
rectly mentioning Charles +. Hughes,
the republican nominee, the president
brought in the republican party by
saying that about seventy republicans
supported the eight-hour law in the
house OF representatives and senate,
and that republicans put no obstacle
in the way Of the passage Of the meas
ure
"This was because the proposal was
reasonable and was based upon the
right" asserted Mr.. Wilson.
The president met the arguments
that the railroad question should have
been arbitrated with the fiat state
ment that he did not believe the eight
hour day an arbitrable question.
Means of preventing repetition Of
the threatened railroad strike were
taken up in detail. The president
said: .0.- ....
1T will be intolerable if at any time
any group of men by any process
should be suffered to cut off society
from, the necessary supplies which
sustain life.'
After talking for twenty minutes
about the railroad problem, the pres-
dent discussed business generally He
said that business men in America
have had their real commercial
strength put at their service by such
measures as the federal reserve act
and now are on their mettle.
Mr.. Wilson spoke from the porch
at Shadow Lawn. He was 4froduced
! by w. p Runyon Of PellH Amboy,
N. j., who said the me- III ali parts
of the countr. re organi2iAs, to Sc,
b. cure the presideat reelection.
g. After his speech the president stood
for thirty minutes on the porch and
shook hands with everybody present
Mrs. Wilson stood by his side and
nearby were Attorney General Greg
ory, Postmaster General Burleson
Colonel E. NJ House, Henry Morgen
thau, former ambassador to Turkey
and Jacob Schiff.
Mr. Wilson today began making ar
rangements for trips to Tia, middle
west in October to speaa before non
partisan organizations on public ques
tions. In addition to accepting def
nitely an invitation to speak i'll Oma
ha on October 5, tentative plans were
begun for him to visit Chicago. HI
already lad decided to go to Jit
dianapolis on October L.
Attorney General Gregory discussed
with the president the selection O
United States district judges in Ohio
Louisiana and New Mexico Waite
Hines Page, American ambassador t
Great Britain, who came here las
night to see the president, left thi
afternoon.
President Wilson's speech in ful
follows:
'.Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of tn
Business mems league, ladies and ger
tlemen:
Il need not tell you what a sens
oi hat
should come bearing this generou
message which have just heard frol
your chairman. There is sense
/ which the business men of Amerie
! represent America because Amerie
/ has devoted herself time out of min
! to the arts and achievements of peac
and business is the organization
!! the energies of peace. No OF
, who looks about, upon the action
II American business at the presel
!: moment can fail to realize that ne
/, breath and spirit have come into Il
T. business of America.
L There have been times when
looked as if America were interest,
only in herself, but in these rece
/ years American business men ha
lifted their eyes to the more dista
i horizons and have seen how the ms
- kets of the world were waiting
their service, and as they have soug
/. and obtained entrance into the m,
{, kets a new vision has come to the
!. of the development OF the resourc
OF American means, of what the
i ganization of American efficien
i means; of ways it was that Americ
. merchants and American manuf
turers and American miners and
the multitude of men who have
veloped the peaceful industries
America, were planted under this fl
policy in order that they might lo
upon the service of mankind and p
form it.
There never was a time when
pulse of energy and success beat
strongly in the veins of American b
mess as it beats today And ye
hope that all business men in Amer
realize that We are only at the
ginning of new era. America
not played it proportionate part
s the development of the trade OF
: world. l mean that it has not pla