The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-21
PRESIDENT ASKS
PARTY 70 SERVE
GREATER IDEALS /
Wilson Declares Old Time
Slogans Have Lost All
Significance.
WOULD GIVE SERVICE
TO ALL HUMANITY
Says Politics Should Now
Emhody Conception Of
. Social Justice.

Newark. N. j.. March 2O.--New
Jersey Democratic leaders assembled
here tonight for a reorganization ban
quet were greeted by message from
President Wilson. AZ national head OF
the party, calling upon them to rise to
the test Of new time when old party
slogans have lost their significance and
to commit themselves to disinterested
service to humanity.
In letter presented by Secretary
Tnmulty. the president said the ncoes-
si,y OF his staying ''on the job made
|, impossible for him TO be present.
The presidents letter said in part:
Greater Opportunity.
Every Sign OF these terrible days
of war and revolutionary change.
when economic and social forces are
heing released upon the world, whose
effect no political seer dare venture to
conjecture. bids ns search our hearts
through and through ana make them
ready for the birth OF new day, n
day we hope and believe, of greater
opportunity an.i greater prosperity for
the. average mass OF struggling men
and women and Of greater safety and
opportunity Tor children.
The old party slogans have lost
tfeir Significance and will mean moth
ing 10 the voter OF the future, for the
war is certain TO change the mind Of
Europe. AZ well as the mind Of Amer
lea. Men everywhere are searching
Democratic principles to their hearts
In order 10 determine their soundness,
their sincerity. their adaptibility to the
real needs of their life. and every man
with any vision must see that the real
test Of justice and right action Is pres
emily to come as II never came before.
The men In the trenches, who have
been freed from the economic serfdom
TO which some OF them had been ac-
cnstoined. Will. 1t is likely, return 70
their homes with a new view and a
ncw impatience Of all mere political
phrases and Will demand real thinking
:and SINCERE action.
Conceive Social Justies.
AHc uaSS VI pOliilGal ana economic
which are ahead OF us
no man can now definitely assess, but
we know this. that every program
must be shot through and through with
utter disfnterestedness. that no party
must try to serve itself. but every
party must try 10 serve humanity, and
that the task is a very practical one.
meaning that every program. every
measure in every program. must be
tested by this question and this Ques-
tion only: Is II just, Is 1t for the ben
efit OF the avera ge man. without influ-
ence or privilege; does II embody In
real fact the highest conception Of
social Justice and Of right dealing
without respect 81 person or class or
particular interest?
This Is q high test. II can he met
only by those who have genuine SYM
ipafhy with the mass Of men and real
Insight into their needs and opportu
mites and a purpose which Is purged
alike Of selfish md OF partisan inten-
ton. The party which rises to this
test will receive the support OF the
people. because it deserves H." .
Secretary Tumulty told the diners
that In hts opinion they had listened
70 n letter which embodied the gospel
OF democracy Of this new day.