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THE SUNT) AT OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 3, 1916. " WILSON SAYS PARTY HAS KEPT PROMISE Accepting Renomination, Pres ident Reviews Legislation and Defends Course. FOREIGN POLICY IS UPHELD "Xatlon That Violates Essential Itlghts Must Expect to Bo Called to Account," He Adds Eman- eipatlon of Mexico Sought, LONG BRANCH. N. J.. Sept. 2. Presi dent Wilson formally accepted his re nomination here today with an address recounting: the legislative record of the Democratic party, a vigorous de fense of his Mexican policy, his deal ings with the European belligerents and an outline of his view of Amer ica's obligations for the future. With the members of the notifica tion committee headed by Senator James- prrouped about him at Shadow Iawn. the Summer White House, the President declared the Republican party was "just the party that cannot meet the new conditions of a new age" and that the day of i little Americanism, when "methods of 'protection' and in dustrial nursing were the chief study of our provincial statesmen" was past and gone. "We can no longer indulge our tra ditional provincialism," said the Presi dent. "We are to play a leading part ir the world drama whether we wish it or not. We shall lend. 'not borrow; act for ourselves, not imitate or follow; organize and Initiate, not peep about merely to see where we may get in." Record Declared Clean. Speaking of his diplomatic negotia tions with the European belligerents the President followed a declaration that while property rights might be vindicated by claims for damages, the loss of life and the fundamental rights of humanity never could be, with this statement: "The record Is clear and consistent throughout and stands distinct and definite for anyone to judge who wishes to know the truth about it." Immediately afterward he said: "I am the candidate of a party, but I am above all things else an Ameri can citizen.' I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States." Regarding his Mexican policy the President reiterated that the people of Mexico were struggling "blindly it may be and as yet ineffectually" to free themselves from alien interests, "some of them Americans pressing for things they could never have got in their own country," and that he would do every thing in his power to prevent anyone, from standing in their way. I Mistakes Not Intentional. "It is a hard doctrine," said he, "on'y for those who wish to get something for themselves out of Mexico." At an other point the President said: ' ' "Mistakes I have no. doubt made in this perplexing business, but not in purpose nor object." He declared at another point: '"I am more interested in the for tunes of oppressed men and - pitiful women and 'children than in any prop erty rights whatever." At the outset of his references to the legislative achievements of his party the President enumerated the laws placed on the statute books relating to business, including tariff revision, anti trust laws, revision of the banking and currency system, rural credits, rehabili tation of the merchant marine and cre ation of the Federal trade commission. "What other party has understood the task so well or executed it so in telligently and energetically?" he asked. "What other party has attempt ed it at all? The Republican leaders apparently know of no means of as sisting business but protection. How to stimulate it and put it upon a new footing of energy and enterprise they have not suggested." Promises Held Redeemed. At the conclusion of his review of the party record the President declared: "This extraordinary recital must sound like a platform, a list of san guinis promises; but it is not. It is a record of promises made four years ago and now actually redeemed in con structive legislation Then, later, he said: "We have in four years come very near to carrying out the platform of the Progressive party as well as our own: for we are also progressives." The text of the address in full was: Senator James. Gentlemen of the Notifi cation Committee. Fellow Citizens: I cannot accept the leadership and responsibility which the National Democratic convention has again, in auoh generous faahion, asked me to accept without first expressing my profound gratitude to the party for the trust It . reposes In me after four years of fiery trial in the midst of affairs of unprecedented difficulty, and the keen sense of added re sponsibility with which this honor fills (I had almost said burdens) me as I think of the great Issues of National life and policy involved in the present and immediate future conduct of our Government. I shall seek as I have always sought, to justify the extraordi nary confidence thus reposed in me by striv ing to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party mo live and devoting .every energy I have to the service of the Nation as a whole, praying that I may continue to have the counsel and support of all forward-looking men at every turn of the difficult business. For I do not doubt that the people of the United States will wish the Democratic party to continue in control of the Government. They are not in the habit of rejecting those who have actually served them for those who are making doubtful and conjectural promises of service. Least of all they are likely to substitute those who promised to render them particular services and proved false to that promise for those who have actually rendered those very services. Tet Declared In Record. Boasting is always an empty business, which pleases nobody but the boaster, and I have no disposition to boast of what ths Democratic party has accomplished. It has merely done its duty. It has merely fulfilled its explicit promises. But there can be no violation of good taste in calling attention to the manner in which those promises have been carried out or in adverting to ths Interesting fact that many of the things accomplished were what the opposition party had again and again promised to do but had loft undone. Indeed, that is manifestly part of the business of this year of reckoning end assessment. There is no means of Judging the future except by assessing the past. Constructive action must be weighs against destructive, comment and reaction. The Democrats either have or have not un derstood the varied interests of the country. The test is contained in the record What is the record? What were ths Democrats called into power to do? What things had long waited to be done, and how did the Democrats do them? It Is a rec ord of extraordinary length and variety, rich In elements of many kinds, but con sistent in principle throughout and tuiunt. Ible of brief recital. . The Republican party was put out of power because of failure, practical failure and moral failure: because It had served special Interests and not the country at large; because, under the leadership of its preferred and established guides of those who still make its choices. It had' lost touch with the thoughts snd the needs of the Nation and was living in a past age ana under a fixed Illusion, the illusion of great ness. It had framed tariff laws based upon a fear of foreign trade, a fundamental doubt as to American skill, enterprise and capacity and a very tender regard for the profitable . privileges of those who had gained control DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, WHO IS NOTIFIED OF HIS NOMINATION. 3i . ' ' " . ' - W' l& t r. "J ' V A ? S ' - v i t' ft t - - . "V 'J v. ; ' ' - Ph HOODROW WILSOTV of domestic markets and domestic credits; and yet had enacted anti-trust laws which hampered tha very things they meant to foster, which were stiff and inelastic, and in part unintelligible. It had permitted the coun try throughout the long- period of Its control to stagger from one financial crisis to an other under the operation of a National banking law of its own forming which made stringency and panic certain aud the control of the larger business operations of the country by the tankers of a few reserve centers inevitable; had made as if It meant to reform the law, but had faint-heartedly failed in the attempt, because It could not bring Itself to do the one thing necessary to make the reform genuine and effectual, namely, break up the control of the small groups of bankers. Shortcomings Are Charged. It had been oblivious, or indifferent, to the fact that the farmers, upon whom the country depends for Its food and In the lust onaU'.is lis. t.n.,n A -I r rA out standing In the matter of commercial credit, without the protection of standards in their market transactions, and without systematic knowledge of the markets them selves; .that the laborers of the country, the great army of men who man the industries it was professing to father and promote, carried their labor aa a mere commodity to market, were subject to restraint by novel and drastic process in the courts, were without assurance of compensation for in dustrial accidents, without Federal assist ance ia accommodating labor disputes, and without National aid or advice in finding the places and the industries in which their labor was most needed. The country had no National system of road construction and development. Little intelligent attention was paid to the Army and not enough to the Navy. The other republics of America distrusted us, because they found that we thought first of the profits of American investors and only as an afterthought of impartial Justice and helpful friendship. Its policy was provincial in all things; its pur poses were out of harmony with the temper and purpose of the people and the timely development of the Nation's interest. So things stood when the Democratic party came into power. How do they stand now? Alike in the domestic field and in the wide field of commerce of the world, American business and life and industry have been set free to move as they never moved before. The tariff has been revised, not on the principle of repelling foreign trade, but upon the principle of encouraging it, upon some thing like a footing of equality with our own in respect cf the terms of competition, and a Tariff Board has been created whose func tion it will be to )eep the relations of American with foreign business and industry under constant observation, for the guid ance alike of our business men and of our Congress. American energies are now di rected towards the markets of the world. The laws against trusts have been clarified by definition, with a view to making It plain that they were not directed against big business, but only against unfair busi ness and the pretense of competition where there was none; a Trade Commission has been created with powers of guidance and accommodation which have relieved busi ness men of unfounded fears and set them upon the road of hopeful and confident enterprise. By the Federal Reserve act the supply of currency at the disposal of active business has been rendered elastic, taking Its volume, not from a fixed body of investment secur ities, but from the liquid assets of daily trade; and these assets are assessed and accepted, not by distant groups of bankers in control of unavailable reserves, but by bankers at the many centers of local ex change who are in touch with local condi tions everywhere. Merchant Marine Predicted. Effective measures have been taken for the recreation of an American merchant marine and the revival of the American carrying trade indispensable to our emon clpation from the control which foreigners have so long exercised over the opportuni ties, the routes and the methods of our commerce with other countries. The Interstate Commerce Commission has been reorganised to enable it to perform its great and Important functions more promptly and more efficiently. We .have created, extended and Improved the service of the parcels post. So much we have done for business. "What other party has understood the task so well or executed It so Intelligently and en ergetically? What other party has at tempted It at all? The Republican leaders, apparently, know of no means of assisting business but "protection." How to stimu late It and put It upon a new footing of energy and enterprise they have not sug gested. For the farmers of the country we have virtually created commercial credit, by means of the Federal reserve act and the rural credits act. They now have the standing of other business men in the money market. We have successfully regulated speculation In "futures" and established standards in the marketing of grains. By an Intelligent warehouse act we have as sisted to make the standard crops available as never before both for systematic market ing and as a security for loans from the banks. We have greatly added to the work of neighborhood demonstration on the farm Itself of improved methods of cultivation, and, through the intelligent extension of the functions of the Department of Agriculture, have made it possible for the 'farmer to learn systematically where his best markets are and how to get at them. The woikingmen of America have been given a veritable emancipation, by the legal recognition of a man's labor as part of his life, and not a mere marketable commodity; by exempting labor organizations from proc esses cf the courts which treated their members like fractional parts of mobs and not like accessible and responsible indi viduals; by releasing our seamen from in voluntary servitude ; by making adequate provision for compensation for Industrial accidents; by providing suitable machinery for mediation and conciliation in industrial disputes; and by putting the Federal De partment of Labor at the disposal of the worklngman when in search of work. We have effected the emancipation of the children of the country by releasing them from hurtful labor. We have instituted a system of National aid In the building of highroads such as the country has been feeling after for a century. We have sought to equalize taxation by means of an equi table income tax. We have taken the steps that ought to have been taken at the out set to open up the resources of Alaska. We have provided for National defence upon a scale never before seriously proposed upon the responsibility of an entire political party. We have driven the tariff lobby from cover and obliged it to substitute solid argument for private influence. Promises Declared Redeemed. This extraordinary recital must sound like a platform, a list of sanguine promises; but it is not. It is a record of promise made four years ago and now actually re deemed in constructive legislation. These thtngs must profoundly disturb the thoughts and confound the plans of those who have made themselves believe that the Democratic party neither understood nor was ready to assist the business of the coun try In the great enterprises which It is its evident and inevitable destiny to undertake and carry through. The breaking up of the lobby must especially disconcert them: for it was through the lobby that they sought and were sure they had found the heart of things The game of privilege can be played successfully by no other means. This record must equally astonish those who feared that the Democratic party had not opened its heart to comprehend the de mands of social Justice. We have in four years come very near to carrying out the platform of the Progressive party as well as our own; for we also are progressives. There Is one circumstance connected with this programme which ought to be very plainly stated. It was resisted at every step by the Interests which the Republican party had catered to and fostered at the expense of the country, and these same interests are now earnestly praying for a reaction which will save their privileges for the restoration vt their sworn friends to power before it Is too late to recover what they have lost. They fought with par ticular desperation and Infinite resourceful ness the reform of the banking and currency system, knowing that to be the cltadei of their control; and most anxiously are they hoping and planning for the amendment of the Federal reserve act by the concentration of control In a single bank which the old familiar group of bankers can keep under their eye and direction. But while the 'blg men" who used to write the tariffs and command the assistance of the Treasury have been hostile all but a few with vision the average business man knows that he has been delivered, and that the fear that was once every day in his heart, that the men who controlled credit and directed enterprise from the committee rooms of Congress would crush him, is there no more, and will not return unless the party that consulted only the "big men" should return to power the party of masterly Inactivity and cunning resourcefulness in standing pat to resist change. The Republican party Is Just the party ASSETS $10,200,000.00 Pierson, Idaho, March 5, 1916. Bankers Life Insurance Co., Lincoln, Nebraska. Gentlemen: I have received your check in final payment of my pol icy, No. 3804, recently matured. I believe it is due you to say that your dealings have been uniformly courteous and eminently fair. I believe in you, and were I to be in the market for insurance, I surely would go to you. Thanking you for your courtesies, I am, Sincerely 386 F. W. SHAW. 20-Payment Life Policy Matured in the OH Line Bankers Life Insurance Company of Lincoln, Nebraska ' Name of insured. .Frank W. Shaw Residence Pierson, Idaho Amount of policy $1000 Total premiums paid Com pany $841 SETTLEMENT Total cash paid Mr. Shaw $1165.86 And 20 Years' ' Insurance for Nothing. that cannot meet ths ntr conditions of s new ass. It does not know ths way and It does not wish new conditions. It triad, to break away from the old leaders and could not. They still select its candldstes and dictate Its policy, still resist change, still hanker after ths old conditions, still know no methods of encouraging business but ths old methods. When it changes Its leaders and Its purposes and brings its ldess up to date it will have ths right to ask ths Amer ican people to give it power again; but not until then. A new age, an age of revolu tionary change, needs new purposes and new Ideas. -Foreign Policy Defended. In foreign afTalrs ws have been guided by principles clearly conceived and consistently lived up to. Perhaps they have not been fully comprehended because they have hitherto governed International affairs only In theory, not In prsctlcs. They are simple, obvious, 'easily stated, and fundamental to American Ideals. Wo have been neutral not only because It was- the fixed and traaltional policy of the United States to stand aloof from the poll tics of Europe and because we had had no part either of action or of policy in the in fluences which brought on ths present war, but also because it was manifestly our duty to prevent, if it were possible, the Indefinite extension of the tires of hsts and desola tion v kindled by that terrible conflict and seek to servo mankind by reserving our strength and our resources for the anxious and difficult days of restoration and healing which must follow, when peacs will have to build its house anew. The rights of our own citizens of course became Involved: that was Inevitable. Where they did this was our guiding principle: that property rights can be vindicated by claims for damages when the war is over, and no modern nation can decline to arbi trate such claims; but the fundamental rights of humanity cannot be. The loss of life is irreparable. Neither can direct vio lations of a nation's sovereignty await vin dication in suits for damages. The nation that violates these essential rights must ex pect to be checked and called to account by direct challenge and resistance. It at once makes the quarrel In part our own. These are plain principles and ws have never lost sight of them or departed from them, what ever the stress or ths perplexity of circum stances or the provocation to hasty resent ment. The record is clear and consistent throughout and stands distinct and definite for anyone to Judge who wishes to know ths truth about it. The seas were not broad enough to keep the infection of the conflict out of our own politics. The passions and intrigues of cer tain active groups and combinations of men amongst us who were bom under foreign flags Injected the poison of disloyalty Into our. own most critical afTalrs, laid violent hands upon many of our industries, and sub jected us to ths shams of divisions of senti ment snd purpose in which America was contemned and forgotten. It is part of the business of this yesr of reckoning and set tlement to speak plainly and act with un mistakable purpose In rebuke of these things, in order that they may be forever here after impossible. I am the candidate of a party, but I am above all things else an American citizen. I neither seek the favor nor fear the' displeasure of that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States. Mexican Situation Reviewed. Vfhlle Europe was at war our own con tinent, one of our own neighbors, ws shaken by revolution. In that matter, too. principle was plain and it was imperative that we should live up to it If we were to deserve the trust of any real partisan of the right as free men see it. We have pro fessed to believe, and we do believe, that the people of small and weak states have the right to expect to be dealt with ex actly as the people of big and powerful states would be. We have acted upon that principle In dealing with the people of Mexico. Our recent pursuit of bandits Into Mex ican territory was no violation of that prin ciple. We ventured to enter Mexican ter ritory only because there were no military forces in Mexico that could protect our border from hostile attack and our own people from violence, and we have com mitted there no singfe act of hostility or interference even with the sovereign author ity of the republic of Mexico herself. It was a plain case of the violation of our own sovereignty which could not wait to be vindicated by damages and for which there was no other remedy. The authori ties of Mexico were powerless to prevent It. Many serious wrongs against the prop erty, many irreparable wrongs against the persons, of Americans have been com mitted wltb.lt the territory of Mexico her self during this confused revolution, wronea which could not bo effectually checked so long ss there was no constituted powei In Mexico which was In a position to check them. We could not act directly In that matter ourselves without denying Mexicans the right to any revolution at all which disturbed us and making the emancipation of her own people await our own Interest and convenience. lror it is uielr emancipation that thej aro seeking blindly. 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Outsiders, men out ot other nations vnd with Interests too often alien to their own. have dictated what their privileges and opportunities should be and who should control their- land, their lives, and their resources some of them Amer icans, press lug: for things they could never hav got in their own country. The Mex ican peopie are entitled to attempt their liberty from such influences, and so long as I have anything to do with the action of our great Government I shall do everything-' Sn my power to prevent anyone stand ing in their way. I know that this is hard for some persons to understand, but it la not hard for the plain people ot the United States to understand. It Is hard doctrine only for those who wish to get something for themselves out of Mexico. There are men, and no Me women, too, not a few, of our own people, thank God, whose fortunes are Invested in great properties in Mexico who yet see the case with true vision and assess Its Issues with tru American feeling-. Th- rest can be left for the present Out ot the reckoning until this enslaved people has hd its day of struggle toward the llKht. I have heard no one who was free from such Influences propose Inter ference by the United States with the In ternal affali of Mexico. Certainly no friend of the Mexican peopl has proposed it. American People Sympathetic. The people of the United States are capable of great sympathies and a noble pity In dealing with problems of this kind. As their spokesman and representative, I have tried to act In the spirit they would wish me to show. The people of Mexico are striv ing for the rights that are fundamental to life and happiness 15. 000,000 oppressed men, overburdened women, and pitiful children in virtual bondage In their own home of fertile lands and Inexhaustible treasure I Some of the leaders of the revolution may often have been mistaken and violent and selfish, but the revolution Iteelf was inevitable and Is right. The unspeakable Huerta betrayed the very comrades he served, traitorously over threw the government of which he was a trusted part, impudently spoke for the very force, that had driven his people to the rebellion with which he had pretended to sympathize. The men who overcame him and drove him out represent at least the fierce passion of reconstruction which lies at the very heart of liberty; and so long as they represent, however imperfectly, euch a struggle for deliverance, I am ready to serve their ends when I can. So long as the power of recognition rests with me the Government of the United States will refuse to extend the hand of -welcome to anyone who obtains -power in a sister republic by treachery and violence. No permanency can be given the affairs of any republic by a title based upon Intrigue and assaasinat'lon. I- declared that to be the policy of this Administration within three weeks after I assumed the Presidency. I here again vow it. I am more interested In the fortunes of oppressed men and pitiful women and children than in any property rights what ever. Mistakes I have no doubt made In thie perplexing business, but not in purpose or object. More is Involved than the Immediate des tinies of Mexico and the relations of the United States with, a distressed and dis tracted people. All America looks on. Test Is now being made of us whether we be sin cere lovers of popular liberty or not and are Indeed to be trusted to respect National sovereignty among our weaker neighbors. We have undertaken these many years to play big brother to the republics ot this hemisphere. This is the day of our test whether we mean, or have ever meant, to play that part for our own benefit wholly or also for theirs. Upon the outcome of that test (its outcome in their minds, not In ours) depends every relationship of the United States with Latin America, whether In politics or In commerce and enterprise. These are great Issues and lie at the heart of the gravest tasks of the future, tasks both economic and political and very inti mately inwrought with many of the moxt vital of the new Issues of the politics of the world. The republics of America have In the last three years been drawing to gether In a new spirit of accommodation, mutual understanding, and cordial co-operation. Much of the politics of the world in the years to come will depend upon their relationship with one another. It is a bar ren and provincial statesmanship that loses sight of such things! Future Holds Exacting Problems. The future, the immediate future, will bring us squarely face to face with many great and exacting problems which will search us through and through whether we be able and ready to play the part in the world that we mean to play. It will not bring ue into their presence slowly, gently, with ceremonious introduction, but suddenly and at once, the moment the war In Europe is over. They will be new problems, most of them: many will be old problems in a new setting and with new elements which we have never dealt with or reckoned the force and meaning of before. They will require for their solution new thinking, fresh co ur ate and resourcefulness, and in some mut ters radical reconsideration of policy. We must be ready to mobilize our resources alike of brains and of materials. It Is not a future to be afraid of. Tt Is. ratner, a future to stimulate and excite us to the display of the best powers that are In us. We may enter it with confidence when we are sure that we understand it and we have provided ourselves already with the means of understanding it. Look first at what it wilt be necessary that the nations of the world should do to make the days to come tolerable and fit to live and work in: and then look at our part in what is to follow and our own duty of preparation. For we mut be prepared both In resources and In policy. There must be a juct and settled peace, and we here in America must contribute the full force of our enthusiasm and of our au thority as a nation to the organisation of that peace upon world-wide foundations that cannot easily he shaken. Xo nation should be forced te take uides In any quarrel iti which its own honor aud integrity and the fortunes of its own people are not involved; but no nation can any louder remain neutral as against any wUlful disturbance of the peace of the world. The effects of war can no longer be confined to the areas of bat tle. No nation stands wholly apart in in terest when the lite and interests of all nations are thrown into confusion and peril. If hopeful and generous enterprise is to ba renewed. If the healing and helpful arts jf life aro Indeed to be revived when peace cornea again, a new atmosphere of justice and friendship must be generated by means the world has novtr tried before. The na tions of the world must unite in Joint guar antees that whatever is done to disturb the whole world's life must first be tested in the court of the whole world's opinion before it is attempted. These are the new foundations the world must build for itself, and we must play our part In the reconstruction, generously and without too much thought of our separate Interests. We must make ourselves ready to play it intelligently, vigorously and well. One of the contributions we must make to the world's peace is this: We must see to It that the people in our insular pos sessions are treated in their own lands as we would treat them here, and make the rule of the United States mean the same thing everywhere the same Justice, the same .consideration for the essential rights of men. Preparation Must lie Made. Boslde contributing our ungrudging moral and practical support to the establlshmen t of peace throughout the world we must actively and Intelligently prepare ourselves to do our full service in the trade aud in dustry which are to sustain and develop the life of the nations In the days to come. We have already been provident in this matter and supplied ourselves with the In -strumentalltles of prompt adjustment. We have created, in the Federal Trade Commis sion, a means of Inquiry and of accommo dation In the field of commerce which ought both to co-ord in ate the enterprises of our wfnf Insert on Pag Column 2 1 7 B V HTM W ) ITT RATES EDISON MAZDA LAMPS Ten to Forty Vatt at f Same a trip "" others sell at 27 cents. Save 2c on each lamp 10c on a carton. II. W. M AMXR LIGHT ING AND SUPPLY CO.. 6:1 and 63V Sixth Street. Phone Broadway 2311. It's easy to sell Bankers Life Policies. They mature so much better than others. Why not try itT, , - - Let Joy B sf CREAT'. 1 HURRAH e Unconf ined! 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Edwards' people are members of a happy family, working with the co-operative spirit, and fully appreciating that the firm's success is their success. "Golden Rule ft let us hope to see the day when the "Golden Rule" will be applied in all other lines of business; when labor and capital will realize that it is to their mutual interest to work together, instead of apart. THOMAS IL EDWARDS, Manager. AT OA. I