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THE DRUMRIGHT EVENING DERRICK
WOODROW WILSON
President of the United Statei
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PRESIDENT PLEDGES
•terywhere, that hnve brought on a and concluded no long as clrcum
new day In American iwlitics. We stances change and the fortunes and
have looked once more very critically relations of men shift and alter. The
at our own taws and our own prac- question you have to decide one week
tices and have set about to square from next Tuesday is whether it shall
them with the actual conditions of be prematurely Interrupted, perhaps
our life and the life of the world."
Laws Must Fit New Life Mr.
Wilson Tells the American
People.
HIS RECORD OF DEEDS DONE
U. S. Righto Upheld With Honor,
Farmers Aided. Business and Labor
Benefited, Children Protected
—Women's Votes Needed.
Shadow Lawn, N. J., Oct. 128.—To
the American people VVoodrow \\ llson
today gave au accounting of his ail
ministration as their President. Lie
"balanced his hooks" so that the rec-
ord stands clear. Promises fulfilled,
great deeds done! That, In short,
tells the story. And yet the story
Is not finished. Other chapters In the
great Book of Human Progress re-
main to be written. It rests with
you. American Voters, to say whether
"Four year
parties in the
was conceived
these great for
justment. the
the Prol
there is but om
In the preside
years ago sum
were cast. Of
a half millions
dldates of the
only three and
candldt
party which
and felt uoi
a new day.
the voters
favored thei
gramme win
changing u
progress.
"The Dem
ed with th
forces of tin
Its direction
ago ther
field whos<
under the
i es of pr< P
wo progi <
a half m!
>f the Kepubll
) Hngered In
were two
programme
Influence of
ress and ad-
I'liny and
This year
era tic party,
on of four
ne
Uqit
object Is to
s of huuu
votes
> ten aud
r the can-
re parties,
ns for the
party, the
mpulse of
vthlrds of
?d States
iw, a pro-
serve the
inlty and
for a generation to come, and all the
generous forces of the age and of the
world thrown back upon themselves
In discouragement and confusion.
"The programme remaining is as
great as the programme accomplished.
The procedure of our courts is anti-
quated and a hindrance, not an aid,
In the Just administration of the law.
We must simplify and reform it as
other enlightened nations have done.
FAKIR REAPS I H
BYEIGHi:.
Prevented Tying Up of Crops
Valued at $6,GO0,CO3,OGO.
BY FRANK G. ODELL
Editor Nebraska Farm Magazine.
courts of JUBtlc
i.f la
Wc
nust
Intere
than th<
e out of our
eek aud find
capital and
ding of their
are no other
nation Itself
The
Wi I soi
■ratlc party was entrust-
task. These powerful
new age were put under
And under that direc-
tion what have they accomplishedV
"They have put both the business
the
man
who began the book shall and the life of the country upon
"HE HAS KEPT US OUT OF WAR"
This it the face of a man strong, courageous,
patient and kindly, a man —
Always alert to the aspirations of his fellow-
man and sympathetic toward their fulfillment;
Never complacent toward the encroachments
of privilege nor tolerant of social wrong;
Always seeking to enhance the dignity of
labor and better the state of the toiler;
Never lending an ear to the sophistry of ex-
ploitation or the blandishments of expediency;
Always patient to hear and weigh, to ap-
praise and analyze, and passionate to find the
way of right;
Never premature in purpose nor prejudiced
in judgment, and never headlong in decision—
Suth is WOODROW WILSON.
THE NEW TRUST.
It Is all over but the voting—and then, Wilson for Four Years More!
Four years more of peace ami prosperity while the wheels of the nation
drive on toward our destined goal -World Leadership!
That is to be our destiny
Nothing can stop It but a return to the reactionary party which for forty
years saved its bosses' bacon while the people, the great American people.
Struggled onward toward Individual and collective freedom.
Yes, the nation came Into its own not because but in spite of the Repub-
lican Party. It was the American people who cleared the forests, drained the
awamps, blazed the trails, opened tlie inin s, dug the coal and the gold,
made the prairies imo wheat aud corn fields, and fenced in the great plains
for cattle.
The American people, sprung from the loins of men who dared and
women who toiled have laid the foundation of the greatest Republic known
to history, and raised thereon the fairest flower of civilization in all the
world.
All this litis been done despite the handicap of Political Bosses and the
maurious toll of I'm dnfory Interests
While the Pioneer grew Hit« the Settler aud the Settler became the
Farmer and yell" ed the vtisi plains with the bearded grain and browned
them with the riihsct corn
While barefooted children trudged down the shady lane or over the long
hill to the little r
Franklin the p. n
Fulton till Whhi
the only, Wiislnii
saved ami who.>-
While these li
of TI I Sweet I
While these
to bo their he:
the I' • iind tin
\\ ' ie sliqph
their I
oily t
■w- Ml
pri II-
ye* ti
In i li-
ne und H
e sweet
work:
• I crept
rue. ami.
id tin.
by ft
i y If.
•fid's I.
e II.JH-
.1 >e|iool li •• read of the wisdom of their Benjamin
• of ih I'm trick Henry, the Ingenuity of their Robert
v mill 11 I l ie. the democracy of their Jefferson, of
t: whi I ill ied tils country, of the Immortal Lincoln who
irlt '■ revet unite the uatiou—
nd the old stove snug "My Country, 'tis
iii 't inch! at their mother's knee learned
ii ilc u \ ho had given them birth In the Land of
„ ..i the Bra ve-
nd roiled on and loved their work and
d in toll and span strong men to do the
, i coats and a well distended skin and an
lv insidiously gathered up the fruits of the
fields orchards and mines, and by special
v ' -nft by trickery, by knavery, by treachery
. i, • iwive* to become the richest clique known
uncut Inner ring, the Invisible Gov
th.
I it'll' K the pert
uhltesfi Party
nirreimy ii a candidate four years ago fell out. and
.•)iin• t. into then own under the leadership of Wood
red tlint trust thus put Into his hands
e American People propose to go on
n who trusts them because he knows they
row * -Non who has held inviobil.l
by i And ox -In i:n
With- ''"it tried true, gri
trust linn
Woodrow 1 Wilson Is h new Trust in America—greater than all others
(renlet neotujse he stands for m I'rtM is backed by no Trust, and is tin
candidate of ti" T" n<t tun K th< trust of the whole American people, wh.
I0V(, heniusH III- Inis K« |.i thru, nut <>f nr honor lilin for his courngeou
CbrlNtlini ImiiiHiilM nn'l 'lunik htm f r his broad stutexiimnshlp und his rem
lens inii'llliii'tit l«"HilHishlp. ...
his „|„| In hl« MI'IS ns well lis h.v thr enemies he luw inii(l<
his place In llie roll of Amerlriin >r Is secure Washington Lincoln. W|l
*°D" Woodrow Wilson deserve, the vote of every man and every woman In
tvsry state In the Union.
finish it.
Here, in the President's own
words, Is a plain statement of what
he, as leader not only of the Demo-
cratic party, but of the nation, hus
accomplished In your behalf and of
what he plans for your future—a
statement mnde nol alone to tin' thou-
sands who Journeyed here, bui to you
and the hundreds of thousands
throughout the country who celebrat-
ed "Wilson Day."
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
"My Fellow-citizens:
"This Is called 'Wilson Day* only
because for six years, first as Gover-
nor of New Jersey and then as Presi-
dent of the United States, 1 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 bock 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 progress.
It Is of these forces that I shall speak
and not of myself, who am merely
their servant.
"What are these forces? Whence
do they spring? What have they ac
complished, and what Is their pro
gramme 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 It has hardened in America
and who look forward with purpose
and conviction to a uew age in which
government shall be Indeed the
servant of liberty and not of privi-
lege.
"These are men who perceive that
American law has not kept pace
with American sentiment; that our
law has been holding us rigid and
Immovable, until class has begun, in
free America, to be arrayed against
class; until what was legal has begun
to play a more Important part In our
thoughts and determinations than
what is human and right; and until
America has begun to lag Instead of
lead In reconciling what is with what
ought to be.
Dawn of a New Age.
"A new age had dawned 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
changed. Our commerce and industr>
had grown to such a bulk that the
domestic markets of which our for
mer leaders were always so solicitous
were glutted and we were hound, un
less we were to burst our Jacket
to find a free outlet into the markets
of the world The time had come
when our commerce needed freedom
and would be throttle I by further re-
straints.
"We had acquired foreign posses
sions, had been drawn Into the poll
tics of tlie world, had begun to play
a part which could not be played by
provincials, but must be played by cltl
sens of the great world of nations
And yet we had not altered our policy
or our point of view. The great
European war has served at least to
show us this one thing, that the world
itself has changed thai ii had be
come at once too big a world und
too little n world to submit its ties
tinies to the hostile rivalries and am
bitions now of this and • du of • h-.
member of the great t •..i• i> of men
too compact, ioo inti n i'? e.uj
tacts too unlver^.l in .vi ei
Intercourse, to mni;< 't
possible to limit flu eli i
nation's action to a sin;. - i in*
sphere where the rest won l un
touched."
"An inevitable purttiersl-. t. •« inter
ests has been thrust upon nations
They are neighbors and must «< ' Hill
niodate their interest .. hup mil her.
or else disturb the lives und embarrass
•he fortunes of linn everywhere. No
nnder that In such an age men in
lieu should be cried ti wake and
i once more, as they fell them in
days when their great republic
s set up the compulsions of hu-
uity and of lust ice!
Squaring Laws With Life.
1 lure are the freshening winds
oiuwlng out of the hie of mankind
new footing
Financial Credit Released.
"They have released the financial
credit, upon which commerce and pro-
duction alike depend, froth the con-
trol of small groups of financiers and
haulers tit the speculative centers.
* "Tne\ have released the commerce
and industry of the country from the
domination of those who were build-
ing up their power by selfish aud
unfair methods of competition.
"They have supplied those who
wished to conduct their business in
conformity with the spirit of the laws
with friendly guidance and delivered
them from a nervous fear of the
courts.
"They have released our foreign
trade from the shuckles of a tariff
contrived In the Interest of special
groups of favored producers, and have
created a Tariff Commission Intend-
ed to substitute public for private
influences, facts for theories and
pretensions, in all future legisla-
tion with regard to duties and re-
strictions on imports.
"They have made provision for the
immediate and systematic develop-
ment of our carrying trade on the
seas.
"They have at last supplied the
means by which the nation may be
bound together, materially and spirit-
ually. by a network of good roads
upon which both commodities and
sympathies may move freely from
community to community.
"They have put the farmer upon a
footing of perfect equality with busi-
ness men and men of all other call-
ings in respect of his access to com-
mercial credit; have placed a great
bureau of the Government at his
service in seeking and finding his
best markets; have protected him by
the establishment of definite stand-
ards in the sale? of his products, and
have put the scientific knowledge of
the world at his disposal by practical
demonstration at the expense of the
Government upon the farms them-
selves.
Have Emancipated Labor.
"They have emancipated the la-
borers of the country from the unjus-
tified restraints which the courts had
put upon them by mistaken appllca
tions of old law to new circumstances
and conditions.
"They have released the children '
of the country In large part from hurt-
ful labor; have sought to safeguard
the lives and the health of our la-
borers in dangerous occupations; and
have put agencies of the Government
itself ai the service of those who
seek employment. And most of these j
things have been done within the
brief limits of a single administration j
"And still the great work is not '
finished it can never be rounded ofl f
as a community. We must release
our great undeveloped natural re-
sources upon some sensible plio of
use and conservation.
Need Votes of Women.
"We must recruit the votes of for-
ward-looking men by the votes of
women so that we may have a fresh
insight in all matters of social re-
form and move mo e certainly and
more promptly in th^ solution of the
many new problems of society with
which the law must henceforth deal.
We must unite the Americas. North
and South. In a new sympathy and co-
operation.
"We must seek Justice and the right
through every channel that offers;
and we must put America In all Its
force, m all Its wealth, alike of phys-
ical power and spiritual enthusiasm,
at the service of the other nations of
the world when peace comes on the
other side of the seas, to make that
peace permanent by establishing It on
the everlasting foundations of tight,
co-operation, equality and Justice.
These things we must do und all else
that may serve mankind.
"And our motto must be CO-OPERA-
TION, the union, not the hostile rival
ry, of the forces of society within the
nation and within the family of na-
tions. The Interests of mankind can
never again be served by aggression;
the Interest of no nation or group of
nations can ever again be served by
aggression. The contests of Jealousy
are as bitter and as dangerous us the
contests of arms.
Mu6t Press Reforms.
"The world must henceforth seek
the means of accommodation, not the
meaus of arresting quarrels merely.
The nation we love and serve must be
among the first and foremost of those
that rise to the new ideals with spirit
and well directed force.
"Such is the prospect, such Is the
programme, my fellow-citizens, to
which we look forward, to which It Is
our purpose to move forward with
enthusiasm and Irresistible ardor. We
will not pause In the midst of our
task. We know that we stand at one
of the most critical junctures In the
history of the world, when all hopes
hang in the balance.
"We will suffer no man, no body of
men, through timidity or fear or jeal-
ousy, to delay or hinder or embarrass
us. Reaction can have no place of
tolerance amongst us when all the
world waits upon those w ho plan Jus-
tice and progress.
"I summon you, not only to sustain,
but to swell, the hosts that have their
faces now set towards the light, their
eyes lifted to the horizons where the
dawn of a new age begins to brighten;
and I suipmon you with confidence,
with a certain expectation of the part
I America and her great people are to
play when the dawn broadens Into
I <lny."
New York Sun quote* James
. of Iowa, former Secretary of
Agriculture, rs saying that the fi rmem
were hit hardest by the Adamson
Eight-hour Law, which stopped the
threatened general railroad strike.
According to The Sun, Mr. Wilson'
said:
"The farmer ha* no eight hour dajr.
Should that number of hours beeoto*
general In all occupations, Including
the farm, the prices of food waul#
rise still higher than those current." >
♦The logic of the venerable ex-See*
retary Is bad. The farmer I* not wor-
rying about the high price of food.
He raises his own food. He grows
food for sale. That's hi* business
If. as th'e ex-Secretary says,—ths
eight hour day will increase the cost
of food,—the farmer has everythln§
to gain.
And "Uncle Jim" has overlooked th*
fact that \he farmers of the United
St:
wc
■ i.id.uot less than lO.OOO.OOO.UO©
rth of products practically ready
VOTKK8. THINK IT OVER! J
lt4MHM*trlt la the Kidding aplrll ol $
the lt«'i iiltll<-an rainpalicn. X
He i the MiltniMiu'p — lluKhvb /
la the Hhaduiv. *
You know what K<M «evelt Aland*
for 4K i I Hi loll. jillKltlMIII.
lie ha* iledami op<*nl> Ida regrel
Ihul thin country dhl not icrt Into the
liiiroprHn War.
Ho 5 on want Roosevelt. and
Hutch***, nnd Wa
Or do
and
onperit.v under Wllnonf
•CT'Crttirtrti-QrCt'tJ'CrCrtrtrCr'fr-CrCj'totrtT'trCT'Crtrir
—SIDE-TRACKED—
THIS PAYS DIVIDENDS
Thats why Iovett of The Unwh
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refers
ItMPORAtr
HUOHES
A
:ents per copy
iUSON
States
I to market when the strifes
crisis was Imminent at the first of
September. The threatened striks
would have paralyzed the farmer's
market and stopped the wage of ths
worker In every industry.
Incalculable losses, running Ints
hundreds of millions, were averted
when the strike was prevented.
Woodrow Wilson did It.
"Tama Jim" was Secretary of Agri-
culture through four Republican Ad-
ministrations—sixteen years. Thes#
were sixteen years of monopolistic
control of the farmer's market. Dur-
ing this period, these great combina-
tions, which ha.ve stood between fhs
producer nnd the consumer, reached
the zenith of their power. Creed aud
extortion ran rloL
During this period, the farmers off
the country complained continually off
capitalistic extortion. They held con-
ventions throughout the great grain
and live stock belt to voice their pro-
test. They sent deputations of able
men to Washington. They sent their
appeals for Justice to the Secretary of
Agriculture and waited at the door
of the White House during the admin-
istrations of McKlnley, Roosevelt and
Taft. They asked for bread and re-
ceived stones of indifference. They $
demanded justice and received plati-
tudes about "prosperity," "content-
ment," and "making two blades of
grass grow where one grew'before.'*
Then came another Wilson—Wood-
1 row Wilson. Things began to change.
David l'\ Houston was made Secretary
of Agriculture. For the first time in
' the history of the Government, th#
business problems of the farmer re-
ceived the attentions of his Govern-
ment. The Ofllce of Markets and
the Rureau of Rural Organization wefs
created to help him break the strangle-; *
bold of entrenched monopoly. Ths
epoch-making Rural Credits Law was
passed by Wootlrow Wilson nnd a
Democratic Congress. The power of
the usurer and extortioner was broke#
when that Act was signed.
The farmer has a good memory. Hs
does not forget his life-long battls-
with entrenched privilege—organized'
and grown purse-proud during* forty
years of Republican indifference nnd'*
misrule. He will not forget that It was
WOODROW WILSON, the Peoples
('resident, who saved his market from
ruin on Sept. 2, 1916. The . pedal
pleadings of Republican defenders of
special privilege and monopoly will
find the farmers ready on Nov. 7.
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