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of Ha control to staffer from one labor aflfi . financial crisis to another under the man when in search of work, operation of a national banking law ^e base . effected the emanclpa- . of its-own framing which made strin- Uo n of the children of the country by l gency and panic certain and the con- releasing them from hurtful labor. ^felHENT WIICAN CAITMIIC t ^ 01 the lar 8« r business operations we have instituted a System of nar fTILaVIt JUUltlfJ Of the country by the bankers of a tional aid In the building of hlgb- riUDHAV IfEVNATC ^ ew . reserve centres inevitable; had roa dg guch as the country has been H^ltAinrAlUIt ACinUlC made as if it meant to reform the feeling after for a century. We have - law but had faitheartedly failed in sought to equalize taxation by means ' tbe attempt, because it could not 0 f gjj equitable Income tax. We have rnrrnrn nv I IDrrrDnii/n bring itself to do the one thing taken the steps that ought to have liHrrKrl Hi LAKut LKIIW1I nece8sar y 10 make the reform S enu - been taKsa at the outset to open, up UULL.nL.UUl LiniiULi tmuivu, ihe and effectual, namely, break-up t h e resources df Alaska. We hate the control of email groups of bank- provided for national defense upon a | ers. It had been oblivious, or indif- scale never before seriously proposed Striking Straight From Shoulder in > ferent, to the fact that the farmers, U p 0 n the responsibility of an entire I upon whom the country depends for political party. We have driven the Acceptance Speech, Wilson Char-1 its food and in the last analysis for tariff lobby from cover and obliged its prosperity, were without stand: jt to substitute solid argument for ing in the matter of commercial private influence it i . 0U tL i t r he r , la Ti. eC t t « n Jr' i This extraordinary recital must st&nclcirQs in their msirKet tr&n83.C“j j iiita t%io4#/vv«w» a n«sf nt can tions, and without systematic knowl- not * It ?s edve of-the markets Jhemselves- that gUlne P romi8es - but lt is not 11 18 eage or tne markets xnemseives, mat record of p r p m i ge8 ma de four years the laborers of the country, the great! ag ^ a « n( , now ac t ua ii y redeemed in acterizes Republican Party as One of Masterly Inactivity and Resist ance to Progress. President Wilson Saturday formal ly opened his campaign for re-elec tion at Long Branch, N. J„ with a speech accepting the Democratic nomination in which he characteriz ed the Republican party as a “practi cal and moral failure,” defended his American and European policies, re cited the legislative achievements of his administration and declared for “a big America.” In his .Speech President Wilson was unsparing in .his criticism of the Republican party as a party of "mas terly Inactivity and cunning re sourcefulness in standing pat to re sist change,” and said that old lead- ers still select their candidate, but he ■ did not mention Charles E. Hughes, n the Republican candidate, by name, v The president spokg from the veranda of his summer home to a crowd which filled eight thousand chairs and overflow jd to the l iwn. Speaking in the open his voice could be heard by only a small part , of the crowd, but those who did hoar him constantly interrupted with ap- I t / r < Ak bn he said, “I neither seek the nor fear the displeasure of kmall alien element amongst us puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States," the crowd stood and cheer- _«d. cere ato ales brought rartnunh,* to a dra ramatie “trnwir more than a score of American flags attached to parachutes were fired Into the air by mortars and unfold ed over the president’s head as a band played “America." Afterward Mr. Wilson stood more than an hour on the veranda and shook hands wltn several thousand men, women and children. The president said: Senator James. Gentlemen of the Notification Committee, Fellow Citi- sens: I cannot accept the leadership army of men who man the industries it was professing to father and pro mote, carried their labor as a mere commodity to market, were subject to restraint by novel and drastic pro cess in the courts, were without as surance of compensation for indus- sistance in accommodating labor dis- trial accidents, without federal as- putes, 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 .construc tion and development. Little Intel ligent attention was paid to the army, and not enough to the navy. The ather republics of America dis trusted us, because they found that we thought first of the profits of American investors and only as an after-thought of impartial Justice and helpful friendship. Its policy was provincial in aH,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. How It Has Changed. So things stood when the Demo cratic party came Into power. How do they stand now? Alike In the do mestic field and In thff wide field of the commerce of the world, Ameri can business and life and industry free to move as they mr— The tariff has been revised, not on .i a the principle of repelling forefgnT toraUon 0? tk * lr - 8Worn ^ trade, but upon the principle of en couraging It. upon something like a footing of equality with our own in respect of the terms of competition, and a tariff board has been created whose function It will be to keep the relations of American with foreign business and industry under consunt observation, for the guidance alike of onr business men and of our ’con gress. American energies are now and responsibility which the national! directed towards the markets of the Democratic convention has again, ini world. such generous fashion, asked me to The laws against trusts have been accept without flret expreealng my| clarified by definition, with a view to profound gratitude to the party for, making It plain that they were not the trust It reposes In me after four directed against big business but constructive legislation. These things must profoundly dis turb the thoughts and confound the plans of those who have made them-, selves believe that the Democratic party neither understood nor was ready to assist the business of the country 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 thaLthey sought and were sure they had found the heart of things. The game of privilege can be placed suc cessfully by no other means. — Are Progressives Too. This record must equally astonish those who feared that the Demo cratic party had not opened its heart to comprehend the demands 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 pro gress! vea. There is one circumstance con nected with this program whit h ought to be very plainly stated. It was resisted at every step by the in terests which the Republican party had catered to and fostered at the expense of the country, and tnee? same interests are now earnestly ing for a reaction which will years of fiery trial in the midst of affairs of unprecedented difficulty, and the keen sense of added respon sibility 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 pres ent and Immediate future conduct of our government. I shall seek, as I have always sought, to justify the ex traordinary confidence thus reposed in me by striving to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party motive and devoting every energy I have to the service of the nation as n whhle, praying that I may continue to have the counsel and support of all for ward-looking men at every turn of the difficult business. For l do not do ibt that the people of the United States will wish the Democratic party to continue in con trol of the government. They are not in the habit of rejecting those who have actually MlVad them for those who are making doubtful and conjectural promises of service. Least of all are they likely to sub stitute those who promised to render tb>m particular services and proved that promise for those who ^HPLotually rendered those very suWres.. Coasting is always an empty busi ness, which pleases nobody but the boaster, and I have no disposition to boast of what the Democratic party has accomplished. It has merely ful filled its explicit promises. But there «an be no violation of good taste in calling attention to the manner in which those promises have been car ried out or In adverting to.the In teresting fact that many of the things accomplished were what the opposi tion party had again and again promised to do but had left undone. Indeed that is manifestly part of the business of this year of reckoning find assessment. There is no means of judging the past. Constructive fiction must be weighed againat de structive comment and reaction. The Democrats either have or have not understood the varied interests of ithe country. The test is contained in the record. What Did They Do? ’ What is that record? What were the Democrats called into power to do? What things had long waited to be done, and how did the Demo crats do them? It Is a record of ex traordinary length and variety, rich lh*elements of many kinds, but con sistent in principle throughout and susceptible of brief recital. The Republican.party was put out of power because of failure, practi cal failure and moral failure; be cause it had served special Interests and hot the country at large; be cause, under the leadership of Its preferred and established guides, of those who still make Its choices, It had lost touch with the thoughts and the needs of.»the_n>tlon and waa 11 v- only against unfair business and the pretense of competition where there was none; and a trade commission has been created with powers of guidance and accommodation which have relieved business men of un founded fears and set them upon the road of hopeful and confident enter prise. By the federal reserve act the sup ply of currency at the disposal of active business has been rendered elastic, taking Its volume, not from a fixed body of Investment securities, but from the liquid assets of daily trade; and there assets are assessed and accepted, not by distant groups of bankers in control of unavailable reserves, but by bankers at the many centres of local exchange who are in touch with local condlt'ons every where. Effective measures have been taken for the recreation of an Ameri can merchant marine and the revival of the American carrying trade 4i)r. dispensable to our emancipation from the control which foreigners have so long exercised over the op portunities. the routes and the meth ods of our commerce with other countries. The interstate commerce commis sion is about to be reorganized to enable it *to perform its great and Important functions more promptly and more efficiently. We have cre ated, extended and improved the ser vice of the parcel post. So>mnch vye have done for busi ness. What other party has under stood the task so-well or executed it so intelligently and energetically? What other party has attempted It at all? The- Republican leaders, ap parently, know of no means of assist ing business but "protection." How to stimulate It and put It upon a new footing of energy and enterprise they have not suggested. For the Farmers. For the farmers of the country we have virtually created commercial credit, by means of the federal re serve act and the rural credits act. They now have-the standing of other business men in the money market.. We have successfully regulated spec ulation in “futures” and established standards in the marketing of grains. By an Intelligent warehouse act we have assisted to make the standard crops available as never before both for systematic marketing and as a security for loans from the banks. We Wave greatly added to the work of neighborhood demonstration on the farm itself of Improved methods of cultivation, and, through the In telligent extension of the functions of the department of agriculture, have made it possible for the fkrmer to learn systematically where his best markets are and how to get at them. The workingmen of America havj been given a veritable emancipation, o power befbVwtt is too late lu .*e- cbver what they ha v e lost. They fought with particular lesperatlon and infinite resourcefu.ness the le- form of the banking vni currency system, knowing that to be the cita del of their control; and moat anxi ously sre they hoping and planning for the amendment of tiu fedeial re serve act by the concen’.r.itlo*» of con trol In a single bank arno-h the old familiar group of bankers can keep under their eye and direction. But while the “big 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 re sourcefulness in standing p%t to re sist change. The Republican party Is just the party that cannot meet the new con ditions of a new age. It does not know the way and it does not wish new conditions. It tried to break away from the old leaders and could not. They still select Its candidates and dictate its policy, still resist change, still hanker after the old conditions^ still know no methods of encouraging business but the old methods. When it changes its lead ers and Its purposes and brings its Ideas up to date it will have the right to ask the American 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. In foreign affairs we have been guided by principles clearly conceiv ed and consistently lived up to. Per haps they have not been fully com prehended because they have hither to governed international affairs only in theory, not in practice. They are simple, obvious, easily stated, and fundamental to American Ideals. A Doty in Neutrality. We have been neutral not only be cause it was the fixed and traditional policy of the United States tO stand aloof from the politics of Europe and because we had had no part either of action or of policy in the in fluences which brought on tho pres ent war, but also because It was man ifestly our duty to prevent, If it were possible, the indefinite extension of the fires of hate and desolation kin dled by that terrible conflict and seek to serve mankind by reserving our strength and our resources for the anxious and difficult days of res toration and healing which must fol low, when peace will have to build Its house anew. The rights of our own citizens of course became involved; thgt' was disloyalty into our own mb cal affalra, laid violent hands upon made of us Whether we t» sincere many of our industries, and subject- lovers of popular liberty or' not and ed us to the shame of divisions of sre indeed- to be trusted to respect sentiment and purpose in which nstional Sovereignty among onr America was condemned and forgot-1 weaker neighbors. We have under- ten. It is part of the business of this taken these many years to play big year of reckoning and settlement to brother to the republics of this speak plainly and act with unmis- ! hemisphere. This is tho day of our takable purpose In rebuke of tt)ese! test whether we mean, or have ever things, in order that they may be. meant, to play that part for our own forever hereafter 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. Justice to Mexico. While Europe was at war our own continent, one of our own n^ghbors; was shaken by revolution, utn 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 tree men see it. We have professed to believe, and we do be lieve, that the people of small and weak states have the right to expect to be dealt with exactly as tho peo ple of big and powerful states would be. We have acted upon that prin ciple in dealing with the people of Mexico. Our recent pursuit of bandits into Mexican territory; v/as no violation of that principle. We ventured to en ter Mexican territory only because there were no military forces In Mexico that could protect our border from hostile attack and our own peo ple from violence, and we have com mitted there no single act of hostil ity or interference even with the sov ereign authority of the republic of Mexico herself. It was a plain case of the viofation of our pwn sover eignty which could not wait to be vindicated by damages and for which there was no other remedy. The authorities of Mexico were powerless to prevent it. Many serious wrongs, against the property, many irreparable wrongs against the persons, of Americans have been committed within the ter ritory of Mexico herself during this confused revolution, wrongs which could not be effectually checked co long as there was no constituted position to check them. We cou not directly in that matter ourselves without denying Mexicans the right to any revolution at all which dis turbed us and making the emanci pation of her own people await our own interest anA convenience. For it is their emancipation that they are seeking—blindly, bat with profound and passionate purpose and within their unquestionable right, apply what true American principle you will—any principle that American would publicly avow. The people of Mexico have uot been oufj fered to own their own country ot direct their own institutions. Out siders, men out of other nations and with Interests too often alien to their own, have dictated what their privi leges and opportunities should be and who should control their land, their lives and resources—some of them Americans, pressing for things they could never have got in their own country. The Mexican people 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 in my power to prevent any one standing in their way. know that this is hard for some per sons to understand, but it U not hard for the plain people of 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 noble women, too, not a few, of our own people, thank God! whoso for tunes are invested in great proper ties in Mexico who yet see the cace with true vision and assess its issues benefit whojly.-qr also-for theirs. Upon the outcome of that test <its outcome in their minds, not in ours) depends every relationship of the TJnited States with Latin-America, whether in politics or in commerce and enterprise. These are great is sues and lie at the heart of the grav est tasks of the future, tasks both economic and political amfV&ry in timately inwrought with many of the most vital of the new issues of the politics of the world. The republics of America have in the last three years been drawing together in a new spirit of accommodation, mutu .1 understanding and cordial co-opera tion. Much of the politics of the world in the years to come will de pend upon their relationships with one another. It is a barren and pro vincial statesmanship that loses sight of such things; Will Meet New Problems.. The future, the immediate future, will bring us squarely face to face with many great and exacting prob lems which will search us through and through whether we be able and ready to play the part In the world that wp mean to play. It will not bring ns into their presence slowly, gently, with ceremonious introduc tion, 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 courage and resourcefulness, and In some matters radical reconsiderations of policy. We must be ready to mobi lize our resources alike of brains and of material*. It ia not.a future to be afraid of. It is, rather^ a future to -stimulate and epcite use to the display of the best {lowers that are In us. We may hen we are sure that uUU#lllillU hare provided ourselvee already with the means of understanding it. r Look first at what It will be neces sary that the nations of the world should do to make the days to come tolerable and fit to live and work fn; and then look at our part In what is to follow snd onr own duty of pre paration. For we must be prepared both in resources snd In policy There must be s just and settled peace, .end we here in America must contribute the fall force of our en thusiasm snd of onr anthortty ns s nation upon world-wide foundations that cannot easily be shaken. No nation should be forced to take sides in any quarrel In wblcb Its own honor snd integrity snd the fortunes of its own people sre not involved; but no nation can ay longer remain neutral as against any wilful dis turbance of the peace of the world The effects of war can no longer be confined to the areas of battle. No nation stands wholly apart in inter est when the life and interests o( all nations sre thrown into conflusioo snd peril. If hopeful snd generous enterprise is to be renewed. If the healing and helpful arts of life sre indeed to be revived when peace comes again, a new stmoephere of Justice snd friendship muot be gen erated by means the world has never tried before. Tbe nations of the world must unite In joint guarantees that whatever is done tp disturb the whole world's life must first be tast ed in the court of the whole world’s opinion before it is attempted. Foundations of Peace. These are the new foundations the We have already formulated agreed upon a' policy of lew which will explicitly remove the ban now supposed to rest upon co-operntlon amongst our exporters In seeking and securing their proper place In the markets of the world. ‘ Tho field will be free, the instrumentalities at hand. It will only remain for the masters of enterprise amongst ns to act in energetic concert, and for the government of the United States to Insist upon the maintenance through out the world of those conditions of fairness and <f even handed justice in the commercial dealings of the nations with ono another upon which, after all, in the last analysis, the peace and ordered Mfe of the world must ultimately depend. Ban Evil; Help Good. At home also we must see to it that the men who plan and develop and direct our business enterprises shall enjoy definite and settled con ditions of law, a policy accommodat ed to the freest progress. We have set the Just and necessary limits. We have put all kinds of unfair compe tition under the ban and penalty of the law. We have barred monopoly. These fital and ugly things being excluded, we must now quicken ac tion and facilitate enterprise by every just means within our choice. There will be peace In tho business world, and, vith peace, revived con fidence amd life. We ought both to Husband and to develop our natural resources, our mines, onr forests, our water power. wish we could have made more progress than we have made In this vital matter; and 1 cell once more, with the deepest earnestness and solicitude, upon the advocates of a careful and provident conservation, on tbe one hand, and the advocates of a free and inviting field for pri vate capital, on the other, to get t - gether in a spirit of genuine accom- pollcy forward at once. We must hearten and quicken the spirit and efficiency of labor throughout our whole industrial sys tem by everywhere and in ail occu pations doing Justice to the laborer, not only by paying a living wage but also by making all the conditions, that surround labor what they ought to be. And we must do more than ti* Yii jar* i»f« *nd with true American feeling. The „ ^ rest can be left for the present ont-ot -*nrld..muAt bulldfor jf if. and we the reckoning until this enslaved people has had Its day of struggle towards the light. I have heard no one who was free from such influ ences propose Interference by tbe United States with the internal af fairs of Mexico. Certainly no friend of the Mexican people has proposed it. A Spirit of Pity. The people of the United States are capable of great sympathies and a noble pity in dealing with prob lems of this kind/ As their spokes man and representative, I have tried to act in the spirit they would wish me show. The spirit of Mexico are striving’ for the rights that are fun damental to life and happiness—fif teen thousand oppressed men, over burdened women and pitiful children In virtual bondage in their own home of fertile lands and inexhausti ble treasure! Some of the leaders of the revolution may often have been mistaken and violent and self ish, but the revolution itself was In evitable and is right. The unspeak able Huexta betrayed the very com rades he served, traltoriously over threw the government of which he was a trusted part, impudently spoke for the very forces that had driven his people to the rebellion with inevitable. Where they Bid this was whicti -he had pretended to sympa- in a past age and under a fixed by the legal recognition ot g man’s Inf. in ^■Upn, the illusion of greatness. It ^Hh-amed tariff laws based upon a tan of foreign-trade, a fundamental doubt as to American skill, enter priser and capacity, oad-a very ten der regard for the profitable privi leges of those who had gained control of domestic markets and domestic credits; and yet had enacted anti trust laws which hampered the very things they meant to footer, which were stiff and insiaatU. and id pert It had permitted the the labor as part of his life, and not a mere marketable commodity; by ex empting labor organisations from processes of the courts which treat ed Umir members like fractional fcartsot mobs and not Mte accessible ttaet-ned-definU* our guiding principle: that property rights can be vindicated by claims for damages and no modern nation can decline to arbitrate such claims; but the fundamental rights of hu manity cannot be. The loss of life Is irreparable. Neither can direct vio lations of a nation’s sovereignty await vindication In suits for dam ages. The nation that violates these essential rights must expect 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 we have never lost sight of them or departed, from them, whatever the ■tress or the perplexity of cticum- ■tance or the provocation to hasty resentment. The record Is clear and consistent throughout and stands dis- thize. The men who overcame him and drove him out represent at least the fierce t passion of reconstruction Which lies at the very heart of lib erty; and so long as they represent, however imperfectly, such 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* any*one who obtains power In a sister republtc- by treach ery and violence. No permanency can be given the affairs of any re public by a title based upon intrigue and assassifiatlon. I declared th~t to be the peUey of this admlnistra-. tl<m within three weeks after I as sumed tf>e presidency. I here again vow it. I am more Interested In tbe and responsible’individuals; by re leasing our seamen from involuntary servitude; by making adequate pro-* vision for compensation for indus trial accidents; by providing suitable merhlnery for adoa In Indnstrial dispute^ and by putting the federal detriment o’ judge who wishes to know thd~lrtldi about It t . ' .The seas were not broed enough to keep tbe Infection of tbe conflict oat of onr own politics. Tbe peuions and la trig sen of certain active groups and combinations of men IP fortunes Of o oppr-T>sed m men and pitl- fur women property rights whatever. I have no doubt made in this plnxlng business, but not In purpose or object. More is Involved that tbe imme diate destinies of Mexico and tbs re- ladsns of tbs United Put— with a must play our part in the reconstruc tion, generously and without too much thought of our separate inter ests. We must make ourselves ready to play It intelligently, vigorously and well. One of the contributions tie must make tp the world's peaco Is this: We must see to it that the people In our insular possessions are treated la their own lands as we would treat them here, and make the rule of the United States moan the same things everywhere—the same justice, the same consideration for the essential rights of men Besides contributing our ungrudg ing moral and practical support to the establishment of peace through out the world we must actively and intelligently prepare ourselves to do our full service in the trade and in dustry which are to sustain and de velop the life of the nations in tbe days to come. We have already been provident In this great matter and supplied ourselves with the Instrumentalities of prompt adjustment We have cre ated, in the federal trade commis sion, a means of inquiry and of ac commodation in the field of com merce which ought both to co-ordi nate .the enterprises of our traders and manufacturers and to remove the barriers of misunderstanding and of a too technical interpretation of the law. In the new tariff commis sion we have added another instru mentality of observation, and adjust ment which promises to *e immedl ateiy serviceable. The i rode com mission substitutes counsel and ai commodation for the harsher pro-' cesses of legal restralht and the tar Iff commission ought to substitute facts for prejudices and theories. Our exporters have for some time had the advantage of working In the new light thrown upon, foreign markets and opportunities of trade by the in telligent Inquiries and activities of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce which (he Democratic row- gross so wisely created In 1»12. The tariff commission completes the ma chlnery by which we shall be enabled £ occupation in which they are threat ened or Imperilled. That is more than justice, and better, becanee It Is humanity and economy. We-mast co-ordinate the railway systems of tho country for national use, and must facilitate and promote their development with a view to that co-ordination and to thslr bet ter adaptation aa a whole to tbe life and trade and defonoe of the nation. The life and Industry of tbe country can be free and unhampered only If these arteries are open, efficient, and complete. Thus shall wa stand ready’to meet the future as circumstance and in ternational policy effect their unfold ing. whether the changes come slow ly or come fast and without preface. I have not spoken Explicitly, gen tlemen. of the platform adopted at 8t. Louis; but It has been implicit in all that I have said. I have sought to interpret Its spirit and meaning. The prople of the United States do not need to be assured now that that platform Is s definite pledge, a prac tical program. We hare proved to them that our promisee are made to be kept. We hold very definite ideals. Wa believe that the energy and Initia tive of our people have been too nar rowly coached and superintended; that they should be set free, as we bare set them free, to disperse them selves throughout tbs nation; that they should not be concentrated la the hands of a few powerful guides and guardians, as onr opponents hsve again and again, in effect if not In purpose, sought to concentrate We bellexa. moreover—who that looks about him now with com prehendlng eye can fall to bellere? -that the day of Little Amorican- Ism, with its narrow horizons, when methods of "protection" and indus trial nursing were the chief study of our provincial statesmen, are past snd grne and that a day of gutar- prise has at last dawned for the United States whose field Is the wide world. We hope to see the stimnlus of that new day draw all America, the republics of both continents, on to a new life and energy and initiative In • the great affairs of pec.ee. We are Americans for Big America, and re joice to look forward to the days In which America shall strive to stir the world without Irritating It or drawing it on to new antagonisms, when the nations with which we deal shall at last come to see upon what deep foundations of humanity and justice our passion for peace rests, and when all mankind shall look upon our great people with a new sentiment of admiration, friendly rivalry and real affection, as upon a people who, though keen to succeed, seeas always to be at once generous snd just and to whom humanity Is dearer tfcsn profit or selfish power. Upon this record and in the faith of this purpose we go to the country. CERMAWS ANVEUUABS WIN Roamanla Suffers First Severe De feat Since Coining in War. Berlin’s official statement Thnra- day says: More than twenty thou sand Roumanians wore taken prison ers when Bulgarian and German troops captured the Roumanian fort ress of Turtukal. “The victorious Germans and Bul garian forces have taken the strong ly foKified town of Turtukal by storm. The number of prisoners taken by them, according to accounts already received, exceeds twenty thousand, among whom are two gen- . , , , „ erals and more -than four hundred ta xrthsfcAffWafL Mors.lhaa.8Pf bun- Mlstakes the facts as they develop Id red oanwa .werar~apturet- ~T suffered heavy cast Wa can no longer Indalge our tra ditional provincialism. We are to play a leading part la the world drama whether we wish U or mot We shall lead, not borrow; act not Imitate or follow; or- & ■