| Show q 1 Democrats Deliver With Deeds Ollie James Says WILSON 9 EMANCIPATOR P RAISED PRAISED BY WESCOTT IN NOMINATING SPEECH t Pr Present sent Day a aon Conditions In n Ind Industry try Contrasted on rase With 1 the e Past as Policy in Mexico an and Europe Analyzed na ze ST ST. L LOUIS UIS June 15 John John W W. attorney general of New Jersey Jersey placed President President Wilsons Wilson's name before the convention in a a brief speech in which he paid tribute to Wilsons Wilson's administration and urged Its indorsement indorse- indorse tn ment nt by hv the narty party He s spoke ke in part patt as follows r i Prophecy is fulfilled The eterna I verities of righteousness have prevailed I Undismayed by the th calamities of war j unmoved by vituperation and vain dec declamation holding to the pure altar of ot truth the schoolmaster Is statesman the statesman financier the financier emancipator the emancipator pacificator the pacificator the moral leader of De De- m The nation is at work The Thaon-is Thaon nation is at peace The nation Is accomplishing the destiny of Democracy cY Four years ago apo the nation was not at at work With resources boundless with a hundred mil million mil lion people eager to achieve and do commerce com corn merce mercy languished Industries halted men lien I were Idle The country struggled In the tolls toUs bf an inadequate financial system s I Credit was at the merc mercy of piracy y The Thes small business man mM was bound hand and foot toot Panic Paulo hung like a storm cloud over the business world Now bursting granaries teeming fac factories fac fac- tories crowded railways and d r ships distribute wealth and and comfort to uncounted millions mInions the world over Production Production Pro Pro- outruns the means o of tv df distribution tion The parallel of American prosper nor prosperity prosperity prosper prosper- ity Is not found In Industrial history nOrIs nor norIs Is It causeless It did dida not descend like a 8 merciful accident from heaver heaven It Is not due to the devastations of a revised e tariff It Is not th the e result rEsult of destructive legislation It cannot be b attributed to e the manufacture of f war materials constituting constituting con con- a bare 6 B per c of the volume of national business War cur cur- tails War depresses Industrial energy When th the European cataclysm struck the world moratoria fell like a blight upon many of the neutral nations but not upon the United States What Is Explanation There stands the astounding phenomenon phenomenon phenomenon phe phe- of American prosperity What Is Its explanation The Euclid of financial finan finan- cial theory worked to a demonstration measures for the country's relief He promptly put Into effect the legislative expression of a great program He did not talk He did things He dynamited the monetary dams and let credit flow to the remotest corners carriers of the land Its spray pray j dashing even upon foreign shores He released the nations nation's resources andset andset and andset set the energies of all men lien free to exploit exploit exploit ex ex- them He destroyed slavery The Tho 1 prosperity of ot the nation is the product of statesmanship and financial finan finan- financial cial elal genius The cause being undisturbed the effects must remain With Lincoln the emancipator of the chattel slave he will live forever as the eman ema n r tor of the commercial slave The nation Is at peace In a a. world at war America is confronted with appalling ap- ap appalling ap ap- palling realities It Is is' not the part of wisdom to play with phantoms deal In riddles or seek to entertain the national Imagination with the legerdemain Of r f language To build words mountain high as the throne of vanity and ar ambition should not be an American pastime AnI An I I attempt to catch the presidency by phrases the Is work of folly With civilization In peril perU the sphinx becomes an anachronism The anachronism I ism will wUl remain the mysterious silence of o othe the ages The safety of the nation will not permit the supreme court of the United States to become a political supply supply sup sup- ply shop With the whole world tense tens e and anxious patriotic advice and suggestion suggestion sug sug- estion are ace of more value than abuse and defamation aT Abusive phraseology shrivels shrivels shrivels els before the relentless fact Mexican Problem Faced What are the realities that face us In Mexico exist the potentialities of In her wealth her history her hex schools Tier her religion her needs her ve very i. i suffering and patriotism lie the indestructible inde rode indestructible seeds of progress To have hav e conquered Mexico would have seated d ed death at the American fireside It would have destroyed our prosperity and added hundreds of millions of taxation to the burdens of the nation It would have planted distrust and hatred of the United States In every South American republic It would have forfeited the respect of the world It would Mould have substituted the tenets of Imperialism for the principles of Americanism It would have prostituted the bravery and patriotism of American arms to the greed and avarice of conce Ambition and greed Teed were prepared to sacrifice America and all that America I stands for tor in order to acquire the wealth of Mexico The diplomacy of watchful waiting averted these calamities and preserved In their original purity and the principles of American lr freedom and f justice jus jus- us s tice tico Watchful waiting repudiated the brutal dictum of science that the weak must go down before the strong Help Mexico lest over her bloody grave are sown the dragons dragon's teeth of vur pur own d do- do Policy In Europe Europe War with any European nation would have ha set the world aflame and stopped the march of progress for tor a century Would anyone have had It so In order to affirm a virile Americanism Is a virile Americanism bloodshed destruction destruction destruction tion the horrors of at war and its uncertainties uncertainties The TIle substance of civilization is the arts the sciences literature philosophy phi phi- Industry the domestic virtues freedom religion and peace But this is the substance of American nationalism This is the virility of at Americanism The stupendous conflagration is consuming the errors of statesmen and dynasties it is not consuming the substance o of civil civil- War with Europe would have cut asunder the moral forces that bind the nations and left an age of darkness anarchy and despair Standing on the immutable foundations of ot such Ajner- Ajner Americanism the schoolmaster and statesman statesman states states- man with consummate skill directs the forces of civilization not with arms but with reason and moral pressure against the the- excesses of at a a. belligerent world With preternatural poise and clearness of vision he Is piloting America through the rushing storm Who can deny the existence existence ex ex- of a moral design In inthe the universe universe uni uni- verse The pus passions Ions of men die The truth lives America has called to Europe Europe Is responding In terms of a re re- re revitalized vitalized civilization The picture picture pic pic- ture In civil history is iss that of a plain American citizen maneuvering maneuverIng maneuverIng maneuver- maneuver Ing with the weapons of reason and humanity against the navies and armies of the contending nations and bringing them In accord with the principles ples pIes of international law The American standard of peace and Justice j pow now floats on the sea What is peace but the assertion of moral progress progress' What is the assertion of moral progress but the indestructible civilization of Europe and America From the ruins of a thousand thousand thou thou- sand cities over the graves of ot millions of brave men out of at the blackness of the battle smoke arising from tram the obscurities of national passions already the peoples of the earth recognize the dim outlines I growing ever more distinct of the composite composite com com- soul of America in the patient and humane wisdom of the worlds world's real cator Achievement Is Vast Of what avail all the wealth of our beloved land if it had been consumed in the destructiveness of war war What avail the travail of human progress for years had not the schoolmaster and statesman been pacificator His achievement achieve achieve- ment Is fa so o vast that ambitious men are rl blind t to ft Us reality B But th the plain t millions mil mil- lions of all fe creeds dS and d nationalities l recognize In it the Imperishable glories of a Christian civilization Thus Is the nation accomplishing the destiny of Democracy The commanding fact of the leas modern a age age- ages Is s the spread of Intelligence The s schoolhouse e has s conquered conquered con con- Ner Ignorance Education w eh h has q n tied fled him for tor a better existence The Bible has made hint a moralist America Stands Test The American experiment of self t government has stood the test Tho The achievements achievement o of the American system Continued Cont p on page ge 4 4 4 r WILSON PRAISED t Continued from from page 2 2 town lown of all men and felt through- through e world The United States Is the thes thea s a asylum Here all races all coni con- con i 3 all aU creeds are assimilated helped ed and men are made into self men le Is opinion o of ol all aU men is more po- po than the opinion of oC one man The opinion of the best men by the theof of QC example and mutuality of In- In becomes the opinion of all men can cart opinion i 3 is embodied In a a a. aman man ice American opinion is march- march rough the worlden world l en n the imperialism of Europe cat caton t ton on dice dlce of destiny America threw noral dice of destiny America AmericaL l the principles of her Justice There stand in untarnished Integrity In izo 0 of a stricken world The In- In nce of men grasp gra-at the meaning of ot r-a. r a. a Her example will readjust the them theas ns m of oC men e everywhere Men and andt andl t l' l can and should rule themselves ay when they rul rule themselves war Hand Is Seen l terica prosperous peaceful blessed b because cause the inscrutable purposes I l' Intended it The contrast between e C in flames and suffering and the thet I t States peaceful and prosperous divine contrast By saving the can system civilization Is saved of at America demonstrates the C f C war warP The principles of oC Democracy li It the means Of oC avoiding and preg pre- pre g war ns Os of ot America keep keep- unsullied the o of ot peace through whose 3 will yet et pass a arm In ta arm tha ha crowned o head and the humble peasant f peasant in silent worship hl of God God Out of ot the ruins and sufferings of th the Present conflict will arise a temple o ot of justice whose dome will be the blue vault vaul of ot heaven Its illuminants the eternal eterna stars Its pillars the everlasting hills Its ornaments the woods and bountiful fields Its music the tIle rippling rills the song o ot of birds I the e laughter g of h happy childhood d its diapason the roar of mills and the hum of i industry its votaries a s the p peoples o of f 7 sW the e earth Its creed on W which h hangs al all i the law and the prophets Love thy neighbor as thyself Above Its altars In Ineffaceable color will live eternally the vision of its artificer c Therefore my fellow countrymen no not I r. r T but his deeds and achievements not notI I but the spirit and purposes of America not I I. I but th the prayers of ot Just juet men no not I I. I but civilization Itself nominates to succeed himself to the presidency of the United States Statts to the presidency of a hundred million free people bound in impregnable union the scholar the statesman the the emancipator tor the pacificator the moral leader o ot of Democracy Woodrow Wilson |
