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UN NOTIFIED
OWAIN
Receives Senator James and
Committee at Shadow Lawn.
ACCEPTS WITH GRATITUDE
President Sets Forth' "Failures” of Re
publicans and Achievements of
Democrats—Defends His For
eign and Mexican Policies.
Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 2. —Presi-
dent Wilson received today at Shadow
Lawn, the summer White House, the
formal notification of his renomination
by the Democratic party from the noti
fication committee headed by Senator
Ollie James.
In response Mr. Wilson spoke in
part as follows:
Senator James, Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee, Fellow Citi
zens: I cannot accept the leadership
and responsibility which the National
Democratic convention has again, in
such generous fashion, 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 af
fairs of unprecedented difficulty, and
the keen sense of added responsibility
with which this honor fills (I had al
most said burdens) me as I think of
the great issues of national life and
policy involved in the present and Im
mediate future conduct of our govern
ment. I shall seek, as I have always
sought, to justify the extraordinary
confidence thus reposed in me by striv
ing to purge my heart and purpose of
every personal and of every mislead
ing party motive and devoting every
energy I have to the service of the na
tion as a whole, praying that I may
continue to have the counsel and sup
port of all forward-looking men at ev
ery 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 con
trol of the government. They are not
in the habit of rejecting those who
have actually served them for those
who are making doubtful and conjec
tural promises of service. Least of
all are they likely to substitute those
who promised to render them particu
lar services and proved false to that
promise for those who have actually
rendered those very services.
Republican “Failures” Cited.
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'es
tablished guides, of those who still
make its choices, it had lost touch
with the thoughts and the needs of the
nation and was living in a past age
and under a fixed illusion, the illusion
of greatness. It had framed tariff
laws based upon a fear of foreign
trade, a fundamental doubt as to
American skill, enterprise, and capa
city, and a very tender regard for the
profitable privileges of those who had
gained control of domestic markets
and domestic credits; and yet had en
acted antitrust laws which hampered
the very things they meant to foster,
which were stiff and Inelastic, and in
part unintelligible. It had permitted
the country throughout the long period
Os its control to stagger from one
financial crisis to another under the
operation of a national banking law
cf Its own framing which made strin
gency and panic certain and the con
trol of the larger business operations
of the country by the bankers 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 it
self to do the.one thing necessary to
make the reform genuine and effec
tual, namely, break up the control of
small groups of bankers. It had been
oblivious, or Indifferent, to the fact
that the farmers, upon whom the coun
try depends for its food and in the
last analysis for Its prosperity, were
without standing In the matter of
commercial credit, without the protec
tion of standards in their market
transactions, and without systematic
knowledge of the markets themselves;
that the laborers of the country, the
great army of men* who man the in
dustries it was professing to father
and promote, carried their labor as a
mere commodity to market, were sub
ject. to restraint by novel and drastic
process in the courts, were without as
surance of compensation for industrial
accidents, without federal assistance
in accommodating labor disputes, and
without national aid or advice in find
ing 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 af
terthought of Impartial justice and
helpful friendship. Its policy was pro
vincial in all things; its purposes were
out of harmony with the temper and
purpose of the people and the timely
development of the nation’s interests.
So things stood when the Democrat
ic party came into power. How do
they stand now? Alike In the domes
tic field and in the wide field of the
commerce of the world, AmeHcan busi
ness and life and Industry have been
set free to move as they never moved
before.
What Democrats Have Done.
The tariff has been revised, not on
the principle of repelling foreign
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 constant
observation, for the guidance of our
business men and of our congress.
American energies are now directed
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 business and the pre
tense of competition where there was
none; and a trade commission has
been created with powers of guidance
and accommodation which have re
lieved business men of unfounded
fears and set them upon the road of
hopeful and confident enterprise.
By the federal reserve act the sup
ply of currency at the disposal of ac
tive business has been rendered elas
tic, taking its volume, not from a fixed
body of investment securities, but
from the liquid assets of dally trade.
Effective measures have been taken
for the re-creation of an American
merchant marine and the revival of
the American carrying trade.
The interstate commerce commis
sion has been reorganized to enable
it to perform its great and important
functions more promptly and more ef
ficiently. We have created, extended
and improved the service of tire par
cels post.
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 busi
ness men in the money market. We
have successfully regulated specula
tion 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.
For Labor and Children.
The workingmen 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 ex
empting labor organizations from proc
esses of the courts which treated their
members like fractional parts of mobs
and not like accessible and responsi
ble individuals; by releasing our sea
men from involuntary servitude; by
making adequate provision for com
pensation for industrial accidents; by
providing suitable machinery for me
diation and conciliation in Industrial
disputes; and by putting the federal
department of Labor at the disposal of
the workingman when in search of
work.
We have effected the emancipation
of the children of the country by re
leasing 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
equitable income tax. We have taken
the steps that ought to have been
taken at the outset to open up the re
sources of Alaska. We have pro
vided for national defense 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 pri
vate influence.
Foreign Policy Stated.
In foreign affairs we have been
guided by principles clearly con
ceived and consistently lived up to.
Perhaps they have not been fully com
prehended because they have hitherto
governed international affairs only in
theory, not in practice. They are sim
ple, obvious, easily stated, and funda
mental to American ideals.
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 no part either of ac
tion or of policy in the influences which
brought on the present war, but also
because it was manifestly our duty to
prevent, if it were possible, the indefi
nite extension of the fires of hate and
desolation kindled by that terrible con
flict and seek to serve mankind by re
serving our strength and our resources
for the anxious and difficult days of
restoration and healing which must
follow, when peace will have to build
its house anew.
The rights of our own citizens of
course became involved; that was In
evitable. Where they did this was our
guiding principle: that property rights
can be vindicated by claims for dam
ages when the war is over, and no mod
ern nation can decline to arbitrate
such claims; but the fundamental
rights of humanity cannot be. The loss
of life is Irreparable. Neither can di
rect violations of a nation’s sovereign
ty await vindication in suits for dam
ages.
As to Mexico.
While Europe was at war our own
continent, one of our own neighbors,
was 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 professed to be
lieve, and we do believe, that the peo
ple of small and weak states have the
right to expect to be dealt with exact
ly as the people of big and powerful
states would be. We have acted upon
that principle in dealing with the peo
ple of Mexico.
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
Our recent pursuit of bandits into
Mexican territory was no violation of
that principle. We ventured to enter
Mexican territory only because there
were no military forces in Mexico that
could protect our border from hostile
attack and our own people from vio
lence, and we have committed there
no single act of hostility or Interfer
ence even with the sovereign authority
of the republic of Mexico herself.
Many serious wrongs against the
property, many irreparable' wrongs
against the persons, of Americans have
been committed within the territory of
Mexico herself during this confused
revolution, wrongs which could not be
effectually checked so long as there
was no constituted power in Mexico
which was in a position to check them.
We could not act directly in that mat
ter ourselves without denying Mexi
cans the right to any revolution at all
which disturbed us and making the
emancipation of her own people await
our own interest and convenience.
Problems of Near Future.
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.
There must be a just and settled
peace, and we here In America must
contribute the full force of our en
thusiasm and of our authority as a
nation to the organization of that
peace upon world-wide foundations
that cannot easily be shaken. No na
tion should be forced to take sides in
any quarrel in which its own honor
and integrity and the fortunes of its
own people are not involved; but no
nation can any longer remain neutral
as against any willful disturbance of
the peace of the world.
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 possessions 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.
Besides contributing our ungrudg
ing moral and practical support to the
establishment of peace throughout the
world we must actively and intelli
gently prepare ourselves to do our full
service in the trade and industry
which are to sustain and develop the
life of the nations in the days to come.
We have already been provident in
this great matter and supplied our
selves with the instrumentalities of
prompt adjustment. We have created,
in the federal trade commission, a
means of inquiry and of accommoda
tion in the field of commerce which
ought both to co-ordinate the enter
prises of our traders and manufac
turers and to remove the barriers of
misunderstanding and of a too tech
nical interpretation of the law. In
the new tariff commission we have
added another instrumentality of ob
servation and adjustment which prom
ises to be immediately serviceable.
We have already formulated and
agreed upon a policy of law which
will explicitly remove the ban now
supposed to rest upon co-operation
amongst our exporters in seeking and
securing their proper place in the
markets of the world. The field will
be free, the instrumentalities at hand.
At home also we must see to it that
the men who plan and develop and di
rect our business enterprises shall en
joy definite and settled conditions of
law, a policy accommodated to the
freest progress. We have set the just
and necessary limits. We have put
all kinds of unfair competition under
the ban and penalty of the law. We
have barred monopoly, These fatal
and ugly things being excluded, we
must now quicken action and facili
tate enterprise by every just means
within our choice. There will be
peace in the business world, and, with
peace; revived confidence and life.
We ought both to husband and to
develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power.
I wish we could have made more prog
ress than we have made In tills vital
matter.
We must hearten and quicken the
spirit and efficiency of labor through
out our whole industrial system by
everywhere and In all occupations do
ing justice to the laborer, not only by
paying a living wage, but also by
making ail the conditions that sur
round labor what they ought to be.
We must co-ordinate the railway
systems of the country for national
use, and must facilitate and promote
-their development with a view to that
co-ordination and to their better
adaptation as a whole to the life and
trade and defense of the nation. The
life and industry of the country can
be free and unhampered only if these
arteries are open, efficient, and com
plete.
Thus shall we stand ready to meet
the future as circumstance and inter
national policy effect their unfolding,
whether the changes come slowly or
come fast and without preface.
Not for Her.
"I have here,” said the gentlemanly
agent, “a washing machine which is
so simple that a child can operate
it. With it you can do your own wash
ing and thus save the money which
you now pay a laundress. I am sell
ing this machine at the extremely low
price of” —
“Never mind the price,” Interrupted
the commuter’s wife. “I wouldn’t take
the machine as a gift. It’s so lone
some out here that I don’t see a soul
from one week’s end to another ex
cept the woman who comes every Mon
day to do my washing, and now you
want to deprive me of her society.
Go away before I set the dog on you 1”
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Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes
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Take a spoonful and if it doesn’t straighten you
No Need to Worry.
Rankin —My wife speaks six differ
ent languages.
Phyle—l wouldn’t worry.
Rankin —Whaddye mean worry?
Phyle—She can only talk one at a
time. —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills have stood
the test of time. Test them yourself now. Send
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REALLY ’ A SIMPLE MATTER
Johnny’s Reference to Dictionary Must
Have Given Him Considerable
Enlightment.
“Father,” said the son, looking up
from a book with a puzzled expression
on his face, “what is pride?”
“Pride,” returned the father, “pride !
Why—a—Oh, sure you know what
pride is. A sort of being stuck up, a
kind of —well, proud, you know. Just
get the dictionary; that’s the thing
to tell you exactly what it is. There’s
nothing like a dictionary, Johnny.”
“Here it Is,” said the latter, after an
exhausting search. “Pride — being
proud.” “Um —yes, that’s It,” replied
the father.”
“But—”
“Well, look at ‘proud.’ That’s the
way; you have got to hunt these things
out, my lad.”
“I’ve got to,” answered Johnny.
“Pre —pri—pro—why— ’
“What does it say?”
“ ‘Proud—having pride.’ ’’
“That’s It! There you are, as clear
as day. I tell you, Johnny, there is
nothing like p good dictionary when
you are young. Take care of the bind
ing, my son, as you put it back.” —
Pathfinder.
Indefinite.
“What are all those people on the
pier looking at?”
“There’s a dark object in the wa
ter and they’re trying to decide wheth
er it is a man-eating shark or the Bre
men.”
Brazilian coconut palms are believed
to live from 600 to 700 years, and the
date from 200 to 300 years.
Few men die of old age.
Two Fellows
are trying to
get ahead.
It’s easy to see who’ll win.
If you have any doubt
about coffee holding some
people back —in fact many—
leave the hesitating class, stop
coffee ten days, and use
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This delicious pure food
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Postum is good for old
and young, and makes for
health and efficiency.
“There’s a Reason’*
right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I
want you to go back to the store and get your
money. Dodson’s Liver Tone is destroying the
sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine;
entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson’s Liver
Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and
clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated
waste which is clogging your system and making
you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will keep your entire family
feeling fine for months. Give it to your children.
It is harmless; doesn’t gripe and they like its pleas
ant taste. —Adv.
They’re Scarce.
“What a beautiful girl Miss Stone
is! Strange she has never married.”
“Well, you know there are very few
men who can afford to provide a proper
setting for such a beautiful Stone.”
Only Natural.
“He seems wedded to his work.”
“He ought to be; He Inarried his
employer’s daughter.”—Judge.
MOTHER, ATTENTION!
Gold Ring for Baby Free.
Get a 25<r Bottle of Baby Ease from
any drug store, mail coupon as di
rected and gold ring (guaranteed),
proper size, mailed you. Baby Ease
cures Bowel Complaints and Teething
Troubles of Babies.—Adv.
Shattered Romance.
“Do you remember how you used to
stop at the shops and send me bou
quets and bonbons?” said the woman.
“Yes,” replied the man. “There was
some sentiment about you in those
days. Now you insist on my stopping
at the shops and sending you around
bacon and beans.”
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out? the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
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and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. sl.oo.— Adv.
Prepared.
“I saw a perfect love of a library
table at Grumble’s this afternoon.”
“But, my dear, we don’t need a li
brary table.”
“I know, love, but there’s no tell
ing when we will need one, since
Uncle George gave little Georgie that
tool chest for his birthday.”
Dr. Peery’s “DEAD SHOT” is an effective
medicine for Worms or Tapeworm In adults
or children. One dose is sufficient and no 1
supplemental purge necessary Adv.
Possibility of Combustion.
The danger of fire from oil-soaked
rags such as many housekeepers keep
on hand for wiping up varnished
floors was demonstrated at a fire-risk
exhibit given in a New York window
recently. A quantity of oil-soaked rags
were placed in the window with a pla
card stating that they were liable to
take fire at any time from instantane
ous combustion due to the action of
the atmosphere upon the rags. A num
ber of small blazes were started by
rags in this window. In one Instance
combustion took place within seven
hours after the rags were placed In
position.
Mollycoddle.
“Did you see that?” yelled the ex
cited man in the Panama hat. “That
robber of an umpire calls Gilligan out
at third and Rafferty never come
with in a foot of touchin’ him.”
“It looked that way to me, too,”
admitted the man beside him. “Still,
I dare say the umpire could see the
play better from where he was than
we could from up here.”
“Aw, go on home!” retorted the oth
er savagely. “You ain’t got no busi
ness goin’ to a ball game. You’re one
of these blamed pacifists, that’s what
you are!”
Handicapped.
First Stranger (to second stranger,
who is sporting a massive watch
charm) —What’s the time, friend?
Second Stranger—Can’t tell, just
now, mister.
First Stranger — Can’t tell me?
You’ve got a watch, ain’t you?
Second Stranger—Yes. I’ve got a
watch, mister; but the blamed thing
stopped about a month ago, one noon
time, an’ ever since I ain’t been able
to tell whether It’s right unless I
hear the twelve o'clock whistles biow
in’.
Leading to Improvement
Improvement comes, first, by agita
tion, then by cogitation, and in the
end by perspiration.
Her Intent.
“Look how that cat has taken up her
position just in front of the camera.”
“I suppose she did it for a set purr
pose.”
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