such as has not arisen since the great days in which her Government was set up."

He called the nation to witness that a new age was at hand, regardless of which candidate was elected. The suspicion and mistrust and confusion, he argued, all warned those in authority and those who worked to be placed in authority that we were on the divide and governmental process of the future would never again be the same as those of the past. Then he asked, "What is there to do?"

"It is hard to sum up the great task, but apparently this is the sum of the matter: There are two great things to do. One is to set up the rule of justice and of right in such matters as the tariff, the regulation of the trusts, and the prevention of monopoly, the adaptation of our banking and currency laws to the various uses to which our people must put them, the treatment of those who do the daily labor in our factories and mines and throughout all our great commercial and industrial undertakings, and the political life of the people of the Philippines, for whom we hold governmental power in trust, for their service, not our own. The other, the additional duty, is the great task of protecting our people and our

resources and of keeping open to the whole people the doors of opportunity through which they must, generation by generation, pass if they are to make conquest of their fortunes in health, in freedom, in peace, and in contentment. In the performance of this second duty we are face to face with questions of conservation and of development, questions of forests and water powers and mines and waterways, of the building of an adequate merchant marine, and the opening of every highway and facility and the setting up of every safeguard needed by a great, industrious, expanding nation.

"These are all great matters on which everybody should be heard. We have got into trouble in recent years chiefly because these large things, which ought to have been handled by taking counsel with as large a number of people as possible, because they touched every interest and the life of every class and region, have in fact been too often handled in private conference. They have been settled by very small, and often deliberately exclusive, groups of men who undertook to speak for the whole nation, or rather for themselves in the terms of the whole nation-very honestly it may be true, but very ignorantly sometimes, and very shortsightedly, too-a poor substitute for

genuine common counsel. No group of directors, economic or political, can speak for a people. They have neither the point of view nor the knowledge. Our difficulty is not that wicked and designing men have plotted against us, but that our common affairs have been determined upon too narrow a view, and by too private an initiative. Our task is now to effect a great readjustment and get the forces of the whole people once more into play. We need no revolution; we need no excited change; we need only a new point of view and a new method and spirit of counsel."

It was a part of Mr. Wilson's philosophy that the proper point of view is obtained not from the cloistered library nor from the "inside room" of political managers, but from taking counsel with the body of the nation. Therefore, in closing his address, he announced with refreshing frankness a new policy that would be inaugurated if he should become President.

"No man can be just who is not free," he said, "and no man who has to show favor ought to undertake the solemn responsibility of government, in any rank or post whatever, least of all in the supreme post of President of the United States.

"To be free is not necessarily to be wise. But wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest. Should I be entrusted with the great office of President, I would seek counsel wherever it could be had upon free terms. I know the temper of the great convention which nominated me; I know the temper of the country which lay back of that convention and spoke through it. I heed with deep thankfulness the message you bring me from it. I feel that I am surrounded by men whose principles and ambitions are those of true servants of the people. I thank God, and will take courage."

This address became, of course, a campaign document, and as such it was a mark for the critics. It was considered by some as "intensely radical," and by others as "unduly conservative." But it was received in the main as a "legitimate political discussion, upon a high plane," and the press was almost unanimous in its praise. Mr. Wilson was calling for a great readjustment-a judgment day that the nation feared. Yet all the time it was becoming clearer that the readjustment must come. Could this man who had been in political life only two years bring "the forces of the whole people once more into play?"

It was an unusual campaign. The Democratic leader and the Democratic policies received a minimum of criticism. The great fight was between the two Republican factions. While the political leaders of the old Republican party were fighting each other with the bitterness of a domestic row or a church feud, Woodrow Wilson was moving toward the Presidency with the Democratic party behind him. His campaign was conducted with personal tact and dignity. Nowhere was he a popular idol, but his personality kept increasing its hold upon the public, which at first thought of him in his academic capacity. But he had been too long before the American people as a writer and speaker and he had too many defenders in the nation for his detractors to ridicule him out of the race. It was said in his defense that "as an administrator he has carried on the affairs of a great university, a position which in our country trains for governmental administration better than almost any other kind of experience," and the dignity and importance of the educational executive was increased. Furthermore, it was declared that "as Governor of New Jersey, he has shown that he can meet the exigencies of political parties with firmness and upon high ground," and his candidacy was strengthened.

Throughout the campaign his political opponents naturally did their best to find debating ground against his views as expressed from time to time. But, at the