A NEW POLITICAL OUTLOOK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 18 February 1913, Page 7

A NEW POLITICAL OUTLOOK

: . The' Presidellt-eledt >of tile United States "(Dr. "Woodrow sums™ :the politics of the 20 th- century as fol- ( lows —"We Aire clearly entering, upon a new'age. I don't mean merely we 01 the United States. I mean that the world is facing the'future with" a new attitiioe, and -a new outlook upon the opportuili-. . ties of life. ■ In these early years- of the 20th' century we are _again- assuming the attitude which we assumed in the beginning of the 19th century. The 19th ; century ' looked forward to an age in 1 -which humanity, the rank and file .of I men, should be sei'ved, _ And honestly I served, bv the ■ institutions of government, but we Ataericans llave. set up tills, tiappy experiment irt a country so abundantly furnished' ."with, wealth, so, extraordinarily; "provided- with. tunity,' for. all. sorts and cohdifcitttts 01 men that suddenly We get druiik wltli the- wine of prosperity , and for a, little while* forget that our mission is not to t>i]e up wealth, but'to serve mankind ni humanity and justice. But through this long -century. during which it'has-seen?-. 1 ad from time to time as if we were.,for-... getting what America was set up.to do, j the-world has slowly come about-to the., point of view of the .fine men- who. es-/ tablished the' Government of the ; United 1 f»v thur.witininir W#> nrp. learn-1

'Olctbtrd lit LilC *' - w" ~ big' again ; that the . service of- humanity ■ is the business of mankind, and. that* H the; business of mankind must , be s-etf forward by the Government which .-man]' I kind '.sets up in order that justice maf be done and mercy not anj 'ill the world is striving _ now as neve "before after ' this conception-- of the' elfNation of humanity. There must be a in' Government, . there must be /a r heart "in the -politics of. aid j | men' must look to it that ■ they .dorfufto ... "others as they • would have, others?Jlo ' unto them. This used to be, arid;- las long been,. the awe subject- for Jtheulife-*•: "fcouTSe "of • Christian how come to be part. of . the bound en,! ; duties of ministers of *• *, jy