The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-29
1t Cannot Stand Vicissi-
~ tudes of Time,
SAYS WILSON OF GOVERNMENT
Presidents Masterful and
Meaning Address To
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College Students.
GEM OF THE HIGHEST IDEALS

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President Wilson, in a speech here
to-day. proclaimed the doctrine that
the whole Western hemisphere
should be devoted to one sacred
purpose-"that nowhere can any
government endure which is stain
ed by human blood or support
ed by anything but the consent of
the governed"
1t was while eXtolling the spirit
establish "a free commonwealth" in
America that the President incident
ally revealed his thoughts on pres
lent day problems.
His utterances. it is known. reflect
the ideas which the Washington adj
ministrati ton is preparing to announce
| to the nations of the world in for
NAL note on the policy of the United
States toward Mexico.
The President spoke in big tent.
OF afr from the spot where Penn
landed, the exercises being COM
! memorative also of Founders Day
at Swarthmore College.
81 would not be interested" said
the President, lin celebrating the
memory of William Penn If his con-
quest had been merely a material
one. Sometimes we have been
| laughed at, by foreigners i'm particu-
lar, for boasting of the size of the
| American continent, the size of our
own, domain as nation; for they
have, naturally, suggested that We
did not make it.
But | claim that every race and
every man is as big as the thing that
he takes possession of and that the
size of America is, in some sense, a
standard of the size aud capacity of
| the American people. But the extent
of the American conquest is not what
gives America distinction in the an
nals OF the world, -~s~~ W.
1T is the professcd purpose of the
conquest which was to see to it that
every foot of that land should be the
home of free self-gOverning people
who should have no Government
whatever which did not rest upon the
consent of the governed. would
like to believe that all this hemis
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purpose. and that nowhere any
Government endure which is stained
by blood or supported by anything
but the consent of the governed.
And the spirit of Penn will not
be stayed. You cannot set limits to
such knightly Adventures After
their own dag Is gone their spirits
stalk the world. carrying inspiration
everywhere they 80 and reminding
age-of those who have sought JUS
tice and the right.
1T is no small matter, therefore.
for college to have as it's patron
saint a man who went out upon
such a conquest; and what | would
like to ask you young people to-day
is, how many of you have devoted
yourselves to the like adventure?
How many of you will volunteer
TO carry these spiritual messages of
liberty to the world? How many of
you forego anything except your al
legianee to that which is Just and
that which is right? We die but
once. and We die without distinction.
II We are not willing to die the death
of sacrifice. DO you covct honor?
You will never get it by serving
Yourself. DO YOU eoyet distinction?
You VIII get II only as the servant
of mankind.
TO not forget. then. as you walk
these classic places. why 9ou are
here. You are not here merely TO
prepare to make living. You are
live more amply. with greater Wis.,
'o"i with . finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here TO en-
rich the world. and YOU impoverish
Yourself II you forget the errand.
IN what man ought reyer to for
get Is that a college is nursery OF
principle and OF honor
so II seems to me that there Is
M great differences between the
ideals OF the college and the ideals