Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-08
Wilson Bids PeSsimiStS of Coun-
try Be Patriots.
DEFENDS HIS OWN POLICY
~ Anything Is Wrong, He Tells Bust
ness and Other Interests, Aid
In Fighting It-Speaks
at Philadelphia.

independence Dy applying us primer
pies to the business, the politics and
the foreign policies of America, Pres
ident Wilson thrilled huge crowd as
sembled in Independence square with
fl a few feet Of where the original
declaration was signed.
The president touched on Mexico,
the Panama tolls repeal controversy,
his antitrust program, business condi-
tons and his ideas of modern patriot
ism.
Wilson Begins His Speech.
Following is the address of Presi-
dent Wilson in part:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
The Declaration of independence
was written in Philadelphia. 1t was
adopted in this historic building.
But have you ever read the Declar-
alton of Independence? When you
have heard it read, have you attended
TO its sentences?
THE Declaration of independence
Is not a Fourth of July grafton.
THE Declaration of Independence
was a document preliminary to war.
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not a piece of rhetoric.
"If you will get further down in
the reading than its preliminary pas
sages, where it quotes about the rights
of men, you will see that it is very
specific body of declarations concern
ing the business of the day, not the
business of our day, for the matter
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ness of revolution, the business Of
1776.
Adapts 1t to 1914.
Liberty does not consist in mere
general declarations as to the rights
Of man. 1t consists in the translation
Of those declarations into definite ac-
ton.
Therefore, standing here, where
the declaration was adopted. reading
its businesslike sentences, we ought
to ask ourselves what is there in it
for us?
There is nothing in it for us, I'M
less we can translate it into terms of
our own condition, and OF our own
lives.
Holds Business Going Right.
Il have heard a great many facts
stated about the present business con-
titions in this country, for example, a
great many allegations of facts. at
any rate, and it is strange that these
facts as stated do not tally with each
other.
Now. the truth always matches the
truth, and when I find gentlemen in
sisting everything is going wrong
when it is demonstrable that most
things are going right. | wonder what
they are trying to do. Are they try
ing to serve the country, or are they
trying to serve something smaller
than the country?
Are they trying to put hope into
the hearts of men who work and toll
every day. or rather. are they putting
Encouragement and despair into these
hearts?
IF they love America and anything
is wrong, it is their duty to put their
hands to the task of setting it right.
When the facts are known and
acknowledged. the duty of all patriotic
men is to accept them in candor and
address themselves to common coun-
sci and to work in harmony and uni
versaI concert.
Saws the Bankers FIopped.
II have had some experiences in
the last fourteen months which have
not been entirely refreshing 1t was
universally admitted that the banking
system of this country needed reor-
ganization.
I'VE met with hardly anything but
resistance from the bankers of this
country, or at least from the majority
of those who said anything.
Yet, just so soon as that act was
passed, on the very next day there
was a universal chorus of applause
from the bankers of the United
States.
Now if it were wrong the day be-
fore it was passed. why was it right
the day after it was passed?
Where had been the candor of
criticism by the concert of counsel
which makes a great nation success
full? 1t is not patriotic to concert
measures against one another; it is
patriotic TO concert measures for one
another.
Attacks Dollar Diplomacy"
The department of state of the
United States is constantly called upon
10 back up commercial enterprises and
the industrial enterprises of the Uni
ted States in foreign countries: and it
at one time went so far in that direc-
ton that all its diplomacy was desig-
mated as dollar diplomacy 1t was for
supporting every man who wanted to
earn anything anywhere if he was an
American.
Now there is limit TO that. There
is no man more interested than 1 am
in carrying the enterprises of the Uni
ted States all over the world.
so If American enterprise in foreign
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