The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-05
NEW PATRIOTISM 4
IS PROCLAIMED
BY NATIONS HEAD
President Wilson Thrills
Audience With Modern
Declaration"
TOUCHES ON VEXING
PROBLEMS OF TO-DAY
Mexico, Canal Tolls and Business
Conditions Serve as
Themes.
OLD REGIME HAS PASSED AWAY
Public Affairs Now Must Be Managed
In Way To Honor the
"Founders."

Philadelphia, July 4.-Advocating
the modcrnizing OF the Declaration of
Independence by applying its prin.
ciples to the business. the politics and
the foreign policies of America. Pres
idcnt Wilson to-day thrilled q huge
crowd assembled in Independence
Square within 4 few feet OF where the
orlc Declaration was signed.
The President touched on Mexico,
the Panama tolls repeal controversy,
his antitrust program, business con-
ditions and his ideas OF modern pa
rriotism. Pounding his first the
table on which the Declaration of In
dependence was signed. he declared
Americans to-day must manage their
affairs in n way to do honor to the
founders of the nation. There are men
in Washington to-day. he declared.
whose patriotism is not shown. but
who accomplish great patriotic things.
They are staying in Washington. doing
their duty. Keeping a quorum in each
house OF Congress to do business.
"And I am mighty glad to stay there
and stick by them,' lie added.
Touching on business conditions of
the country, President Wilson said ~
great many allegations OF facts wero
being made. but that great many OF
thes" facts do not tally with each
othcr.
SERVING THEIR COUNTRY
Or SOMETHING SMALLER
Are these men trying to serve their
country or something smaller than
their country" the President asked
If they love America and there js
anything wrong, II is their business to
put their hands to tho task and set it
riEht."
EiEhty-fivc per cent OF the Mexican
people. the President said In touching
OH Mexico. never have had n right TO
have look in" on their government
while the other 15 per cent wsre run
ming It.
Now tho American people have a
heart that beats for them just as IL
beats for other millions" Mr.. Wilson
said II hear a great deal about tho
property loss In Mexico. and I regret
that with all my heart, but back OF
II all is struggling people. Let us
not forget that struggle In Watching
what is going OH In front"
II would be ashamed of the flag IT
We did anything outside this country
winch we would not do in it," tho
President declared.
Speaking on Panama tolls the Pres-
ident said the treaty with England
might be "a mistake, but its meaning
cannot be mistaken. and he believed i'm
Keeping the nations obligations. He
beloved in keeping the name OF tho
United States unquestioncd and un-
sullied.
BEFORE the President got his speech
well under way the crowd surged for
ward In such confusion that Il panic
was threatened. Two companies OF
marines and sailors stood before tha
speakers stand. and the President was
lorceu 20 stop several times. but I'm
ally got the crowd under control
The Declaration of Independence'
said the President In tho course or
his address, does not mean ANYTHING
to US merely In its general state-
hients. unless We can append to il 4
L.. RI
as TO what We consider our liberty to
consist of.
Liberty. he declared. consists in tho
translation OF general declarations AS
TO the rights OF man into definite ac-
tion.
PATRIOTISM CONSISTS
OF PRACTICAL THINGS
Patriotism. he said. consists OF some
very practical things. among which
the President enumerated the stay OF
members of the House and Senate in
hot Washington to maintain Il quorum
OF the houses and transact public
business"
Il honor them for It," he said .and
am mighty glad to stay there and
stick by them until 1t is over
1T is patriotic also to know what
the facts are and to face them with
candor." the President continued II
have heard n great many facts stated
about the present business conditions
In tins country. for eXample--a great
many allegations Of facts, at any rate
and II is strange that these facts
as stated do not tally with each other.
Now. the truth always matches
tho truth, and when l lind gentlemen
insisting that everything is going
wrong, when II is demonstrable that
most things are going right, wonder
what they are trying to do. Arc they
trying TO serve the country, or ara
they trying to serve something small
er 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 discourage
ment and despair into these hearts7
II they love America and anything Ia
wrong, it is their duty to put their
hands to the task OF setting II right.
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-
ganzation. We set the best minds we
could hnd TO the task OF discovering
the best method Of reorganization. We
met with hardly anything but resist
ance from the bankers OF this coun-
those who said anything. And Yet the
very next day after that act was
passed there was Il universal chorus
OF applause from the bankers OF tho
United States Now, If 1t was wrong
the day before II was passed why was
il right tho day after it was passed?
You know the Declaration
OF independence has. In one sense, lost
Its Significance. Nobody believed it
could be independent when that docu-
ment was written. Now. nobody would
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