Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-05

that it would be possible to realize it anywhere else.
 Liberty does not consist in mere general declarations, as the rights of men. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. Therefore, standing here where the declaration was adopted, reading it's busness-like sentences, we ought to ask ourselves what is there in it for us?
 'There's nothing in it for us unless we can translate into terms of our own condition and of our own lives. We must reduce it to what the law yers call a bill of particulars the bill of particulars of 1776, and if wo are to revitaliZe it we are to fill it with bill of particulars of 1914.
 Patriotism consists of some very practical things practical in that they belong to everyday life, in that they belong to no extraordinary dis tinction but to these things which are associated with our everyday, com monplace duty. There are some gen tlemen in Washington, for example: who are showing themselves to be patriotic in way that does not at tract very much attention.
 Comments Congress.
 "The members of the house and sen ate who stay in hot Washington to maintain quorum of the houses and transact public Business are perform ing an act of patriotism. honor them for it and l am mighty glad to stay there and stick by them until it is over. It is patriotic also to know what the facts are and to face them with candor. I have heard a great many facts stated about the present business conditions in this country, for example, great many allegations of facts at any rate, and it is strange that these facts as stated do not tally with each other.
 q have had some experiences in the last fourteen months which have not been entirely refreshing. It was uni versally admitted that the banking system of this country needed reor- ganization. We set the best minds we could find to the task of discovering l the best method of recognizing. We met with hardly anything but criti- cism from the bankers; we met with hardly anything but resistance from the banks of this country or at least | from the majority of those who said anything. And yet, just as soon as 1 that act was passed on the very next day there was universal chorus of applause from the bankers of the | United States.
 "Now if it was wrong the day before 1 it passed, was it right the day after it passed?
 "One of the most serious questions for sober-minded men. to address themselves in the United States is what we are going to do with the in- fluence and power of this great na- tion? Use Power for Justice.
 "Are we going to play the old role of using that power of our own ag- grandizement and material benefit? You know what that means. That means we shall use it to make the people of other nations suffer in which we said it was intolerable to suffer when we uttered the declaration of independence.
 "The department of state of the United States is constantly called upon to back up commercial enter prises and the industrial enterprises of the United States in foreign coun ! tries, and it at one time went so far in that direction that all it's diplo- macy was designated as dollar diplo- macy
 1 Now there is a limit to that. 1 We set up this nation and we pro- posed to set it up on the rights of man. We did not name any differences betwe none race and another; we did not set up any barriers against any particular race or people, but opened our gates to the world and said all men who wish to be free come to use and they will be welcome.
 eve said this independence is not merely for us-a selfish thing for our own private use-but for everybody to whom we can find the means of eX- tending it.
 The Mexican Situation.
 "I am willing to get anything for an American that money can buy except the rights of other men, and l will not help any man by a power he should not exercise over his fellow-beings. You know what big question there is in Mexico. Eighty-five per cent of the Mexican people have never been al lowed look-in' in regard to their government and the rights which have been exercise by the other 15 per cent. Do you suppose that circum- stance is not sometimes in my thought?
 "You hear a great deal stated about the property loss in Mexico and l de-
 plore it with all my heart. Upon the conclusion of the present disturbed conditions in Mexico undoubtedly those who have lost property ought to be compensated.
 Mans individual rights have met
 with many deplrable circumstances
 but back of it all is the struggle of
 the people and while we think of the
 one in the foreground, let us not for 1 get the other in the background"