Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-05

the mass of the men. women and chill
dren who make up the vitality of every
nation.
front seat just now l was requested to
turn around and address the distin-
guished company behind me because
1t was feared you couldn't hear. but
said that while I had a great respect
for them. and even quite an affection
for some of them. the real people
were on this side Indicating the audi
ence). II I had done anything else I
could not have proved l spoke on In.
dependence day. because that great
document written by that aristocrat,
Thomas Jefferson, was written by a
man whose heart was as big as all
mankind and he was thinking of them.
not himself. when he penned that i'm
mortal document.
"World More Complicated"
THE world is becoming more compli-
Gated every day. Therefore. no man
ought to be foolish enough to think he
understands it, and that is the reason
why l am so glad to know there are
some simple things in the world. One
of these simple things is principle.
Honesty is a perfectly simple thing.
1t Is hard for me to believe that when
a man is dishonest he does not know
most circumstances when a man has
to choose between two ways that he
does not know which is the right way
and which is the wrong way. And no
man who has chosen the wrong way
ought even to come into independence
Square: he ought to be put out of In
dependence Square. That is not where
he belongs. He ought not to come
within the sound of voices. uttered
where the Declaration of Independence
was adopted
so. 1 say. it is patriotic sometimes
to regard the honor of this country
In preference to its material interests.
Would you rather be despised by all
the nations of the world as inca pable
of keeping obligations. or would you
rather have free tolls for American
ships? The treaty may have been a
mistake. but its meaning was unmis-
taxable. When / have made a prom
tse as man / try to keep it. The
most honorable and distinguished ma
ton in the world Is the nation that
can keep its promises to its own hurt
l want to say parenthetcally that don't
think anybody was hurt
Subsidies Not Liked.
II am not enthusiastic for subsidies
to a monopoly. and nobody can get
me enthusiastic on that subject But
assuming that was a matter of enthu-
siasm. I am much more enthusiastic for
keeping the integrity of the United
States absolutely unquestioned and un-
sullied
Popularity is not always sue
cessful patriotism. The most pa
triotic man is sometimes the man
who goes in the direction in which
he thinks he is right whether or not
he thinks anybody agrees with him. be-
cause 1t Is patriotic to sacrifice yourself
if you think you are right.
DO not blame anybody else If they
do not agree with you. That is not the
point Do not die with bitterness In
your heart because you do not convince
anybody. But die happy because you be-
lieve you tried to serve your country
without selling your soul.
Those grim days-the days of To
Those gentlemen did not attach their
names to the Declaration Of Independence
on this table expecting a holiday the
next day. That Fourth of July was not
holiday. They attached their signatures
to that document knowing If they failed
the extreme likelihood was that every
one would hang for the failure They
were committing treason in the interest
OF the liberty of 100000 people in Amer
ica, and all the rest of the world WAS
against them. All the rest Of the world
smiled with cynical incredulity at the
audacfous undertaking. Do you think
If those gentlemen. If they could see this
great nation, would regard that they
unpopular and to draw the gaze of the
world In establishment and condescending
surprise?
Ideas Must Be Started.
Every idea has got to be started by
| somebody. and it Is lonely thing to
start anything. Yet you have got to
start 1t II there Is any mans blood in
you. and If you love the country that
| you are pretending to work for. 1 am
sometimes very much interested in see
ing gentlemen supposing that popularity
| is the way to success in America The
way to success in America is to show
| you are not afraid of anybody except
| God and His judgment II 1 did not
| believe that i would not believe in
democracy. If 1 did not believe that l
| would not believe people could govern
themselves. II did not believe that the
| moral Judgment would be the last and
| final Judgment in the minds of men as
well as at the tribunal of God. I could
not believe in popular government. But
| do believe these things and therefore
| I earnestly believe in the democ-
| racy not only OF America, but
| in the power of an awakened
people to govern and control its own
affairs. So it is very inspiring to come
to this that may be called the original
| fountain of liberty and independence in
| America, and take these draughts of
patriotic feelings which seem to renew
\ the very blood in a mans veins.