Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-20
Chief Executive Delivers Not
able Address to Delegates
to Congress Of Daughters of
American Revolution.
COULD SPEAK ONLY IN
BROAD GENERALITlES
French Ambassador Tells
Women Fight Of His Coun-
try Is Same in Principle as
Revolution,

tsV MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlHsl
Washington, April ls.-The need of
self-possession. calmness and judi
oial temperament on the part of the
United States in the present world
crisis was argued today by President
Wilson IN q speech before the opening
session of the Twenty congress
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. The president said self
possession was the supreme test or
nations mettle and urged the con-
gress to rally TO the cause of righte-
business, as ministered to by those who
hold their minds quiet and judge upon
principle.
French Ambassador Speaks.
Following the presidents speech
Ambassador Jusserand of France told
the congress that America had behaV-
ed in the foreign crisis in such a way
as to command the gratitude and
thankfulness of the world.
I'VE, i'm France" he said, have
learned to know what the American
heart is made of-the pure American
gold that is in il. | am glad that
may affirm the thanks OF France Tor
the generosity of America--the neu-
trality of the states
The ambassador said the CHIEF ques-
tion in the European struggle was the
same problem that confronted Amerl-
ca in revolutionary times
I'VE thought we had solved the
problem of human liberty" he added.
but it again confronts us. 1t VIII pc
solved now Just as it was solved In
former times, and as 1t was solved Ill
the trenches at Yorktown
President Urges Calmness.
The president in his speech declar-
cd that he could speak only n gen
eral terms. and that it was "indis-
Greet" for him to speak even in that
way
Hts address follows;
I'm these times when unusual
things are happening and there are
many queries as to the future, / sup
pose that these associations whose
business it is to commemorate the
past must be asking themselves what
part thev have in the future. our
business is not merely one of recollec-
tion. not merely the business of re-
membering and reviewing the tradi-
tions of the country that we love
There is no dignity in a tradition
which has lost its practical energy
and all traditions should bear trult-
GHp III the present anu u oNtil iiNhSi
fruitage in the future.
"Your society is particularly intend
ed to commemorate the circumstances
of the birth of this nation, but | take
il for granted that it Is not your
thought 20 create a company OF those
whose recollections by heredity run
back to that great day but that your
Thought is also of the constant re-
birth OF the nation In a peculiar de-
gree the United States seems to be re-
born from generation to generation,
because renewed out of all the sources
of human energy in the world. There
is here a great melting pot in which
We must compound a precious metal
That metal IL the metal of nationality
and il you will not think | am merely
playing upon words. | would like to
spell the word Metal in two ways
For it is just the mettle of this ma
ton that we are now most Interested
in.
"There are many tests by which a
nation makes proof of It's greatness,
but it seems to me the supreme test
is self possession, the power to re-
sist excitement, to think calmly, to
think in moments of difficulty as
clearly rs would think in moments of
ease--to be absolutely master OF it.
self and of its fortunes.
Interested i'm Liberty.
"Therefore, it seems to me that the
object of the traditions such as this
society cherishes and means to assist
In perpetuating is to show us the ba-
sis upon which we shall keep our
poise. We are interested in the Unit
ed States, politically speaking, in
nothing but human liberty. We are
not interested in politics of govern
ment for their own sake. | venture
to say that if there should ever be
discovered better form of govern
ment than the democratic, we should
wish to adopt it, because 1t was bet
ter; for our object is not to stick in
the bark, our object is not merely to
preserve forms but to preserve a pre-
cious essence, ard that is the essence
of equal opportunity and essential hu-
man rights. Such ideals cannot be
maintained with steadiness of view
amidst contest and excitement. and
what | am constantly hoping is that
every great influence such as YOU la
dies exercise, for example, will be ex-
ercised to produce the sober second
thought upon every critical matter
| that arises
Il cannot speak, ladies', as you
know, in more than general terms. In
deed, II is indiscreet for me to speak
at all. But | can ask YOU to rally
to the cause which is dearer in my
estimation than any other cause, and
that is the cause of righteousness as
| ministered to by those who hold their
minds quiet and judge according to
principle We must preserve the ju-
dicial temperament, not because we
would sit in judgment upon others but
because we should ultimately sit in
judgment on ourselves. because we
ultimately wish to be justified by our
own eonscienoes and by the standards
of our own national life, Do you won
der that, hoping for such things and
expecting such things from bodies of
people like this. / should be glad TO
come and greet your