Arizona republican., 1915-04-20
President Outlines Need for Goodness at Pres ent Time Before Daugh- ters of the American Re volutiOn
UNITED STATES
 ACTED BRANELY
Says French Ambassador In Discussing America s Part in World War; This Nation Wins Gratitude of World
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 WASHINGTON. April 19.-The need of possession. calmness and jul dicial temperament on the part of the United States in the present world crisis was urged by President Wilson before the congress of Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. The rresident said self possession was the supreme test of the nations mettle- The president said he could speak only on general terms, and it was indiscreet for him even to speak that Way"
 The president urged the congress t1 rally 10 the cause of righteous ness as ministered by those who hold their minds quiet and judge on prin- ciple Ambassador Jusserand Of
 France told the assemblage the United
 States behaved in the European crisis in such way as to command the grati- tude and thankfulness of the world The ambassador said; "The chief question of the European struggle
 WAS the same problem which con
 fronted America in revolutionary times" We thought we had solved the problem of human liberty" he
 added. but it again confronts us. It solved in former times, as it was solved in former times. it was solved solved in the trenches at Yorktown"
 The president in his speech declared that he could speak only in general terms and it would be indiscreet of him to even speak in that way His address in part. was:
 In these times when unusual things are happening there are many queries as to the future. I suppose these as- sociations whose business is com memorate of the past must be asking i themselves what part they have in the future Our business of course. is not merely one of recollection, not merely business remembering. and i reverencing the traditional country we love There is no dignity in tradi ton which has lost its practical en- esey. our interest in traditions is that they should bear fruitage in the pres c-+ and still richer fruitage in the future.
 Your society is particularly in i tended to commemorate the circum
 stances of the birth of this nation, but
 I take it for granted it is not your [ thought to create an exclusive com ! Dany of those whose recollections by heredity run back to that great day. but your thought is also of the con stant rebirth of the nation. In e 1 peculiar degree the United States ! seems to he reborn from generation 1 to generation. because it is renewed
 out of all the sources of human energy in the world There is here a ] great melting pot in which we must 1 compound precious metal That metal i is the metal of nationality and if l you will not think I am merely play l ing upon words. I would like to spell i the word metal two ways. For it is 1 just the mettle of this nation that we are now more interested in.
 1 Tt seems to me the object of tradi- i ticns such a this societyOcherishe 1 and means to assist in perpetuatinS i is to show US the basis of the prin- Ciple upon which we shall keep our
 i,oise We are interested in the 1 United States, politically speaking. in notEing but human liberty. We are not interested in the political aspects of governments for their own sake. I venture to say if there should ever be discovered a better form of gov | ernment than the democratic. we should wish to adopt it. because it l was better for our object is not to ! stick to it in the dark. our object is 1 not merely to preserve forms. but to 1 preserve a precious essence. and that 1 is the essence of equal opportunity
 and essential human rights. Such ideas cannot be maintained with steadiness l of view amidst contest and excite | (Continued on Page Four)