The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1915-05-19

divide man from man, group from
group, interest from interest, in the
United States, is striking at its very
heart.
A Reckoning Finger of Hope.
"It is a very interesting circum-
stance to me, in thinking of those OF
you who have just sworn allegiance
to this great government, that you
were drawn across the ocean by some
beckoning finger Of hope; by some be-
lief, by some vision of new kind OF
Justice, by some expectation Of bet
ter kind of life. No doubt you have
been disappointed in some of us,
Some Of us are very disappointing
No doubt you have found that justice
in the United States goes only with a
pure heart and right purpose as 1t
does everywhere in the world. No
doubt what you found here did not
seem to touch you, after all, with the
complete beauty Of the ideal which
YOU had conceived beforehand. But,
remember this, If we had grown at
all poor in the ideal, you brought
some of it with you. A man does not
go out to seek the thing that is not
in him. A man does not hope for the
thing that he does not believe in, and
if some of US have forgotten what
America believed in, you, at any rate,
imported in your own hearts re-
newal of the belief.
The Dreams Of America.
"That is the reason that I, for one,
make you welcome. If I have in any
degree forgotten what America was
intended for I will thank God if you
will remind me. was born in Amer
lea. Youdreamed dreams Of what
America was to be and / hope you
brought the dreams with you. mo
man that does not see visions will
ever realize any high hope or under
take any high enterprise. Just be-
cause you brought dreams with you,
America is more likely to realize the
dreams such as you brought. You
are enriching us if you came expect
ing us to be better than we are.
Elbow to Elbow, Heart to Heart.
sSee, my friends, what that means;
it means that Americans must have
a consciousness different from the
consciousness of every other nation
in the world. I am not saying this
with even the slightest thought of
criticism of other nations. You know
how it is with a family. A family
gets centered on itself if it is not
careful and is less interested in the
neighbors than it is in it's own mem
bers. So nation that is not con-
stantly renewed out of new sources is
apt to have the narrowness and pref
udices of family; whereas, America
must have this consciousness, that on
all sides it touches elbows and
hearts with all the nations of man.
kind. The example of America must
be special example. The example
of America must be the example not
merely of peace because it will not
fight, but of peace because peace is
the healing and eleyaing influences
of the world and strife is not. There
is such a thing as man being too
proud to fight. There is such thing
as a nation being so right that it does
not need to convince others by force
that it is right.
What There Is In America.
$50 if you come into this great ma
ton as you have come, voluntarily
seeking something that we have to
give, all that we have to give is this
We can not exempt you from work.
sometimes think he is fortunate II
he has to work only with his hands
and not with his head. 1t is very easy
to do what other people give you to
do, but it is difficult to give other
people things to do. We can not ex-
empt you from work; we can not ex.
empt you from the strife and the
heart-breaking burden of the strug.
gle of the day-that is common to
mankind; we can not exempt you
from the loads that you. must carry;
we can only make them light by the
spirit in which they are carried. That
is the spirit of hope, it is the spirit OF
liberty, it is the spirit of justice.
'When I was asked, therefore, by
the mayor and the committee that &C
companied him, to come up from
Washington to meet this great COM
pany of .newly-admitted citizens, I
could not decline the invitation. /
ought not to be away from Washing
ton, and yet / feel that it has renew
ed my spirit as an American. In
Washington men tell you so many
things every day that are not so, and
I like to come and stand in the pres
ence of great body of my fellow cit
izens, whether they have been my fell
low citizens a long time or short
time, and drink, as it were, cut of
the common fountains with them
and go back feeling that you have so
generously given me the sense of
your support and of the living vital
ity i'm your hearts, of its great ideals
which made America the hope Of the
world"
BATTLES WITH MADMAN.
Two GreenviIle Policemen are Shot