The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20

kind. All men came to US and said:
Where is the bread Of life with
which you promised to feed US? And
have you partaken Of it yourselves?
For my part I believe that the
constant renewal of this people out
of foreign stocks has been constant
source Of reminder 20 this people of
what the inducement was that was Of
fered to men who would come and be
of our number.
Now Put to the Test.
"Now we have come to E time of
special stress and test.
There never was a time when we
needed more clearly to conserve the
principles of our patriotism than this
present time. The rest of the world
from which our politics were drawn
seems for the time in the crucible,
and no man can predict what will
come out of that crucible. We stand
apart unembroiled, conscious OF our
own principles, conscious of whct we
hope and purpose so far as our pow
ers permit for the world at large, and
it is necessary that W. should con-
solidate the American principle.
Every political action, every So
cial action, should have for its OBJ
jcct in America at this time to chal-
lenge the spirit of America, to ask
that every man and woman who
thinks first of America should rally
to the standards Of our life. There
have been some among US who have
not thought first of America, who
have thought to use the might OF
America in some matter not of
Americas originstive, and have for.
gotten that the first duty of nation
is to express its principles in the ac-
ton of the family of nations and not
to seek the aid and abet any rival OF
contrary ideal.
Neutrality is a negative word. 1t
is word that does not express what
America ought to feel. America has
heart, and that heart throbs with all
sorts Of intense sympathies, but
America has schoole6 its heart to
love the things that America believes
in and it ought to devote itself only
to the things that America believes
in and, believing that America stands
apart in its ideals, it ought not to
allow itself to be drawn, so far as its
heart is concerned, into anybody S
quarrel.
Not Afraid Of Trouble.
esNot because it does not under
stand the quarrel. not because it does
not in it's head assess the merits OF
the controversy, but because Ameri-
CO has promised the world to stand
apart end maintain certain prInci-
pies Of action which are grounded in
law and in justice We are not try.
ing to keep out of trouble; we are
trying to preserve the foundations
upon which peace can be rebuilt.
peace can be rebuilt only upon
the ancient and accepted principles OF
international law, only upon those
things which remind nations of their
duties to each other and deeper than
that, of their duties to mankind and
to humanity.
America has great cause which
is not confined to the American con-
tinent. It is the cause of humanity
itself. I do not mean in anything
that say even to imply judgment
upon any nation or upon any policy
for my object here this afternoon Is
not to- sit in judgment upon anybody
but ourselves and to challenge you
to assist all of US who are trying to
make America conscious of nothing
so much as her own principles and
der own duty.
~ look forward to the necessity in
every political agitation in the years
which are Immediately at hand OF
calling upon every man to declare
himself, where he stands. Is it Amerl'
ca first or is it not?
1--WE ought to be very careful about
some of the impressions that we are
forming just now. There is too gen,
eral an impression, I fear, that very
large numbers of our fellow citizens
born in other lands have not enter.
tanned with sufficient intensity and
affection the American ideals, but
their numbers are not large. Those
who would seek to represent them
are very vocal but they are not very
influential. -
Wants q LINEUP"
"Some of the best stuff of America
has come out of foreign lands, and
some of the best stuff in America is
in the men who are naturalized cltl-
.ens of the United States. would
not be afraid upon the test Of Amer.
;ca first to take q census of all the
foreign born citizens Of the United
States, for know that the vast ma
jority of them came here because
they believed in America, and their
belief in America has made them
better citizens than some people who
were born in America.
"They can say that they have
bought this privilege with a great
price. They have left their homes
:hey have left their kindred, they
have broken all the nearest and dear
est ties of human life in order to
come to a new land, take new root
age, begin a new life, and SO by self
sacrifice express their confidence in a
new principle; whereas, it cost us
nothing of these things. We were
born into this privilege; We were
-ocked and Graded in it; We did
nothing to create it; and it is, there
fore, the greater duty on our part to
10 a great deal to enhance it and
preserve it.
'I am not deceived as to the bal
ance of opinion among the foreign
born citizens of the United States,
but am in a hurry to have an op-
,ortunity to have a lineup and let
the men who are thinking first OF
,ther countries stand on one side
Biblically, it should be the left-and
Ill those that are for America first,
last and all the time on the other
side.
"Now, you can do great dea n
his direction. When l was
,ege officer I used to be very mucu
opposed to hazing; not because haz-
'ng is not wholesome, but because
;ophomores are poor judges. I re-
member very dear friend of mine,
. professor of ethics on the other
side of the water, was asked If he