Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-20
Keep Cool and Think
Twice Is Wilson Advice
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she will be opposed by Mrs. George
Thacher Guernsey Of Kansas.
The presidents address follows:

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SHE will be opposed by Mrs. George
Thacher Guernsey of Kansas.
The Presidents address follows:
Business Il to Get Results.
I'm these times when unusual things
are happening and ,here are many
queries as 70 the future, 7 suppose
| that these associations whose husi-
ness II is to- commemorate the past
must be asking themselves what mart
| they have in the future Our business,
OF course, is not merely one of recol-
lection, not merely the business of
remembering and revsrencing the ira
nltlOns OF the country that we love
There is no dignity in a tradition
which has lost its practical energy
ana our interest In traditions is that
they should bear fruitage I'm the pres
ent and a still richer fruitage in the
future.
Your society is.particularly intend
ed TO commemorate the circumstances
of the birth of this nation. but | take
II tor gfanted that 1t Is not your
thought to scrCate an exclusive com
paIy OF those whose recollections by
! heredlty run back to that preat day.
| nut that your thought is also of the
constant rebirth of the nation. In a
peculiar degree the United States
seems to be reborn from generatfon
generation, because renewed out Of
all the sources Of human energy In
the world There Is here a great melt
ing pot in which We must compound a
precious metal That metal Is the
metal Of nationality and If YOU will
not think ! am merely playing mon
words, | would like to spell the word
'metaP In two WAYS. For it il lust the
mettle of this nation that we are now
most interested in.
About Nations Greatness.
There are many tests bf which a
nation makes proof of its greatness.
but0it seems to me the supreme fest
us self-possession, the power TO resist
ecitement, to think calmly, to think
IN moments OF difficulty as clearly as
II would think in moments Of ease
70 De absolutely master of itself and
II its fortunes.
Therefore, it seems to me that
the object of traditions such as this
society cherishes and means to assist
IN perpetuatlng is to show us tho
bases of principle upon which we shall
Keep our poise. We are interested i'm
the united 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 that the democratic. we should
wish TO adopt It, because II was better.
for our object is not merely to pre-
serve forms, but To preserve a precious
essence and that Is the essence Of
equal opportunity and essential hu-
man rights. Such ideals cannot be
maintained without 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.
Don't Act Hastily.
The first thought is apt TO proceed
from impulse, Is apt to proceed from
prejudice. from prediction, from
some transient sympathy0but we can
not afford TO sympathiZe with anv-
body or anything except the passing
generations of human beings. Amer
lea fOrgets what she was born for
when she does exactly the way every
other nation does-when she loses her
recollection Of her main obiectg as
sometimes nations do and sometimes
p'i maps hHt utIhtlI mas QOnp. IN pur-
suing some immediate and transltory
object
Il cannot speak. ladies', as you
know, In more than general terms In
deed, IL Is indiscreet for me to speak
at all But | can ask you to rally to
the cause which is dearer I'm my esti-
nation than any other cause. and that
IS the cause Of righteousness as min
istered to by those who hold their
minds quiet and Judge according to
principle. We must preserve the tu-
dicial temperament not because we
would sit in judgment upon others. |
but because we should ultimately wish
to sit In judgment upon ourselves, be-
cause we should ultimately wish to be
justified by our own consciOnces and
by the standards VI our own national
life. DO you wonder that hoping for
such things and expecting such things
from bodies Of people like this. I |
should be glad 10 come and greet your
That I should esteem Il an honor to
say that l hope I shall have some part
in the great things that you are try
ing to do and TO create in the fields of |