The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-05-14

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ity if you seek to divide humanity
into jealous camps. Humanity can b,
welded together only by love. by sym
pathy, but justice not by jealousy anc
hatred. am sorry for the man who
seeks to make personal capital out o.
the passions of his fellow man. Ht
has lost the touch and ideal of Amer.
lea, for America was created to unite
mankind by those passions which up,
lift and not by the passions which
separate and debase.
1--WE came to America, either our.
selves or in the persons of our an
cestors, to better the ideals of men
to make them see finer things than
they had seen before, to get rid OF
things that divide and to make sure
of the things that unite. 1t was but
a historical accident no doubt that
this great country was called the
United States and yet | am thankful
that it has the word united in its
title; and the man who seeks to d.
vide, man from man, group from
group interest from interest. in the
| United States, is striking at its heart.
Drawn by Hope.
1T is an interesting circumstance
to me in thinking Of those of you
who have just sworn allegiance to this
government that you were drawn
across by some reckoning finger of
hope, by some belief, by some vision
of new kind of Justice, by some ex-
pectation of better kind of life.
No doubt you have been disap-
pointed in some of us. Some of us
are disappointing. No doubt you have
| found that st,cftra 90, - TT..k,1
goes only with a pure heart and a
else in the world. No doubt what ydu
found here did not seem touched for
you, after all, with the complete beau
ty of the ideal which you had con-
ceived beforehand.
But remember this. if you 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 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 a
renewal of the belief.
Welcome to Aliens.
That is the reason that |, for one,
make you welcome. If | have in any
degree forgotten what America is in
&c lded for. | will thank God if YOU
VIII remind me. ] was born in Amer
ia. You dreamed dreams of what
America was to be, and ! hope you
bru'tF mt the di ?ams with you. No
man that do: not see visions Nil
ever realize arN high sitre or und A.
take any N enterprise. Just be-
ca sc you brought dreams with you,
Al erica is rlIrt =. ely to realize the
dr.. ms as Nu tro"SIt. You are
eli iehing is II you came expecting Us
to be better than we are,
See, my friends, what that means.
it means that Americans must have
a consciousness different from the
consciousness of every other nation in
the world. | am not saying this with
even the slightest thoupht of criticism
OF other nations. You know how it is
with family. A family gets conferred
on itself If it is not careful and is less
interested in the neighbors than it is in
its own members.
SO nation that is not constantly
renewed out of the sources is apt
to have the narrowneSS and prejudice
OF a family; whereas America must
nave this consciousness, that on all
sides 1t touches elbows and touches
hearts with all the nations of man
kind
Must Set Example.
The example of America must
be a special example. The ex-
ample of America must be the
example not merely of peace be-
cause it will not fight, but of
peace, because peace is the heal
ing and elevating influence of the
world and strife is not. There is
Such thing as man being too
proud to fight. There is such
thing as a nation being so right
that IT does not need to convice
others by force that it is right.
SO IT you come into this great
nation as you have come, voluntarily
seeking something that we have 10
give, all that we have to give is this
we cannt exempt you from work
No man is exempt from work any,
where in the world. sometimes
think he is fortunate if he has to
work only with his hands and not
with his head. 1t is easy to do what
other peonle give you to do but il
Is dithcult 70 give other people things |
10 40 we cannot exempt Won from |
ork; we cannot exempt YOU from the |
strife and the heartbreaking burden
OF the Struggle of the dav-that is
common 10 mankind everywhere. we
,annct t\empt You from he loads thar
I',"r Ir'>t carry: we can onlv make
them light by the spirit of hope. II is
nc .'pirit OF liberty, it is ,ae spirit of
Justice. "
When was asked. therefore by
ne mayor and the committee that
lccompanied him to come up from
WASHINGTON to meet this great com
'anv. OF newly admitted citizens.
'ouid not decline the invitation IL,
night not to he away from Washing
on and vet feel that il has renewed !,
ny spirit as an American. In Wash
ngton men tell YOU so many things
very dav that are not so and | Ike
o come and stand in the presence OF ,
great body of nv fellow citizens, I
whether they have long been nv fell i
NV citizens long time or a short $
ime. and drink as it were out of the
ommon fountain with them and 90 /
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