The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20
WILSON WANTS TO KNOW THOSE
WHO PUT AMERICA FIRST
u, 5. HAS ITS own idea
President Says: ''Let the Men Who
are Thinking First of Other Coun-
tries Stand on One Side and All
Those That are for America First,
Last and AL the Time on the
Other Side"

of greeting to the Daughters OF the
American Revolution at their silver
Jubilee celebration in Continental
Memorial Hall at Washington Mon
day afternoon, President Wilson
sounded the slogan, America First
The president spoke in a most
kindly way about foreign born cltl-
zens of the United States. At the
same time he reminded his hearers
that a minority of naturalized Ameri-
cans have not since the outbreak Of
the European war been overloyal to
the great American ideals. But he
declared he knew where the vast
majority of American citizens Of for
eign birth would stand if census
were taken on the issue of America
first.
81 am not deceived" he said, "as
: 20 the balance OF opinion among the
foreign born citizens of the United
States, but am in hurry to have
an opportunity to have a lineup ana
let the men, who are thinking first OF
other countries stand on one side
BiblicaIly, it should be the left-and
all those that are for America first,
last and all the time, on the other
sade.''
At another point he declared: 1--WE
are not trying to keep out OF trou-
bic; we are trying to preserve the
foundations upon which peace can be
rebuilt
The remarks of the president were
cheered to the echo. The hall, which
a. o.
ity with fashionably gowned women
and sprinkling Of men prominent
i in official life. When the president
{ entered he was welcomed with the
presidential greeting by six buglers.
As he stepped on the platform the
hand struck up "The Star Spangled
Banner and the audience rose en-
masse, giving the president q stirring
ovation.
The Presidents Speech.
tMadam President and Ladies and
Gentlemen:
again it is my very great privi-
iege to welcome you to the City OF
washington and to the hospitalities
of the capital. May admit a point
of ignorancee 7 was surprised to
learn that this association is so
Young, and that an association so
Young should devote itself wholly to
memory can not believe. For to me
the duties to which you are conse-
Grated are more than the duties and
pride of memory.
sThere is q very great thrill to be
had from the memories OF the Amcrl-
can Revolution, but the American
Revolution was beginning. not q
consummation; and the duty laid
upon US by that beginning is tie duty
of bringing the things then begun to
noble triumph of completion. For
it seems to me that the peculiarly OF
uatriotism in America is that it is not
mere sentiment, it is an active
principle Of conduct. It is something
that was born into the world, not to
please it, but to regenerate it. It is
something that was born into the
world to replace systems that had
preceded it and to bring men out
upon new plane of privilege.
eThe glory of the men whose mem
ories you honor and perpetuate Is
that they saw this vision, and it was
a vision Of the future. 1t was
vision of great days TO come when a
little handful Of three million people
upon the border Of a single sea
should have become g great multi
tude of free men and women spread
ing across great continent, domlnat.
ing the shores of two oceans anc
sending west as we'll as east the in
fluence of individual freedom.
A MaEng-Orer Process.
"These things were consciously in
their minds as they framed the great
government which was born out OF
the American Revolution; and every
time we gather to perpetuate thell
memories It is incumbent upon US
that we Should be worthy of recalling
them and that we should endeavor b!
syery means in our power to emulate
their example.
'The American Revolution was the
birth of a nation; it was the creation
of a. great free republic based upon
traditions Of personal liberty which
therefore had been confined to SIN
gle little island, but which it was
purposed should spread to ell man
kind. And the singular fascination
of American history is that it has
been process of constant recreation
of making over again in each genera:
ton the thing which was conceived
at first You know how peculiarly
necessary that has been in our case
because America has not grown b!
the mere multiplication of the orlgi-
nal stock.
'tIt is easy to preserve tradition
with continuity Of blood; it is easy lr
e single family to remember the orl-
gins Of the race and the purposes OF
its organization, but it is not so easy
when that race is constantly being
renewed and augmented from other
sources, from stocks that did moi
carry or originate the same princi-
pies.
$50 from generation to generation
strangers have had to be indoctrinat.
ed with the principles Of the Ameri-
can family, and the wonder and the
beauty Of it all has been that the in.
fection has been so generously easy.
For the principles of liberty are unit
ed with the principles of hope. Every
individual as we'll as every natior
wishes to realize the best thing tina
is in him, the best thing that can be
conceived out of the materials OF
which his spirit is constructed.
Drawn by American Ideals.
cit has happened in way that !
think fascinates the imagination that
We have not only been augmented by
additions from outside. but that we
have been greatly stim ulated by these
additions. Living in the easy pros
perity of free people. knowing that
the sun has always been free to shine
upon US and prosper our undertak-
ings, we did not realize how hard the
task Of liberty is and how rare the
privilege of liberty is; and men were
drawn out of every climate and out OF
every race because of an irresistible
attraction Of their spirits to the