The Springdale news., 1915-10-29
MeRICA FIRST 7"
President Wilson's Patriotic Address Before Daughters of the Ameri-
 can RevoIution.

Washington, D. C., Oct II Am erica First" will be the battle slo gan of the Democratic party in the next Presidential campaign. Presi- dent Wilson sounded the tocsin in a notewcrty address this afternoon to the Daughters of the American Reyo lution.
 The Presidents address follows:
 There is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the American Revolution. but the Amer ican Revolution was a beginning not a consummation; and the duty laid upon Us by that beginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun to a noble triumph of comple- tion.
 For it seems to me that the peeu- liarity of patriotism in America is that it is not a mere sentiment. It is an active principle of conduct It 1 is something that was born into The | world, not to please it, but to re- generate it. It k something tfat was born into the world to replace systems that had preceded it and to bring men out upon new plane Of privilege.
 "The American Revolution was the birth of nation; it WAS the creation of great free Republic has ed upon traditions of personal libef- ty which heretofore had been confin- ed to single little island, but which it was purpose ed should be spread 10 all mankind And the singular f1s- cination of American history is that it has been d process of constant re creation, of making over again in each generation the thing which was conceived at first.
 You know how peculiarly neces- sary that has been in our case, be- cause Amerisa q has hot grown by the m re multiplication Of the orig inal stock. l. is easy to preserve tradition with continuity of blood it is easy in single family to remem- Der the origins of the race and the purposes Of it's organization but it is not so easy when that race is constantly being renewed and aug. mented from other sources. from stocks that did not carry or origin afp ff4a same Znrinei nleS
 So from generation to genera { on strangers have had to be indoc- trinated with the principles of the American family and the wonder and the beauty Of il all has been that the infection has been so generously easy. For the principles of liberty are united with the principles Of hope. Every individual, as we'll as every nation. wishes 10 realize the best thing that is in him. the best thing that can be conceived out of the materials of whish his spirit is constructed. II has happened in q way that think fascinates the i'm aginatiOn that we have not only been augmenter by additions from outside but that we have been greatly stimu- lated by these additions.
 Living in the easy prosperity of a free people. knowing that the sun had always been free to shine tpon us and prosper our undertakings, we did not realize how hard the task of liberty js and how rare the privilege of liberty is. and men were drawn out of every climate and out Of ev, cry race because Cf an irresistible attraction of their spirits to the Am- ertcan ide1l They thought of Am- erica as fitting that great statue -in the harbcr of New York, torch to | light the pathway of men to the thines that they desire and men of all sorts and conditions struggled to- ward that light and came to our shores with an eager desire to realize it and a hunger for it such as some of US no longer felt, for We were as if we were satiated and sated and were indmleins ourselves after fash ] ion that did not belong to the aseet- ] C devotion or the earty devotees ot those great principles.
 "So they came to remind us oi what we had promised ourselves and