Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-05


APPLAUDED EACH TIME
HE APPEARS ON STREET
Each time lie appeared on the street
to-day he WAS applaudcd. Cleveland H.
Dodge, Il personal friend of the rrcsi-
dent, and member of the Armenian
Relief Committee. paid him Il brief
visit.
The Presidents address in fun was
as follows:
mir. Toastmastor and Gcntlcmen.--
i warmly felicitate the ciIb upon the
completion of nifty years OF successful
and interesting life. Club life may he
made TO mean great deal TO those
who know how to use -. have no
doubt that TO great many OF YOU
has come genuine stimulation in the
associations OF this place, and that
as tho years have multiplied you have
seen more ami more the useful ends
which may bc served by organizations
of this sort
But have not come to speak wholly
of that. for there are others OF your
own members who can speak of the
club with a knowledge and an inteli-
gence which no one can have who has
not been intimately associated with it.
Men band themselves together for the
s..ke OF the association, no doubt. hut
also for something greater and deeper
than that-beCauar they are conscious
of common interests lying outside their
business occupations. because they are
members OF the same community and
in frequent Intercourse find mutual
stimulation and Il real maximum of
vitality ana power. shall assume
that here around the dinner table on
this memorial occasion our talk should
properly turn To the wide and common
interests which ar. most in our
thoughts whether they hc the interests
OF the communi,y or of the nation.
a year and a half ago our thoughts
would have hccn almost altogether of
great domestic questions. They are
many and of vital consequence. We
must and shall address ourselves to
their solution with diligence. tirmness
and self-po-scssion. notwithstanding
we find ourselves III the midst of Il
world disturbed by great disaster and
ablnze with terrible war: but our
thought is now inevitably OF new
things, about which formerly we gave
ourselves little concern. We are think
ing now chiefly Of our relations with
the rest of the world--not our COM
mercial rclations-about those we have
thought and planned always--but
about our political relations, our duties
as an individual and independent force
in the world to ourselves, our neigh
bors and the world itself
NOT NECESSARY TO AVON
OUR PRINCIPLES AGAIN
Our principles are well known. II
is not necessary to avow them again.
We believe in political liberty and
founded our great government to OBJ
tain 1t. the liberty Of men and Of peo-
plcs--of men TO choose their own lives
and of peoples to choose their own al
legiance. our ambition also all the
world has knowledge Of II Is not only
TO be free and prosperous ourselves,
but also TO be the friend and thought
full partisan OF those who are free or
who desire freedom the world over. If
we have had aggressive purposes and
covctous ambitions. they were the fruit
OF our thoughtless youth as IL nation,
and we have put them aside We shall,
] confidently believe. never again take
another foot OF territory by conquest
we shall never in any circumstances
seek TO make an independent people
subject to our dominion; because we
believe, We paSsionately believe. in the
right OF every people TO choose their
own allegiance and he free uf masters
altogether. For ourselves we wish
nothing but the full liberty of self
development; and with ourselves in this
great matter wc associate all the pco-
pies OF our own hemisphere We wish
not only for the United States. but for
them the fullest freedom OF indcpcn-
dent growth and OF action, for we
know that throughout this hemispherc
the sam" aspirations are everywhere
being worked out, under diverse con-
ditt" with the same impulse and
ult ,yc,t.
80 .".s y Very clear To us. and
VIII c"MiIient-l. trcd,:t become more
ana more Cic.a L. the hole world as
the great processes of the rutuv. uu-
fold Themselves. II is with a fun con-.
seriousness OF such principles and such
ambitions that wc are asking ourselves
at the present time what our duty Is
win regard 10 the armed forces Of the
nation. within Il year we have wit
mes. ed what We did not believe uossi.
bic. grc": European conflict involy-
ing many Of the creates; nations OF
the world III" influences of a great
war are everywhere in the air All
Europe Is cmbattled Force everywhore
speaks out with loud and imDerious
voice IN titanic struggle of govern.
ments. and from one end OF our own
Gear country To the Other men ARE osl,
irg one ANOTHER what our own forrc
L. how far we arc prepared to main
tain ourselves against any Interference
with our n"tiona! action or devotion.
mcnt.
QUESTION NOT RAISED
OF WiiLFtL USE OF IOUCE.
I'm no mans mind / am sure, is
there even raised the question OF me
wiiiful use OF force on our part AGAINST
any nation or any people. No matter