Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-08
AMERICANISM
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The President took Pan-American-
-~!E Ht thu Very outset Of his messa &c.
All The governments Of America h.
SaIu. stand, 50 FAR we are concerned,
upon footing Of genuine equality and
h@IesIIoned Independence We retain
uA"hated the spirit which WAS so frankly
Iut inIo words by IreslGen; Monroe. We
siiH mean to make 4 common cause o.
national Independence ana Of political
liberty III America but that purpose is
now better understood 50 far as il con
Germs ourselves"
The moral. The President said. was that
the states Of America were not hostile
rivals, hut cooperating friends and that
their association was likely 10 give than
q ncw significance in world affairs
Separated they are suit 5ect 10 all the
cross currents Or The confused politics Or
q world oi hostile yivalr.es." said he
20 uiteu IN spirit and purpose they can
not TT disappointed In their peaceful des-
tIny. THIS Is ran-Amerlcanism Ii has
none of the spirit OF empire III II. /, j.
The embodiment, the efiectual embod-
WeAt. OF the spirit Of law and Indepeu-
dence. liberty and mutual service"
Insist upon Security
Great demooracies. the President said
are Peaceful 1901 seeking war. and with
out thought Of conquest or domination.
Bu, JUS. because We demand unmoles,-
ed DEVELOPMENT and the unGIs,urhed gov
ernnle;.i o. our own lives lpo1 our own
principles OF right and liberty, he de-
clarcd we resent. from whaleNe r guar
ter II may come the aggression we our
selves will not practice We insist upon
security in prosecuting our self-chosen
lines OF national development. We do
more than that. We demand il also for
others From the first we have made
common cause with all partisans Of ill.,
erty on this side Of the sea and have
deemed ii as important that our neigh
hors should be freed from all outside
domination as that We ourselves should
he have set America aside as whole
for the uses Of independent nations and
political freedom.
From that point the President enpha
sized the need OF d national training for
defence in harmony with American ideals
and institutions and then referred briefly
10 the plans outlined for the army and
navy which he urged Congress TO sane
ton and put into effect 'as soon as they
can be properly scrutinized."
Frequent demonstrations Of approval
greeted the President S declaration of
the manifest duty Of America to re
main studiously neutral toward the
warning nations abroad. his assertion
of friendship for Mexico. his urgent
Recommendation for an increased mer-
chant marine, the suggestion of 1egis-
lation for furthering the interests Of
the people of the Philippine islands
and Porto Rico and his recommends
ton for increasing government rev.
enues But chief attention centered
about the delineation Of the plans for
national defense, the promotion OF
-Americanism and the virility of
the Presidents attack on Americans
who he said had brought the good
name Of the government contempt. He
delivered his denunciation in terse
phrases and Congress seemed to hang
on every word. Cheers rose from every
part Of the hall when he concluded it.
and the demonstration reached the
climax when the President urged en-
actment Of laws to purge the nation
Of its internal peril.
Poison Of DisIoyaIty
There are citizens of the United
States l blush to admit he declared
born under other flags, but welcomed
under our generous naturalization
laws to be full freedom and oppor-
tunity of America who have poured
the poison OF disloyalty into the very
arteries Of our national life, who have
sought TO bring the authority and good
name Of the government into contempt.
TO destroy our industries wherever
they thought il effective for their vim
dictive purpose, TO strike at them and
to debase our politics to the uses Of
foreign intrigue. No federal laws exist
to meet this situation because such
thing would have seemed incredible in
the past. Such creatures Of passion,
disloyalty and anarchy must be
crushed out. They are not many but
they are infinitely malignant and the
hands Of our power should close over
them at once
There WAS rant attention throughout