The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-11

who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.
 My urgent advice to yGu would be not only always to think first of Amer lea, but always also to thmy first os humanity You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity ato jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sym- pathy, by justice not by jealous and hatred am sorry for the man who seeks 10 make personal capital out of the passions of his fellow men. He has lost the touch and ideal of Amer. ica for America was created to unite mankind by those passions whcE lift and not by the passions which seperate and debase. We cane ta America either ourselves or in persons ct our ancestors to bet;et the ideals of men, to make them see t'uor thlEs tran they had seen before to get q of tuugs that divide and t3 make srre thi; gs that unite.
 Tt was but a historical accident no doubt that this great country was called The United States and yet | am very thankful that it has the word
 United in it's title and the man who seeks to divide man from man, group from group, interest from interest m the United States is striking at its very heart.
 Ut is a very interesting circum- stance to me in thinking of those of you who have just sworn allegiance to this great government that you were drawn across the ocean by some beck oning finger Of ope, by some belief, by some vision Cf htw kind of jus tice, by some cNpe station ot better kind of life No doubt YOU have been disamp ointed in some ol Us Some of us are very 1taWop;mg. Do doubt you have fou.d that irsi ce in the United States gees ohl5 with a pure heart and a right suIpose as it does everywhere else in tine world No doubt what you found here did not seem touched or y1u Gtter all with the complete beauty of the ideal which you had conceived 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 that he does not believe in, and if some of us have forgotten that Amer ica believed in, you at any rate i'm ported in your own hearts a renewal of the belief. That Is the reason that l. for one, make you welcome. If have in any degree forgotten wat America is intended for l will thank God if you will remind me. 1 was born in America. You dreamed dreams of what America was to be and hope you brought the dreams with you. Nc man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or under take any high enterprise. Just be cause you brought dreams with you Awerica is more likely to realize the dreams such as you brought. You are enriching us, if 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 l am not saying this with even the slightest thought of criticism Nf pt bar i,7 with a family. A family gets centered on itself if it is not careful and is less interested in the neighbors than it is is it's own members. So nation that is not constantly renewed out of new sources is apt to have the narroWness and prejudice of family; whereas America must have this conscious ness that on all sides it touches el Lows and touches hearts with. all the nations of mankind The example of America must be a special example The example of America must be the e mple not merely of peace because t will not fight, but of peace because reace is the healing and eleyating in fuence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such thing as a nation being so right tha i. does not need to convince others by fierce that it is right.
 "So if you come into this great ma ticn as you have come, voluntarily seeking something that We have to give, ali that we have to give is this we cannot exempt you from work. No man is exempt from work anywhere il the world. I sometimes think he is fortur ate if he has to work only with 1s bands and not with his head Ii is very easy to do what other people give you to do, but it is very difficult tO Cve other people things to do. We cannot exempt you from work; be can net exempt you from the strife and the Leartbreaking burden of the strug gle of the day-that is common to ma; kind everywhere; we cannot eX- empt you from the loads that you must carry; we can only make them ligh ty the spirit in which they are fa hx nd ae