Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-06-01
Reply TO American Note to Be Met
With Firm Restatement of POLicu

what you, are going 20 do tomorrow.
The only test | know of that is COM
petent to determine what YOU are Is
the test OF what You do. Lot ny not
think of our character. let as think
of our duties and Of the actions that
lie before us. have always maine
tanned that the man who lives 10 cul-
tivate his own character will result
only In cultivating an intolerable prig,
because his object will he himself
Character, my friends, Is biproduct.
II II produced In the great manuGnc-
lurc of daily life. but II Is not easy
to determine. Duty for nation Is
made up of SO many complicated Gle
ments that no man can determine it.
No group OF men without wide com-
mon SENSE can possibly determine
what the duty OF the day T.. That is
the strength of "A democracy because
there daily rises In the great body Of
a democracy the expression of an un-
trammelled opinion, which seems to
I'm the air with its suggestions Of
duty. and those who stand at the head
of affairs have II as their 5ounden
duty to endeavor to express in their
own actions those things that seem to
rise out of the conscience and hope
aud purpose Of the great body of the
people themselves
Reborn in Civil War.
America, | have said. was reporn
by the struggle OF the civil war. hut
America is reborn every day of her
life by the purposes we form, the con-
ceptlons we entertain, the hopes that
we cherish. We live in our visions
We live in the things we see. We
live, and hope abounds In us as we
live In the things that We purpose
Let us go away from this place re-
newed in our devotion TO daily duty
and to those Ideals which keep a ma
tion young, keep il noble, keep Il rich
in enterprise and achievements: make
it to lead the aations of the world
in those things that make for hope
and for the benefit of mankind.
Escorted by Marines
At the conclusion OF the exercises
In the amphitheatre at the cemetery,
President Wilson was escorted by a
regiment Of marines to the Maine me-
mortal monument, which was nnveil-
ed and dedicated In honor of the 264
men who lost their lives when the
battleship was sunk seventeen wears
ago IN Havana harbor. The monu-
ment is the mainmast and fighting
top Of the Maine sot in granite and
marble base chiseied IN the form of
u gun turret
Secretary Daniels. the principal
speaker at this ceremony, voiced a
tribute To Sacrifice" saying it was
the one attribute to which everybody
paid homage.
As part OF the ceremony Frank
Bagley Daniels. and Jonathan Worth
Daniels. sons of the secretary and
ncphews of Ensign Worth Bagley
the first American officer killed in
the Spanish war, raised an ensign tol
the top of the mast Fifty white un-
formed marines manned the rigging
Of the mast.
Bryan Speaks on War.
Secretary Bryan WAS the speaker at
Exercises held by the Spanish war
veterans at the base OF the Spanish !
war monument.
we are depressed and distressed
by the reports Of battles" he said, "ofl
skies reddened by the glare OF guns
ana the soil crimsoned hy the blood /
Df men, of homes made dosolate and
)f hospitals filled TO overflowing, Of
babies born fatheriess. while sires are
burned like worthless stubble In the
fields over which the grim reaper has
passed"
From the war, Secretary Bryan
irew the lesson that love is manifest |
I'd by the willingness Of people to !
make sacrifices lie said that the
sacrifice shown by the soldier il
shared by the women and children, 7
who give up more in war than the /
nan who marches in the ranks.