The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-08

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able and command the confidence as
we'll as the loyalty Of it's citizenship,
political parties and their platforms
and their spokesman must be honest
and sincere.
"A Peoples Welfare.
III we are to urge the worlds atten-
tion to international justice we must
hold secure our civil justice at home
and make social Justice and attending
welfare typical of our national life.
We have advanced wonderfully. The
reward of merit 10 eternal, but we can
promote the development of merit.
I have spokep so emphatically for the
American producer that / want to add
here a committal to improved condi
tons OF production. 1t Is good to
gaze afar toward markets we hope to
attain in peaceful commercial con-
quest, but production is itself the
maker of markets at home. To the
safety and inviting environment Of the
!aborer we must add his growing
merits or compensation. There can
BIO no permanent material good for
tune that is not rtghteously shared,
there can be no real moral achieve
mont that does not MT the great rank
and file to an ever higher plane Main
tanned Republican policies provide
conditions for the idet.l advancement
and continued uplift, and 1t Is not too
much to hope that we shall acclaim
the day when choice instead of neces-
sity flxes the status of the American
wage Garner.
My countrymen. for two generations,
with short Interruptions, the Repub-
lican party, In conscience, courage and
capacity, has been translating the de-
pendahle popular sentiment of the Re-
public into governmental policy. We
have not yielded to the expediency of
adopting every ephemeral within, be-
cause devotion to country and its ulu-
mate good ofttimes demand opposition
TO I..omentary popularity. The final
appeal TO sober intelligence has justi-
fed our course in political righteous
ness But we have been so engrossed
in developing America that we have
not stopped TO search our own hearts
for the soul OF Americansm.
The American Spirit.
In the travail Of Life, Liberty and
the Pursuit of Happiness the Ameri-
can soul was born Set aglow at
Bunker I'M. II was reflected in the
faces of the patriots of fearless Re-
public, where men dedicated them
selves 70 the solemn and momentous
NfiNE WHICH was Il az VIZ ~ hii ilii4LitV
hand. They were not all Americans
by birth, but they were dedicated
Americans in the baptsmal rites OF
new Republic and a new patriotism.
They could not all sign the Declaration
.of Independence. but they committed
all Americans to it for all succeeding
time. They could not all Join In max
ing the Constitution, but they pledged
the succeeding millions of Americans
10 its everlasting defense.
There were stalwart Americans
then. Americans from Great Britain
with British ideals and their devotion
TO orderly government. There were
Americans from the land OF Napoleon
and Lafayette. TO give of the enthu-
siasm and hcrolsm of France in es-
Ia blishing new freedom. There were
Americans from Germany to fight the
battles of the republic and blend their
sturdthess and thoroughness in the
progress OF a new people, not a new
race. There were Americans from the
green fields of Ireland, with a passion
for liberty Americans from southern
Europe 10 battle for opportunity.
There were Americans who came
from oppression and stood erect in the
freedom of the republic, They all
made common cause, There was lack
of homogenity of race but there was
kinship OF soul, and that soul was
American The gates to our ports
have swung inward ever since, there
has been a welcome TO the foreign
born, whom we asked TO drink freely
or the waters OF our political life and
find their places in the sun of Amer
lean opportunity. They are an insep-
ara BILE and important and valued part
of American citizenship, and the few
zealots of any origin who violate our
neutrality do not and can not impugn
the loyalty or the American patriot
ism of that great body which adds
to the swelling chorus of
My country, It's of thee,
Sweet Land OF Liberty"
National Sympathies.
1t is not surprising that in their
hearts there is sympathy or partially
for the land of their nativity when
1t is involved In a life and death strug-
gle like that which saturatek Europe
with the blood of their kinsmen
Search your hearts deeply. my coun-
trymen, One must be human to be
an American, he must have human
sym pathies and human loves, ana
sh ould pity the foreign born and the
sons of foreign born whose very souls
are not wrung by the catclysmal sor-
row OF the old world But sorrow is
the test OF soul and the very altar of
Recommendation. This is the moment
Gus hour for the blazing soul of Amer
lean allegiance. The spirit of the
fathers is calling, and the safety of
unborn Americans is demanding and
the security OF the republic Is requir-
Ing that now and here and every
where, under the Stars and Stripes,
we proclaim a plain. simple, glad and
unalterahle Americanism. 1t must be
the offering OF loyalty and devotion
and love and trust. and life, IL need
be, to these United States, now and
everlastingly.
The Americanism which indexes
these United States must be more than
the conservation OF the individual In
the great fulhllment We must have a
citizenship less concerned about what
the government can do for il and more
anxious about what II can do for the
nation. There must he the submer-
sion of local and sectional views and
the standards of nationality reared In
their stead. Holding to the ideals Of
Just American rights. the government
must protect those rights, at home,
on our borders. on the seas, in every
land and under every sky
Our Foreign Relations.
Seeking to practice the very Ameri-
canism l preach as Republican Cos