The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-22

MADE UP OF All Nations.
THE most singular fact about thi
great nation which we represent is tha
ii is made up of all the nations OF thu
world. / dare say that the men wht
came to America since came with sin
gle purpose, sharing some part of the pas
sion for human liberty which character
lied the men who founded the republic
but they came with all sorts of blood in
their veins, all sorts of antecedents be.
hind them, all sorts of tradition in their
family and national life, and America has
had to serve as a melting pot for all
these diversified and contrasted elements
What kind of fire of pure passion are
you going to keep burning under the pot
in order that the mixture that comes out
may be purged of its dross and may be
the fine gold of untainted Americanism
That is the problem.
81 want 10 call your attention to an
other picture. America has always been
making and to be made, and while we
were in the midst of this process, appar-
emily at the acme and crisis OF this pro-
cess, while this travail of soul and fer
mentation of elements was at its hight,
came this great cataclysm of European
war, and almost every other nation in
the world became involved in tremen-
dous struggle hich was what, my fellow
citizensl What are the elements in the
strugle9 Don't you see that in this Eu-
ropean war is involved the very thing
that has been going on in America 1t
is competition of national standards,
of nf AL
politics political systems.
Europe has grappled in war as we
have grappled in peace TO see what is GO
ing to be done with these things when
they come into hot contact with one an
other. For do you not remember that
while these processes were going on in
America, some very interesting things
were happening? 1t was very big world
into which this nation came when it was
born, but it is very little world now.
II used to take as many days to 90 from
Washington to Charlotte in those days
as it now takes hours. And at these
processes of REORGANIZATION have
been developed and quickened, men of
the same nation not only have grown
closer neighbors, but men of different !
nations have grown closer neighbors with |
each other; and now that we have these
tongues that speak by the wire
less through the traetless air to the end |
Of the world, every man can make every |
other man in the world his neighbor and |
speak to him upon the moment.
while these processes OF fermentation
md travail were going on, men were
earning about each other, nations were
more and more acquainted with
ZACH other, nations were more and more
becoming inter-related and intercom-
nunication was being quickened in sv-
Try possible way, SO that now the melt
ng pot is bigger than America. 1t is as
zig as the world. And what wou see tax
ng place on the other side of the water
S the tremendous had about said final
process by which contest of elements
nay in Gods process be turned into a
coordination and cooperation of ele-
nents.
Processes of War Stand Still.
"For it is an interesting circumstance
hat the processes OF the war stand still.
'hese hot things that are in contact with
aeh other do not make very much prog
ess against each other. When you can
OF overcome you must take council. See,
hen, ladies and gentlemen, what new
ge we have come into. / should think
hat it would quicken the imagination OF
very man and quicken the patriotism of
very man who cared for America. Here
America we have tried to set the ex
Inple of bringing all the world together
pom terms OF liberty and cooperation
nd peace, and in that great experience
nat we have been going through Amer J
a has been sort of prophetic sample
mankind. Now the world outside of
merica has felt the forces of America
1t the forces of freedom, the forces of
'mmon aspiration, the forces that bring
very man and every nation face To face
it'll this question, What are going to
, with your power? Are you going to
anslate it into force, or are you going
translate it into peace and the saliva
on of society," Does it not interest you
Iat America has run before the rest of |
lie world in making trial of this great |
imam experiment, and is it not the sign |
I'd dawn of new age that the one |
ing upon which the world is now about
fall back is the moral judgment OF I
ankindf
There is no finer sentence in the his I
ry of great nations than that sentence
nich occurs in the Declaration of indie
ndence II am now referring to the
inor declaration at Philadelphia, not
the Mecklenburg declaration) in which
r. jefferson said, a decent respect for
e opinion of mankind makes it neces- I
ry' Il am not now quoting the words
actly) that we should state the
ounds upon which we have taken the
p0rtant step of asserting our indie
ndence.' A decent respect for the opin- X
4 of msnkind-it is as if jefferson
ew that this was the way in which
lnkind itself was TO struggle TO real
its aspiration, and that, standing in
e presence of mankind, this little group
5000 600 people should say, Friends
d fellow -citizens of the great moral
rid, our reason for doing this thing we
W intend to state to you in candid and
nplete terms. so that you will never
nix that we were merely throwing off
Toke out of impatience, but know that L
were throwing off this thing in order
It a great world of liberty should be
IN to man through our Instrumental
/ would like, therefore, TO think that
spirit of this occasion could be eI-
,ssed il we imagined ourselves lift
some sacred emblem Of counsel and