The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-13
RUSSIAN FORCES STILL
 ADVANCE DESPITE NEW
 OFFENSIVE OF TEUTONS
U. $. Cannot Tolerate Hyphenates, President
 Tells West Pointers
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(COnC1nuGd rom Page 1.) ing to be, either in the history of this country or in the history of the world. It is not by accident that the present great war came in Europe. Every element was there and the con- test had to come sooner or later and it is not going to be by accident that
 the results are worked out, but by purpose-by the purpose of men who are strong enough to have guiding minds and indonitable wills when the | time for decision and sett1em ent comes.
 And the part that the United States is to play has this distinction in it,
 that it is to be in any event a dis
 interested part. There is nothing that the United States wants that it
 has to get by war, but there are great many things that the United States has to do. It has to see that it's life is not interfered with by any
 body else who wants something.
 There are few days when we are
 making preparation when the thing most commonly discussed around every sort of table, in every sort of circle, in the shops and in the streets, is pre-
 paredness and undoubtedly, gentle
 men, that is the present imperative
 duty of America, to be prepared. But we ought to know what we are preparing for. remember hear
 ing wise man say once that the old maxim that everything comes to the
 man who waits is all very well pro vided he knows what he is waiting for
 and preparedness might be a very
 hazardous thing if we did not know
 what we wanted to do with the force that we mean to accumulate and to get into fighting shape.
 America fortunately does know what she wants to do with her force. Amer | ica came into existence for a particu- l lar reason, When you look upon these beautiful hills and up this state
 ly stream and then let your imagfna- l tion run over the whole body of this great country from which you young sters are drawn, far and wide, you remember that while it had aborig- l inal inhabitants, while there were peo- | pie living here, there was no civiliza- | ton which we displaced. It was as 1 if in the providence of God a con- I tinent had been kept unused and wait | ing for peaceful people who loved 1 liberty and the rights of more than l they loved anything else to come and | set up an unselfsh comm monwealth. 1 It is a very extraordinary thing, there l is none other like it in the whole an nals of mankind-of men gathering out of every civilized nation of the world on an unused continent and building up 8 policy exactly to suit themselves not under the domination
 of any ruling dynasty or of the am- b1tions of any royal family, doing what they pleased with their own life on free piece of land which God had made rich with every resource. which was necessary for the civilization they
 meant to build up.
 { stNow what, we are preparing to do is to see that nobody mars that and 1 that, being safe itself against inter ference from the outside, all of it's force is going to be behind it's moral ideal and mankind is going to know 1 that when America speaks she means ] what she says./We are not in for any | thing selfish and we want the whole mighty power of America thrown in
 that scale and not into any other. -'You know that the chief thing that is holding many people back from enthusiasm for what is called preparedness is the fear of militar- 1 ism.
 .I want to say a word te~you young gentlemen about militarism. You are not a 'fni1itarist because you are snnili- ttary Militarism does not consist in the existence of an army, not even in
 AIilitarism is a spirit. It is a point of view It is a, system. It is a pur- pose The purpose of mi1itarism is l to use armies for aggression. The spirit of militarism is the opposite | of the civilian spirit-the citizen spirit In a country where militarism prevails the military man looks down upon the civilian, regards him as in l ferior, thinks of him as intended for his. the military mans, support and use; and just so long America "is 1 America that spirit and point of view | is impossible with us. There is as yet