Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-06-15
American NaOnaBn Proclaimed by WescO Who Names President

Christianity. It would have ignored the fundamental concept )ns of moral progress and denied the right O. fiji teen millions of people to govern themselves. Ambition and greed were prepared to sacrifice America and all that America stands for, in order .o acquire the wealth Uc Me<.co. he diplomacy of 'watchfJl waiting avert cd these calamities and preserved in
 their original purity the principles of American freedom and justice. The
 watchful waiting repudiated the bru- tai dictum of science that the weak must go down befoer the strong. Help Mexico lest, over her bloody grave are sown the dragons teeth of our own destruction.
 War with any European nation would have set the world aflame and stopped the march of progress for a century. Would any one have had it so in order to affirm a "virile Ameri- -canism"9 Is ''virile AmericaDism' bloodshed, destruction, the horrors of war and it's uncertainties? The sub- stance of civilization is the arts, the sciences, literature, philosophy, indus try, the domestic virtues, freedom, re- D,,f 4hi- io hn stance of American nationalism. This is the virility of Americapism. It knows no national boundary. It yet lives in the trenches and broken homes of Europe and pervades it's very thrones. Therefore, America lives in the trenches and broken homes of Europe and it's thrones. The stupendous confiagration is consum- ing the errors of statesmen and dynaS- ties; it is not consuming the sub stance of civilization. Civilization is a unity. War with Europe would have cut asunder the moral forces that bind the nations and left an age of dark ness, anarchy and despair Standing on the immutable foundations of such Americanism, the schoolmaster and statesman, with consummate skill, a skill that commands the admiration of the world, direct the forces of civiliza- tion, not with arms but with reason and moral pressure against the ex- cesses of a belligerent world. With preternatural pOise and clearness of vision, he is piloting America through the rushing storm. Who can deny the existence of a moral design in the universe? Who now can question it's fulfillment? Who can close his epes to the destiny of democracy to make the principles of civilization dominant, to bring the warning nations of the earth together in lasting peace? The passions of men die. The truth lives America has called to Europe; Europe is responding in terms of revitalized civilization. The sublimest picture in civil history is that of plain Ameri- can citizen manoeuvering with the weapons of reason and humanity against the navies and armies of the contending nations, and bringing them in accord with the principles of inter- national law. The American standard of peace and justice now floats on the sea. It is unfurling over the trenches of the struggling nations. From the vantage ground of imperishable Amer icanism the matchless craft of req pacifist has not only avoided all war, but is leading the world into the ways of peace. What is peace but the as- sertion of moral progress? What is the assertion of moral progress but the indestructible civilization of Eus rope and America? From the smoul-
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