Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-02-09

Topeka, Kans., Feb. 2.-President
Wilson to-day asserted the right of
Americans to travel abroad, and their
tight to send food, cotton and manu-
factured products to peaceful popu-
lations "in open neutral markets
and wherever the conditions Of war
make it possible to do SO under the
ordinary rules Of international law"
1T may be necessary to use the
force of the United States to vlndi-
cate the rights of American citizens
to enjoy the protection OF intcrna-
tional law" he declared emphatic ally
in a speech here. He urged the sup
port of the people in preparing that
force for use, If necessary.
When the President arrived in To-
peka the applause which greeted him
was scattering. When he left To-
peka thousands roared a friendly
farewell
Clearly Marked Rights.
There Is nothing you would
quicker blame me for than for neg
lecting to safeguard the rights of
Americans, no matter where they
might be in the world" said the
President
There are perfectly clearly mark
ed rights guaranteed by international
law which every American is entitled
to enjoy, and America Is not going
to abide the habitual or continued
neglect Of those rights.
I'VE have a right to send food to
peaceful populations wherever condi-
tions- Of war make it possible to do
so under the ordinary rules of war.
We have right to supply them with
our cotton to clothe them. We have
right to supply them with our man
nfactured products"
The Monroe doctrine was spoken
of as a handsome guarantee by the
United States of the rights of ma
tional and popular sovereignty on
This side of the water in both CONT
nents of the Western Hemisp here.
United States In respect to this long
cherished policy, the PresiS ent said,
but the moral and physical force of
the United States. He spoke Of the
spirit shown by the nation in freeing
Cuba. and added that "the American
people feel the same way about the
Philippines"
"YOu ask ME: is there some new
crisis that has ariscn?' l answ n,
no; there Is no special, new, critical
situation which have to discuss with
you, but l want you to understand
that the situation every day of the
year Is critical while this great con-
test continues in Europe. need not
tell you what my own attitude to-
wards that contest Is. have tried
to live up to the counsel which I
have given my fellow citizens, not
only to be neutral in action, but also
to be neutral in the genuine attitude
Of thought and mind. 1t is easy to
refrain from unneutral acts, but it Is
not easy, when the world Is swept by
storm, to refrain from unneutral
thought.
Composite Nation.
Moreover, America Is a composite
nation. You do not realize it quite so
much in Kansas as It is realized in
some other parts Of the Union. So
overwhelming a portion of your pop
ulation is native born that you natu-
rally feel your first concentration to
be Of America, and things Ameri can;
but l imagine other communities,
and they are many. contain very
large bodies Of men whose birthplace,
whose memories, whose family con-
nections are on the other side of the
sea, IN places now swept by the
fame of war; men for whom every
mail brings news of some disaster
that 1t may be has touched those
whom they love or has swept the
face of some countryside which they
remember in association with the
days Of their youth. Their intimate
sympathies are with some Of the
places now most affected by this