Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-21

interesting things were happening
1t was very big world into which
this nation came when II was born,
but II is a very little world now. II
used to take as many days TO go
from Washington TO Charlotte III
those DAYS as it now takes hours.
heard an lrishman say II the power
Of steam continued to increase IN the
next fifty years as it had in the last
we would get to Charlotte two hours
before we left Washington.
What Communication Means.
And az these processes of inter-
communication have been developed
and quickened, men of the same ma
ton not only have grown closer
neighbors, hut men Of different ma
lions have grown closer neighbors
with each other. and now that we
have these invisible tongues That
speak by the wireless through the
trackless air TO the ends Of the world,
every man can make every other man
in the world and his neighbor speak
processes OF fermentation and travail
were going on men were learning
about each other. nations were be-
coming more and more acquainted
with each other, nations were becom-
ing more and more interrelated ana
accommodation was being quick
ened in every possible way so that
now the melting pot ls bigger IMAM
America II is as big as the world.
And what YOU see taking place on the
other side OF the water is the tremen-
dous---i had about said final-pro-
cesses by which contest of elements
may in Gods process be turned into
coordination and cooperation OF
elements.
"For it is an interesting circum-
stance that the processes OF the wal
stand still These hot things that are
in contact with each other 90 no'
make very much progress against
each other. When you cannot over
come you must take counsel see
then. ladies and gentlemen what q
new age we have come into. should
| think that it would quicken the mag
| nation of every man and quicken the
! patriotism of every man VINO cared
| for America. Here In America W.
have tried to set the example of bring
ing all the world together upon terms
Of liberty and cooperation and peace
and in that great experience that we
have been going through America ha'
been u sort of prophetic sample OF
mankind.
Now the world outside of America
has felt the forces Of America; fell
the forces of freedom, the forces OF
common aspiration, the forces tina
bring every man and every natlof
face 10 face with this question VIVA
are you going to do with your power
Are YOU going to translate 1t int
force or are you going to translate !
into peace and the satisfaction of so
ciety % Does ii not interest you tina
| America has run before the rest o
tho world in making trial of this grea
human experiment and is ii not TIT
sign and dawn of new age that TIT
one thing upon which the world /
about to fall back is the moral 1udg
ment Of mankind.
Doctrine of Decent Respect"
There is no finer sentence in TN
history of great nations than that sen
tence which occurs in the declaration
Of INDEPENDENCE Ct am now referrinl
to the minors declaration at Phila
delphia. not to the Mecklenburg dec
laration) in which Mr.. jefferson salt
A decent respect for the opinion 0
mankind makes it necessary q an
NOW quoting the words eXactlyl tina
we should state the grounds upol
which we have taken the inportan
step OF asserting our Independence
& decent respect for the opinion o
manknd--it Is as II jefferson knew
that this was the way in which man
kind itself was to struggle to reaiiz
its aspirations and that, standing Il
the presence of mankind, this littl
group of three million people shoul
say friends and fellow citizens of tn
great moral world, our reason for do
ing this thing we now intend to stat
to you in candid and complete terms
So that you will never think that W
were merly throwing off yoke GU
OF Impotence. but, that we wer
throwing off this thing in order tina
great world OF liberty should b
open to man through our instrumen
tality.
Il would like, therefore, to thin
that the spirit of this occasion coul
be expressed if we imagined ourseiVe
lifting some sacred emblem of coun
sci and of peace of accommodates
and righteous Judgment before tn
nations of the world and remindin
them Of that passage in scriptur
after the wind, after the earthquake
after the fire the still small voice Q
humanity"
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