The Washburn leader., 1916-02-04
Ideals Of Dcmoc-
racy Being Tried
Roosevelt Says This Nation Can
not Endure Hah4Ame9ican
! and Haf-foreign
No UNION INHERITANCE
Neutrality in War Has not Kept
thh United States Out p6
That Conflict

The address Of Eihu Root
before the New York State Bar
Association was an impassioned
apEesl for National defense
against ourselves.
The ideals of American law
are being tried in the balance in
a world conflict between de7
mocracy and the ruling state, be-
tween individual initiative under
the rule Of law, and indiviual
surrender of thought, speech and
action to the supreme efficiency,
Of automatic government.
Neutrality in war has kept the
United States out Of that conA
flict. It RACES in our own think4
ing between citizens who have
inherited the American tradi-
tions Of democracy, and citizens
who have brought from other
countries, or inherited from forI
eign4born ancestors Of the auto7
cratic state over indiwdualjsm.
Its results will govern our po-
4itical future.
Colonel Roosevelt recoined from
Abraham Lincoln the penetrat-
ing phrase, "This nation cannot
endure half-American and half
foreign" Mr.. Root enlivens 4
profound address upon fidelity to-
The ideals Of democracy under
the rule Of law with a bugle call
to the education in American
traditions Of our citizens born
or trained under different ideals
It is a happy augury, when the
thinking men who represent So
clearly the opposite mediums of
Law and force, runs SO close in
parallel channels. Mr.. Root ap,
peals to us not to forget, in a
century Of enjoyment of freedom
and order, and in generation Of
peaceful material prosperity, that
these are no unwon inheritance.
He says: .
Liberty has always been born
of struggle. 1t has not come
save through sacrifice and the
bl cd of martyrs and the devotion
of mankind. And it is not to be
preserved except by jealous
watch'fulness and stern deter
mination always to be free.
In the gentlest tolerance for
our fellow citizens born under
law imposed upon the people by
a superior power or trained tra7
ditiors, he. summons the Ameri-
can spirit, to the education of
it's acquired citizens in our ideal
government, before we insensib-
ly absorb their ideas because Of
its efficiency. He warns us: -
1t is a slow process to change
the attitude of the individual
toward law, toward political prin
ciples. 1t cannot be done in q
moment, and this great mass Of
men, good men, good women.
without our traditions. but with
entirely different traditions, will
change us unless we change them
1t is certain that fidelity to the
democratic ideal of their new
Country inspires more the vast
silent mass Of our citizens OF,
foreign race than it inspires the.
more vocal group of writer's and
speakers who came here fof
their material advantage. Z
II. Andrews. a brother Of Mrs.
A. p. Lenhart, who was called
here from Rochester, New York
at the death bed of his brothert
in-law p. NJ. Ferguson of ;Wash1
burn returned from Washburn
Saturday where he spent a few,
days with his sister Mrs. Fer
guson and family after their rel
turn from Glenwood, Minnesota
where the burial took place. Mr.
Andrews is an efficient photo3
grapher having had years Of ex-..
Iperience in that line, and is at
present with the Eastman Kodak
Company and will be in these
parts for e.-Bismarck Pub
lie Opinion-
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