New Britain herald., 1916-06-16

 earth It would have made might rigb+ and repudiated the doctrines of Christianity. It would have ignored the fundamental conceptions Ot moral nrogress and denied the right of fif- teen millions of people to govern themselves Ambition and greed were prepared to sacrifice America and all that America stands for, in order to acquire the wealth of Mexico. The diplomacy of 'watchful waiting avert ed these calamities and preserved in their original purity the principles of American freedom and justice ,, .Watchful waiting repudiated the bru- | tai dictum of science that the weak must go down before 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 af1ame and stopped the march of progress for century, Would anyone have had 1t so in order to affirm a Virile Ameri- canism'? Is a 'virile Americanism bloodshed, destruction, the horrors of war and it's uncertainties? The sub stance of civilization is the arts, the
 
 try, the domestic virtues, freedom, re- ligion and peace. But this is the sub stance of American nationalism. This is the virility of Americanism. It knows no national boundaries. It vet 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 +J ct1 ous condensation is consuming the er- TOTS of statesmen and dynaSties; it is not consuming the substance of civ ilization Civilization is a unity War with Europe would have cut asunder the moral forces that bind the na- tions and left an age of darkness, anarchy and despair. Standing on the immutable foundations of such Ameri- canism, the schoolmaster and states man. with consummate skill, a skill | that commands the admiration of the world, direct the forces of civilization, 1 not with arms, but with reason and l moral pressure against the excesses | of a belligerent world. With preter- | natural poise and clearness of vision, he is piloting America through the l rushing storm. Who can deny the ex- istence of a moral design in the uni
 verse? Who now can question it's fulfillment? Who now can close his eyes 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 a
 
 picture in civil history is that of a l plain American citizen manoeuvring with the weapons of reason and hu- manity against the navies and armies of the contend1ng natiOns and bring ing them in accord with the principles of international 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 imper- ishable Americanism the matchless craft of a real pacifist has not only avoided all war, but is leading the world into the ways of peace. What is
 peace but the assertion of moral prog
 ress? What is the assertion of mora
 progress but the indestructible civil.
 zation of Europe and America? ? From the smouldering ruins of a thousand cities, over the graves of millions O.
 brave men, out of the blackness of thu battle smoke, arising from the obscurf
 ties of national passions, already thu 1 peoples of the earth recognize. the din
 outlines, growing ever more distinct
 of the composite soul of America il
 the patient and humane wisdom of tn
 worlds real pacificator. Of what avai
 all the wealth of our beloved land i
 it had been consumed in the destruc
 t1VeneSs Of war? What avail the tra
 vail of human progress for ten thou sand years had not the schoolmaste
 and statesman been pacificator? Hi
 achievement IS so vast that ambition men are blind to it's reality But tn
 plain millions, of all creeds and na tionalities, recognize in it the in1pcr
 ishable glories of a Christian ciViljza . tion It glorifies the peasant and kin alike. The schoolmaster is statesman the statesman is financier the tinan
 cier is emancipator, the emancipator the pacificator of the world.
 Intelligence vs. Ignorance.
 "Thus is the nation accomplish ing the destiny of democracy. Tn : commanding fact of the modern age i the spread of intelligence. The school house has conquered ignorance. Tn printing press has transformed tn purposes and capacities of man. Edu cation has qualified him for a bette existence. The Bible has made hin a moralist. Men know that the worl is big enough to support the human family in peace and comfort Mel know that the great problem of peac and comfort is not yet solved The = know that it connOt be solved by tn savagery of war. They know that it solution is obtainable only in condi