Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-06-16

pef1SnaDle glOr1eS OF CHRISTIAN
civilization. 1t glorifies the peasant
and king alike. The schoolmaster is
statesman, the statesman is financier,
the financier is emancipation, the
emancipation is the pacificator of the
world.
"Thus is the nation accomplishing
the destiny of Democracy. The COM
manding fact of the modern age IS
the spread of intelligence. The school
house has conquered ignorance. The
printing press has transformed the
purposes and capacities of man. EdU-
cation has qualified him for better
existence. The Bible has made him
a moralist. Men know that the world
is big enough to support the human
family in peace and comfort. Men
know that the great problem of peace
and comfort is not yet solved. They
know that it cannot be solved by the
slavery of war. They know that its
solution is obtainable only in condi-
lions of peace, reason and a practical
morality. This state of knowledge is
the browning achievement of progress.
| American Experiment Stands Test.
| "Ihe American experiment Of self
! government has stood the test. The
achievements of the American sys-
TEN are known of all men and felt
| throughout the world. The United
States is the worlds asylum, Here
all races, all conditions, all creeds are
assimilated, helped, elevated, and men
are made into self governing men. In
America justice has made it's greatest
progress, because it is progress in
which all men have. part That
form of government which affords the
fullest opportunity for happiness and
comfort is destined to be the universal
form. Such is the resistless syllogism
of progress. War cannot stop it's in
evitable march. The opinion of all
men is more potential than the opin-
ion of one man. The best opinion of
the best men, by the force of example
and mutually of interest, becomes The
opinion OF all men. American opinion
is embodied in man of peace. Amer
lean opinion is marching through the
| world.
when the imperialism of Europe
threw the moral dice of destiny
justice. There they stand in untarn-
ished integrity in the gaze Of al
stricken world. The intelligence of
men grasp the meaning of America.
Her example will readjust' the rela-
tions of men everywhere The aspira-
lions of men are for freedom. Men
and women can and should rule them
selves. The day when they rule them
selves war will disappear. The hand
of Divinity has so written it in the
needs and necessities of humanity
made in it's image
America, prosperous, peaceful,
blessed, is so because the inscrutable
purposes of God intended it. The
contrast between Europe in flames
and suffering and the United States
peaceful and prosperous is the divine
contrast. By saving the American
system civilization is saved The
peace of America demonstrates the
folly of war. The principles of Dem
ocracy furnish the means of avoiding
and preventing war. The universal
intelligence of men DEGREES that the
war now devastating Europe shall be
the last war. 1t will end in worlds
league of peace.
"Sons of America, keep unsullied
the sacred shrine of peace, through
whose portals will yet pass arm in
arm the crowned head and the humble
peasant in silent worship. of God.
"Out of the ruins and sufferings of
the present conflict will arise a temple
of justice whose dome will be the blue
vault of heaven; it's illuminants the
eternal stars; it's pillars the everlast-
ing hills; it's ornaments the woods and
bountiful fields; its music the ripping
rills, the song of birds, the daughter
of happy childhood; it's diapason the
roar of mills and the hum of industry;
it's votaries the peoples of the earth;
it's creed, on which hangs all the law
and the prophets, Love thy neighbor
as myself Above it's altar in in
effaceable color will live cternally the
vision of it's artificer
"Therefore, my fellow countrymen,
not l. but his deeds and achievements;
not but the spirit and purposes of
America; not l, but the prayers of
just men; not !, but civilization itself,
dominates to succeed himself to the
presidency Of the United States, to the
presidency of a hundred million free
people. bound in impregnable union,
the scholar, the statesman, the finan-
cier, the emancipation, the pacificator,
the moral leader of democracy, Wood
row Wilson"
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