Arizona republican., 1916-02-02


 cannot pay the price of duties abdi- cated, of glorious opportunities neg lected of character, national character, vindicated and eXemplified in action. America has a character as distinct as the character of any individual amongst us We read that character in every page of her singular and glor- ious history We believe that that character is written in invisible signs, which, nevertheless our spirits can de- cipher upon the very fold of the flag which is the emblem of our national life
 The gentlemen, out and out pacifi- cists, are making one fundamental mis take. That is not q mistake about the sentiments of America, but a mistake about the circumstances of the world. America does not constitute the world. In many of her sentiments and predic- tions she does not represent or infu- ence the world.
 The dangers to our peace do not come any longer from within our own borders. l could not have said that | few months ago. Passion was aStir in this country. There was clash of sympathies and heat of passion which made our air tense and made men hold their breath for fear some of our fel- low countrymen would forget that their first loyalty was to America and their second loyalty only to the an- cient affections which bound them and honorably bound them to some older country and polity. ijut those dangers have passed. America has regained her self possession. -ien are now ready to feel and to act in common in the great cause of the national life. and no influence within America is go- ing to disturb the peace of America. But Americans cannot be an ostrich with it's head in the sand. America cannot shut itself out from the rest of the world, because all the dangers at this present moment, and they are many, come from her contacts with the rest of the world. And those contacts are going to be largely determined by other nations and not determined bv ourselves.
 | '1 have not come to tell you that | there is any danger to our national life | from anything that your government 1 may do or your congress jropose. have come to tell you that there is dan ger to our national life from what oth- CT nations may do. And let me say. ladies and gentlemen, that would not speak of other nations in spirit of 1 criticism Not only would it not be- 1 come me to do so as your spok esman and representative, but l would not be interpreting my real feeling if 1 did SO. 1 Every nation now engaged in the t;- tanic struggle on the other side of the
 water believes with an intensity of
 conviction that cannot be exaggerated that It IS fighting for it's rights and in most instances that it is fighting for ! it's life, and we must not be too criti- cal of the men who lead these nations.
 If Americas liberty were involved If we thought that Americas life was involved, would We criticise ouI
 leaders and public men because they went every length of even desperate endeavOr to see that the nation did
 not suffer and that the nation did triumph? l have it not in my heart to criticise these men. But I want you to know the danger they are lrunning, and that the dangers they
 are running are the dangers which involve us also.
 What is America expected to do :
 She is expected to do nothing less than keep law alive while the rest
 of the world burns. You know that there is no international tribunal. my fellow citizens l pray God that if
 this contest has no other result, it will
 at least have the result of creating an international tribunal and produc- ing some sort of joint guarantee of peace on the part of the great ma tions of the world. But it has not yet done that, and the only thing therefore, that keeps America out ot
 danger is that to some degree the
 understandings, the ancient and hon. orable understandings, of nations witt 1 regard to their relations to one an other and to the citizens of one an other are to some extent still ob-
 served and followed. And whenever there is departure from them, the
 United States is called upon to in
 tervene, to speak it's voice of protest
 to speak it's voice of insistence.
 Do you want it to be only a voice of insistence? Do you want the situ-
 ation to be such that all that the president can do is to write messages to utter words of protest2 If thest
 breaches of international law Whicl
 are in daily danSe rof occurring
 should touch the very vital interest.
 and honor of the United States. q,
 you wish to have all the world say
 that the flag of the United States
 which we love, can be stained witt
 impunity? Why, to ask that ques
 tion is to answer it. I know tha,
 there is not a man or woman in tn,
 hearing of my voice who would Wisl
 peace at the expense of the honor o
 the United States.
 q said just now that an unmis !. takable voice had come to my ear
 from out the great body of this say , ing we depend upon you to keep Il
 out of war but that same voice adde,
 always this sentence also, but we de pend upon you to maintain unsulliet
 and. unquestioned the honor of in l tegrity of the United States an many a night when it has seeme 7 impossible for me to sleep. because Q the thought of the apparently ineX