Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-21
Speaking at Charlotte, N, Gu
Wilson'S Words Give Hint
That Peace Movement in
Europe May Be Under Way,
REFERS TO AMERICAS
+ LIFTING SACRED EMBLEM
when You Cannot Overcome,
You Must Take Counsel, y
Declares Speaker in Con-
nection With War.
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Charlotte, n. G., May 20.-Presi-
dent Wilson, speaking here today Mt
AN anniversary celebration of the
! Mecklenburg declaration of independ-
ence, told his hearers that involved
/ In the European war is the very thing
| that has been going ON In America--a
competition of national standards, ma
tional traditions and national politics,
Europe said he, has grappled
! i'm war, as we have grappled i'm peace,
to see what Is going to be done with
/ these things when they come into hot
contact with each other. What yon
see taking place on the other side OF
! the water is the tremendous-l al
most said final--process by which a
contest of elements may. in Gods pro-
cess, he turned into coordination
and cooperation of elements.
For it Is an interesting circum-
stance that the process of the war
stand still. These hot things that are
in contact with each other do not
make much progress against one an
other. When you cannot overcome
you must take counsel
The reference was given signifi-
cance by the presidents hearers in
view of recent discussion Of possbili-
ties Of ending the war
Before speaking President Wilson
reviewed parade. Afterwards he
+, was guest at luncheon, motoring
later to Davidson college. where he
once was a student. At the college
he visited the room in which he lived
as student.
The president and Mrs Wilson and
their party departed tonight for
Washington
Text OF Address.
The presidents address follows:
II do not know, my fellow citizens,
where | can interpret for you to-day
the spirit OF this occasion, but 1t is
necessary when we get together in
celebrations like this to take counsel
together with regard to just what it is
that we wish to celebrate. You viii
say we wish to celebrate the memoir
les of that time TO which we look
back with such pride, when our faith
ors with singular wisdom of counsel
and stoutness Of heart undertook to II
set up an independent nation ON this
side Of the water; but IL Is very mucn
more important that we should re-
mind ourselves of the clements with
which our forefathers dealt. There |
were only three million citizens In
that original republic of the United
States of America Now there are
one hundred millions IT is Il long
cry back to those modest besinninss; |
great period Of time not only but |
great period of profound change
separates us from that time and yet |
! would remind you that the same
elements were present then that are
present now.
Always Same Elements.
What interests my thought more
than anything else about the United
States is that it has always been in
process of being made ever since that
little beginning and that there have
always been the same elements in the
process At the outset there was at
the heart of the men who led the
movement for independence very
high and handsome passion for hu-
man liberty and free institutions. And
yet there lay before them "A great
continent which it was necessary to
subdue to the uses of civilization II
they were going to build upon it
great state among the family of ma
tions ! heard "A preacher once point
out the very interesting circumstance
that our Lords prayer begins with
the petition for our daily bread
from which he drew the inference
that it is very difficult to worship
God on an empty stomach and that
the material foundations Of our life
are the first foundations.
Use Of Power vital Question.
what / want to call your atten
ton 10 is that this country ever since
that time has devoted practically al
of It's attention. perhaps too much OF
It's attention. to the material founda-
tion Of its life; to subduing this con-
tinent to the uses of the nation and
to the building up of a great body of
wealth and material power. I find
some men who when they think Of
America do not think of anything else
but that But, my friends, there
have been other nations just as rich
and just as powerful in comparison
with the other nations of the world
IS the United States is. and 1t is a
great deal more important that we !
should determine what we are going
10 do with our power than that we ,
should possess il.
You must remember. therefore
he elements with which we are deal
ng. Sometimes those Of us who
we're born in this part of the coun- |
ry persuade ourselves that this is the l
part of America. Here :
more than anywhere else has been I
preserved great part Of the original /