The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1916-06-30
on everY American.

a Wing, one man a Republican and
another a Democrat, Americans win
cast aside the tinsel Of party labels
and the mummery of party emblems
From the great pulsing heart of
the nation win come patriot com
mand to crush partisanship and re-
buke whatever is mean or blind.
And when, a century from now,
Americas children come to read our
history, we pray God that the history
we are about to make may prove an
inspiration to their loyalty.
In the attainment of this hope, the
utterance of this prayer we who
gather here today have a responsl-
bility that sobers our emotions as it
strengthens our resolutions"
The Peace Policy.
In asking for an endorsement of
the Presidents peace policy. Mr.
Glynn said:
For two years the world has been
afire; the civilization that we know
has been torn by the mishtiest
struggle in it's history. Sparks from
Europe's conflagration have blazed in
our own skies, echoes of her strife
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fire still burns, that struggle still con-
tinues, but thus far the United States
has held he flame at bayj thus far
it has saved its people from participa-
ton in the conflict.
What the people of the United
States must determine through their
suffrage, is whether the course the
country has pursued through this
crucial period is to be continued;
whether the principles that have been
asserted as our national policy shall
be endorsed or withdrawn.
"This is the paramount issue. No
lesser issue must cloud it no unre-
lated problems must confuse IT,"
In declaring that the policy of neu-
trality is as American as the Ameri-
can flag, Mr.. Glynn asserted that:
dThe first President OF the United
States was the first man to pronounce
neutrality a rule Of international con-
duct.
I'm April. 1898, Washington declared
the doctrine; and within month,
John Jay, Chief Justice Of the su-
preme Court of the United States, in
an epooh-mahiilg decision from the
bench whose realization would ensure
universal and perpetual peace, wrote
the principle into the law of this land.
The Declaration of independence had
fc~etold it by declaring the rest OF
mankind enemies in war, in peace
friends; the Constitution recognized
it; but the first President of the
United States by proclamation, the
first Chief Justice by int expectation,
gave it vitality and power,
1.-THE President of the United statss
Stands today where stood the meil
who made America and who saved
America. He stands where John
Adams stood. when he told King
George that America was the lana
he loved and that peace was her
grandeur and hef wslfafei He stands
where aehefai Grant stood when he
said there never was war that
could not have been settled better
some other way. and he has shown
his willingness to try the ways OF
peace before he seeks the paths of
war. He stands where George Wash
ington stood when he prayed that
this country would never unsheath
the sword except id self-defense so
Icing as justice and our essential
rights could be preserved without it.
For vain glory or for selfish pur
pose, others may cry up policy OF
blood and iron, but the President Of
the United States has acted on the
belief that the leader of a nation who
plunges his people into an unneces.
sary war, like Pontius plate, vainly