The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-05-25
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fellow4citizens? What are the ele-i
ments In the struggle? Don't you see
that in this European war ts involved
the very thing that has been going
on in America? 1t Is q competition OF
national standards, OF national tradt.
tions, and Of national politics-politi-
cal systems. Europe has grappled In
war as we have grappled in peace to
see what is going to be done with
these things when they come into hot
contact with one another. For do
you not remember that while these
processes were going on in America
some very interesting things were hap.
pening? 1t was very big world into
| which this nation came when it was
born. but it Is very little world now.
It used to take as many days to go
from Washington to Charlotte in those
| days as 1T now takes hours. heard
an Irishman say IL the power Of steam
continued to increase in the next SO
years as it had in the last we would
get to Charlotte two hours before we
left Washington. And as those pro.
cesses of inter.communlcation have
been developed and quickened, men Of
the same nation, not only have grown
| closer neighbors; but men of different
nations have grown closer neighbors
with each other; and now that we
have those invisible tongues that speak
by the wireless through the trackless
air to the ends of the world, every
man can make every other man In the
world his neighbor and speak to him
upon the moment While those pro.
cesses Of fermentation and travail
were going on, men were learning
about each other nations were becom.
Ing more and more acquainted with
each other, nations were more and
more becoming inter.related and inter.
communication was being quickened
in every possible way, so that now
the melting pot Is bigger than Amer
lea. 1t Is as big as the world. And
what you see taking place on the 9TH
er side Of the water Is tremendous
/ had about said final process by
whcih contest of elements may in
Gods process be turned into co-ordi.
nation and cooperation of elements.
Processes Of War Stand Still.
"For it is an interesting clrcum.
stance that the processes Of the war
stand still. These hot things that are
In contact with each other do not
make very much progress against
each other. When you cannot over
| come, you must take counsel. See
then, ladies and gentlemen, what a
new age we have come into. should
think that 1T would quicken the imag-
J ination OF every man and quicken the
patriotism Of every man who cared
for America. Here in America we
have tried to set the example of bring.
ing all the world together upon terms
Of liberty and cooperation and peace.
and In that great experience that we
nave been going through America
has been a sort Of prophetic sample
OF mankind. Now the world outside
of America has felt the forces OF
America; felt the forces Of freedom
the forces of common aspiration, the
forces that bring every man and every
nation face to face with this question,
What are you going to do with your
power? Are you going to translate
IT into force, or are you going to trans.
late 1T into peace and the salvation of
society? Does 1t not interest you
that America has run before the rest
OF the world in making trial of this
great human experiment, and is it not
the sign and dawn of new age that
the one thing upon which the world is
now about to fall back Is the moral
Judgment of mankind. (Applause)
There is no finer sentence in the his.
tory OF great nations than that sen.
tence which occurs In the Declaration
or independence Il am now referring
to the minor declaration Of Philadel
phia, not to the Mecklenburg Decla.
ratfon) in which Mr.. Jefferson said, "A
decent respect for the opinion Of man.
kind makes 1t necessary'-and I am
not now quoting the words exactly
! that we should state the grounds upon
which we have taken the important
step now asserting our independence.
A decent respect for the opinion of
mankind-it is as If Jefferson knew
that this was the way in which man
kind itself was to struggle to realize
its aspirations and that, standing in
the presence Of mankind, this little
group Of three million people, should
say, Friends and fellow-citizens of
the great moral world, our reason for
doing this thing we now intend to
state to you in candid and complete
terms, 80 that you viii never think
that we were merely throwing off a
yoke out Of impatience, but know that
we were throwing off this thing in or.
der that great world OF liberty should
be open to man through our instrumen.
tality.'