Evening star., 1916-06-07
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requirements OF 1our commerce. IN
peace.
Expansion Of tho Nation
Tho President has said ours is a
provincial party. evidently forgetting
the federalist founding Of our national
tty and republican expansion to great
er national glory. The democratic
party not only fails to grasp our i'm
mensity and Importance. 1t is sectional
on the mainland and unheeding OF our
Island possessions. Its vision does not
catch the splendor OF Old Glory in the
sunlight of the world.
Right now when the devouring
names Of war are burning most fiercely.
when our national view must be world
wide TO be comprehensive. the demo-
cratic administration has proposed to
set adrift an island empire. in violation
OF our obligations to the world. to the
Philippine people and ourselves. Amid
proclamations of our ministrations In
behalf of mankind 1t undertook to re-
nounce its guardianship of a race OF
people and leave them to walk alone
when they had not been fully taught
to creep. A few rebellious democrats
Joined the republican minority in spar
ing US this national disgrace, but the
design is written among the vacilla-
tions of the present administration. The
democratic party once hauled down the
flag which had been unfurled in honor
in the Pacific and met rebuke at the
first popular expression at the polls. No
administration which hauls down the
aag and none which proposes to haul it
down ever can succeed itself in direct
ing the affairs of the American people.
Our widened Relationship.
"one century of marvellous develop
ment has led US into another century of
international sponsorship. This mighty
people. idealizing popular govern
ment and committed to human prog
ress, can no longer live within and for
ourselves alone. Obliterated distance
makes 1t impossible to stand aloof from
mankind and escape widened RESPONSE
bility. II we are to become the agency
Of a progressive civilization and Gods
Is to deny the proofs of American de-
velopment-we must assume the re-
sponsibilities of influence and example,
and accept the burdens OF enlarged
participation. The cloistered life is not
possible to the potential man or the
potential nation. Moreover, the Monroe
doctrine, stronger for a century's main
tenance. fixes an obligation of new
world sponsorship and old-world rela-
tionship. Our part must not be dicta-
torial 1t must be trusted leadership in
a fraternity of American republics.
ITO meet the obligations we must
| first make sure of maintained mental,
moral and physical health at home 1t
| is good to recall that ours is the only
| major political party ever formed in
| this country on a great moral issue.
| Our first proclamation was human lib
| erty. to be glorifled by the spiritual
| and material development of a free
| people. We opened the way to higher
human attainments and emphasized
human rights under the guarantees of
| civil liberty. We need only to go on,
| imbued with the spirit which has thus
| far pointed our way. The light of a
| moral people Is the halo OF liberty it.
self Let US be honest, not only in
| proclamation, but in practice; not alone
| in campaigns, but in incum bency of
office; not only before affairs of wor-
| ship but in our daily affairs and IN
every human relationship. II popular
| government is to be held dependa BILE
| the loyalty of its citizenship, political
| parties and their platforms and their
| spokesmen must be honest and sin
| cere.
For Peoples Welfare.
If we are to urge the worlds atten-
| ton to international justice We must
hold secure our civil justice at homo
and make social justice and attending
have advanced wonderfully The re-
| ward of merit is eternal but we can
promote the development of merit
| have spoken SO emphatically for the
American producer that l want to add
here committal to improved condi-
tons of production. 1t is good to gaze
afar toward markets we hope to attain
in peaceful commercial conquest but
| production is Itself the maker of mar
kets at home. To the safety and in
Vitfng environment of the laborer We
must add his growing merits of conn
pensation. There can be no perma nens
material good fortune that is noi
righteously shared. there can be no
real moral achievement that does no:
| lift the great rank and file to an ever
higher plane. Maintained republican
policies provide conditions for the ideal
| advancement and continued uplift, and
II is not too much to hope that we shall
acclaim the day when choice instead OF
| necessity fixes the status of the Amer
| lean wage-earner
MY countrymen, for two generations,
with short interruptions, the repub-
lican party. in conscience, courage and
capacity, has been translating the de-
pendable popular sentiment Of the re-
public into governmental policy. We
have not yielded to the expediency of
adopting every ephemeral whim be-
cause devotion to country and its ulti-
| mate good ofttfmes demand opposition
| 10 momentary popularity. The final
| appeal to sober intelligence has justi-
ned our course in political righteous
| ness. But we have been so engrossed
| IN developing America that we have
| not stopped to search our own hearts
for the soul of Americanism
American Spirit Is Abroad.
In the travail of life. liberty and
the pursuit of happiness the American
soul was born. Set aglow at Bunker
| Hill. 1t was reflected in the faces of
the patriots of a fearless republic
where men dedicated themselves to the
solemn and momentous task which
was traced by an infinite hand They
were not all Americans by birth. but
they were dedicated Americans in the
| baptismal rites of a new republic and
| new patriotism They could not an
| sign the Declaration of Independence
| but they committed all Americans TO
it for all succeeding time. They could
| not all join in making the Constitution
| but they pledged the succeeding mill
lions of Americans to its everlasting
| defense.
| There were stalwart Americans then.
| Americans from Great Britain with
I British ideals and their devotion to
| orderly government. There were Ameri-
| cans from the land of Napoleon and
Lafayette, to give of the enthusiasm
| and heroism Of France In establishing
| new freedom. There were Americans
| from Germany to fight the battles of
the republic and blend their sturdi-
ness and thoroughness in the progress