New Britain herald., 1916-10-13
WILSON HURLS Down
GAUNTLET At G. 0. P.
Says Nation Should Not Trust
Those Who Talk SeCtiOnaiSm

charge LndC the OeInOCTdIlC PAL ~ - d
sectional party, with the statement
that ANY man who revives the issue
CT sectionalism in this country is I'M
worthy the confidence of the nation
The president went to Indianapolis to
address meetings Of good roads advo
Gates and farmers, review an automo
bile parade celebrating goods roads
day of the Indiana centennial, and at
tend a non-partisan luncheon of lead
ing Indianians. He was seen by crowds
| which packed the streets for blocks.
in his first set speech he spoke Of the
good done by highways in preventing |
sectionalisn.
my fellow citizens,' he continued, I
Ct need not tell you that I did not |
I come here to talk politics, but there |
| is one thing hat is pertinent in this |
connection which I cannot deny myself !
| the privilege of saying. Ay man who |
| revives the issue of secttonalism in !
| this country is unworthy of the con- |
| f1dence of the nation. He shows him
self a provincial; he Shows that he
| himself does not know the various |
| sections of his own country; he shows |
| that he has shut his own heart up in
q little province and that those who
|
tina province are to him sectional,
| while he alone is national. This is the
depth Of antipatriotic feeling
| At both meetings the presidents adj
| dresses were interrupted frequently
| by applause and hand-clapping
| marked progress through the
Streets The coliseum at the fair
| grounds where he delivered his first
| address had many vacant seats in the
rear but the hall in which he spoke
| later was filled. He also spoke briefly
| at a luncheon given him by Gov. and
! Mrs. Samuel M. Ralson of Indiana.
The second set speech was devoted to
| a discussion of the work of the demo-
| cratic administration for the farmers
| of the nation.
5:45 yesterday afternoon for Long
Branch, N. j., where he Will arrive
| this afternoon at o'clock
| President Wilson in his good roads
| speech said in part:
my fellow-citizens I need not tell
you that I did not come here to talk
politics. but there is one thing that
is pertinent in this connection which
I cannot deny myself the privilege of
saying. Any man who revives the is
sue of sectionalism in this country is
nation. He shows himself provin-
cial; he shows that he himself does
not kow the various sections Of his
own country; he shows that he has
| shut his own heart up in a little
| province, and that those who do not
seek the special iterests of that
province are to him sectional, while
he alone is national. That is the depth
Of antipatriotic feeling.
Naturalization Of America.
And that is my interest in good
roads, for, my fellow citizens, nv
present interest is chiefly in the ma
tonallzatlon of America. We have
| created a great people. At least, if I
may put it SO, we have brought to-
gether all the elements, all the COM
| pOnent parts. all the necessary char
acters and industries. and material re-
sources of great nation. And we
suddenly find that we are face to face
with the problem Of assem- bling these
! elements in the sense in which the
mechanic assemblies the parts of q,
machine. And having assembled
those elements, to put them together
for the creation of one unconquer-
able force to which the world shall
| hereafter look for most of it's forward
| impulse, for most of it's ideal princi-
| pies, for most of it's example in the
practice of liberty. And therefore the
thing that I am more interested in
| than anything else in these days is
| the forces that make for drawing
America together into a great spirit
| ual unit.
Nov, my fellow citizens, we have
had time and opportunity until the
present to do pretty much what we
! Tod in ,orioo
ent things in different parts Of Amer
lea. But just as soon as this great
European war is over. America has
got to stand for one thing and only
one thing in the world, and she must
| be ready with united force. We can't
play with the elements of our life
| any more. America came into ex-
istence, my fellow-citizens not in or
/ der to show the world the most no.
table example it had ever had of the
| accumulation and use of material
| wealth, but in order to show the way
to mankind in every part of the
world to justice and freedom and lib
| erty So that the words I want you
! to carry in your mind in connection
| with this good roads cause are these.
First, naturalization, getting all the
fibers of this great vital people united
in a single organism; second, mo-
biization, getting them SO related to
each other. so co-ordinated, SO or
gained, so united that when they
move, they move a single great ir-
| resistible conquering force. And the
third word that I want you to con-
slider is the word that I suppose af-
fords the key to doing these things.
| That word is the word of co-opera-
ton. I wish that each one of us
| f1y IN, 6ifforanPn
between the way we have been trying
to do things. We have been trying
to do things by combination, by set
ting off one powerful group against