Arizona republican., 1916-05-02

that justice and liberty might belong to every man whom our institutions could touch, and not only that jus
 tice and liberty should belong to America, but that. so far as America
 was concerned, and her influence in volved. they should be extended to
 mankind everywhere. So the inspi- ration of serving America is a very profound inspiration.
 Have vou not thought what might be the outcome of this great struggle.
 so far as the nations already engaged | are concerned? Can you not imagine
 the great awakening that has come to a country like France. for example. how much more intensely every Frenchman and every German feels
 the national compulsion than he ever l felt 1t before? How much more he | feels himself, not an individual but q fraction in a great whole. How much 1 more his blood springs to the challenge of patriotic suggestions? He is not fighting for his own life. He is sa- crificinG his own life or willing to sa- | crifice it. in order that a greater life
 than his might persist, the life of his
 nation. So m America we are getting | already the indirect benefit of that suggestion. We are beginning to re- | ali7e how a nation is a unit and that 1 any individual of it who does not feel l she impulse of the whole does not be- | long to it.
 We have heard a great deal about 1 divided allegiance in this country, but l before we discuss divided allegiance i in it's political aspect we ought to let our thoughts run back to what were | perhaps our divided allegiance in re- spect to our relations to each other 1 America had been brought to such a
 point of diversification of interest, of
 occupation, of objects sought that she
 was in danger of losing the conscious
 hess of her singleness and solidarity. l There were men pulling at cross pur- poses in regard to their private inter ests and there public endeavors in this
 country long before the war came to | remind us that we were a single na-
 ton, with single duty and single
 deal; and the first thing that has hap
 rened to us is that we have all been
 pulled together by a great tug at the
 heart in respect of our individual in-
 terests We have all been remined
 with an emphasis for which I, for one
 thank God, that we are first of all Americans. and only after that at lib- erty to seek our individual interests.
 And then those of our fellow citizens who may for q little while been tempt ed to think rather of the lands of their origin than of the land of their pres } ent allegiance. have been remined that } there is, politically speaking, only one
 allegiance conceivable and possible. You have heard a great deal about the hyphen. I for one have never beer . deceived. The number of persons
 really divided allegiance in this coun-
 try is very small, and if had been il
 resent the representations which hav'
 teen made by those who were not th' spokesmen of those or whom the!
 pretended to speak in suggesting divided allegiance. I have never ha' tte siigest doubt of what would hap pen when America called upon thos of her citizens born in other countrie to come tc the support of the flag z Why, they will come with cheers, the, 7 will come with a momentum whicl e will make us realize that America ha e once more been cried awake out o 3 every sort of distemper and dream an
 distraction, and that any man wh