Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-05
HUGHES TELLS OF AMERICA'S NEEDS
Intelligent Comprehension of the Ideals of Democracy
 Devoutly Hopes for a New Birth of the Sentiment of Unity From the Country Present Pers-Dwels on the Strong Sentiments of the Declaration of Independence

mitted it to memory, men who couldn't have repeated it. but men in whose lives was the incarnation of indepen- dence and whose spirit was breathed into that immortal document.
 Men Must Be Willing to Die.
 Tt is because we had men who were willing to suffer, to die, to venture and to sacrifice that we have the coun- try, and it is only by that spirit that we will ever be able to keep a coun- try. l love to think of those hearty men coming here with the spirit that led all pioneers farther and farther west, the same spirit which in every part of our land has accounted for our development.
 The Kind of Men We Want.
 Quiet men, not noisy men; sensible men, not foolish men: straight men, honest men; dependable men, real men that is what we mean by American ism. There is a vast amount of good judgment in this country, much more than the headlines of our newspapers seem to indicate. There is a vast amount of thoughtfuiness in this coun- try. We are not rash people. We are not filled with a spirit of militarism. We are not anxious to get into Srou- ble, but if anybody thinks that the spirit of service and sacrifice is lost and that we have not got the old sen timent of self-respect, he doesn't un- NlS1 SLdIIu IIlC U IIl6u 0LdlGSs
 We Want Patriotism.
 T am not going to make a speech. but do want to say a word to you along these lines: We want patriotism and I don't think we are going to lose 1t very soon, although I do devoutly hope that out of the perils and diff entities of this time may come a new birth of the sentiment of unity.
 The boy is going to thrill at the sight of the flag today just as he did fifty years or a hundred years agO. We are all going to thrill when we hear the words of our national hymn and when we think of the long years of struggle and determination that have brought us to this hour. But we want something more than thrills in our patriotism; we want thought, we want intelligence.
 Comprehension of Ideals of Democracy.
 We need not vast amount of terri tory, not great population, not simply extraordinary statistics of national wealth, although they speak in eIo- quent words of energy and managing ability; but what we need more than anything else is an intelligent compre- henSiOn of the ideals of democracy Those ideals are that every man shall have a fair and equal chance accord ing to his talents.
 We deplOre every condition in which we find man lower than he should be under a free government. We want victories of democracy that the level of success shall be raised.
 America Must Be Represented by Its
 Best Men.
 My dream of America is America represented in public office by it's best men, men working entirely for the good of the republic and according to the laws and ordinances esta abHshed by the people for the government of their conduct and rot for their personal or political desires and ambitions; Amer ica working her institutions as they were intended to be worked, with men whose sole object shall be to secure the end for which their offices were designed.
 And if one will throw, his personal fortune to the winds, if he will perform each place, high or low, the manifest obligations of that place, we will soon have those victories of democracy which will make the Fourth of July in it's coming years a far finer and nobler day than it has ever been in the for CUnate years of the past"