Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-07

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''' In the travail of Life, Liberty X,
| Pursuit of Happiness the Americs
was born. Set aglow at Bunker
was reflected in the faces of the pArh,
| of fearless Republic where men dedkii.
| themselves to the solemn and momena
| task which was traced by an infinite ha
| They were not all Americans by birth B
| they were dedicated Americans in the bal
tismal rites of a new republic and nev
| patriotism. They could not all sign the De-i
| claration of independence, but they conn
| mitted all Americans to It for all succeed
| ing time. They could not all join In maxi
ing the Constitution. but they pledged the
| succeeding millions of Americans to its
everlasting defense.
There were stalwart Americans then,
| Americans from Great Britain with British
| ideals and their devotion to orderly gov
| ernment. There were Americans 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 bat
ties of the Republic and blend their sturdi-
| ness and thoroughness in the progress of a
| new people, not new race. There were
| Americans from the green fields of Ireland,
| with passion for liberty Americans from
| southern Europe to battle for opportunity
| There were Americans who came from op-
preston and stood erect in the freedom of
| the Republic. They all made common cause
| There was lack of homogerneity of race but
| there was klnship Of soul, and that soul was
American. The gates to our ports have
| swung inward ever since, there has been a
| welcome to the foreign-born, whom we
| asked to drink freely of the waters of our
| political life and find their places in the
sun of American opportunity They are
| an inseparable and important and valued
part of American sitizenship, and the few
zealots of any origin who violate our neu-
| trality do not and can not impugn the
| loyalty or the American patriotism of that
| great body which adds to the swelling
| chorus of
MY country, It's OF thee.
Sweet Land Of Liberty"
NATIONAL SYMPATHIEs.
1t is not surprising that in their hearts
| there is sympathy partiality for the
| land of their nativity when 1t is involved
| in life and death struggle like that
which saturates Europe with the blood of
| their kinsmen. Search your hearts deeply,
| my countrymen. One must be human to
| be an American he must have human SYM
| pathles and human loves, and should pity
| the foreign-born and the sons of foreign
| born whose very souls not wrung by
| the cataclysmal sorrow of the Old World
| But sorrow is the test of soul and the very
altar of reconsecration. This is the mo-
| mentous hour for the blazing soul of
| American allegiance. The spirit of the
| fathers is calling, and the safety of un-
born Americans is demanding and the se-
| curity of the republic Is requiring that
| now and here and everywhere, under tho
| Stars and Stripes, we proclaim n plain,
| simple, glad and unalterable Americanism.
| 1t must be the offering of loyalty and de-
| votion and love and trust, and life, If need
| be, to these United States, now and ever
| lastingly
The Americanism which indexes these
| United States must b more than the con-
secration of the inor ual. In the great
| fulfllment we must fave a citizenship less
concerned about whRa the Government can
| do for 1t and more anxious about what
it can do for the nation. There must be
| the submersion of 4 cal and sectional views
| and the standards of nationality reared
| in their stead. Holding to the ideals of
| just American rights, the Government must
protect those rights at home, on our bor-
ders, on the seas, in every land and under
| every sky.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Seeking to practice the very Americanlsm
1 preach as Republican gospel, 1 am re-
luctant to speak of a division of American
| sentiment relating to our foreign affairs
| One must be an American first and a
| partisan afterward though we believe Re
| publicanism is the culture of highest Amer
| icanism But 1t must be said, for the
truths sake and clearer understanding, we
have hungered in vain for that unfiinching
Americanism at Washington which is
needed to exalt the American soul. There
Is geographic modification of American
rights They the same In Mexico that
they on the high seas. they are the
Nme in Europe that they are In Asia, and
spirit demands their fullest protection.
Whatever the ultimate solution may be-
history will write Mexico the title to the
humiliatng recital of the greatest fasco
in our foreign relations Uncertainty. in
stability. Mexican contempt and waning
self-respect will be recorded in every chap
ter, and the pitiable story of sacrificed
American lives and the destruction of law
fully held American property will empha-
size the mistaken policy of watchfuI wait
ing and wObbling warfare.
Under the pretext of noninterference the
Democratic Administration mserably med
died. In the name of peace that same Ad-
mlnistration encouraged revolution. and
the cost of American sacrifices was charged
to needless war on Huerta, where the real
American expenditure required only the
voice of authority demanding protection to
American rights The unbiased critic will
recite that the Democratic Administrator
first coddled villa as patriot, then chased
him IA bandit.
Our civilization has evolved the rules
of right conduct and written them into
forms of government by law. They were
conceived in justice and developed In right
eousness. They have become instructive in
our American life, and are cherished a
part Of our peoples inheritance Our people
do not understand any suspension, they are
impelled to march on, confident and un-
afraid. When the spirit OF American ac-
complishment, the mercies of American
ministration. the inelinations of Ameri-
can teaching, or the adventures of Amert-
can development take our people abroad,
under the compacts of civilization, they
have a right 10 believe that every guaranty
of American citizenship goes with them.
When 1t does not we have forfeited the
American inner tance.
OUR COURSE WITH EUROPE.
No political party can draw variable
chart for our ship of state amid Europe's Z
warning ambitions, lust for power or bat
ties for self-preservation. Justice points the
wa IA sn fa nf
There are dangers seeming or real. loom
ing on every side, but should feel se-
cure along the course marked by interna-
tional law and our own conscientious con-
victions of American rights. STRAIGHT
AHEAD" shall be the command. and when
peace comes the sober judgment of the
world will exalt as ever higher and higher
as a people strong In heart and noble IN
the espousal of justice and Justices hu-
manity. In that worldwide respect ana
confidence which needs only to be pre-
served, shall have lofty place in the
great reconstruction, and We reasonably