The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-30
Tells Convention Of Advertising
Men Liberty, Justice and HUI
manity Must Prevail
WILL COMPEL WORLD
TO RESPECT NATION
Hawaiian Delegation Wins Bos-
ton Mileage Banner and Dec
crates NotabIes With Leis
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PHILADELPHIA, June 30.--Presi-.
dent Wilson is in a fighting mood, he
told the delegates to the convention
Of the Associated Advertising Clubs of
the World here yesterday, in a talk
delivered out doors.
The President said that America
must vindicate, "at any cost, what
ever" the principles of liberty, justice
and humanity for which the country
has stood since the battle of Lexington
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Continuing the President warned
his hearers that the policy of the Ma
ton Is 10 be decided by the whole
people, not by any little group, and
that insistance should be laid upon
Justice to other peoples,'' = 'E''e.
In conclusion Mr.. Wilson said that
he believed in the patriotism, energy,
and initiative of the average man in
the street, but that some men pretend, !,
ed to these qualifications when their
''I am in a fighting mood today"
declared the President in beginning his
address," and want to tell you dele
gates to this convention that America
has got to vindicate the principles of
liberty, justice and "a humanity, for
which>Nour forefathers Fought In the
Revolutionary Wa. qt no matter swhet
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Nation Cannot Be Supine 's+ " TT
"We cannot be supipe. I'VE must
come forth in the open and show where
we stand. We cannot hope to ignore
these principles and not to pay cost
far heavier than the price of their
support.
"This does not mean that we are
to run wild, The national policy is
not a thing to be decided in n minute,
nor to be determined by a small clique
of men, but by the entire people Of
this United States 1t does not mean
that we should forget that we must
be fair to the other peoples of the.
world. That we must be Just to all
goes without saying, but / am deter.
mined and l believe that the people of
the country are determined to insist
upon receiving from other nations the
treatment we are prepared to accord to
all the rest of the world. We demand
that and no more and no less.
"I believe in the American man. |
believe in his patriotism, just as I be-
lievc in his energy and his initiative
under stress. I am confident that he
means well and is going to do well, and
is also going to see to it that the world
as whole is going to treat him we'll
He is no supine individual to be run
over roughshod.
Nevertheless, there are some among
us who pretend to patriotism and low"
Of country, whose actions show them
to be anything but what they claim.
Slogan Is America First
"The slogan American first has gone
abroad in the land of late. 1t may
mean much or nothing. but surely it
means something worth while only
when you translate the phrase into ac-
tiOn, and put America first"
Edward Hurley, one of the speakers
of the convention at the morning ses-
sion, and former chairman of the fed
eral trade commission, urged better
understa nding between business and
government advertisers, to avoid "lost
notion and to bring the business of
the individual and the nation closer
together.
The Honolulu Ad Club, with fifteen
members present as delegates, won the
"mileage banner" offered by Boston
for the club which sent its delegates
the longest distance to attend the con.
vention, Hawaii also made a hit in
the pageant, which was one of the fea.
lures Of the program, when six Hawai-
ian musicians played island music as
the delegates marched in the long line
President Wilson, John Wanamaker
and Cyrus H. X. Curtis, the publish.
ed, were decorated with leis, presented
by Charles r. Frazier, head of the
Hawaiian delegation.