Arizona republican., 1916-05-21
SAME PROCESS GOING ON HERE
 AS IN EUROPE
President Says. Europe Is Graphing in War as Is America ill Peace with Competition of Standards, Traditions and Politics
Republican A. P. Leased Wire1


 CHARLOTTE. N. C.. May 2O-Pres- ident Wilson, speaking here today at an anniversary celebration of the | Mecklenbur% declaration of independ- ence told his hearers the process in- ! volved in the European war is the very thing that has been going on in Amer ica-a competition of national stand ards, national traditions and national 1 politics.
 l Europe" said he, 'has grappled in i war as we have grappled in peace to gee what is going to be done with these things when they come to see 1 what is going to be done with these 1 things when they come into hot con- tact with each other. What you see taxing place on the other side of the water is the tremendous-I almost said final-process by which a contest of elements may in Gods process. be turned into a coordination and co-op- eration of clements.
 For it is an interesting circum- | stance that the processes of the war stand still. These hot things that are in contact with each other do not Y make much progress against each other. When you cannot overcome you must take counsel.
 The reference was given significance hy the presidents hearers in view of the recent discussion of possibilities offending the war.
 Before speaking President Wilson reviewed parade. Afterwards he was guest at a luncheon, motoring later to Davidson college where he once was q student.
 The presidents address follows:
 "I do not know. my fellow citizens ' whether I can interpret for you today the spirit of this occasion. but it is , recessaIy when we get together in eel r cbrahons like this to take counsel re- gether with regard to just what it i. that we wish to celebrate You vii I say We wish to celebrate the memorie! l of that time to which We look bacl . with such pride. when our fathers witl 9 | singular wisdom of counsel and stout y ness of heart undertook to set up al e independent nation on this side of tn . water; but it i3 =ery much more i'm |
 selves of the clements with which ou
 forefa thers dealt. There were onl S 1nree million citizens in that origina @ republic of the United States of Amer k ica Now there are one hundred mil e lions. It is a long cry back to thos e modest beginnings; a great period C ;t time not only. but a great period . profound change. separates us froI " that time, and yet I would remind yo S that the same clements were preser .s then that are present now
 ii What interests my thought mor
 than anything else about the Unite
 States IS that it has always been
 process of being made ever since tn; r. little beginning and that there haN Il always been the same elements in tf ,- Irocess. At the outset there was ,v the heart Of the men who led u nj movement for independerce Vel ,o high and handsome passion for huma i liberty and free institutions. And v
 there Lay before them a great cont ,d nent which it was ne"esarry to su' ~ due to the uses of civilization if th' sh were going to build upon it a gre m state among the ldIhi3 oi ia'iOii9 ir heard a preacher once point, out t ,a very interesting circumstance that O oa lords prayer begins with the petite
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 ''f "vh,t wart to call your attentt tc i3 that this country ever since tf 'n time has devoted practically all Of '"' attention, perhaps too much Of US
 tention. to the material foundation
 its life; to surduing this continent
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