The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-06-16
Many Things ahead.

extraordinary pOSSlD1ltIeS, because,
gentlemen, no man can certainly tell
you what the immediate future is
going to be either in the history of
this country or in the history of the
world. 1t is not by accident that the
present great war came in Europe.
Every element was there and the
contest had to come sooner or later
and it is not going to be by accident
that the results are worked out, but
by purpose-by the purpose of the
men who are strong enough to have
guiding minds and indomitable wills
when the time for decision an6 set
tlement comes.
"And the part that the United
States is to play has this distinction
in it, that it is to be in any event a
disinterested part. There is nothing
that the United States wants that ii
has to get by war, but there are
great many things that the United
States has to do. 1t has to see that
it's life is not interfered with by any
body else who wants something.
"These are the days when we are
making preparation, when the thing
most commonly discussed around
every sort OF table, Il. every sort of
circle, in the shops and in the
streets, is preparedness, and un-
doubtedly, gentlemen, that is the
present imperative duty of america,
to he prepared. But we ought TO
know what we are preparing. I re-
, member hearing wise man Say once
that the old maxim that everything
comes to the man who waits is all
very we'll provided he knows what ne
is waiting for and preparedness migAt
be a very hazardous thing if We did
rot know what we wanted to do with
the force that We mean to accumu-
lste and to get into fighting shape.
Knows It's Mind.
america, fortunately, does know
what she wants to do with her force.
America came into existence for
particular reason. When you look
about upon these beautiful hills and
up this stately stream and then let
your Imagination run over the whole
body of this great country from which
you youngsters are drawn, far and
wide, you remember that while it had
aboriginal inhabitants, while there
were people living here, there was no
civilization which we displaced. 1t
was as if in the providence of God
continent had been kept unused
and waiting for a peaceful people who
loved liberty and the rights of men
more than they loved anything else,
to come and set up an unselfish COM
monwealth. 1t is very extraordinary
thing. You are, so familiar with
American history, at any rate in its
general character, I don't accuse YOU
of knowing the details Of it, for l
never found the youngster who did
but you are so familiar with the gen
eral character of American history
ttat it does not seem strange to you,
but it is a very strange history. There
is none other like it in the whole
annals of mankind-of men gathering
out of every civilized nation of the
world on an unused continent and
building up a polity exactly to SUIT
themselves, not under the domination
of any ruling dynasty or OF the am
bitions OF any royal family; doing
what they pleased with their own life
on a free space of land which God has
maze rlCQ WIFI every 4CoOUA NO "GAiN-A
was necessary for the civilization they
meant to build up. There is nothing
like it. Now what We are preparing
to do is to see that nobody mars that,
and that, being safe itself against in
tereference from the outside, all its
force is going to be behind it's moral
idea. and mankind is going to know
that when America speaks she means |
what she says. heard a man say to
another, If you wish me to consider
you witty must really trouble you to
make joke We have right to
say to the rest OF mankind, If you |
don't want to interfere with US; If you
are disinterested, We must really trou-
Bile you to give the evidence of that
fact We are not in for anything self.
ish and We want the whole mighty