Evening star., 1916-06-07

ism. II must be the Offering Of loyalty
and devotion and love and trust and
life. II need be. to these United States.
now and everlastingly.
The Americanism which indexes.
these United States must be moro than
the conservation of the individual In
the great fulhllment We must have a
citizenship less concerned about what
the government can do for II and more
anxious about what IT can do for the
nation. There must be the submersion
of local and sectional views and tho
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
borders. on the seas, In every land and
under every sky
Seeking to practice the very Amer
icanism 1 preach as republican gospel
l am reluctant to speak of a division
of American sentiment relating to our
foreign affairs. Ono must be an Amer
lean first and a partisan afterward.
though we believe republication is the
culture of highest Americanism. But
1t must be said for the truths sake
and clearer understanding. we have
hungered IN vain for that unfinchinE
Americanism at Washington which is
needed to exalt the American soul
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American rights. They are the same
in Mexico that they are on the high
sea: they are the same in Europe that
they are in Asia. and arc sacred every
where. and the American spirit de-
mands their fullest protection
"Whatever the ultimate solution may
be. history will write Mexico as the
title to the humiliating recital of the
greatest dasco In our foreign relations.
Uncertainty. instability. Mexican con-
mt nj gnlH MI h.
recorded IN every chapter. and the pit
liable story OF sacrificed American lives
and the destruction OF lawfG!ly-heid
American property will emphasize the
mistaken policy Of watchful waiting
and wobbling warfare.
Under the pretext Of non-interfer-
ence the democratic administration
miserably meddled- In the name OF
peace that same administration en-
couraged 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 protec-
ton to American rights. The unbiased
critic will recite that the democratic
administration first coddled Villa a
patriot. then chased him 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 devel-
oped In righteousness. They have be-
come instructive in our American life
and are cherished as part of our
peoples inheritance. Our people do not.
understand any suspension; they arc
impelled to march on, confident and
unafraid. When the spirit of Ameri
can accomplishment, or the mercies OF
American ministration, or the inclina-
tions of American teaching or the ad-
ventures of American development take
our people abroad, under the compacts
OF civilization, they have right to be-
l taNra h,%
citizenship goes with them. When It
does not we have forfeited the Amer.
ican inheritance,
Our Course With Europe.
NO political party can draw a vari-
able chart for our ship of state amid
Europe's warning ambitions. lust for
power or battles for self preservation.
Justice points the way through the
safe channel of neutrality. There arc
every side, but we should feel secure
along the course marked by interna-
tional law and our own conscientious
convictions of American rights.
Straight ahead shall be. the command.
and when peace comes the sober juds-
ment of the world viii exalt US ever
higher and higher as a people strong
lin heart and noble in the espousal OF
justice ana JUSTICE humanity. In tnat
worldwide respect and confidence which
needs only to be preserved we shall
have lofty place in the great recon-
struction, and We reasonably may hope
to see this mighty republic again min
| fstering to the establishment OF
peace and all It's precious blessings
| My countrymen. Americanism begins
at home and radiates abroad. The re-
| publican conception gives the hrst
| thought to a free people and a fearless
people. and bespeaks conditions at
home for the highest human attain
ment. We believe in American markets
for American products. American wages
for American workmen, American op-
portunfty for American genius and in
dustry, and American defense for
| American soil. American citizenship Is
| the reflex of American conditions, and
we believe our policies make for a for
tunate people, for whom moral, mate
rial and educational advancement is the
| open way. The glory of our progress
confirms. The answered aspirations of
a new world civilization acclaim We
have taken the ideal form of popular
| government and applied the policies
which had led a continent to the affairs
| of liberty and glorified the republic
We have justified pride and fortified
hope. We need only TO preserve and
defend, and go unfalteringly on. Power
is the guarantor of peace and conscience
the buckler of everlasting right. YER
lily, il is good to be an American And
we may rejoice to be republicans.