Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-31
MUST PUT i. S.
FIRST IN EVERY !.
PURPOSE, HE SAYS:
ie
Cannot Allow Old Loves to
Take Place of Present \
Allegiances.
PRESIDENT WOULD AGREE 4
TO "DISENTANGLING" UNION
Wants to See Alliance Uniting
Peoples to Preserve Peace
of World.
"AC1D TEST" FOR EMPLOYERS
Executive. in Arlington Address,
Asks II BusinesS Men Are Ready
to Helm in Preparedness
"AC1D TEST FOR EMPLOYERS
Executive. in Arlington Address,
Asks II BusinesSNien Are Ready
to Help in Preparedness.

WASHINGTON. May ao.-Pre.ident
Wilson delivered a Memorial lay ad-
dress to-day. in which he defined
the spirit of America. warned citizens
of foreign birth not to set themselves
against the purposes of the nation,
called upon young men to perform vol
untary military service. and defended
his recent suggestion for an alliance
OF nations to preserve peace He
spoke at Arlington National Cemetery
before an audience made up largelH9
Of Civil War veterans. who applaudsdI
him vigorously. y
While. President Wilson declared, he;
had no harshness in his heart for
Americans OF foreign birth. and cx-
pected them still TO love the sources
OF their origin. he added:
America must come first In every
purpose We entertain, and every man
must count upon being cast out OF our
confidence. cast out even of our toler-
ance. who does not submit to that
great ruling principle"
Speaking nf America, made up out
of all the peoples OF the world, as the
champion of the rights Of mankind, Mr..
Wilson said: ,tf&
We are ready not only to CO. !
operate, but We are ready to fight
against any aggression, whether from
within or without. But we must guard
ourselves against any sort OF aggras.
sion which would be unworthy OF
! America. We are ready to night for
our rights, when those rights are
coincident with the rights of man and
humanity"
The President reiterated his sueA
gestion before the League to Enforce
ha he TIT
was ready to become a party In the
alliance for the guarantee Of public
right against selfish aggression" o.
published criticisms reminding him that
George Washington warned the nation
against "entangling alliances" he saidd
Il shall never myself consent to an
changing alliance, but woytAr gladly
assent TO disentangling at nee an
alliance which would Olsen taf4iIe tho
peoples of the world from {, com.
binations in which they seek tr own
separate and private tinteI and
unite the people OF the worlSES, pre4
serve the peace of the world upon a
basis OF common right and Justice"
INTERROGATION POINT
FOR BUSINESS MEM
Universal training and preparedness
were possible, Mr.. Wilson declared,
only II the men OF suitable strength
and age will volunteer. He said the
acid test" WAS about to be applied to
business men to see whether they would
allow their employees to volunteer.
He said the army reorganization hill
now before him bristled with that in.
terrogation point. which, he warned all
the business men OF the country. was
staring him in the face
versal voluntary training" but that
America does not Wish anything but
the compuision of tho spirit OF Amer.
lea He added that the people of the
nation were watching each other, and
that great many men, even when they
did not want to. were going to stand
up and say, Here"
Whenever l seek to interprst the
spirit of an occasion like this. j am
led to reflect upon the seas OF memory.
we are here to-day to recall a period
OF our history which In one sense is
so remote that we no longer seem to
Keep the vital threads Of II in our
consciousness, and yet is so near thai
men who played heroic parts in IL still
are living. still are about us, still are
here to receive the homage of our re-
spect and our honor. They belong to
an age which Is past, to a period the
vital questions of which no longer yex
the nation, to u period Of which IL may 1
he said that certain things which =
been questionable in the afeairs4 4, 81
United States were once fo&eGn -
tied, disposed Of, put hehinEe 49, q.
the course of time. haXs sim ost searz
forgotten. - ~
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tina. was perses.sd BY the proc 81 q
OF blood ron at the time Of !
civil Wtr. and 1t Is singular how
settlement has ruled our spirits )u5f
IT was made. see in this3yery
ence men who fought in tho io 81!
federate ranks, ! see them
part in these exercises In tn $4,000
spirit of sincere patriotism thai - -
those who fought on the sid ssPLAY
Union. and reject how sins |. s. ~,
how handaome a thing III AS ki
wounds such as thsn Wa
should be so conapietely IIB
that tho spirit OF Am sric;s
prevail over the spirit Of tture
iS the ali-preyailing any ,rosd s,