Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-05


repeat the receptions by which they
have been controlling the votes of
American citizens. You know If you
cry wolf, WOLF too often, the cry is
you show your hand too often, you are
not allowed to play it at all. That is
the position in which these gentlemen
now find themselves.
ut was the duty of those who rep
resented the republican party, as it
was our duty. in this campaign to ex-
pound the real heart of the social ne
cessities and the political exigencies of
America. Have they done that? Have
they not merely said that though the
they had been done by the wrong peo-
pie? What difference does it make
who did them, whether they were good
looking men or ugly men. whether they
they were schoolmasters or sages? II
they were done and were the right
things to do, then every man ought to
stand by them and praise them. II is
ton. 1t is a question of what the per
son, whether qualified or unqualified.
intends to do mat tells in an exlgency
like this, for it is an exigency.
To Decide Fundamental Things.
ut is a crisis because some of the
fundamental things of the life Of the
world have to be determined. That is
one reason why we have been saying
so much-by we 1 mean everybody
who mas been discussing this cam
paign-about the apparent desire OF
some people to have our public policy
determined by European reasons and
not American reasons. We have seen
that unless we could unite and direct
and purify the forces of this country,
we could not do what it was necessary
to do for the world through the in
strumentality of America.
Therefore we have insisted with re-
peated insistence that the first thing
to do was to see that everybody in
tended the same things, and loved the
same things and believed in the same
things All that we have Heard from
our opponents has been that they be-
we wanted to know. Do they believe
in US also? Do you believe in America
also. Do they believe that America, but
showing in her own policies that she
be counted upon to mean what she says
about the world when the war is over?
"Men Spreading Tinder."
at amazes me that men calling
some of the things our opponents have
been dwelling upon when the whole
atmosphere of the world >was lurid
with the blaze of threatened trouble;
men spreading finder in this country
when sparks without number were
blowing over from this terrible con-
Migration; men making party sport of
unsettled questions. not settled ones;
of present courses of action, not past
courses Of action; seeking to make
party capital out of things which, If
not settled wisely. might bring this
country at any moment into the world
conflict which is devastating Europe.
THE United States will never again
be what it has been. The United States
was once in enjoyment Of what we
used to call splendid isolation. The
1000 miles of the Atlantic seemed to hold
European affairs at arms length from
US. The great spaces of the Pacific
seemed to disclose no threat of indu-
ence upon our politics.
With this outlook. is it worth while
to stop to think of party advantage?
Is 1t worth while stopping to think of
how we have voted in the past? We
are now going to vote, If we be men
with eyes open that can see the world,
as those who wish to make new
America in new world mean, the
meant when this great republic was
set up, mean hope and justice and
righteous judgment and unselfish
action.
Gan Unprecedented Thing"
why, my fellow citizens. it is an
unprecedented thing in the world that
any nation in determining it's foreign
relations should be unselfish, and my
ambition is to see America set that
great example. not only great ex-
ample morally, but a great example
intellectually.
as it not worth while voting for
these things. no matter how you may
have voted in past years? You never
Are you going to determine what you
are going to vote for now by what
you voted for in an era that is con-
cluded and gone by? For my part. |
thank God that the era of the old
guard has gone by. They never con-
ceiyed or understood an unSelfisn pur-
pose in their lives.
Look at the industries which have
treated their employees as IL they We're
fellow-men and human beings. Have
they not had better factories and have
they not made more money than the
rest?
"Inspiration to World"
so, my fellow citizens. feel rising
in my pulses already the inspiration
and impulse which is to come not only
to the United States, but to the world
next Tuesday. 1 do not identify myself
with this. To me has fallen the un-
speakable good fortune of happening to
be the spokesman of the American peo-
pie at this critical and fateful time. l
do not know what is wise. l cannot be
sure that l judge right, but l am sure
that my heart speaks the same thing
that they wish their hearts to speak.
1t is only in this impulse, in this SYM
pathetic connection which 1 am sure
that have with them. that am worthy
to speak for them at all.
Therefore, / can feel some of the
impersonal inspiration which comes