New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-31

where by the healing processes oil peace
all men are united in common enter
prise Of Liberty and OF peace.
Americas Task Never Finished.
and vet. ladies and gentlemen, the
very object for which we are met to-
getber is 10 renew in our hearts the
Spirit that made these things possible.
The Union was saved by the processes
of the Civil War. That was crisis
which could be handled. II seems, IN no
other way. but ! need not tell you
that the popularity OF this singular
and beloved country is that its task, us
human task, 10 apparently never nm
ished. that ID is always making ana 10
be made And there is at present upon
US crsis which seems to threaten
10 be new crisis Of division. we
know that the war which is to ensue
will be war Of spirits and not OF
arms. We know that the spirit OF
America is invincible and that no man
can ahats it's power. but we know that
that spirit must on occasion be as
serted. and that this is one of the oc-
casions.
America is made up out Of all the
nations of the world Look at the
rosters of the Civil War. You will see
there names drawn from almost every
European stock. Not recently, but from
the first, America has drawn her blood
and her impulse from all the sources
Of energy that spring at the fountains
Of every race: and because she is thus
compounded out Of the peoples of the
world her problem is largely problem
Of union all the sine, problem OF
compounding out OF many elements
single triumphant force.
"The war in Europe has done very
natural thing in America. IL has
stirred the memories of men drawn
from many Of the belligerent stocks. II
has renewed in them a national feeling
which had grown faint under the sooth-
ing influences OF peace, but which now
flares up when it looks as IL nation had
challenged nation TO final reckoning,
and they remember the nations from
which they were sprung and know that
they are in this life and death grapple.
ct is not singular, my fellow citi-
zens, that this should have occurred.
and up 10 a certain point il is not just
that we should criticise it. We have no
criticism for men who love the places
of their birth and the sources Of their
origin. We do not wish men TO forget
their mothers and their fathers, their
forbears running back through long,
laborious generations which have taken
part in the building up Of the strength
and spirit OF other nations No man
quarrels with that. From such springs
Of sentiment we all draw some of the
handsomest inspirations OF our lives.
But all that we do criticise is that in
some instances-they are not very
numerous-b in some instances men
have allowed this old ardor of another
nationality to overgrow their ardor for
the nationality 10 which they have
given their new and voluntary allie
glance.
And so the United States has again
TO work out by spiritual process a new
union, when men shall not think Of
what divides them. but shall recall
what unites them. when men shall not
allow old loves 10 take the place Of
present allegiances, when men must,
on the contrary, translate that very
ardor Of love Of the country Of their
birth into the ardor Of love for the
country Of their adoption and the prin-
cipleS which il represents. | have no
hardships in my heart even for the ex-
tremists in this thing which | have
been trying IN moderate words 10 de
scribe, but ] summon them, and sum-
mon them very solemnly, not to set
their purpose against the purpose of
America. 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
tolerance. VINO noes not submit 10 that
great ruling principle.
Champion Of Rights Of Mankind.
But what are the purposes Of Amer