Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-02
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such that all the President can do is
to write messages and utter words of
| protest?"
Why to ask that question is to
answer it," he said.
! Whenever international law is
violated by one or the other of the
! belligerents," the President said
America was called upon to register
voice of protest, of insistence.'
do you want the situation to be
such that all the President can do is
to write messages and utter words of
protest?
IF these breaches of international
law which are in daily danger of oc-
curing, should touch the very honor
of the United States, do you wish to
do nothing about it?"
DO you wish to have all the world
say that the flag of the United States
can be stained with impunity? Why
to ask the question is to answer it.
No Peace at HonOr's Expense
Il know there. is not man or wo-
man within the hearing of my voice
who would wish peace at the expense
of the honor of the United States"
The Presidents address was punctu-
ated with thundreous applause
He spoke slowly and gravely, with
emphatic gestures to enforce his
words. His declaration that the
OHlIeu oJdIeS WdnIeu peace drew q
quick response and his assertion that
the self-respect of the nation must be
preserved ELECTED another great DEM
onstration.
A throng that filled every seat in
the Coliseum cheered him to the echo.
The President declared he was try
ing to weigh carefully every word he
said. He reiterated that he had been
daily charged to keep the country out
of war and also to uphold it's honor
And many a night when 1t has
seemed impossible for me to sleep. -
he said, because of the apparent in
eXtricable difficulties into which our
international relations were drifting,
l have said to myself, / wonder ii
the people of the United States fully
know what that mandate means to
me-
And then sleep has come; because
L knew that there was not a COM
munity in America that would not
stand behind me in maintaining the
honor of the United States.
Difficult to Keep Peace
1.-THE difficulty of keeping America
at peace during this titanic struggle
across the sea cannot be disclosed
now; perhaps it never can be dis
closed. How anxious and how diff
cult this task has beenl But heart has
been in it. L have not grudged a
single burden that has been placed
upon me with that end in view. For
/ know that not only my own heart,
but the heart of all America was in
the cause of peace"
There are actually men in America
who are preaching war, the President
declared; men who want the United
States to have entangling alliances
abroad. He said he did not think
they spoke the voice of America which
he declared to be for peace
He added that others go further
than he in advocating peace.
They preach the doctrine of peace
at any price," he added, while men in
the audience called Never! Neyerl"
He said these men did not know the
circumstances of the world
America No Ostrich
America cannot be an ostrich with
its head in the sand" he said.
The President declared he hoped if
this war had no other result it would
create an international tribunal to
settle questions which cause war. His
declaration that he had found the
people of the Middle West for pre-
paredness drew long applause.
Some one who does not know our
fellow citizens as well as he ought to
know them told me there was a GER
tain degree of indifference and lethargy
in the Middle West with regard to
the defense of the nation, he declared.
/ said I did not believe it, but was
going out to see. l have seen what I
Gus men and women coming together