New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-30
SAYS u. S. MUST
VINDICATE IDEALS
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wish very much. gentlemen. that candor
and truth might always be the standard
OF politics AS well as the standard Of
business. want to challenge your
attention for a moment 10 this aspect
of your activities
81 DO not see now q man can devote
himself 20 candOr and truth IN the
promotion Of particular business
without studying the life of the grea.
nation o. whom he addresses MS ad-
vertising ] DO not see how a man
can fail. having established the horizon
Of his business where the great hills
of truth lie. 20 lift his eyes 10 the
great multitude of laboring men and
striving women who constitute a great
nation like ours, and in the very a..
Of addressing them get in his own
consciousness some part of the impulse
Of their life You cannot commend
your business 10 people that you do
not understand. and you cannot under
stand the people Of the United States
without wishing to serve them.
Putting Ideals into Action.
80 come 10 you with this thought:
America is al a point. gentlemen, where
IL is more than ever necessary that
she should understand her own ideals
not only. but be ready TO put them into
action at any cost. II is one thing TO
entertain fine principles and another
thing 10 make them work. IL is one
thing to entertain them in the formulas
of words. like the splendid words which
were uttered and give distinction 10
this ancient and historic building be
hind me. but il is another thing TO
do what those same men did make
those words live in the action OF their
lives and America is summoned in
each new generation 70 renew not only
the pledges that those men made, but
TO renew the example which they gave
10 the world
81 am not interested and ] beg that
YOU will believe me when | say that
never have been interested in fighting
for myself, but ! am immensely IN
terested in fighting for the things that
! believe in, and so far as they are
concerned, ! am a challenger 10 all
corners. II is important, therefore,
since | am in fighting mood, to let
YOU know what are some of the things
that | do believe IN.
ON the first place, ! believe and
| summon YOU to show your belief in
the same thing that it is the duty of
every American in everything that he
does, in his business and out Of it, to
think first, not of himself or of any
interest which he may be called upon
TO sacrifice. but of the country which
we serve. America first means moth
ing until you translate it in what you
do. So ! believe most profoundly IN
the duty Of every American 10 eXalt
the national consciousness by purify
ing his own motives and exhibiting his
own devotion.
Must Be Just to All.
"In the second place, that America,
the country that we put first IN our
thoughts, should be ready in every point
Of policy and Of action to yindicate at
whatever cost the principles OF liberty,
of Justice and Of humanity to which we
have been devoted from the first.
"YCu cheer the sentiment, but do you
realize what it means? II means that
YOU have not only got to be Just TO
your fellow men. but that AS a nation
YOU have got to be just to other ma
tions. II comes high It is not an
easy thing to do. II is easy TO think
first of the material interest Of Amer
lea. but it is not easy TO think iirst OF
what America, if she loves justice,
ought TO do in the field of international
affairs.
81 believe that at whatever cost
America should be just TO other peoples
and treat other peoples as she demands
that they should treat her. She has a
RIGHT TO demand that they treat her
with Justice and respect. and she has a
right TO insist that they treat her IN
that fashion. but she cannot with Dig
nity or with self-respect insist upon
that unless she is willing TO act IN the
same fashion toward them. That / am
ready to fight for at any cost TO my
self.
"Then. in the third place. touching
ourselves more intimately. my fellow
citizens. this is what ! believe: II ]
understand the life Of America, the
central principle of it is this. that no
small body Of persons, no matter now
influential shall be trusted 10 deter
mine the policy and development OF
America
'You know what you want IN your
business. You want fair field and
no favor. You want 10 be given the
same opportunity that other men nave
not only TO make known what you have
TO sell. but 70 sell IL under as favora-
bic conditions as anybody else. And
the principle of the life of America
is that she draws her vitality. not from
small bodies of men who may wish 20
assume the responsibility Of guiding
and controlling her. but from the great
body Of thinking and toiling and plan
ming men from whom she draws her
energy and vitality as nation.
81 believe, and this is the reason |
am d Democrat, not merely with big