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world. When the fate of millions is
at stake, 1t is not the part of any
man to stack the cards. With civili-
cation in peril. the sphinx becomes
an anachronism. The anachronism
will remain the mysterious silence of
the ages. With the world tense
and anxious. patriotic advice and sug-
gestion are of more value than abuse
and defamation. Speculation willis in
the blaze of truth. Abusive phrase
ology shrivels before the relentless
fact. Honesty is the commanding
quality of free and patriotic Ameri-
can.
Death at the FIreslde
What are the realities that face
us? In Mexico exist the potentialities
OF civilization. In her wealth. her
history, her schools her religion, her
needs. her very suffering and patriot
ism lie the indestructible seeds, of
progress. To have conquered Mexico
would have seated death at the Ameri-
can fireside. 1t would have destroyed
our prosperity and added hundreds
of millions of taxation to the burdens
of the nation 1t would have planted
distrust and hatred of the United
States in every South American re-
public II would have forfeited the
respect of the world. II would have
substituted the tenets of Imperialism
for the principles of Americanism. 1t
would have prostituted the bravery
and patriotism of American arms to
the greed and ayarice of concession
aries. 1t would have robbed the
United States of the grandeur of her
mission among the nations of the
earth. 1t would have made might
right and repudiated the doctrines of
Christianity. 1t would have ignored
the fundamental conceptions OF moral
progress and denied the right of If
teen millions of people to govern
themselves. Ambition and greed were
prepared to sacrifice america and all
that America stands for, in order to
acquire the wealth of Mexico. The
diplomacy Of ''watchful waiting
averted these calamities and pre-
served in their original purity the
principles of American freedom and
Justice. "Watchful waiting repudi-
ated the brutal dictum of science that
the weak must go down before the
strong. Help Mexico lest over her
bloody grave are sown the dragons
teeth Of our own destruction.
War With Europe
war with any European nation
would have set the world aflame and
stopped the march OF progress for a
century Would anyone have had 1t
80 in order to affirm "virile Ameri-
canism"? Is a " yirile Americanism"
bloodshed, destruction, the horrors of
war and it's uncertainties? The sub
stance of civilization is the arts, the
sciences, literature, philosophy, indus
Try, the domestic virtues, freedom, re-
igion and peace. But this is the sub
stance of American nationalism. This
is the virility Of Americanism. 1t
knows no national boundaries. 1t yet
ives in the trenches and broken
nomes of Europe and pervades its
gery thrones. Therefore, America
lives in the trenches and broken
homes of Europe and it's thrones. The
stupendous conflagration is consum.
ing the errors of statesmen and dy
nasties; ii is not consuming the sub
,tance of civilization. Civilization is
unity War with Europe would have
cut asunder the moral forces that bint
he nations and left an age of dark
Tess, anarchy and despair.
Skill Of the SchooImaster
standing on the immutable founda
ions of such Americanism, the school
master and statesman, with consum
mate skill, a skill that commands thu
admiration of the world, directs the
forces OF civilization, not with arms
but with reason and moral pressure
against the excuses of belligeren
world. With preternatuial poise ant
clearness of vision. he Is pilotint
CARD OF THANKS