Arizona republican., 1916-02-28
ALL BUT HUMANITY
 AND JUSTICE
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country than what they are talking about in the cloakrooms of congress;
 would a great deal rather know what
 the men on the trains and by the way
 side and in the shops and on the farms are thinking about and yearning for. than hear any Of the vociferous proc
 lamations of policy which it is so easy
 to hear and so easy to read by picking
 up any scrap of printed paper. There
 is only way to hear these things and
 that is constantly to go back to the
 fountains of American action. These
 fountains are not to be found in any
 recently discovered sources.
 Senator Harding was saying just
 now that we ought to try when we are
 hundred million strong to act nj the
 same simplicity of principle that our
 forefathers acted in when we were
 three million strong. 1 heard somebody
 say-I do not know the exact statistics
 that the present population of the
 United States is one hundred and three
 millions. If there are three million
 thinking the same things that the orig
 inal three million thought. the hundred
 million will be saved for an illustrious
 future. They were ready to stake ev-
 erything for an idea, and that idea was
 not eXpediency, but justice. And the
 infinite difficulty of public affairs, gen.
 tiemen, is not to discover the signs of
 the heaven and the directions of the
 wind, but to square the things you do
 by the not simple but complex stand
 dars of justice. Justice has nothing
 to do with expediency
 America ought to keep out of this
 war She ought to keep out of tfis war
 at the sacrifice of everything except
 the single thing upon which her char acter and history are founded, her sense
 Of humanity and justice. If she sacri-
 fees that, she has ceased to be Ameri-
 ca; she has ceased to entertain and to
 love the traditions which have made
 us proud to be Americans, and when
 we go about seeking safety at the eX-
 pense of humanity, then l, for one, will believe that I have always been mistaken in which I have conceived to be the spirit of American history. You never can tell your direction
  cannot establish line by two posts; you have got to have three at least to know whether they are straight with anything and the longer your line, the more certain your measurements. There is only way in which to determine how the future of the United States is going to be projected and that is by looking back and seeing which way the lines ran which led up to the present mo- ment of power and of opportunity. There | is no doubt about that. There is no question what the roll of honor in America is The roll of honor consists of the names of men wEo have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. There | is no one else upon the roster; there | is no one else whose name we cafe to remember when we measure things upon a national scale. And l wish that whenever an impulse Of impatience comes upon us, whenever an impulse to settle a thing some sure way tempts us. we might close the dorr and take down some old stories of what Ameri- can idealists and statesmen did in the past and not let any counsel in that  does not sound in the authentic voice of American tradition. Then we shall | be certain what the lines of the future are. because we shall know we are en- tering by the lines of the past. We shall know that no temporary convent ence, no temporary expediency, will | lead us either to be rash or to be cow nrdly. I would be just as ashamed to | be rash as I would be to be coward. Valor is self-respecting. Nalor is cir | cumspect. ValOr strikes only when it | is right to strike. Valor witholds itself | from all small implications and entan- l elements and waits for the great op- portunity when the sword will flash as | if it carried the light of heaven upon it's blade"