New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-27

after this exhaustion they viii need
US. and that we need not fear them:
1.-THE United States has had an indus
trial and manufacturing revival In the
last two years such as 1t never expert
enced before. And when men imagine
that this is due to the trade created py
the war they are merely imagining IT,
because they have not read the FACTS
If you take the figures OF our com
merce, domestic and foreign Included
YOU will find that the foreign com
merce. even upon the most modest
reckoning of our domestic commerce,
does not equal a per cent of the total.
"What | want, therefore, to preach
from this time on, in Office or out OF
office. because even out of Office / can
retain my powers of locution, what /
intend TO preach from this time on IS
that America must show that as
member of the family of nations she
has the same attitude toward the other
nations that she wishes her people 10
have toward each other; that America
is going to take this position, that she
will lend her moral influence, not only,
but her physical force, if other nations
will ioin with her, to see TO IL tnat no
nation and no group Of nations trles 10
I take advantage of another nation or
group of nations, and that the only
thing ever fought for is the common
rights of humanity.
"A great many men are complaining
that we are not fighting now IN order
| TO get something not something
! spiritual. not a right, not something we
| could be proud of, but something we
/ could possess and take advantage OF
/ and trade on and profit by.
/ "They are complaining that the gov
/ eminent of the United States has not
| the spirit Of other governments, when
/ is to put the force, the army and navy,
/ of that government behind investments
/ in foreign countries. Just so certainly
/ as you do that you join this chaos OF
/ competing and hostile ambitions.
"There had been growing up in Eu-
| rope a mutual suspicion, an interchange
/ of conjectures, about what this gov
| eminent and that government was
( going to do, an interlacing Of alliances
! and understandings, complex web OF
| intrigue and spying, that presently was
/ sure TO entangle the whole OF the lam
| lily of mankind on that side OF the
water in its meshes.
Now, revive that after this war IS
over, and sooner or later you will have
| lust such another war, ond this is the,
/ that involves the world that the United
/ States can keep out Of.
Business of Neutrality Over
81 say that because believe that the
business of neutrality is over; not be-
cause | want it to be over, but | mean
this: that war now has such scale
/ that the position of neutrals sooner or
later becomes intolerable, just as neu-
l. L. IL tA
| lived in a community where everybody
| had to assert his own rights by force
! and | had to 20 around among my
neiehbors and say: Here, this cannot
( last any longer; let us get together and
/ see that nobody disturbs the peace any
more. That is what society is, and We
have not vet society of nations.
1--WE must have a society of nations;
not suddenly, not by insistence,. not by
any hostile emphasis upon the demand
but by the demonstration of the needs
of the time the nations of the world
must get together and say: Nobody
can hereafter be neutral as respects
| the disturbance of the worlds peace
| for an object which the worlds opinion
cannot sanction
1.-THE worlds peace ought TO be dis
/ turbed if the fundamental rights of hui
mainly are invaded, but it ought not to
be disturbed for any other thing that |
can think of, and America was estab-
lished in order to indicate, at any rate
in one government, the fundamental
rights Of man.
america must hereafter be ready, as
member of the family of nations, to
exert her whole force. moral and physi-
cal, 70 the assertion of those rights
throughout the round globe"