The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-30

achievements of the American system
are known of all men and felt through
out the world. The United States is
the worlds asylum. Here all races,
all conditions, all creeds, are assimil-
ated, helped, elevated, and men are
made into self-governing men. In
America justice has made its greatest
progress, because it is progress in
which all men have part That
form of government which affords the
fullest opportunity for happiness and
comfort is destined to become the
universal form. Such is the resistless
syllogism of progress. War cannot
stop its inevitable march. The opin-
ion of all men is more potent than the
opinion of one man. The best opinion
of the best men by the force of exam
pie and mutually of interest becomes
the opinion of all men. American
opinion is embodied in a man of peace.
American opinion is marching through
the world.
Worlds League Of Peace
When the Imperialism of Europe
cast the iron dice of destiny, America
threw the moral dice of destiny. Amer
lea staked the principles of her JUS
tice. There they stand in untarnished
integrity in the gaze of a stricken
world. The intelligence of men grasp
the meaning of America. Her ex-
ample will readjust the relations of
men everywhere. The aspirations of
men are for freedom. Men and wo-
men can and should rule themselves.
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war will disappear The hand of di-
vinity has so written it in the needs
and necessity of humanity made in
its image.
America, prosperous, peaceful,
blessed, is so because the inscrutable
purposes of God intended it. The con-
trast between Europe in flames and
suffering and the United States peace
full and prosperous is the divine con-
trast. By saving the American sys-
TEN civilization is saved. The peace
of America demonstrates the folly
of war. The principles of democracy
furnish the means of avoiding and
preventing war. The universal intel
ligence of men DEGREES that the war
now devastating Europe shall be the
last war, 1t will end in worlds
league of peace.
Sons of America, keep unsullied the
sacred shrine Of peace, through whose
portals will yet pass arm in arm the
crowned head and the humble peasant
in silent worship of God.
His Deeds Renominate Him
Out of the ruins and sufferings of
the present conflict will arise a tenn
Pile Of justice whose dome will be the
blue vault of heaven; its illuminants
the eternal stars; its pillars the ever
lasting hills; it's ornaments the woods
and bountiful fields; it's music the
ripping rills, the song of birds, the
laughter of happy childhood; its dia-
pason the roar of mills and the hum of
industry; its votaries the people of the
earth; its creed, on which hangs all
the law and prophets, "Love thy
neighbor as myself" Above its al
tars in ineffacable color will live eter-
nally the vision o. its artifcer.
Therefore, my fellow-countrymen
not l, but his deeds and achievements
not l, but the spirit and purposes OF
America; not /, but the prayers OF
4 just men; not /, but civilization itself
dominates to succeed himself to the
presidency of the United States, to
the presidency of hundred million
free people, bound in impregnable
union, the scholar, the statesman, the
financier, the emancipation, the paci-
ficator, the moral leader of democracy
Woodrow Wilson.