The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-05-23
After The Earthquake
The Still, Small Voice
po;dnt Coos in the Future After Wars Clan1ors End,
the Rising Note of Humanity Development of
America Based on Moral Force.


Jersey, because there from the hrst
was that mixture of populations, that
| mixture of racial stocks, that mixture
| Of antecedents which is the most sim
! gular and Distinguishing mark of the
/ United States. The most important
] single fact about this great nation
which We represent is that it is made
, out Of al: the nTuons of the world
dare say that tie men who came to
! America then and the men who have
come to America since came with a
single purpose; sharing some part Of
/ the passion for human liberty which
characterized the men who founde |
the republic, but they came with all
J sorts of blood in their veins, all sorts
OF antecedects behind them, all sorts
OF traditions in their family and Ea-
tional life, and America has held to
serve as a melting pot for all these
diversified and contrasted elements
What kind of fire of pure passion are
you going to keep burning under the
pot in order that the mixture that
comes out may be purged of its dross
and may be the fine gold OF untainted
Americanism; that is the problem.
81 want to call your attention to
another picture America has always
been making and is to be made, and
while we were in the midst of this
process. apparently at the acme and
crisis of this process, while this ira
vail of soul and fermentation of ele-
ments was at its height came this
graet cataclysm of European war and
almost every other nation in the
world became involved in a tremen-
dous struggle which was what, my
fellow citizens? What are the ele-
ments in the struggle? Don't you see
that in this European war is involved
the very thing that has been going
on in America? 1t is a competition
Of national standards, OF national
traditions, and national politics-po-
litical system. Europe has grappled
in war as we have grappled in peace
to see what is going to be done with
these things when they come into hot
contact with one another For do you
not remember that while these pro-
cosses were soing On in America some
very interesting things were happen
ing?
cit was a very big world into which
this nation came when: it was born,
but it is a very little world now. 1t
used to take as many days to go from
Washington to Charlotte in those days
as it now takes hours. 1 heard an
'rishman say if the power of steam
continued to increase in the next fifty
years as it had in the last, we would
get to Charlotte two hours before we
left Washington. And as these pro-
cesses Of intercommunication have
been developed and quickened, mea
ca +be same nation not only have
gro, closer neighbors, but men Of
different nations have grown closer
neighEcrs with each other; and now
that we have these invisible tongues
that speak 6y the wireless through
the trackless air to the ends of the
! world, every man can make every
other man in the world his neighbor
and speak to him upon the moment,
While those processes of fermentation
and travail were going on, men were
learains about each other, nations
we're becoming more and more ac-
quainted with each other, nations
we're more and more becoming inter
related and iatercommunication was
being quickened in every possible
way: that now the melting pot is big
ger than America. 1t is as big as the
world. And what you see taking
/ place Ga the other side Of the water
! IS the uemendoUs-I had about said
! dnaI-process by which contest OF
elements may in Gods process be
turned into Z coordination and COOP
eratioa of elements.
'FFor it is an interesting circum-
stance that the processes of the war
stand still. These hot things that are
in contact with each other do not
make very much progress against
each other. When you can not over
| come you must take counsel. See
then. ladies and gentlemen, what a
new age we have come into. should
think that it would quicken the ina