The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-16
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of Europe and pervades it's very thrones. Therefore America lives in the trenches and broken homes of Flu rope and its thrones. The stupendous confagration is consuming the errors of statesmen and dynasties; it is not consuming the substance of ctviliza- ton.
 SchooImaster Became Statesman.
 Civilization is a unity War with Europe would have Ncut asunder the moral forces that bind the nations and left an age of darkness, anarchy and despair. Standing on the 1mmuta- b1e foundations of such Americanism, the schoolmaster and statesman with consummate skill, a skill that com mands the admiration of the world, di- rect the forces of civilization, not with arms, but with reason and moral pressure against the excesses of bel ngerent world. With Preternatural boise and clearness of vision he is pi- loting America through the rushing storm. Who can deny the existence of a moral design in the universe? Who now can question it's fuIi1lunent? Who now can close his eyes to the destiny of democracy to make the principles of civilization dominant, to bring the warning nations of the earth together in lasting peace? Therpassaons of men die The truth lives America has called to Europe:sEurope is responding in terms of a revfta1fzed civilization. The sub1imest picture in civil history is that of 8 plain American citizen maneuvering with the weapons of req son and humanity against the navies and armies Of the contendtng nations and bringing them in accord with the principles of international law. The American standard of peace and jus tice now floats on the sea. It is un- furling over the trenches of the strug- gling nations.
 WiIson's Vast Achievement.
 From the vantage ground of imper- 4shahle Americanism the naatchless craft of a real paciffst has not only avoided all war, but is leading the world Into the ways of peace. What is peace but the assertion of moral progress? What is the assertion of moral progress but the understandable civilization of Europe and America From the smolderfng ruins of thou sand cities, over the graves of millions of brave men, out of the blackness of the battle smoke, arising from the ob-
 
 the peoples of the earth recognize the dim outlines, growing ever more dis tinct, of the composite soul of America in the patient and humane wisdom of the worlds real paeihcator. Of what avail all the wealth of our beloved land if it had been consumed in the destructiveness of war? What avail the travail of human progress for ten thousand years had not the schoolmas- ter and statesman been pacifcator? His achievement is so vast that ambi- tious men are blind to it's reality. But the plain millions, of all creeds and nnEzonanues, recognize in 1t the imper- lshab1e g1ories of a Christian ctvihza- ton. It glorifles the peasant and king alike. The schoolmaster is statesman, the statesman is hnancier, the fnan- cier is emancipator. the emancipator is the pacincator of the world.
 Thus is the nation accomplishing the destiny of democracy. The command Ing fact of the modern age is the spread of intelligence. The school house has conquered ignorance. The printing press ghas transformed the purposes and capacities of man. Edu- cation has qualified him for a better existence. The Bible has made him | morahst. Men know that the world is big enough to support the human family in peace and comfort. Men know that the great problem of peace and comfort is not yet solved. They know that 1t cannc. be solved by the Bayagery of war. They know that its solution is obtainab4e only in condi- ttons of peace, reason and practical morality This state Of knowledge is the crowning achievement of progress
 Self Government f4as~Stood' the Test.
 The American experiment of self government has stood the test The achievements of the American system Rre known of all men and felt through ont the world. The United States is the worlds asylum Here all races, all conditions, all cTeeds, are assimiIated helped, elevated, and men are made Into self governing men In America justice has made it's greatest progress because it Is progress in which al1 men have part. That form of government which affords the fullest opportunity for happiness and comfort is destined to be the universal form. Such is the resistless syIlogism of progress. War cannot stop it's inevitable march. The opinion of all men is more potential than the opinion of oue man. The best opinion of the best men by the force of example and mutuality of interest becomes the opinion of all men, Amer lcan opinion is embodied in a man of peace. American opinion is marching through the world.
 Kept Justice Untarnished.
 When the imperialism of Europe cast the iron dice Of destiny America threw the moral dice of destiny. America staked the principles of her justice. There they stand in untarniShed integ- rity in the gaze of a stricken world. The intelligence of men grasp the meaning of America. Her example will readjust the relations of men ev- erywhere. The aspirations of men are for freedom Men and women can and should rule themselves. The day