Arizona republican., 1916-05-17

one thing that I resented when l | was not performing the duties of the | office was being reminded that l was the president of the United States. ] felt toward it as man feels to- ward great function which, in working hours. he is obliged to per form but which, out of working hours, he is glad to get away from and almost forget and resume the quiet course of his own thoughts. l am constantly reminded as l go about, | as I do sometimes at the week of the personal inconvenience of be- ing president of the United States If l want to know how many people live in a small town, all I have to do I is to go there and they at once line up to be counted. l might, in a cen sus-taking year, save the census talk CTS a great deal of trouble, by ask ing them to accompany me and count the people on the spot. Some times, when 1 am most beset, I ser iOusly think of renting a pair of whiskers or of doing something else that will furnish me with an ade- quate disguise. because I am sorry to find that the cut of my jib is unmis- takable and must sail under false COlorS if l am going to sail incognito
 Yet, as l have matched my eX- periences with my anticipations l of course have been aware that l was taken by surprise because of the prominence of many things to which had not looked forward When we are dealing with democratic affairs. gentlemen. We are dealing with things that to us as Americans. are more or less calculable. There is a singular variety among our citizenship, it is : true. q greater variety even than ] had anticipated; but, after all, we are aii stepped in the same ftmos- i phere, we are all surrounded by the same environment We all are mora or less affected by the same traditions and moreover We are working out something that has to be worked out among ourselves. and the elements are there to be dealt with at first hand.
 "But when the fortunes of your own country are, so to say, subject to the incalcuiable winds of passion that are blowing through other parts of the world. then the strain is of unprecedented kind, because you do not know by what turn of the wheel or fortune the control of things is going to be taken out of your hands:
 it makes no difference how deep the p2ssion of the nation lies. that pas sion may be so overborne by the rush of fortune in circumstances like those which now exist that you feel the sort of resentment that a man feels when his own affairs are not within his own hands. You can imagine the strain upon the feeling of any man when ne feels that that spirit oaEnot have its own way beyond a certain point And one Of the greatest points of strain upon me, if l may be permitted 70 point it oet was this:
 There are two reasons why the chief wish of Americans is for peace. One is that they love peace and have nothing to do with the present qUar rel. and the other is that they believe the present quarrel has carried those engaged in 1t SO far that they cannot be held t. ordinary standards of re- sponsihility and that. therefore, as some men have expressed it to me I since the rest of the world is mad why should We not simply refuse to have anything to do with the rest ot the world in the ordinary channels of action Why not let the storm pass and then. when it is all over. have tn. reckoungs?
 Knowing that from both these two points of vieY the passion of America was for peace. it was said, neverthe- less. America is not only one of the nations of the world. nut one of the
 chief nations of the world, a nation that grows mere and more powerful almost in spite of herself: that grows
 morally more and more influentia even when she is not aware of it
 and that if she is to play the par
 which she most covets. it is necessar,
 that she should act more or less iron
 the point of view of the rest of thu ' world. If 1 can retain my moral in.
 fluence over l man only by occasion
 ally knocking him down. if that is th'
 only basis upon which he will respec me. then for the sake of his sou ! | llsiNe SOl OCEdSIOUdllN to NHO-h liiI 4 down.
 You know how we hay read mi
 it not in Ralph Corners stories 0
 western life in Canada that all hi
 sky pilots are ready for a f!acas an,
 time and how the ultimate salvation | of the souls of tkeir parishioners de
 bands upon their using their fists oc
 casionally if a man will not listen t
 you quietly in a seat, sit on his necl
 and make hin, listen; just as I hav'
 always maintained, particularly Il
 view of certain experiences of min 4 that the shortest road to boy
 moral sense is through his Cuticle
 There is a direct and. if l may b
 permitted to pun, a fundamental con
 nection between the surface of Ei {. skin and his moral consciousness. Yo
 arrest his attention first in that way
 and then get the moral lesson con
 veyed to him in milder ways that
 se were grown up. would be the on
 way you would use.
 ''So l say that have been aware tha
 in order to do the very thing that w
 are proudest of the ability to do, ther
 might come a time when we woul'
 have to do it in a way that we shoul'
 prefer not to do it; and the great bur
 den on my spirits; gentlemen, has beel