Arizona republican., 1916-02-01

throngs, clearing the street entirely of traffic between the hotel and the Audi torium.
 Mayor Thompson of Chicago occu- pied a seat on the stage near the pres ident and Governor Dunne of Illinois was in d box.
 The entrance of the president was heralded by the playing of ''The Star Spangled Banner. The crowd stood and applauded. Mrs. Wilson did not enter with the president, but sat in a box.
 The president spoke in part as fol- lows:
 "A year ago. when the war in Europe had been six months in progress. l take it, it would have seemed incredible to all of us that the storm should have continued to gather in intensity in- stead of spending its forA. year ago it did seem as though America might rest secure without any great anxiety and take it for granted that she would not be drawn into this maelstrom. But six months was merely the beginning of the struggle. Another year has been added. and now no man can compe- tently say whether the United States will be drawn into the struggle. There fore, it is absolutely necessary that We should take counsel together as to what is necessary that we shOud do. The circumstances of the day are so extraordinary that perhaps it is not prudent for a man upon whom the responsibilities of affairs are laid to know too particularly the details of what are Happening. The trouble Iith great many-of our fellow citizens is that they let their imaginations be- come so engaged in this terrible affair | that they cannot look upon it as those should who wish to keep a cool head and detached judgment. So many men on this side of the water are seeing red ! that you seem to see in their thoughts the reflection of the blood that is being spent so cOpiously on the other side of the sea.
 There is an old saying that the laws are silent in the presence of war. Yes: not only the civil laws of individual | l that govern the relations of nations | Vita ohe another must also fall silent and look on in dumb impotence. Yet it ! has been assumed throughout this struggle that the greatest principles of | international law and of international i cOmity have not been suspended and | the United States, as the greatest and | n..M nf 6iGanDauaA 1 tiOns, has been looked to to hold high
 the standards which should govern the relationship of nations to one another.
 T know that on the other side or the water there has been a great deal of cruel misjudgment with regard to the reasons why America has re- mained neutral Those who look at 1 us at d distance do not feel the strong pulses of ideal principal that are in us. They do not feel the con viction of America that her mission is a mission of peace. and that right eousness cannot be maintained as a standard in the midst of arms They
 do not realize that back of all our
 energy by which we have built up
 great material wealth and created
 great material power. we are a body
 of idealists, much more ready to
 lay down our lives for thought than
 for a dollar.
 'I suppose some of them think that we are holding off because we car
 make money while others are dying;
 the most cruel misunderstanding that
 any nation has. ever had to face, SC
 wrong that it seems almost useless
 to try to correct it, because it shows
 that the very fundamentals of oul
 life are not comprehended and under
 stood.
 Somebody must keep the great stable foundations, of the life of na-
 tiOns untouched and undisturbed , somebody must keep the great econ
 omic processes of the world of bus
 mess alive; somebody must see to
 it that we stand ready to repair thu Continued on Page Two)