Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1916-05-25
President Wilson Speaks.

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President Wilson Speaks.
Mr.. Wilson said:
Your Excellency, ladies and gentle
men:
1T is with unaffected pleasure that
I find myself in the presence of this
interesting company today, for have
come back for a visit all too breif to
region very familiar to my heart,
and the greeting of whose people is
peculiarly welcome to me.
II do not know my fellow .citi2aps,
F<he spirit 6f this occasion, but 1t is
necessary when we get together In
celebrations like this to take counsel
together with regard to just what 1t
is that we wish to celebrate. You
will say we wish to celebrate the men,
cries of that time to which We look
back with such p,ide, when our faith
ers with singular wisdom OF counsel
and stoutness Of heart undertook TO
set up an independent nation on this
side of the water; but it Is very much
Imore important that we should remind
ourselves of the elements with which
our forefathers dealt. There were only
three million citizens in that original
republic of the United States Of Amer
lea. So there are one hundred mil
lions. 1t is a long cry bacc to those
modest beginnings; a great period OF
time not only. but great period OF
profound change, separates us from
that time, and yet would remind you
that the same elements which were
present then that are present now.
What interests my thoughts more
than anything else about the United
States is that it has always been IN
process of being made ever since that
little beginning and that there have
always been the same elements i'll the
process. At the outset there was at
the heart Of the men who led the
movement for independence very
high and handsome passion for human
liberty and free institutions. And yet
there lay before them great CONT
nent which it was necessary to sub
due to the uses Of civilization II they
were going to build upon it a grea,
state among the family Of nations.
heard preacher once point out the
very interesting circumstance that oul
Lords prayer begins with the petition
Of our daily Bread from which he
drew the Inference that it Is very diff
cult to worship God OH empty stom
ach and that the material foundations
of our life are the first foundations
What l want to call your attention to l.
that this country ever since that time
has devoted practically all Of its at
teutiOn to the material foundations O1
its life; to subduing this continent tt
the uses of the nation and to the build
ing up Of a great body Of wealth ant
material power. l find some men wh(
when they think Of America do no
think Of anything else but that But
my friends, there have been other ma
tions just as rich and just as power
ful in comparison with the other na
tiOns Of the world as the United State.
Is, and 1t Is great deal more tmpOr
tant that we should determine wha
we are going to do with our powel
than that we should possess it.
Origin Of America.
You must remember, therefore
the elements with which we are deal
ing. Sometimes those Of us who wer,
born In this part Of the country per
suade ourselves that this is the char
acteristic part Of America. Here NOR,
than anywhere else has been presery
ed a great part Of the original stool
which settled this country, particular