Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-21
The Clash of Opposing Tradi- tions and National Ideals Are Ever Here, Always Solved Says President. ADDRESSES PATRIOTS
 OF NORTH CAROLINA "When You Can't Overcome, You Must Take Counsel" Says President. Some Think He Means Germany.
(sy Review leased Wire ]

CHARLOTTE, IN. C., nay 2O.- President Wilson. speaking here
 today at the anniversary of the Meskeenburg declaraton of inde- pendence, told his hearers that in-
 volved in the European war is very thing that has been going on in America-a competition of na- tional standards, national tradi-
 tions and national politics.
 Europe" said the president" has grappled in war as we have grappled in peace. to see what is
 going to be done with these things
 things when they come into per
 sonal contact with each other What you see taking place on the
 other side of the water is the tre- mendous-I almost said final
 process by which contest of ele-
 ments may. in Gods process, be turned into a coordination and co
 operation of clements.
 For it is an interesting circum-
 stance that the processes of the war
 stand still. These bot things that
 are in contact with each other dS
 not make much .p' 1Press against
 one another. When you cannot
 overcome you must take counsel V
 The reference was given signiti- canoe by the Presidents hearers in view of recent discussion of possibili- ties of ending the war
 Before speaking. President Wilson reviewed a parade. Afterwards he was guest at luncheon. motoring la ter to Davidson College. where he once was a student. At the college he visited the room in which he lived as a student.
 The President and Mrs. Wilson and their party departed tonight for Wash ington
 The Presidents address follows:
 'I do not know. my fellow citizens. whether I can interpret or you today the spirit of this occasion. but it is necessary when we get together in celebration like this to take counsel together with regard to just what it is that we wish to celebrate. You will say we wish to celebrate the memory of that time to which we look back with much pride when our fathers
 
 stuotness of heart undertook to set up an independent nation on this side of the water: but it is very much more important than We should re- gard ourselves as of the element of our forefathers. There were only three million citizens in that original republic Now there are one hundred millions. It is a long cry back tO those modest beginnings. great pc riod of time not only but a great peri cd of profound change, separates us rom that time. and yet would remind you that the same elements were pre- sent that are present now.
 Forever In The Making
 What interests my thought more than anything else about the United States is that the United States has always been in process of being made ever since that little beginning and that there have always been the same elements in the process.
 "At the outset there was at the heart of the men who led the move ment for independence very high and handsome nassion or human lib erty and free institutions And yet there lav before them a great conti- pent which it was necessary to sub due to the uses of civilization if they were going to build uDon it great state I heard preacher once point out the very circumstance that as our Lords Prayer begins with the peti- ton for "our daily bread" he drew the inference that it is very difficult to worship God on an empty stomach and that the material foundation of our life are the first foundations.
 sseaIous For Power
 What l want to call to your atten- ton is that this country ever since that time has devoted practically all of it's attention-Derhaps too much of it's attention-to the material founda- ton of it's life. to subduing this conti- nent to the uses of the nation and to he building of a great body of wealth and material power.
 But. my friends. there have been other nation. just as rich and just as powerful in comparison with the oth- 1 Pr nations of the world. as the United | States is and it is a great deal more | important that we should know what