Grand Forks daily herald., 1916-02-28
AMERICA OUGHT TO
KEEP OUT OF war
SAYS PRES. wilson
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sand and not upon solid rock. It
seems to me that the most enlighten-
Ing thing a man can do is> suggested
by something which the vice president
said tonight He complained that he
found men, who, when their attention
was called to the signs Of spring. did
not see the blue heaven; did not see
the movement OF the free clouds. did
not think OF the great spaces Of the
| quiet continent, but thought only Of
some immediate and pressing piece Of
| business
Would BE Lead Astray.
"It seems to me that if you do not
| think Of the things that lie beyond
and away from and disconnected from
this scene in which We attempt to
think and conclude, you viii inevitab-
| ly be led astray. would great
deal rather know what they are talk
! ing about around quiet fresides all
over this country than what they are
talking about in the cloak rooms of
congress I would a great deal rath-
er know what the men on the trains
and by the wayside and in the shops
the yearning for than hear any Of the
vociferous proclamations of policy az
it is so easy to hear and 80 easy to
read by picking up any scrap Of
printed paper.
There is only one way to hear the
things and that it constantly to 60
back to the fountains of American
action. Those fountains are not to
he found in any recently described
sources.
| All for Justice.
Senator Harding was saying just
now that we ought to try when we are
hundred million strong, to act in
the same simplicity Of principles that
our fozefathers acted when they were
100000 strong. heard somebody
say-I do not know the exact statis-
tics-that the present population of
the United States is one hundred and
three millions. If there are three
million thinking the same things that
that original three million thought,
the hundred million will be saved for
an illustrous future. They were
ready to stake everything for an idea,
and that idea was not expediency but
! justice. And the infinite difficulty of
public affairs, gentlemen, is not to dis
cover the signs of the haven and the
direction Of the wind, but to square
the things you do by the not simple
but complicated standards of justice.
Justice has nothing to do with expedi-
ency. Justice has nothing to do with
any temporary standard whatever. II
is rooted and ground in the funda-
mental instincts Of humanity.
Ought to Keep Out Of War.
America ought to keep out Of this
war. She ought to keep out of this
war at the sacrifice Of everything ex-
cept this single thing upon which her
character and history are founded
her sense of humanity and Justice. II
she sacrifices that, she has ceased to
be America; she has ceased to enter.
tain and to love the traditions which
have made us proud to be Americana
and when we go about seeking safe.
ty at the expense Of humanity, !, fol
one. will believe that I have always
been mistaken in what ! have con.
ceived to be the spirit of American
history.
You never can tell YOUR direction
except by long measurements. Yo,
cannot establish a line by two posts
You have got to have three at leas
to know whether they are straigh
with anything, and the longer youl
line. the more certain your measure
ments. There Is only one way IL
which to determine how the future o.
the United States is to be projected
and that is by looking back and see
ing which way the lines ran nv which I
led up to the present moment Of DOW.
er, and OF opportunity. There is nj
doubt about that. There is no oues
ton what the roll of honor in Amer.
lea. The roll of honor consists of thu
names Of the men who have suffered
their conduct by ideals of duty. There
is no 1one else upon the roster; there
is no one else whose name we care tc
i remember when we measure things
upon q national scale. And I wish
that whenever an impulse of impa.
tience comes upon US whenever ar
impulse to settle a thing some short
way tempts US, we might close the
door and take down some old storie,
of what American idealists and
statesmen did in the past and not let
any counsel in that door net sound In
the authentic voice of American ira.
dition. Then we shall be certain wi,at
the lines of the future are, because VI
snail know we are steering by the
lines OF the past. We shall know tina,
no temporary convenience, no tenn.
porary expediency, will lead us either
J to be rash or to be cowardly. I would
be JUST as much ashamed to be rasf
as would to be coward. Valor d
yyeli-respecting. Valor 10 circumspect
vaior strikes only when It IL right Il
strike Valor withholds itself fron
AL small implications and entangle
ments and waits for the great oppor.
tunity when the sword will fash az i
lsit carried the Hight Of heaven upon IL,
blade" S 4.
sttisSaka .nbiie rts Ss1kc ii otiaar ,.dr,
than they observe ~, eslAsn salA