New Britain herald., 1916-02-02

] to write messages and utter words of l protest? If these breaches of inter- ] national law, which are in daily dan ger of occurring should touch the very honor of the United States, do you wish to have all the world say that , the flag of the United States can be stained with impunity? Why to ask that question is to answer it.
 No One For Peace And Dishonor.
 "I know there, is not man or woman within the hearing of my voice who would wish peace at the expense of the honor of the United States"
 The presidents address was punctu- ated with thunderous applause He spoke slowly and gravely, with em- phatc gestures to enforce his words. His declaration that the United States wanted peace drew a quick response, and the assertion that the self-respect of the nation must be preserved eIic- lted another great dem monstration. A throng that filled every seat in the Coliseum cheered to the echo. The president declared he was trying to weigh carefully every word he said. He reiterated that he had been daily charged to keep the country out of war and also to uphold it's honor
 Sure Of Support.
 And many a night when it has seemed impossible for me to sleep" he said, because of the apparently in extrica b1e difficulties into which our international relations were drifting I have said to myself, T wonder if the people of the United States fully know what that mandate means to me- And then sleep has come; be- cause l knew that there was not a community in America that would not stand behind me in maintaining the honor of the United States. +
 The difficulty of keeping America at peace during this titanic struggle across the sea cannot be disclosed now; perhaps it never can be dis closed. How anxious and how difficult this task has been. But my heart has been in it. 1 have not grudged A. single burden that has been placed upon me with that end in view. For I know that not only my own heart but the heart of all America was in the cause of peace.'
 There are actually men in America l preaching war, the president declared,
 
 have entangling alliances abroad. He l said he, did. not think they spoke the ! voice of America which he declared to 1 be for peace.@ He added that others go further than he in advocating ! peace. They preach the doctrine of | peace at any price," he added. while 1 men in the audience cried Never! Never!" He said these men did not know the circumstances of the world.
 America Not An Ostrich.
 America cannot be an ostrich with it's head in the sand,' he said.
 The president declared he hoped If this war had no other result it would create an international tribunal to settle questions which cause war. His declaration that he had found the people of the middle west for pre- paredness drew long applause.
 Someone, who does not know our fellow citizens as well as he ought to know them, told me there was a cer tain degree of indifference and 1ethar- gy in the middle west with regard to the defense of the nation,' he de- clared. "I said I did not believe it, but was going out to see. have seen what l expected to see-great bodies of serious men and women coming together to show their inter est in the object of my visit"
 Tribute to Flag.
 The president closed with a tribute to the American flag.
 "As I look at that flag" he said, 1T seem to see many characters upon it which are not visible to the physical eye. There seem to move ghostly vis- ions of devoted men who, looking to that flag, thought only of liberty, of the rights of mankind, of the mission of America to show the way to the world for the realization of those rights. And every grave and every brave man in the country would seem to have upon it the colors of the flag if he were a true American-would seem to have on it that stain of red which means the true pulse of blood: that patch of pure white which means the peace of the soul And then there seems to rise over the graves .f those men, and to hallow their mem ories, that blue space of the sky in which swim those stars which ex- epo r,Iifv for uS the glorious gaIaxv of