Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-14
GLYNN IN KEYNOTE
LAUDS PRESIDENT
ASAREAL PATRIOT
Tells Convention Neutrality
Policy Has Kept Nations
Best Traditions
HIS TRADUcERs sHAMED

has had as crucial problems to solve; and no
President has dipiayed grasp more sure,
g statesmanship more profound, than has
President Wilson, Martin II. Glynn, exgov.
ernor of New York, opened the Democratic
National Convention here today. Declaring
that "Americnnism and peace, preparedness
and prosperity are the Issues upon which
the Democratic party stands, and the heart
of Democracy swells with pride that is more
than pride of party as It halls the man
who has asserted this Americanism, assured
this peace, advocated this preparedness and
produced this prosperity" he predicted the
reelection of President Wilson. He con-
ttnued:
For two years the world has been aflre I;
the civilization that we know has been torn
by the mightiest struggle in its history
Sparks from Europe's confiagration have
biazed In our own skies, echoes of her
strife have sounded at our very doors
That fire still burns, that struggle still con-
tinues, but thus far the United States has
held the fame at bay thus far II has saved
its people from participation in the con-
fiiot.
What the people of the United States
must determine through their suffrage Is
whether the course the country has pursued
through this crucial period Is to be contin-
ued whether the principles that have been
asserted as our national policy shall be in
dorsed or withdrawn.
This is the paramount issue. No lesser
issue must cloud it, no unrelated problems
must confuse it.
In the submission Of this Issue to trs
elcctorate we, of this convention, hold
these truths to be self-evident to every stu
dent of Americas history, to every frieno
of Americas institutions.
First That the United States Ia con.
strained by the traditions of It's past, by the
logic of it's present and by the promise OF
its future to hold itself apart from the Euro
pean warfare, to save its citizens from par
ticipation in the conflict that now devastates
the nations across the seas
Second. That the United States in Its re-
lations with the European belligerents must
continue the policy that 1t has pursued since
tho beginning of the war, the policy OF
strict neutrality In relation to every war
ring nation, the policy which Thomas JET
ferson defined as rendering to all the serv-
ices and courtesies of friendship and pray
ing for the re-establishment of peace and
rightl'
Third That save where the liberties the
territory or the substantial rights of the
United States are invaded and assaulted.
It Is the duty of this nation to avoid war
by cvery honorable means.
Fourth. That II is the duty of the
United States Government to maintain the
dignity and the honor of the American ma
tion and in every situation to demand and
secure from every belllgerent the recogni-
tion Of the neutral rights of Its citizens.
Fifth. That because the President of the
United States has asserted these principles
and pursued these policies the American
people must support him with ardor and
with enthusiasm in order that these princt-
pies and policies may be known to all the
world. not as the opinion of am individual
but as the doctrine and faith OF n loyal and
united nation.
In emphasis of these self-evldent prop
ositions we assert that the policy of neu-
traiity is as truly American as the Amer
iean flag.
For 200 years neutrality was theory
America made 1t a fact
The first President of the United States
was the frst man to pronounce neutrality
a rule of international conduct.
Neutrality is Americas contribution to
the laws of the world. Sir Henry Maine
says so Charles Francis Adams says so,
Henry Clay says So Daniel Webster says
so, and upon the evidence OF these witnesses
We rest our Americanlsm against the sput-
terings of pepper-pot politicians or the fnbri-
cations OF those with whom false issue
fs = good Issue until its falsity is shown,
its maliciousness exposed.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
For enforcing this policy Of neutrality
George Washington was hooted by howl
ing mob of 10000 war fanatics who threat
ened to pull him from the presidential chair
and start revolution. But half century
later Charles Sumner said that washington
upholding the peaceful neutrality of this
country, while he met unmoved the clamor
OF the people wickedly crying for war, Is
greater man than Washington crossing
the Delaware or taking CORVALLIS sword
A. Yorktown"
For supporting this policy Of neutrality
IN a speech in the city of New York, Alex
John Jay burned in effigy, Jefferson called
a spineless poltroon and Lincoln pictured
as a craven. Today, however the nation
goes 20 all these men for its very conception
OF all that is best in American citizenship.
The President of the United States stands
today where stood the men who made Amer
Tea and who saved America.
NEUTRAL RIGHTS MAINTAINED.
No American who knows the facts can
neutrality which the present Democratic
Administration has pursued. Driven from
this position by the logic Of our history and
the lesson OF our prosperity, carpers and
defamers rush to the opposite extreme and
assert that this policy has not been en-
forced with SUFFICIENT vigor by the present
Administration.
Americas doctrine OF neutrality never
meant that this nation must rush headlong
into war at the first invasion OF its neutral
rights, Neutrality Is not a hair-triggered
policy that explodes In violence at the first
assault II Is a policy that has proved
successful because Il has always been as
serted through negotiation rather than
through force. through diplomacy rather
than By an appeal 10 arms This does not
mean that America will not resort to war
when ali other means OF protecting its
neutral rights have failed. but Il does MEAN
<--=t Aneriea will exhaust every peaceful
mssps Of protecting those rights before IL
lazes the step from which thers Is NO appeal
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