The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-05-24
WILSON SPEAKS OF FUTURE.
SEES AT CLOSE OF WAR THE OUT.
STRETCHED HAND OF HU.
MANITY.
Says That After tho Earthquake
Comes the Still Small Voice, Which
Will Prevail Against the Strife of
Nations, Who Will Look to America
for Moral Force to Guide Them.

lor moral fOrcc to Guide Them.
Charlotte. N. c., May 20.-The pre-
diction that after the war the still
small voice of humanity would pre-
vail against the rumblings of hatred
and disunion, the closing phrase of
President Wilson's address here today,
was the logical development of his
review of the processes by which
America had grown great. The presi-
dent traced, in slight outline, the in
ception of American liberty in it's de-
pendence upon the moral forces.
The presidents speech follows:
1T is with Effected pleasure that
/ find myself in'Nhe presence Of this
interesting company today, for have
come back 70 ra visit all too brief to
a region very familiar to my heart,
and the greeting of whose people is
peculiarly welcome to me.
II do not know. my fellow citizens,
whether. can interpret for you today
the spirit Of this occasion, but it is
necessary when we get together in
celebrations like this to take counsel
together with regard to just what it
is that we wish to celebrate. You
will say that we wish to celebrate the
memories Of that time to which we
look back with such pride, when our
fathers with singular wisdom OF
counsel and stoutness of heart under
took to set up an independent nation
on this side Of the water; but it is
very much more important that we
should remind ourselves of the cic-
inents with which our forefathers
dealt. There were only three millior,
citizens in that original republic OF
the United states of America. Now,
there are one hundred millions 1t is
q long cry back to those modern be.
ginnings; a great period of time. not
only. but a great period Of profound
change, separates us from that time,
and yet would remind ou that the
same elements were present then that
are present now.
What interests my thought more
than anything else about the United
States IL that it has always been III
process of being made ever since that
little beginning and that there have
always been the same elements in
tho process. At the outset there was
at tho heart Of the men who led the
movement for independence very
high and handsome passion OF hu-
man liberty and free institutions.
And. yet there lay before them 81 great
lcontinent which 1t was necessary I'd
subdue to the uses Of civilization, II
they were going to build upon it
great state among the family Of ma
tions.
Il heard preached once point out
the very interesting circum stance
that our Lords prayer begins with
the petition for our daily bread,
from which he drew the inference
that it Is very difficult to worship God
on an empty stomach, and that the
material foundations of our life are
the first foundations. What I want
to call your attention to is that this
country ever since that time has de-
voted practically all of it's attention.
perhaps too much of It's attention, to
the material foundation of its life:
OF subduing this continent to the uses
of the nation and to the building up
a great body of wealth and material
power. l find some men who, when
they think Of America. do not think
of anything else but that. But friends,
there have been other nations Just as
rich and just as powerful in c1mpar-
ison with the other nations Of the
world as the United States Is, and it
Is great deal more important that