South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-31

ing each other and that a great
want TO. were going 10 stand up and
say here"
Healing Process OF Peace.
1T was a singularIy complete work
that was performed the processes
OF blood and iron-at the time OF
the civil war" said the president.
and IL is singular how the settle
ment has ruled our spirits since IL
was made. / see in this very audi
ence men who fought in the con-
federate ranks. 1 sec them taking
part In these exercises in the same
spirit or sincere patriotism that
moves those who fought on the side
OF the Union. and reject how
singular and how handsome a thing
il is that wounds such as then were
opened should be so completely
healed and that the spirit OF Amer
lea should so prevail over the spirit
Of division. Ii is the all-prevailing
and triumphant spirit Of America.
whereby our common action and
consent governments are set up and
pulled down. where affairs are
ruled by the common counsel and
whereby the healing processes OF
peace all men are united in a CON-
mon enterprise Of liberty and of
peace
and yet, the very object for
which we are met together is 10 re-
new in our hearts the spirit that
made these things possible. The
Union was saved by the processes Of
the Civil war. That was a crisis
which could be handled IL seems.
in 10 other way, but I neeG not tell
you t1at the popularity Of this sing
u ar and beloved country is that its
task. its human task, is apparently
never finished: that il is always max
ing end TO be made. And there is
at present upon us a crisis which
seems 10 threaten TO be a new crisis
of division. We know that the war
which is to ensue will be a war OF
spirits and not OF arms. We know
that the spirit of America is invincf-
BILE. and that no man can abate its
power, but we know that that spirit
must upon occasion be asserted, and
that this is one OF the occasions.
America has drawn her blood and
her impulse from all the sources Of
energy that spring at the fountains
OF every race and because she is
thus compounded out of the peoples
Of the world her problem is largely
a problem of union all the time.
problem of compromising out of
many elements a single triumphant
force"
The war in Europe has done "a
very natural thing in America. II
has stirred the memories of men
drawn from many of the belligerent
stocks. It has renewed in them a
national feeling which had grown
faint under the soothing influences
of peace, but which now flares up
when il looks as if nation had chal-
lenged nation 10 a final reckoning
and they remember the nations from
which they were sprung and know
that this is a death grapple.
Allegiance Forgotten.
I'VE have no criticism for men
who love the places of their birth
and the sources of their origin. We
do not wish men TO forget their
mothers and their fathers, their for
bears running back through long.
laborious generations which have
taken part in the building up of the
strength and spirit of other nations.
From such springs of sentiment we
all draw some of the handsOmest In
spirations Of our lives. But all that
we do criticize is that in some in
stances-they are not very numer-
Ous-but in some instances men have
allowed this Old ardor of another
nationality to osCrcrOwd their ardor
for the nationality to which they
have given their new and voluntary
allegiance. And So the United States
has again 10 wOrl. out by such
spiritual process a new union, when
men shall not thin. of what divides
them. but shall recall what unites
them. when men shall not allow old
loves to take the place of present
allegiances: when men must. on the
contrary. translate that very ardOr
OF love Of country of their birth into
lAAF dA uul VI AuNt lnA ADE NUhlAAi VI
their adoption and the principles
which il represents have no hard
ness in my heart even for the eX-
tremists in this thing which I have
been trying in moderate words TO
describe. but l summon them. and
summon them very sOlemnly. not TO
set their purpose against the pur-
pose of America. America must
come first in every purpose we en-
terrain. and every man must count
upon being cast out OF our conf
dence. cast out even of our toler-
ance. who does rot suNmit TO that
great ruling principle.
Purposes ci America.
But what are the purposes of
America Do YOU not see that there
is another significance in the fact
that We are made up out Of all the
peoples OF the world The signifi-
canoe OF that fact is that we are
not going TO devote our nation
atty 10 the same mistaken ag-
gressive purposes that some other