Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-09
ARE PR0VNC|ALS NO LONGER

unselfish purpose and we covet the
opportunity to prove that our profess
sions are sincere.
There are many things still to do
at home, to clarity our own politics
and give new vitality to the industrial
processes of our own life, and we
shall do them as time and opportunity
serve; but we realize that the great
est things that remain to be done
must be done with the whole world
for stage and in cooperation with
the wide universal forces of mankind,
and we are making our spirits ready
for those things. They will follow in
the immediate wake Of the war itself
and will set civilization up again
"No Longer Provincials."
eve are provincials no longer. The
tragical events of the 80 months of
vital turmoil through which we have
just passed have made us citizens
Of the world. There can be no turn
ing back. Our own fortunes as a ma
ton are involved whether we would
have it so or not.
'And yet we are not the less Ameri-
cans on that account. We shall be
the more American if we but remain
true to the principles in which we
have been bred. They are not the
principles Of province or of single
contingent. We have known and
boasted all along that they were the
principles of a liberated mankind.
These, therefore, are the things we
shall stand for, whether in war or in
peace:
Equal Interest in Peace.
THAT all nations are equally inter
ested in the peace of the world and in
the political stability of free people,
and equally responsible for their main
tenance;
THAT the essential principle of
peace is the actual equality of ma
tons in all matters of right or priv.
lege;
THAT peace cannot securely nor
justly rest upon an armed balance Of
power;
THAT governments derive all their
just powers from the consent of the
governed and that no other powers
should be supported by the common
thought, purpose nor power of the
family of nations.
THAT the seas should be equally
free and safe for the use of all PEG.
pies, under rules set up by common
agreement and consent, and that, SO
far as practicable, they should be &C.
cessible to all upon equal terms.
THAT national ornaments should
be limited to the necessities of ma
tional order and domestic safety;
THAT the community of interest and
Of power upon which peace must
henceforth depend imposes upon each
nation the duty Of seeing to it that
all influences proceeding from it's own
citizens meant to encourage or assist
revolution in other states should be
sternly and effectually suppressed
and prevented.
Must Stand Together.
Il need not argue these principles
to you, my fellow countrymen; they
are your own, part and parcel of your
own thinking and your own motive
in affairs. They spring up native
amongst us. On this platform Of pur-
pose and Of action we can stand to-
gether.
and it is imperative that we should
stand together. We are being forged
into a new unity amidst the fires that
now blaze throughout the world In
their ardent heat we shall, in Gods
providence, let us hope, be purged of
faction and division, purified of the
errant humOrs Of party and of private
interest and shall stand forth in the
days to come with a new dignity Of
national pride and spirit. Let each
man see to it that the dedication is in
his own heart, the Ugh purpose of the
nation in his own mind, ruler Of his
own will and desire
Realizes possibility.
II stand here and have taken the
high and solemn oath to which you
have been audience because the peo-
pie of the United States have chosen
me for this august delegation of power
and have by their gracious judgment
named me their leader in affairs. I
know now what the task means. I
realize to the full the responsibility
which it involves. [ pray God l may
be given the wisdom and the prudence
to do my duty in the true spirit of
this great people. 1 am their servant
and can succeed only as they sustain
and guide me by their confidence and
their counsel. The thing / shall count
upon, the thing without which neither
counsel nor action will avail, is the
ulllLy vi AulclICCl OIL AlllSIlCd uuiLSu
in feeling, in purpose and in vision of
duty, Of opportunity and of service.
Fractions Break Harmony"
eve are to beware of all men who
would turn the tasks and the necessi-
ties of the nation to their own private
profit or use them for the building up
Of private power; beware that no fac
ton or disloyal intrigue break the har-
mony or embarrass the spirit of our
people; beware that our government
be kept pure and incorrupt-fn all it's
parts.
United in the conception of our
duty and in the high resolve to per-
form 1t in the face of all men, let us
dedicate ourselves to the great task to
which we must set our hand. For my
self, l beg your tolerance, your coun-
tenance and your united aid The
shadows that now lie dark upon our
path will soon be dispelled and we
shall walk with the light all about us
IL we be but true to ourselves-to
ourselves as we have wished to be
known in the cOunsels of the world
and in the thought of all those who
love liberty and justice and the right