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elements Scff Tie work - constrnc
tive patriotism which your Congress
has gathered to foster. There can Az
real preparedness ia this country
unless this country is thoroughly Ans
ericanized;; for only q patriotic people,
will prepare; and there canSbe no deep
national feeling fol. America until Ne
are all of us Americans through and
through ! \ AT this moment, Lloyd
George is able to do more than any
other man in lallying the people of
Great Britain to the defense of that
Empire, because the working men, the
men who actually do the manual labor,
know that he has their welfare lat
heart, that the national ideal for which
he is fighting IS that which will give
them the best chance for self devel-
opment, and for that happiness which
come to the men who achieves his right
at the same time that he performs his
duties. He is followed by the people
as a whole because they know he
stands for the people as a whole. Wei
in America who are striving for pre-
paredness must make it evident that
the preparedness is to serve the peo-
pie as a whole. Just before
this war began the male and female
apostles of folly and faulty We're at
their highest pitch of denunciation Of
preparedness, and were announcing atl
the tops Of their voices that never
again would there be a great war.
These preachers Of professional paci-.
fsm, of peace-at-any-price, of peace
put before righteousness and honor
and duty, temporarily lead astray
many good earnest men and women.
These good, honest, intelligent men
and women can be shown the facts and
when shown the facts will ultimately
see the profound immortality as we'll
as the utter folly Of the professional
pacifist or peace-at-any-price position.
There is, however, little to hope for as
regards the professional pacifsts
themselves. The antics Of their breth-
ern in England has shown that even
although prayed in a mortar their fol-
" shall not depart from them. At
the moment, their clamor is drowned
by the thunder of the great war. But
when this war comes to an end their
voices will be as loud as ever on be-
half of folly and w%ickedness, and their
brazen effrontery will be proof against
all shame as well as against all Wis
dom. They will unblushingly repeat
every prophesy that has just been sat
isfed by the merciless march Of ev-
ents; they will ~reiterate all the prom
Uses that have always been broken in.
the past and will always be broken in.
the future. They are in the majority
of cases primarily concerned for the
safety of their own wretched bodies,
and they are physically safe in the
course they follow, for if the disaster
they court should come upon this ma
ton, they would themselves Instantly
flee to safety, while their folly and
wrongdoing would be atoned for by
the blood Of better and Drawer men,"
Prof. r A. Steiner, a German born
American, gave an able paper on Ma
t%ionalizing America" Ex-Secretary
Of Navy, George Won L. Meyer, spoke
lnstructively on Diplomacy and our
Navy" A number of others gave pa
pers or addresses all worthy of com
ment, but space will not permit.
must not overlook the address of
Prof. William Roscoe Thayer, which
for brilliancy Of thought, splendid
logic, and historical recital was the
pier of anything delivered. When
published, obtain a copy.
In conclusion, let ME urge that the
sentiments which prompted you to
join the League and to contribute to-
wards sending a delegate be permit
ted to grow and expand. That we live
) in d~iscouraging times is no doubt, and
sometimes it seems as though the av-
erage American cannot be induced to
exert himself excepting where avar-
ice, greed and selfshness are appealed
to; that the present is no different
/ from the past. Those who appeal to
mans passion M prejudice, combin.
t ing with its holding out Of promises
which appeals to his avarice have al.
ways been successful. The true re.
1 former has always met with the mos
serious obstacles. From Christ tx
: Lloyd Garrison there was no excep