Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-06

and give new vitality to the 1nduStflai 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 Q stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things. They will follow in the immediate wake of the war it. self and will set civilization up again. We are provincials no longer. The tragical events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens o1 the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation 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 Americans if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of liberated mankind These. therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace:
 'That all nations are equally inter- ested in the peace of the world ana in the political stability of free peo- ples, and equally responsible for $thelr maintenance;
 "That the essential principle or peace is the actual equality of nations in all matters of right or privilege;
 "That peace cannot securely or just ly rest upon an armed balance of power; H.
 "That governments derive all their inst powers from the consent of the governed. and that no other power should be supported by the common thought, purpose or power Of the tan- fly of nations;
 "That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples, under rules set up by common agree ment and consent, and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible to all upon equal terms;
 "That national armaments would De limited to the necessities of national 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.
 "I need not argue these principles to YOU. my w-countrymen; they are your own, part and parcel of your own thinking and your own motive in affairs. s..
 Il "They spring up native amongst us. Upon this platform of purpose and o! action we stand together.
 Must Stand Together.
 And it is imperative that we should stand together. We are being forged into a new unity amidst the fires thai now blaze throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall. in Gods providence, let us hope, be purged O. faction and division. purified Of tho errant humors of party and of private interest, and shall stand forth in tht days to come with a new dignity O. national pride and spirit. Let eaci man see to it that the dedication is II his own heart, the high purpose of tht nation in his own mind, ruler of hi' own will and desire.
 q stand here and have taken th' high and solemn oath to which 70, have been audience because the people of the United States have chosen mt for this august delegation of powe and have by their gracious judgmen named me their leader in affairs.
 know now what the task means.
 realize to the full the responsibilit. which it involves I pray God l ma. be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit O this great people. I am their servan and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence an( their counsel. The. thing I shall coun upon, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail, is thu unity of America-an America unitet in feeling in purpose and in vision O duty, of opportunity and of service