Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-06

benefit of smaller nations which, like
the United States, carried only linn
tied army of defense. 1t was a peace
move pure and simple. 1t was an
Am erican idea and move pure and
simple, and to have placed an en-
barge on the export of arms would
have been to have deliberately repudi-
ated our own plan of action, proposed
Tor our own protection, when that
plan of action benefited another party
to the contract, as the agreement
specifically states that the prohibition
of things not mentioned as necessary
of prohibition might constitute an un-
friendly act. Any EN- barge placed
upon the export of arms by the Unit
ed States would have been clearly an
unfriendly act against the Allies.
1t is important, as / said before, to
stand before the world with clean
hands in this question of neutrality;
and we do so stand, and can enter this
war clearly justified, ~ q God-given
right, to defend those principles which
are of God. from God and through
Gods providence destined to work for
the benefit of Gods children here on
earth - the inalienable right of man
to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness, the great democratic idea of
government through consent of the
governed.
PrOSpcred Our Land
God has marvelously prospered
this wonderful land. In material mat
ters, during my own life, the wealth of
America has grown from seven thou
sand millions to one hundred and
ninety millions of dollars, and it's pop
ulation multiplied from thirty millions
to one hundred and five millions. One
of my dearest friends fifty years ago
was Carl Schurz, with whom I made
California in
or nearly half century ago. Schurz
was then U. S. Senator from the State
OF Missouri. He was one of the most
popular men in the United States; and
our western trip was one long ovation
for this one-time resident of Germany
peatedly, not only on that trip but
during the years that followed, up to
the time of his death, the assurance
that his coming to America was like
"a new birth into a new life, with a
new range of opportunities absolutely
impossible in his old environment.
We have acted honorably during
this terrible ordeal of the past three
years. We have suffered insult which
would have justified an earlier resort
to arms. We have exercised that pa
thence and forbearance which we'll be-
comes the strong man, but now 1 be-
heve we have passed that point where
pdtieHCe is virtue, Wnefe q Iurtner
submission to insult would be to for
felt our right to be called men, our
right to a national life: to forfeit
wholly our right to a voice in the
councils of the nations of the world.
Any other course than that adopted
by President Wilson would, in my
mind, justify any critic in writing the
word "Decadent" across the face of
the American people, in inscribing the
words Ancient History" on the face
of the Declaration of independence.
"Obsolete" across the pages of the
American Constitution.
Enter OH Good Friday
Let each man and each woman, as
we enter on Good Friday-a day
which means so much to so many in
the way of sacrifice for others-take
to his or her heart and embody in
his or her acts, the spirit of America
expressed in the closing lines of the
Battle Hymn of the Republic:
LAS He died to make men holy,
Let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on"
Stand by the President-My Presi-
dent, your President-Our President,