Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-05

struggle itself, But nothing viii alter
our thought or our purpose They are
too clear to be obseured They are too
deeply rooted in the principles of our
national life to be altered. We desire
neither conquest nor advantage. We
wish nothing that can be had only at
the cost of another people. We have
always professed unselfish purpose and
we eovet the opportunity to prove that
our professions are sincere.
There are many things still to do at
home, to clarity our own politics and
give new vitality to the industrial pro.
cesses of our own life. and we shall
have done 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 win follow in the
immediate wake of the war itself, and
win set civilization up again We are
proyincials no longer.
Are Citizens of the World
| The tragieal events of the 30 months
of vital turmoil through which we have
just passed have made us citizens Of
the world. There can be no turning
back. Our own fortunes as n nation are
involved, whether we would have it so
or not.
! And vet 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 nor q single continent. We
have known and boasted all along that
| they We're the principles of liberated
mankind. These, therefore, are the
things we stand for, whether in war or
in peace;
That all nations are equally interested
in the peace of the world aud in the
political stability of free peoples and
/ equally responsible for their mainten.
ance;
That the essential principle of peace
is the actual equality of nations in all
matters Of right or privilege;
That peace cannot securely or justly
rest upon an armed balance OF power;
! That governments derive all their Just
! powers from the consent of the govern
| ed, aud that no other powers should be
supported by the common thought pur.
! pose OF power OF the family of nations;
Seas Must Be Free.
That the seas should be equally free
and safe for the use of all peoples, un.
der rules ser up by common agreement
and consent. and that, SO far as practi.
cable they should be accessible to all
upon equal terms:
I That national armaments should pe
limited to the necessities of national
order and domestic safety;
/ That the community of interest and
Of power npon which peace must hence.
forth depend imposes upon each nation
the puty of seeing to it that all influ-
/ ences proceeding from its own citizens
mean, to encourage OF assist revolution
( in other states should be sternlv and ef-
, fectually suppressed aud presented.
| need not argue these principles to
YOU, my fellow eoUntrymen; they are
your own, part and parcel OF your own
thinking and Your own motive in af-
fairs, They spring up native amongst
US. Upon this as a platform Of purpose
and Of action we can stand together
And il 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 God 5 pro.
Nideare, let Us hope, be pargea Of fac.
tions aud divisions, purified Of the er-
rant humoss Of party and Of private in
terest, ana shall stand forth in the days
to come with a new dignity Of national
pride aad spirit, Let each man see to
it that the dedication is in his own
heart. the high purpose Of the nation in
his own mind, rather OF his own will
and desire
Asks Unity Of America.
staad here and have taken the high