The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-05
PRESIDENT ASKS
UNITED SUPPORT
IN CRAVE CRISIS
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nations;
s'That the seas should be equally
free and safe for the use of all peo-
pies under rules set up by common
agreement and consent and that, SO
far as practicable, they should be
accessible to all upon equal terms;
ssThat national armaments should
be limited to the necessities of ma
HOnal order and domestic safety;
''That the commounity 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 its own
citizens meant to encourage or assist
revolution in other states should be
sternly and ehectuaIly suppressed and
prevented.
II 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. Upon this as a platform
of purpose and of action we can
stand together.
"And it is imperative that we should
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
Grant humors Of party and CT pri-
vate interest, and shall stand forth
in the days to come with a new dig
nifty of national pride and spirit Let
every man see to it that the decida-
ton is in his own heart, the purpose
of the nation in his own mind, ruler
of his own will and desire.
81 stand here and have taken the
high and solemn oath to which you
have been audience because the people
of the United States have chosen ms
for this august delegation Of power
and have by their gracious judgment
named me their leader in affairs,
know now what the task means.
realize to the full responsibility what
it involves. - I pray God I may be
given the wisdom and the prudence
to do my duty in the true spirit Of
this great people I am their serv-
ant and can succeed only as they sus
tain and guide me by treir confidence
and their counsel The thing I shall
count upon, the thing without which
neither counsel nor action will avail
is the union of America-an Americs
| united in feeling, in purpose and III it.
vision Of duty, Of opportunity ant
| of service. We are to beware O.
all men who would turn the task:
and the necessities of the nation t
| their own private profit or use then
| for the building up of private power
| beware that no faction, or dislaya1 in
| trigue break the harmony or embar
rass the spirit Of our people; beware
| that our government be kept pure ant
| incorrupt in all it's parts, united alike
| in the conception Of our duty and il
| the high resolve to perform it in thu
| face of all men, let us dedicate our
selves to the great task to which WI
must now set our hand. For mysel
I beg your tolerance, your counter
ance and your united aid. The shad
/ ows that now lie dark upon our patti
will soon be dispelled and we shall
walk with the light all about us If We
be but true to ourselves-to ourselves
as we have wished to bes Known in thu
counsels of the world and in the
thought of all those who love libert!
and Justice and the right exalted"