Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-03-08
ARE PROVNC|A[S NO LONGER

can be had only at the cost Of another
people. We have always protested
unselfish purpose and we covet the
sions are sincere.
There are many things still to do
at home, to clarity our cwn politics
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 stage and IN cooperation with
the wide universal forces of mankind,
and we are making our spirits ready
for those things. They will follow in
the immediate wake OF the war itself
and will set civilization up again.
mo Longer ProvlnciaIs."
I'VE are provinciaIs no longer. The
tragical events Of the 80 months OF
vital turmoil through which we have
just passed have made w citizens
Of the world. There can be no turn.
ing back. Our own fortunes as a ma
ton are Involved whether we would
have II SO or not.
And yet we are not the less Ameri.
SsNAAS VA Nh"t oSSouhNs fu Hudii BG
the more American IL we but remain
true to the principles In which We
have been bred. They are not the
principles OF a province or OF single
contingent. We have known and
boasted all along that they were the
principles OF a liberated mankind.
These, therefore, are the things We
shall stand for, whether In war or In
peace:
Equal interest In Peace.
That all nations are equally inter
ested In the peace Of the world and In
the political stability of free people,
and equally responsible for their main
tenance.
THAT the essential principle Of
peace 10 the actual equality OF ma.
lions In all matters of right or privi.
lege;
"That peace cannot securely nor
Justly rest upon an armed balance of
power:
That governments derive all their
just powers from the consent OF the
governed and that no other powers
should be supported by the common
thought, purpose nor power of the
family OF nations.
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 &C
cessible to all upon equal terms.
That national ornaments should
be limited to the necessities of ma
tional 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 II that
all influences proceeding from its own
citizens meant to encourage or assist
revolution in other states should DO
sternly and eifectually suppressed
and prevented.
Must Stand Together.
Il 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. On this platform Of pur-
pose and OF action we can stand to-
gether.
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 Gods
providence. let us hope, be purged of
faction and division. purified Of the
errant humors Of party and OF private
interest and shall stand forth In the
days to come with a new dignity Of
national pride and spirit Let each
man see to II that the dedication is In
his own heart. the n purpose of the
nation In his own Lind, ruler OF his
own will and desire
Realizes Responsibility.
Il stand here and have taken the
high and solemn oath to which you
have been audience because the peo-
pie OF the United States have chosen
me for this august delegation OF power
and have by their gracious Judgment
named me their leader in affairs. I
know now what the task means.
realize to the full the responsibility
which II involves. I pray God | may
be given the wisdom and the prudence
to do my duty in the true spirit or
this great people. | am their servant
and can succeed only as they sustain
and guide me by their confidence and
their counsel. The thing shall count
upon, the thing without which neither
counsel nor action will avail. Is the
unity of America America united
In feeling, In purpose and in vision OF
duty. OF opportunity and OF service
Factions Break Harmony"
we are 10 beware Of all men who
would turn the tasks and the necessi-
ties OF the nation to their own private
profit or use them for the building up
Of private power; beware that no fac
tion or disioyal intrigue break the har-
mony or emesrrass the spirit OF our
people: beware that our government
be kept pure and incorrupt--in all its
parts
United In the conception Of our
duty and IN the high resolve TO per
form II IN the face OF all men. let IN
dedicate ourselves to the great task TO
which We must set our hand. For my
SELF, beg your tolerance. Your coun-
tenance and YOUR united aid. The
shadows that now lie dark upon our
path will soon be dispelied and We
shall walk with the light all about M
II we be but true to ourselves-to
ourselves m we have wished to be
known In the connseis Of the world
and In the thought OF all those who