The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-03-08


shall do them as time and opportunity
serve; bur we realize that the great
est things that remain to be done
must be done with the whole world
Tor stage and in cooperation with
the wide and universal forces Of man
KIND, and We are making our spirits
ready for those things. They Will fol
low in the immediate wake OF the wal
itself and will set civilization up again
we have p-ovincials no longer
The traSical events Of the thirty
months of vital turmoil through which
We have just passed have made Us
citizens Of the world. There can b.
no turning back. Our own fortunes as
nation are involved, whether we
would have it SO or not.
"And yet we are not the less Amer
leans on that account. We shall be
the more American if We but remain
true to the principles in which We
have been bred.
They are not the principles of a
province Of a single continent W.
have known and boosted all along
that they were the principles of liber
ated mankind.
These, therefore. are the things We
shall stand for, whether in war OF
peace:
That all nations are equally inter.
ested in the peace of the world and in
the political stability of free peoples
and equally responsible for their main.
tenance;
That the essential principle OF
peace is the actual equality of ma.
tons in all matters OF right or priv.
Iege;
THAT peace cannot securely or just
ly 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 or power of the fam.
lily of nations;
THAT the seas should be equally
free and safe for the use of all PEG,
pies; under rules set up by common
agreement and consent and that. SO
far as practicable, they should be ac.
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
r,f f7r,
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 efiectually suppressed and
prevented.
81 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 among
Us. Upon this as a platform of pur-
pose and OF action we can stand to-
gether.
And it is imperative that we should
stand together. We are being forced
into a new unity amidst the fires tia
now blazes Throughout, the world.
IN their ardent heat we shall in
Gods providence let Us hope. be
purged of faction of division, purified
Of the errant humors OF party and of
private interests and shall stand for
the days to come with a new dignity
of national pride and spirit.
Let each man see 10 it that the
dedication is in his own heart. the
high purpose of the nation in his own
mind, ruler o. his own will and desire.
q stand ere and have taken the
high and solemn oath 10 which you
have been audience because the PEG
pie of the United States have chosen
me for this august delegation of pow
er and have by their gracious judg-
ment named me their leader in al
fairs.
81 know now what the task means.
l realize to the full the responsibility
which it involves.
81 pray God | may be given the
wisdom and the prudence to do my
duty in the true spirit of this great
people.
81 am their servant and can sue
coed only as they sustain and guide
me by their confidence and their coun-
sci. The thing l shall count upon, the
thing without which neither counsel
nor action will avail, is the unity OF
America-an America united in feel
ing, in purpose and in its vision o.
duty, or opportunity and of service.
eve are to beware of all men who
would turn the tasks and the neces-
stiles of the nation to their own pri-
vate profit or use them for the build
ing up of private power; beware that
no faction or dislOyal intrigue break
the harmony or embarrass the spirit
of our people; beware that our govern
ment be kept pure and incorrupt in all
its parts.
United alike in the conception Of
our duty and in the high resolve to
perform it in the face of all men, let
US dedicate ourselves to the great
task to which we must now set our
hand.
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