The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-08

| be draw on. by circumstai ces, not By
our own purpose or desire. to more
see them and more immediate ASSOC
| citation with the great struggle itself
| But nothing VIII alter our thought or
our purpose. They are too clear to be
obscured. 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.
Now Citizens of the World.
| we nave always professed unselfish
purpose and we covet the opportunity
| to prove that our professions are sin
CeFc. There are many things still to
do at home to clarity our own politics
ana give new vitality to the industrial
processes OF our own life and we shall
40 them as time and opportunity serve:
| but we realize that the great things
mat remain to be done must be done
| with the whole world for stage and
| IN cooperation with the wide and uni
| Eersal forces of mankind and we are
| making our spirits ready for those
Kings. They viii follow in the imme-
date wake of the war itself and Will
set ciViIiLa..on up again.
We are provincials no longer. Tho
tragic events of the thirty months Of
vital turmoil through which we have
the world. There can be no turning
back. our own fortunes as a nation
are involved. whether we would have
IL so or not.
And yet we are not the less Ameri-
cans on that account. We shall be the
more American IL we but remain true
70 the principles ~ which we have
been bred. They are not the principle
| o. province or of single continent.
We have known and boosted all along
that they were tho principles Of lib
Grated mankind.
Americas National Creed.
These. therefore, are the things We
hat har In n
peace:
That all nations are equally interest
ed in the peace of the world and in
the political stability Of free peoples
tenancc;
That the essential principle OF peace
is the mutual equality of nations In all
matters of right or privilege;
That peace cannot securely or Justly
rest upon an armed balance OF power:
Ihat governments derive all their
Just powers from the conseit 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 peoples
under rules set up by common agree
ment and consent and that. so far as
practicable, they should be accessi BILE
to all upon equal terms;
That national ornaments should be
limited to the necessities of national
order and domestic safety;
That the community of interest and
OF power upon which peace must
henccforth depend imposes upon each
nation the duty of seeing to 1t that
all influences proceeding from its own
citizens meant to encourage or assist
revolution In other states should be
sternly and effectually suppressed and
prevented.
need not argue these principles to
you. my fellow countrymen; they are
Jr.lh
thinking and your own motive in at
airs; They spring up native amongst
US. Upon this platform OF purpose and
OF action we can stand together.
Nation Must Stand a Unit.
And 1t Is imperative that we should
stand together. We are being forged
into new unity amidst the fires now
Iblaze through the world. In their ar
let us hope. be purged OF faction and
division. purified OF the Grant 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 It
that the dedication is in his own heart,
the high purpose of the nation In his
own mind, ruler of his own will and
desire.
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 me for
have by their gracious Judgment
named me their leader In affairs
| 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 pru-
lence to do my duty In the true spirit
II this great people. I am their serv-
ant and can succeed only as they sus-
tain and guide me by their confidence
and their counsel
The thing | shall count upon. tho
thing without which neither counsel
nor action will avail. Is the unity Of
American America united In feeling
in purpose and in vision of duty, OF
opportunity and of service. We are to
beware Of all men who would turn tho
tasks and necessities Of the nation to
their own private profit or use them
for tn" building up OF private power:
beware that no faction or disloyal In
trigue break the harmony or en-
hnrrass the spirit OF our people: be-
ware that our government be kept
pure and incorrupt In all its parts
United alike in the conception OF our
duty and in the high resolve to per-
form II In the face OF all men, let us
dedicate ourselves to the great task to
which we must set our hand, For my
t"nuncc and your united aid The shad-
ows that now lie dark upon our path
will soon be dlspclled and we shall
walk with the light nil about us II We
are but true to ourselves-to ourselves
as ". have wished to he known in the
Counsels Of the world and in tho
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