Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-08-04
Hennessy's Address
Before 25th Annual
B. & L. Convention
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eminent by intoxicating anew among
the people that spirit Of thrift and
self-denial which needs now, more
than ever, to be taught to the people
of our country. While brave Amerl-
cans by the hundreds of thousands
will offer their lives for liberty on
European battlefields and on the high
seas, we at home must war against
waste, extravaganza and improvi
dence among the people at home.
The government will need vast sums
Of money to carry on the war. AS
organizations we can do much, if we
90 about it Systematically, to assist
in the work of collecting from the
people the moneys that are needed
for investment in the securities of
the government.
perhaps more important than all
is the duty and obligation that rests
upon each of US to keep alive a true
sense of what patriotism should
mean to US while this great struggle
is going on. Our beloved country
has made a Hateful choice in enter
ing the greatest of wars in all the
history of mankind. Our govern
ment has given to the world solemn
pledges that we will play our part to
the end, no matter what the cost may
be.
owe are entered upon period of
American history, destined, | believe,
to shed new luster upon the Ameri
can flag, and brng imperishable
glory to the name and fame of our
country in all the years to come.
| Upon American patriots of to-day,
whether they be those who offer their
| lives in battle on sea or on land, or
those who at home pledge themselves
to every needed sacrifice and service
! for our common country, there is no
obligation higher than that they
should conceive an understanding of
and devotion to the exalted motives
and principles which have animated
our government in leaving the paths
Of peace to enter the great conflict
which has devasted the world during
the last three years.
owe enter the struggle in no spirit
of revenge and retaliation. Our
object" as President Wilson has put
it, is to vindicate the principle Of
peace and justice in the life of the
world as against selfish and autocratic
power, and to set up amongst the
really free and self-governed peoples
Of the world such concert of pur-
pose and of action as will henceforth
insure observance of those princi-
Pies In this the President has
spoken the language of humanity,
for he makes clear that we are not
contending for peace and justice for
ourselves alone, but for all the peo-
pie of the world, who wish to be
free.
"On the part of the United States
this is war in which we enter I'M
selfshly, in order that righteousness
may be exalted among the nations,
and that mankind everywhere may
have larger opportunities for happi
ness. 1t is a war undertaken in the
spirit expressed so beautifully by a
New England poet:
"fHe's true to God who's true to
Wherever wrong is done,
To the humblest or the weakest,
Meath the arl-beholding sun,
That wrong is also done to us;
And they are slaves most base,
Whose love of right is for themselves,
And not for all the race
at is a fine thing to be an Ameri-
can these days, if we can feel that
when the founders of the republic
pledged their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor to support the
proposition that men are endowed
with inalienable rights to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, they
meant not only American men, but
all men, everywhere, and for all
time. For the vindication of this
great humane and democratic doctrine
we are in this war and we will win
this war, not because God fights on
the side of the strongest battalions,
but because He is ever with the
rause of eternal righteousness in the
World"
Resolutions were adopted and for
warded to President Wilson pledging
the support of the League and its
constituent associations to the gov
eminent at Washington and Ma
tional Committee was appointed to
cooperate with the Secretary of the
Treasury in the work of placing fu-
ture issues of the Liberty Loan. The
committee: Charles orc Hennessy,
New York, chairman, Geo. F. Gil
more, Omaha, Neb., L. IL. Rankin,
Columbus, Ohio, Joseph H. Jaist,
Philadelphia, Penn, Herbert Pink
ham, Boston, Mass, VIM. G. Weeks,
| New Iberia, La, H. F. Cellarius, Gin
cinatti, Ohio, Paul Garrett, Jersey
City, N. j. and Burton McGinnis, st,
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