The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-02-15
Remarkable Were
The Utterances of
President Wilson
Address Suggested Policies Con-
sistent With Expression as to
International Relations
"Wilson Must Be Taken
Seriously" Says Pastor
(By C. C. Carrolll

IIopICuuCCu III lulL UcCduSc VI OnC
beautiful expression concerning
the act of our president, with
which practically all Natchitoches
is in accord, as well as for the
personal interest in the writer,
who is so we'll and favorably
known in Natchitoches.
The presidents recent address to
the senate in regard to his intention,
plan and purpose as chief executive of
the United States for his foreign policy
deserves more than passing notice 1t
is an appeal essentially for the people,
and, as such, is an appeal to the peo-
pie: 1t is the most remarkable utter
ance in the history of human govern
ment from the ruler of a great people,
and in view of the present world con-
ditions is the most timely and the most
pertinent possible.
MIR. Wilson in speaking for and to
the people is thoroughly consistent
with his entire course as president of
the United States, and especially so
with his public utterances in his recent
campaign for reelection as president.
Indeed, consistency in that larger at
mosphere of liberty of consistency
where the spirit gives life has marked
his fidelity to the ideals of Democracy
concretely expressed in the nnion of the
several states of this nation. The sug-
gested policies in the address are justly
consistent with his heretofore ex-
pressed policies as to international re-
lationship. They are consistent with
the noblest expressions of the political
fathers of American Democracy. Tran
scending that, they ring true with the
divine precepts of Gods and mans SUI
preme expression of Democrat, Jesus. |
True, the president has measured |
more with eagle wings at times than |
by the rule of thumb, but he has star
tied the stolid, puzzled the mere politi- |
clans, put Goals of fire on the backs of |
the political hardshells, cut the claws
of Wall street, crushed the walls of I'M
assimilated foreignism passing as Am
erican citizenship but caught in the
very act of pouring poison into the ma
tons arteries, and now he is trying to
draw the dragons teeth and break the
jaw bones of lions.
He must be taken seriously. He has
set billion tongues a wagging. To
the ones who read and to the ones who
receive communication only by word
of mouth message of peace sustained
by the just power OF government has
gone forth. 1t has gone forth to be
garbled, twisted, m4sJranslated, mis-
misunderstood, censored,
banded abo;lt from Greenland's icy
moru,...nS to India's coral strands,
from Jan to Beersheba, from the black
camel tents of the .Bedouins to the
snow huts on Onalaska's shore.
From official Europe's Damned
opinions gray with guile" there will
come believing like the cave of the
winds, for the long lance Of Democra-
cy has struck monarchy's shield fair,
full blow with the barred point; but
wherever there is any program OF IL
berty;" wherever there are liberals and
friends of humanity in every nation;"
wherever there are any who dream
that governments derive all their
Just powers from the consent of the
governed, and that no right anywhere
exists to hand peoples about from SOW
ereignty to sovereignty as If they were
there will come tthe echoes
of Hosannas.
The common people will hear Mr..
Wilson gladly, for he has spoken in
terms OF the common people. True his
address is a classic, and there be many
who can't forgive the schoolmaster for {
putting the hunger cry of the masses
for freedom of life" into the words ,
of the scholar, as though the elegan-
cies of diction and the graces of belle
Iettere were not for the likes of them l
as toll and sweat and die under. oppres-
sion, but it is the voice Of the people ,
nevertheless.
What has Mr.. Wilson done7 Every
man will have an opinion still, but to I
me it would seem he has spoken from 3
a pinnacle of principle of life liberty
and pursuit of happiness largely real
ICED and expressed in the life Of this {
nation, and has declared his solemn t
conviction that not only shall a gov /
eminent of the people, for the people
and by the people not perish from the
earth, but that every government not I
Of the people, for the people and by t
the people, under new birth of free G
SHALL perish from the earth. He
mas witnessed good confession before
Ponius Plate.
Under the binding obligation that the
powers that be are ordained by God, Il
ind that as chief magistrate he is the
Minister of God and as such beareth
sword, he has deliberately declared a
hat the sword should be only for the b
awless. Not only has he done this, Z
)uu in doing so virtually says to every
authority using the sword for aggran-
iizement, gain or personal power, put a
I'D the sword" Not only has he done 2
his, but basing his appeal upon the y
common desires of humanity for more
abundant life, and declaring this COM
non desire to be rooted in all justice
md equity in a common right of all b
mankind to such liberty, he has asked .
he authorities to repent and to enter ,
IS Gods ministers into higher express
ion Of human government than the v
world as yet has known save in the q
eaching of Him of Nazareth who was ;,
rucified on a mount outside of Jerusa-
EN-. Not only has he called to them to
epent, but he also has expressed his o
profound opinion, his solemn warning a
md his earnest prophesy that the great !
IKE of Democracy is laid to the roots of
very tree not planted in freedom and o
vatered in liberty. y
The principles are 30 mighty in their v
that establishment falls upon
he people at presidents utterance of 9
hem before the Senate. A man own 8;
ng bluegrass farm shut in from the
ike can easily understand why he 81
hould have legally road to the high =,
way. But that a nation shut in from y
he great highway of nations, the sea, o.
hould desire a road to the highway "
Gems an increditable thing. A man :,
esiring road to the highway for his :,
roduce from his farm can easily COM CT
rehend why the highway itself should W
e free, but that just claim could be :
ffered by shut-in nations of right to Il,
be highway, and, reaching the high :,