New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-09

be drawn or. by circumstances. not by
our own purpose or desire, to a more
active assertion of our rights as we
see them and d more immediate asSo-
cation with the great struggle Itself.
But nothing Will 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 have always professed unselfish
purpose and We covet the opportunity
to prove that our professions are sin
cere. There are many things still to
do at home to clarity our own politics
and give new vitality to the industrial
processes of our own life, and we shall
do them as time and opportunity serve;
but we realize that the great things
that remain to be done must be done
with the whole world for a stage and
In cooperation with the wide and uni
versal forces of mankind and we are
making our spirits ready for those
things. They will follow in the imme-
date wake of the war itself and will
set civilization up again.
We are provincials no longer. The
tragic events of the thirty months of
vital turmoil through which we have
just passed have made us citizens of
the world. There can be no turning
back. our own fortunes as a nation
are involved, whether we would have
1t so or not.
And yet we are not the less Ameri-
cans 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
o. a province or of a single continent.
We have Enown and boosted all along
that they were the principles of a lib
Grated mankind.
Americas NatiOnid Creed.
These, therefore,, are the things we
shall stand for, whether in war or in
ptace:
That all nations are equally interest
ed in the peace of the world and in
the political stability of free peoples
and equally responsible for their main
tenanCct
That the essential principle of peace
is the mutual equality of nations in all
matters of right or privilege.
hat peace cannot securely or 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 comnlon
thought, purpose or power of the fam
lily Of nations;
That the seas should pc 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
lIdtlltHDlt, lHty should De accessible
to all upon equal terms;
That national armaments should be
limited to the necessities OF national
Ortor and domestic safety:
That the community of interest and
OF power upon which peace must
h"ncctorth depend imposes upon each
nation the duty of seeing to it that
all influences proceeding from it's own
citizens meant to encourage or assist
revolution il other states should be
sternly and effectually suppressed and
prevented.
l need not argue these principles to
you, my fellow countrymen; they are
your own, part and parcel of your own
thinking and you own motive in at
fairs. They spring up native amongst
us. Upon this platform of purpose and
of action We can stand together.
Nation Must Stand n Unit.
And 1t is imperative that we should
stand together. We are being forged
into a new unity amidst the fires now
ablaze through the world. In their ar
dent heat we shall, in Gods providence.
us hope, be purged of faction and
purified of the errant humors
Of party and of private interest and
shall stand forth in the days to come
a new dignity of national pride
that the dedication is in his own heart,
The high purpose of the nation in his
own mind, ruler of his own will and
lesire.
stand here and have taken the high
and solemn oath to which you have
oeen audience because the people of
he United States have chosen me for
his august delegation of power and
by their gracious Judgment
FAMED me their leader in affairs.
| know now what the task means. I
to the full the responsibility
which it involves: I pray God I may
De given the wisdom and the pru-
lence to do my duty in the true spirit
# this great people. I am their serv-
mt and can succeed only as they sus-
ain and guide me by their confidence
md their counsel.
The thing I shall count upon, the
hing without which neither counsel
lor action will avail, is the unity of
America-an America united in feeling,
n purpose and in vision of duty, of
opportunity and of service. We are to
of all men who would turn the
heir W private profit or use them
or the building up of private power;
that no faction or disloyal in
rigue break the harmony or en-
'arrass the spirit of our people; be-
ware that our government be kept
ure and in%corrupt in all it's parts.
Tnited alike in the conception of our
uty and in the high resolve to per-
orm it in the face of all men, let us
edicate ourselves to the great task to !
'hich we must set our hand. For my
elf | beg your tolerance, your coun-
nance and your united aid. The shad-
WI that now lie dark upon our path I
ill soon be dispelled and we shall :
'alk with the light all about us If we :
re but true to ourselves-to ourselves
s we have wished to be known in the
ounsels Of the world and in the
bought of all those who love liberty
nd justice and the right exalted.