The sun., 1919-07-04


rection and will take the right lead
ership II they believe that the leader
is also n man who thinks first Of
America"
And again in that year antedatina
he formulation Of the new ideals Of
dependence:
ut ought to be a matter Of pride
with us to know what Americanism
really consists In. Americanism con-
sists in utterly Believing In the prin-
clples OF America and in putting them
first as above anything that might
by chance come into competition
with IT,"
And yet ngaln in that year:
America must come first In every
purpose We entertain. and every man
must count upon being cast out even
OF our tolerance who does not sub
nit to that great ruling principle"
Again in 1916:
IF understand the life OF Amer
lea. the central principle Of 1t Is this,
that no small body OF persons. no
matter how influential, shall be
trusted to determine the policy and
development of America"
And in 1915:
There have been some among VI
who have not thought first OF Amer
lea, who have sought TO use the
might Of America In some matter not
OF Americas origination, and have
forgotten that the first duty of n
nation "a to express its own individ-
ual principles in the action OF the
family Of nations, and not to seek to
aid and abet any rival or contrary
ideal"
Again In 1915:
when we prepare for national de-
fence We prepare for national politi-
cal integrity; we prepare to take
care of the great ideals which gave
birth to this Government: we are
going back in spirit and in energy
to those first great generations in
America when men banded them
selves together, though they were but
a handful, upon a single coast OF the
Atlantic. to set UP in the world the
standards which have ever since
foated everywhere that Americans
asserted the power Of this Govern
ment"
And OF Des Moines. nine month,
lfter the murder Of the American.
IN the Lusltania, President Wilson's
ense Of the fundamental necessity OF
our freedom from foreign
'ntanglements was so strongly pacifist
hat he said:
There are actually men in Amer
lea who are preaching war. who are
preaching the duty of the United
States to do what It never would
before, seek enta nglemAnts IN the
controversies which have arisen on
the other side OF the water--absn-
don its habitual and traditional pol
Icy. and deliberately engage in the
conflict which is now engulfing the
rest OF the world. do not know
what the standard OF citizenship OF
these gentlemen may be. only
know that I. for one, cannot sub
scribe to those standards"
The second kind OF independence
which the day denotes and the cele
Iration Of the day commentaries FOL
he past and promotes for the futur,
S independence OF autocratic and un
Interference or dictatioI
from within. Here again We ar,
content to rest the case upon tn,
EARLIER American doctrine preached
~ the statesman who Is not with u:
nut will undoubtedly insist by wire
ess in helping us to celebrate. 1t il
more than eleven years since WOOD
row WILSON asked. and then an
,wcred his own question:
Must We fall back on discretion
AIRY executive power? The Govern
ment OF the United States was es-
tablished to get rid Of It."
1t is almost seven years since tn,
;ame philosopher said:
when we resist. therefore-when
I. as a Democrat, resist--the con-
centration OF power. am resisting
the processes of death, because con-
centration of power is what always
precedes the destruction OF human
initiative and therefore OF human
energy"
1t Is only n little more than thret
;ears since he said at Philadelphia
where the Declaration was signed an(
he Liberty Bell was rung:
The theory OF government which
I decline TO subscribe 10 is that the
vitality OF the nation comes out of
the closeted councils where a few
men determine tho policy OF tho
country"
And 1t is a dozen years or so sine,
he laid down this principle Of con
,titutional cooperation by the Execu
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