The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-06

began and addressed by Mr.. WILSON
to the Daughters of the American
Revolution in Washington on October
IL, 1915. In this speech he said:
America has schooled its heart TO
love the things that America believes
in. and believing that America stands
apart in its ideals, it ought not to al
low itself to be drawn. so far as its
heart Is concerned. into anybody's
quarrel. Not because II does not
understand the quarrel, not because
II does not in its head assess the
merits of the controversy, but be-
cause America has promised the
world to stand apart and maintain
certain principles of action which are
grounded in law and in Justice.
Peace can be rebuilt only upon the
ancient and accepted principles q in
ternational law"
Other auditors may have recalled
the Presidents description of the
United States, given in his neutrality
appeal of August 1S, 1914, as "a ma
ton that neither sits in judgment
upon others nor is disturbed in her
own counsels and which keeps her.
self At and free to do what Is honest
and disinterested and truly service
able for the peace of the world" We
fear. however, that the Presidents use
Of Contemplate" recalled to nearly
all of his hearers certain remarkable
phrases Of an address he made to
newly naturalized American citizens
in Philadelphia on May 10, 1915:
1.-THE example OF America must be
the example, not merely of peace be-
cause It will not fight, but Of peace
because peace Is the healing and ele-
waiting influence of the world and
strife Is not. There is such thing
as a man being too proud to fight.
There Is such a thing as a nation
being so right that It does not need
to convince others by force that 1t
Is right
If America were ever in danger Of
being contemplate 1t was in the days
before we entered the war, not for the
purpose Of reforming the world, but
for the purpose Of Furnishing Germany
for the wrongs she had done us; and
If there was one particular day upon
which we seemed to merit the worlds
contempt it was that 10th of May,
three days after the sinking of the
Lusitania, when our putative spokes-
man indicated that we were too proud
to fight.
Faithful students OF Mr.. WILSON'S
earlier utterances must have heard,
with varied emotions, this sentence on
Tuesday evening:
THE sweet revenge, therefore, Is
this, that we believed in righteous
ness, and now we are ready to make
the supreme sacrifice for It. the su-
preme sacrifice Of throwing in our
Win ING OF men
everywhere"
The words relative to belief in
righteousness are from the same lips
that said, after the Prussians had in
vaded Belgium and outraged Its
women:
The United States must be neu-
trail in fact as we'll as in name during
these days that are to try mems
souls. We must be impartial in
thought as we'll as in action, must
put a curb upon our sentiments as
we'll as upon every transaction that
might be construed as a preference
OF one party to the struggle before
another"
They are the words of the Presi-
dent who said in an address to the
Congress sixteen months after the war
began:
I'VE have stood apart. studiously
neutral It was our manifest duty
to do So"
The President who advocates
throwing our fortunes in with the
fortunes Of men everywhere" Is the
President who said to the Congress:
Americans must have a conscious
ness different from the consciousness
OF every other nation In the world"
He Is the SHINE President who said
to the Pan-American Congress in
Washington on January 6, 1916:
The Monroe Doctrine was pro-
claimed by the United States on her
own authority. 1t always has been
maintained. and always will be main
tanned, upon her own responsibility"
The speech of Tuesday night was
remarkable In that It revealed to his
observers the Wilson that was and
the Wilson that is-or at least for the
moment appears to be.
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1t is not too much 10 say that the