The sun., 1919-03-18

quiesce in the slightest concession to
those who in the name of humanity
would betray our country and cruelty
our liberties!
II deny that tsis abortion of a league
Is essential TO the making and preserva-
ton OF peace.
II insist that the power for good OF
America. as has Just been proved. Is In
herent in her self-government and her
aloofness from intrigue.
II abhor the possibility of American
individualism being ensulfed in the
norass OF Socialism.
''If l were an Englishman. n French
man or an italian, I should want this
League but 1 am an American.
II hope to die before 1 see any red
blooded American sitting as President
and one out of nine in a council control
ling the world.
IT hope IL the League ever should be
formed Woodrow Wilson will be its first
President.
But I see no reason to believe that,
as President Of tho World, he could
keep us out of war any more than he
did as President of the United States.
II pronounce It a crime to suggest
that single American boy be taken
from his home and assigned TO police
duty in far Off lands.
Denial OF Democracy.
II would never let any foreign Power
have a say as TO the size OF our army
or our navy.
II denounce this scheme as the alb
soiute denial Of Democracy. / defy any
body to disprove the assertion that II is
the most complete autocracy the world
has ever known. ...
81 hold that the nation affords the only
hope for democracy and that patriotism
is the bulwark of the nation. I stand for
Woodrow Wilson when, before his head
was turned. he said:
II am one of those who absolutely
reject the trustee theory; the guard
ianship theory 8. I suspect that
the people of the United States under
stand their own interests better than
any group OF men in the confines of
the country understand them
81 stand with Theodore Roosevelt, who
in his last message TO the American peo-
pie declared:
ANY man who says he Is an Amer
lean, but something else also. isn't an
American at all We have room for
but one flag, the American flag. and
this excludes the red flag. which SYM
bolizes all wars against liberty and
civilization, just as much as II ex-
c'udes any foreign flag OF a nation TO
which we are hostile. We have room
for but one soul loyalty. and that is
loyalty to the American people
But one soul loyalty! But one flag
Does that mean anything? 1t does TO
some. asked crippled soldier from
the Argonne forest II he had visions OF
ideals in his dreams during the great
battle. He looked at me dazed for an
instant, then flushed 70 the roots OF his
hair and replied evenly. 4 fought for my
country and my flag. sir
But a new banner has appeared /,
blows in the breezes off the shores OF
England. 1t Is the new international
flag. 1t is simple and quite beautiful. l
have photograph OF it--a blue stripe
between two white stripes. What they
ymbolize l do not know.
This flag here over my head was
adopted by the Continental Congress in
1777. 142 years ago. The first one was
the product of the nimbe fingers of that
sturdy little patriot, Betsy Ross. Its
first public appearance was over Dorches-
ter Heights and. when II was raised,
George Washington stood uncovered at
the foot OF the pole. IT has waved ever
since in its spotless beauty and un-
furnished glory. 1t has symbotzed dur
ing all these years but one emotion: MY
country, my whole country and nothing
but my country Shall II be lowere d
now-loweTed 80 much as the frac ton Of
an inch?
Under which nag, gentlemen Und2,
which flag?
Are not you, too. Americans