The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-10
PRESIDENTS FIRST
DUTY IS TO AMERICA
The Rev. Mr.. Hunt Declares
Wilson Is Not Ambassador
Of All Mankind.
MUST NOT YIELD RIGHTS
Says Roosevelt's Voice Lives
in It's Warning Not to
Give Up Liberty.
MUST NOT YIELD RIGHTS

President Wilson is not IAN anbss-
sador of mankind" the Rev. Edward
Lawrence Hunt told his flock N the
Church of Forest Hills. at Forest Hills,
L. l., IN his sermon yesterday
IF the voice of the church Is not
heard on this vital question at this
crisis hour" said the minister, "a
greater crisis than the declaration OF
war. then tho church had better Close
her door and give the key to the Boil
sheviki
THE President says he wants to know
what the people are thinking7 As the
Ambassador of the Son of Man send
him this word from the great apostle
of liberty, the Ambassador in bonds
And for me-. Woodrow Wilson is In
Europe as the ambassador OF America,
not the ambassador OF mankind.
His first duty is to American. And the
first word OF America ought TO be And
for me-
Scorn for IntcrnationaIist.
Remember tire scorn OF Roosevelt Tor
the internationalist idealst who IN nks
the man who loves all other women as
much as he does his own wife The
revelations made recently IN Congress or
the official proclamntions of European
States in the attempts at new forms OF
national life. where every woman IN
forced to be the property of the common
horde--one month TO this man. and the
next month to another brute, say those
revelations add tremendous force TO tho
WARNINGS of Roosevelt. Shall We join a
League of Nations whsre some have
laws like that? America will serve
humanity best by doing as she has dons.
Her message to every nation mist be
And for me- Her message to her own
citizens must be: And for me- No
nation Is better than her individual ciu-
zens.
Roosevelt can do more for us now
| that he is the first by the Throne, hsn
| oven IL once moro sis tread westward
shook the continent as a Democratic
paper said OF him four years ago. when
he called US to Awake and prepare
| Through tho heart OF the jesus on
| whose bosom he leaned for repose,' /
give you his massage about this League
, OF Nations; Here It is: Stand fast in
the liberty wherewith God hath made
you free, and be not entangied in
yoke Hold fast that which
| thau hast that no man take thy crown
|. thy crown OF life tho
| kind Of crown every American should
wear. Fear God and take your
own part
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| That voice of Roosevelt is the voice
of the nation. It Is criminal for any
American to give his crown--to surren-
| der his vote on so vital question to
any other man, no matter what office he
may hold Tho citizen must have time
| TO pass on such n moment ous problem.
| Why, note what the President said in
his wonderful Boston speech The COM
fcrenrce seems TO you TO go slowly;
| but I wonder If you realize the COM
plexity of the task which It has under
| taken II that is true OF tho great
leaders. trained to think. and who have
nothing to do but to think out what Is
| best, how much more Is II true that we
| ordinary men and women must have
| time to decide what We should do in the
most vital problem in the history OF tire
nation.
Shall we blindly surrender the sacred
right OF private Judgment, our crown, on
this stupendous question, to tho man
| who took two years to watch the str1ls-
gle in Europe, when others were fight
ing for our liberty Gas he now tells us)
| and at the end OF two such years sol-
EMMY and earnestly counselled us to Re
neutral. 10th In speech and even in
thought, 7nd then after another year
told US lie had new light and that he
was wrong in so advising us? Give us
time to think, Mr.. President, for every
decent American must use his individual
Judgment. And for me- And he wants
TO see what the great thinkers ana
leaders of our own nation have to say
after they are given a chance to know
the facts which only the President and
a few Of his chosen friends have been
given the chance to know"