The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-30

the American Republic must become m
Incident to this world structure.
1T IL reported that on February 20
the Secretary of the Navy declared be-
fore the National Press Club In Wash
ington, The Constitution Of the League
Of Nations will be remembered long
after the Declaration of independence
and the United States Constitution are
forgotten That Is the thought, either
consciously or sub-consciously. Of those
advocating the league.
''Mr. President, until now we have al
ways entertained a certain conception
OF national life. an unoompromising be-
lief In our distinct and individual ma
tional policies which separated us from
| all the world. 1t has been handed down
to US from father to son, even from
Plymouth and Jamestown, that we were
In sense chosen people, that some
| thing more than human foresight, some
thing more than finite wisdom guided a
prosecuted people to these shores and
gave vision and faith to those upon
whom rested the stupendous task of
erecting here new system of govern
ment and a new standard of life
Must Not Put Sovereignty In Pawn
I'VE have maintained that our SOW
ereignty should never be placed I'm pawn
or subjected to the control of foreign
Powers. II that feeling has gone out
OF US, IL those who have to deal with
the industrial world no longer believe In
the processes Of the Constitution, IL
those who rule the Government no
longer believe that the Republic can
maintain Itself among the nations Of the
earth, IL that faith has departed. there
Is no need of talking about espionage
laws, about the repression of free speech,
the freedom Of the press, or right of as
sembly.
Il deny that American ideals and
American principles cannot win in the
open arena OF debate. We need no
repression. The fault is not in our In
situations; the fault is not in our sys-
TEN; but 1t Is in a lack of faith upon
the part Of those who represent Ameri-
can institutions. II we manifested our
ndelity and our devotion and our faith
to those institutions there will be a
restoration of feeling and devotion
among the masses OF the people which
VIII restore Americanism in its true and
In its most significant terms
Mr. President a short time ago
visited the place where Nancy Hanks.
prematurely old and broken nursed and
nurtured and cared for the rarest soul
ever Dorn under the American flag. As
you stoop and enter the howell and re-
fleet as you will upon the squalor and
the wretchedness which ehvironed those
inmates a century ago. and then call up
In memory the glory which came out
of that cabin and the glory which has
since filled the earth. you will feel a
deeper reverence and q stronger love
for those institutions than you ever felt
before. There will come to you a feel
Ing which makes you both humble and
makes you brave; a yearning to know
what Is to be the destiny of this Gov
eminent Of the people. by the people
and for the people; a yearning to know,
II 1t fall. what is to be the destiny of
the human family.
A Prayer for Faith In America.
"As you turn and drive away over
the red sandhills of Kentucky, leaving
behind you the sensations and the re-
Elections ana the fancies of the brief
hour. and turn your face toward the
real world with its turmoil and its Bit
terness, social, economic and political,