The daily morning oasis., 1920-09-25

puny or feebleminded of the English people, but
ranked well above the average Of the race.
The eliminating point of moral develop
ment, the conditions from which our material and
national characters received the laws of their growth
were, of course those that encirced the budding
period Of the peole of America turing those years
that ran on from the Stamp Act 1906 to the adop-
ton of the National Constitution in 1889. During
these p Years of this Towering time such human
pollen eel among the petals Of this great human
flower as Lafayette, Rnchamheau and De Grasse, old
Sterhen and De Kalb Kosciusco and Pulaski, and at
the crucial moment when the germ of it's seed to
be fixed forever, came Alexander Hamilton There
nav still be of citizens woh question the
beneficial effects of Hamilton' political teachings
on the course of American history. But the thought
Ilnnermost here is shat without Hamilton there would
not have been any American history. He saved the
Union at the moment IF its BIRTH and but for his in
tefventon IN the politics of the province of New
York he western Atlantic seahoard would have as
sToed Just about as much the frame of acomposite
State would be a forced combination of Poland,
Jithuania and Esthonia today.
But Hamilton was an English boy sent to us with
English culture fro mthe West India Islands and that
incident in his career to which even Thomas Jeffer-
son could not have found objection took place was
when after straghtout 0dav fight with the Dutch
PATRONS he carried the New York Constituent AS
sembv by majority of three to the adoption of the
Constitution under which in 131 years the American
earth.
The point to be emphasized is simply this that
in this amazingly short space of time the greatest
empire the earth has ever seen built up upon this
American ground by people who have come from all
parts Of the world to build it.
If everything one has had oeen given to him by
some third party does he stand under no obligation
to this third party? So long as the third party is
we'll and happy the donee may not feel the obligation
but if the donor falls into poverty or sickness or any
form of i'll health there be very few Americans who
would fail to say that the donee rad very heavy
debt to make good.
This illustrates pretty well the situation in which
we placed regards the rest of the world from
whom directly indirectly sooner or later we have
drawn all we have And taking it by and large, the
rest Of the world is in i'll health in fact may be said
to be sick Here beyond doubt the higher morality
would demand that should be doing to help to re-
heve this sickness of the world.
This feeling of duty tc give from ou1 abund
ance is almost universal among the thoughtful ones
OF orr people is the basis of the missionary spirit
that has been so marked national characteristic
but it has never been marked by any sickiy senti-
mentality nor by any disposition to the ourselves I'd
with fads or fancies Of other peonle nos to commit
ourselves, either individually or as nation to out
side control.
It is the strong sense of duty that is set out in
the FOREGOING paragraph which took the American
nation into the great world war It was that sense
Which carried across the ocean the greatest army
n ever traversed the waters. 1t was that sense
OF duty which dictated the Covenant of the League
of Nations. And it is that sense of duty which gives
rise to demand that the American Senate shall
ratfy the treaty of Versailles with the Covenant of
the League of Nations, thus putting the American
people IN position to discharge list obligation in hold
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