Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-03-11

! tionship no less highly than any
! people of the world. we aspire to a
.. SD pa in the moral leadership
g e.. -I!IGat'On, and we hold main
= led America, the proven republic.
-" haken temple of representa-
| s.. ic".O raCy, to be not only an
u.s. "a ion and example, but the
| } @acst agency of streng hen ng
! 60. will and promoting accoru on
| both continents. Mankind needs
!"orldwide bened iction of understand
Lg. 1t is needed among individuals.
luOIg peoples, among govcrnmen, s,
and it Will inaugurate an era Of good
| feeling to mark the birth of new
order In such understanding men
will strive confidently for the promo
| ton OF their better relationships and
nations will promet the comities
so essential to peace.
We must understand that ties Of
trade bind nations in closest intimacy
| and none may receive except as he
gives. We have not strengthened
ours in accordance with our re-
sources or our genius, notably on our
own continent, where a galaxy or re-
publics reflect the glory of new world
| democracy, but in the new order
of finance and trade we mean to
promote enlarged activities and seek
expanded confidence.
Perhaps we can make no more
helpful contribution by example than
prove a republics capacity to emerge
from the wreckage Of war. While
! the worlds embittered travail did
not leave us devastated lands nor
desolate cities. left no gaping wounds
no breast filled with hate, it did in
volve us in the delirium Of expendi-
ture, in expanded currency and
credits, in unbalanced industry, in
unspeakable waste and disturbed re-
lationships. While it uncovered our
portion of hateful selfshness at
home, it also revealed the heart Of
America as sound and fearless and
beating in confidence unfailing. Amid
it all, we have ivited the gaze of all
civilization to the unselfishness and
the righteousness of representative
democracy, where our freedom never
has made offensive warfare, never
sought territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT
through force, never has turned to
the arbitrament of arms until reason
had been exhausted, when the gov
ernmeRts of earth shall have estab-
lished freedom like our own and
shall have sanctioned the pursuit
of peace. as we have practiced 1t,
l believe the last sorrow and the final
sacrifice Of International warfare
will have been written.
Our supreme task is the resump-
ton of our onward normal way.
Reconstruction, readjustment, res
toration-all these must follow.
would like to hasten them. II it
will liAhten the spirit and add to
the resolution with which we take
up the task, let me repeat for our ma
ton, we shall give no people just
cause to make war upon US, we hold
NO national prejudices. we entertain
no spirit of revenge: we do not hate
we do not covet, we dream of no
conquest, nor boast of armed Prov
ess.
1t, despite this attitude, war ia
again forced upon us, earnestly
hope a way may be found which will
unity our individual and collective
strength and consecrate all America,
materially and spiritually. body and
soul to national defense. can
vision the ideal republic, where every
man and woman is called under the
whatever service, military or sivic
flag for assignment to duty, for what
ever service, military or civic, the
individual is best lifted, where we may
icall to universal service every plant.
agency or facility, all in the sublime
sacrifice for country and not one PEN
ny of war profit shOll inure to the
benefit of private individual, or cor
poration, but all above normal shall
flow into the defense chest of the ma
ton. There is something inherently
wrong, something out of accord with
the ideals of representative democ-
racy when one portion of our citt-
|zenship turns its activities to private
gain amid defensive war while an
other is fighting, sacrificing or dying
for national preservation.
Utility. of Spirit and Purpose.
Out Of such universal service will
come a new unity of spirit and pur-
pose, a new confidence and conse-
Grafton, which would make our de-
tense impregnable, our triumphs as
sured. Then we should have little
or no disorganization of our eco
nomic, industrial and commercial
systems at home, no staggering war
debts, no swollen fortunes to flout
the sacrifices of our soldiers, no ex-
cuse for sedition, no pitiable slack
erism, no outrages of treason. Envy
and jealousy would have no soil for
their menacing development and rev.
olution would be without the pas
aiOn which oupoDdQrQ II