New-York tribune., 1921-05-31

aHS EeHeIatioH can nope only 10 pay
its installment; for it obligates us
and those after as to maintain for
this people the high estate which
they established. We never will
yield aught of what they won for US
Forbidden by the law of life and in
stitutions, we cannot stand still. We
must always move forward along the
upward paths they marked for as.
No less is possible unless we would
repudiate the debt they laid upon US,
whose covenant they sealed in their
blood.
Must Accept Responsibility
"Thus appraising and thus ac-
acknowledging our responsibility we
will do well to consider the particular
burdens it lays upon US. We look
about us on q world troubled and
torn, cropping for way back to light
and opportunity. We find ourselves,
responsibility in that world. We
stand among the leaders to whom it
looks for guidance and direction. We
are blessed with wealth, with the in
stitutions of freedom, with the mag
nificent tradition that comes to us
from those whom to-day we honor
We cannot evade, if we would, for
mankind is fallen on times when
there is no hope for it if some com
munities seek isolation, while others
indulge unrestrained ambition for
empire. Civilization must face dis
aster If there shall be denial either
of common possibility, or of es-
sential equality among sovereign
states and persons.
eve have heard much about the
danger of winning the war and los
ing the peace. But is there not, in
the example of those who made the
ultimate sacrifice, a lofty inspiration
to the same singleness of purpose.
the same readiness to sink individual
for the sake Of general good, that
moved them? Though they were not
trained to military forms and evolu-
tions, yet they learned to stand to-
gether. in unbroken line, to move as
units, to forget the individual for
the sake of the mass. Surely there is
no reason why peace may not achieve
discipline, unification, directness of
purpose, as war does. 1t requires
the same submergence Of selfish
ends, the same relinquishment of the
merely personal qualifications, the
same regard for the common interest
am not counselling surrendered in
dependence. Our maintained freedom
Is the source of our might. Only the
American conscience may command
this Republic.
Peace Discipline Difficult
ut Is, indeed, very different mat
ter to achieve the discipline that
peace demands. There is not the
urge Of instant danger, the rigor of
autnority to overcome thai danger.
1T IS needful to bring into subju-
gatlon the thoughtless mind, the in
osigent disposition. the easy quest
OF pleasure, the lust of gains, the
aspiration for power and personal
satisfaction. 1t is required to sub
stltute saving for thoughtless spend
ing, thrift for waste, unceasing pro-
ductlve effort for the simple expedi-
ent of spending the shortest time and
least energy on the job
During the war, when we were Ill
intent on the great business of win
ming, we saw this discipline estab-
Ashed in mine, factory, and farm oc-
cupatlons. We worried not a little
ABOUT how extravagant we were, but.
on the other hand, We all turned in
and worked, and we made those wears
of the war period marvels of produc-
tiveness, despite that millions of
workers were in the uniform and
other millions were engaged in the
special industries which war necessi-
lated. With the return of peace this
industrial discipline was thrown
aside, not only in our country. but
IN every country that was in the war
breakdown of morale ACCOMPANIED
1T, and we find ourselves hating
when we ought to move forward we
need patriotism resolute in peace
as Weil as patriotism afame in
war.
Nowhere were men prepared to
cope, with the new problems of peace:
nowhere were they less prepared
than in this country. But if we had
1ailed to set up the machinery for
liquidation of war conditions. we
nevertheless came out with our pro
duclng organization less wrenched
ana shaken than was that of the
European countries. Our soil had
not been invaded; our people had NOT
suffered the physical privations
winch We're visited upon great com
munlties elsewhere, We came forth
win better credit, sounder currency.
ana ratio Of debt far less than
tnose OF either Allied or enemy
states
spant OF Republic Reborn
Though our sorrows seemed meas
ureiess we were more lightly touched
ana for griefs incurable there was
compensation. We found the soul.
Oh america, we have the reborn
spirit of tho Republic.
- know the aching hearts. 1t re-
qutres nearness to measure the hur.
den of grief. Only few davs aeo
saw more than 5000 hag-draped
c;offins, tenanted with their heroic