The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-06-13
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS


Centennial the Twin Cities Monday afternoon President Cool
dge utteance to mighty truths While his talk
directed principally to the people of the Norwegian
ctizenry carried with it the of ideal Amecanism
The President paid high just tribute these salwart
descendants of the ytwo immigrants who small bark with
single mast heavily adened bueted the pillows of empestu
fourteen weeks before they hove in the og at the
port of New York 1925 He told of the friendly aid extended
them by religious society and the hard and determined fight of
members the colony obstacles and become eus
tanning and seepecng citizens the country of their ado
Mr.. Coolidge confined himself of historical
events indulgence ideasm There
notable absence of political outline for future action aside from
of the administrations efforts to universal
peace this respect he exhibited the cicumspon that char
acterizes the wisdom of his rulership.
There only weak statement the Presidents speech
and that of necessity permissible perhaps occasion that
demanded that the force of his attention should be given other
subjects In his premise the President said that he American
people have commanded the of the world We must admit
that the chief representative of the of the United
States Mr. Coodgs contention could not have well been other
yet challenge the statement its enrety only half
1t unthnkabe that country where ninety cent of
population permits the denial the exercise of citizenship to
of it's total after the has been conferred
popular suffrage and the enactment OF statutory law would
command respect the world 1t unthnkabe also be-
that nation that toeraes racial hatred the extent that
human beings deprived of the right of trial by jury in court
of law and justice and burned at stake by nd would
could possibly, command the respect of the world"
world Mr. President? Is Mars Jupiter 9TH
planetary sphere Surely not this world which live
the earth The accorded this nation by other
respect the American dollar and not for the American
people Any other preenson facous, hypocrtica and
Mr. Coolidge quotes history from the light of recent scen
c discovery and the following For the real beginning
people must back the beginnings of all peoples From
the toms Egypt and the sands of Mesopotama
eahg civilizations ancient that by comparison think of
the recovered wonders of Carthage almost modern But all
that shall learn from the hs of Ur the tombs of the Pha
roas and the of Crete and Carthage of
history illumination for odays guide posts the
All the past lives in the present All the
thoughts of those who have before have left their mark
what we think and do"
1t in keeping with the traditional inconsistency of the
peculiar American mind that the President should refer to the
beginning of civilization and its inspiration and influence the
present world without recalling the fact that its pgmentaon
of dark hued complexion 1t is the descendants of this early
civilization America today whom the of unjust
murderous hatred poured by the people whom Mr.
Coolidge said commands the respect of the world"
The question s will there be awakening to justice and
right in this country will continue its untoward until
it ends in disastrous disinteaon and final chaos? History
peats itself and the mmuae hand of destiny be stayed
by the atus of statesmen matter how highly oamened it
may be with fowery establishment The American people
the victims of their deception On the whole however the
Presidents to the Norwegian people fitting and high
ly commendable