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them of course?but the test will come
to us particularly.
"Do you realize that, roughly speak-;
ing, we are t'-e only great nation at
present disengaged? 1 am not speak.
ing, of course, with disparagement of
the greater of those nations in Europe
which are not parties to present war,
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borhood to it. I am thinking how their |
lives, mucLi more than ours, touch |
the nrery iieart and stuff of the business;
whereas, we have rolling between
us and tiiose bftter days across
the water 3,000 miles of cool and silent
ocean. Our atmosphere is not yet
charged with those disturbing elements
whida must be felt and must
permeate every nation of Europe.
Therefore, is it not likely that the nations
of the world will some day turn
to us for the cooler assessment of r'ne |
elements engaged? I am not thinking
so preposterous a thought as that we
should sit in judgment upon them. Xo
nation is fit to sit in judgment upon
any other nation, but that we shall
some day 'have to assist in reconstructing
the processes of peace.
A Mediating >ation.
"Our resources are untouched; we
are more and more becoming by the
force of circumstances the mediating
p nation of the world in respect of its
finance. We must make up our minds
what are the best things to do, and
what are tvie best ways to do them.
We must put our money, our energy,
our enthusiasm, our sympathy into
these things; and we must have our
judgments prepared and our spirits
chastened against tie coming of tnat
day.
"So that I am not speaking in a selfish
spirit when I say that our whole
duty for the present, at any rate, is
summed up in this motto, 'America
first.' Let us think of America before
we think of Europe, in order that
America may be fit to be (Europe's
friend when tine day of tested friendship
comes. The test of friendship is
not now in sympathy with one side or
the other, but getting ready to help
both sides wlien the struggle is over.
"The basis of neutrality, gentlemen,
is not indifference; it is not self-interest.
The basis of neutrality is syrn
pathy for mankind. It is fairness; it!
is good will to the bottom. It is impartiality
of spirit and judgment. I
wis'h that all of our fellow citizens
could realize that.
Attempts to (Stir Trouble.
"There is in some quarter a dispo-'
sition to create distempers in this
boov nnlitir rWipn a ro ptpti nttprinp'
slanders against the United States as
if to excite her. Men are saying tf.:at
if we should go to war on either side
there would be a divided America?
an abominable libel of ignorance.'
America is not all of it vocal just now.
It is vocal in spots. But I for one have !
* complete and abiding faith in the great
silent body of Americans who are not
standing up and shouting and expressing
their opinions just now, but are
waiting to find out and support the
duty of America. I am just as sure
of their solidity and of their loyalty
and of their unanimity, if we act justly,
as I am that the history of this country
has at eivery crisis and turning
point illustrated this great lesson. j
<rWe are the mediating nation of the
world. I do not mean that we under
take not to mind our own business and j
to mediate where other people are j
Quarreling. I mean the word in a j
broader sense. We are compounded of
the nations of the world. We mediate
tfceir Wood, we mediate their traditions,
we mediate their sentiments,
their tastes, their passions, we are
ourselves compounded of those tnings.1
We are, therefore, able to understand
all nations; we are able to understand '
them in the compound, not separately, j
as partisans, but unitedly* as knowing
and comprehending and embodying
them all. It is in that sense that I:
mean t&at America is a mediating nation.
The opinion of America, the ac-'
tion of America is ready to turn and
free to turn in any direction.
yo Racial Momentum.
"Did you ever reflect upon how al
most all ot'ier nations, almost every
other nation, has through long centuries
been headed in one direction?
That is not true of the United States.
The United States l:as no racial momentum.
It has no history back of it
whica makes it k-un all its energies
and all its ambitions in one particular
direction; anc America is pai-uvuia*
free in ti:is, that s;ne 'has no hamper-!
ing ambitions as a world power. If we
have been obliged by circumstances,
in the past, to take territory wfcich we
otherwise would not have thought of
taking, I believe I am right in say-1
ing that we have considered it our
duty to administer that territory, not
for ourselves, but for the people liv-1
ing in it, and to put this burden upon
our consciences, not to think tfaat this
?
thing is ours for our use, but to regard
ourselves as trustees of the great business
for those to whom it does really
belong, trustees ready to hand oiver:
the cosmic trust at any time, when 1
the business seems to make that possible
and feasible. That is what 11
mean by saying we fcave not hamper-'
ing ambitions, IWle do not want any-'
thing that does not belong to us. Isn't j
a nation in that position free to serve j
other nations, and isn't a nation like
that ready to form some part of the
assessing opinion of the world?
Ready to Scrap.
"My interest in the neutrality of'
fho T'rtitoH Static ic nnt thp npftv dp- '
sire to keep out of trouble. I have
never looked for it, but I l:ave always t
found it. I do not want to walk around 1
trouble. If any man wants a scrap i
t'Jat is an interesting scrap and worth!
| while, I am his man. I warn him that j
; he is not going to draw me into the
i scrap for his advancement, but if he
1 is looking for trouble, that is, the trou
j ble men in general, and I can foelp a
little, why t'lien I am in for it. But;
I am interested in neutrality because !
there is something so much greater to
I do than fight, because there is some-:
'thing, there is a distinction waiting
for this nation that no nation lias ever
yet got. That is the distinction of absolute
self-control and self-master}-.
I
Whom do you admire most among your
friends? The irritable man? The man
i out ol wnom you can get a rise ?nuout
trying? The man who will fight
at ti:e drop of the hat, whether he
knows what the hat is dropped for or
not?
h "Don't you admire and don't you
fear, if you have to contest with him.
the self-mastered man who watches
.with pvo nnrl rnmpc in onlv
when you have carried tine thing so
j far that you must be disposed? That
is the man you must respect. That is
, the man you know 'has at the bottom
much more fundamental and terrible
courage than the irritable, fighting
: man.
The Highest Courage.
"Now I coivet for (America this splencttd
courage of reserve moral force'
and I wanted to point out to you gen- '
tlemen simply this: There is news
and news. There is what "is called
news from Turtle bay that turns out
to be falsehood; at a1^ ra*e in what
it is said to signify, and wt':ich, if you
could get the nation to believe it true,
might disturb our equilibrium and our
' self-possession. We ought not to deal
in stuff of that kind. We ought not
to permit things .of that sort to use
up the electrical energy of the wires,
because its energy is malign, its energy
is not of the truth, its energy is
of mischief. It is possible to sift
fhr/Micrh am
"I have known some things to go
out on the wires as true when there
was only one man or one group of
men who could 'have told the originators
of the report whether it was
true or not, and they were not asked
whether it was true or not, for fear it
might not be true. That sort of report
ought not to go out over the
wires.
"There is generally, if not always,
somebody who knows whether that
thing is so or not and in these days
above all other days, we ought to take
rvo 1 n > + a Art f a t a a
y<Xi iCLl jjauis LU 1 COU1 I IU mc Ull5
small group of men or to the one
man, if there be but one, who knows
whether those things are true or not !
The world ought to know the truth, |
'but the world ought not at this period
of unstable equilibrium to be disturbed
by imaginative combinations of
circumstances, or rather by circumstances
stated in combination which
do not belong in common.
Hold the Balance.
"For you are folding now, I believe,
.% - '
you and gentlemen engaged liKe you,
the balance in your hand. This unstable
equilibrium rests upon scales
that are in your 'bands. For the food~
of opinion, as I began by saying, is
the news of the day. I have known i
many a man go off at a tangent on
information that was not reliable. In-!
-?V.r>+ xl/iortr-iKac +Viq mo fit !
uccvi, uiai xuto tiit- iuujui.vj I
men. T:e world is held stable by the
man who waits for the next day to
find out whether the report was true!
or not.
"We can not afford, therefore, to let |
the rumors of irresponsible persons
and origin get into the atmosphere
of the United States. "We are trustees
for what I venture to say is the
greatest heritage that any nation eiver
had the love of justice and right WV
O. ^ "U ,, r-? 1 4 Knvfx' "f 11 r? _
wusucss aiiu uuiiio.il nuci i??, wi luu
damentally those are the things to
which America is addicted and to
which she is devoted. There are
groups of selfish men in the United
States, to ere are coteries where sin- j
ister things are purposed, but the
great neart 01 me American peopie is
just as sound and true as it ever was.
And it is a single heart; it is the heart
of America. It is not a l:eart made up |
of sections selected out of other countries.
"So that what I try to remind my-!
self of every day when I am almost
overcome by perplexitie's, what I try!
to remember is what the people at
home are thinking about. I try to put
myself in the place of the one who
does not know all tJ:e things that I!
know and ask myself what he would ,
like the policy of this country to be.
Not the talkative man. not the partisan
man, not the man that remembers
first that he is a Republican or
Democrat, or that his parents were
Germans or English, but who rememI
bers first that the whole destiny of
modern affairs centers largely upon
his being (American first of all.
"If T permitted myself to be a partisan
in this present struggle I would
be unworthy to represent you. Tf I
permitted myself to forget the people
W'Vi r\ y* r\ -n of "nortiCQllC T Wmilrl "Kn TIP
*? nw a i c nut pax iiou**o x V***
worthy to represent you. I am not
saying that T am worthy to represent
you, but! do claim tf'is degree of
worthiness, that before everything
else I love America."
Mr. Wilson, "was introduced by
Frank B. Xoyes, president of the Associated
Press, and was the only
speaker.
A World News Service.
we are garnered .nere lonay. said
Mr. Noves. "the membership of what
is, I believe, in scope and importance
of activities the greatest cooperative
non-profit making organization in the
world. The function of the Associated
Press is to fnrnis''> its members a service
of world news that shall be untainted
and without bias of any sort.
"To ensure this we have formed an
A-rorovn7qfirm flint r?wnor? 'anrl rnn
trolled by its members and by them
alone, one that is our servent and riot
our master.
"So we are i^ere to'lav. Democrats
and Republicans, Protestants, Catholics
and .Tews; conservatives and radicals.
wets and drys. different on every
subject on which men differ, but all
one in demanding that so far as is
humanely possible, no trace of partisianship
and no hint of propaganda
shall be found in our news report.
"furnisnea wnn me news we are
quite able and more than willing individually
to supply the necessary
views.
"Thus by easy steps I '^ave come to
the fact that because of its traditions
and its code, and perhaps also because
of the never ceasing watchfulness
of 900 members, it has come to
pass t!vat few people on earth are capable
of giving tf:e management of
the Associated Press any points on
maintaining a strict though benevo
lent neutrality on all questions on
which we can be neutral and still be
what we are?loyal Americans'.
Pride in Impartiality.
"Wie point with pride to the years
and the occasion through which we
have balanced on every discoverable
fence.
"We know, too?none better?that
toe genuine neutral, the ! onest neutral,
is always the target of every
partisan and we find some solace that
this fact is now being demonstrated
to the world at large.
"Today, however, we willingly lower
our crest to one who has demonstrated
in these agonizing times his
mastership in t):e principles of true
neutrality, and who, fully realizing t'ae |
dreadful consequences of any depart-1
ure from those principles, has nobly
borne this terrible burden of respon- j
sibilitv in guarding the peace, the wel-'
fare and the dignity of our common
country.
"Our distinguished wuest may surely '
know that in tt';.e perplexities and trials
of these days so black for humanity, |
he has our thorough, loyal and affec
tionate support.
"God grant him continuing success
in his high aims for the peaceful prog-;
ress of the people of the United States. |
"At these annual gatherings it is'
our custom to offer but one toast.
"I ask you to drink to the health of
Woodrow Wilson, the president of the
United States."
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Friendship.
, How* little some see or feel in f .is
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there really is in it. Few there are
without friends, few of us 'have the
real, faithful friend for which the
j heart yearns. Whoever has worldly
j prosperity, 'has what the world terms
friends. But let the prosperous man
lose his wealth and the vast army of
i flatterers vanish as snow before a
warm sun. Or let one's character be
' charred a trifle, and scores will wait
to see the drift of public opinion and
will join in with the majority. When
one finds a friend to stand every test,
t'hen he has something to prize.
Among t'.ose most liable to be true
friends we name first our mothers,
sisters, fathers, brothers. Sometimes
we find these real friends among
; strangers, and a sacred tie binds heart
' to heart. The best friendship is always
Christlike, and the purest earthly
love is enjoyed only by Christians.
T e friendship of our Saviour is
never failing, and can be depended
upon. It is t/he only friendship we
are absolutely sure of having for the
asking, and 'by asking it, it is ours
for all eternity.
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I Home Happiness.
Home pleasures and happiness
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: Xo effort should be spared in trying
to make the home the dearest and
most attractive place on earth for each
one of its inmates. It ougf:t not to
be regarded simply as a place to eat
and drink, but a place of refuge, where
we can return at any time from the
trials and perplexities of the outside
world, and meet with lo'ving races
beaming with joy and happiness. No
mansion where discord reigns is equal
in attraction to the cottage where love
: is master.
Each member of the family should
unite in tr.e efforts to make home
pleasant and enjoyable; one discontented
and irritable member destroys
the comfort of a whole family, just
as a simple fault in painting spoils
the whole picture; therefore we must
endeavor to make ourselves pleasant
and agreeable at all times for this
reason, and fori the upbuilding of our
own characters. A christian resignation
and submission to all things
is essential to true and real happiness,
enabling us to be prepared for any
fate that may befall us, strengthening
both mind and body thereby.
Loving words and kind deeds must
be our safeguard at all times in making
home pleasant, for wLere love is
master, happinesses inevitable. How
unfortunate, indeed, are those persons,
the peace of whose homes has succombed
to the fashion and frivolities
of the age regardless of circumstances.
* * *
A vain woman is sometimes mistaken
when she t):inks the whole world
sees what she sees in her mirror.
* * *
Wliat has a greater influence over
man than a faithful, loving wife? And
on the other hand, wl:.ere is he, who
has a|faithful helpmate to surround
with 'b?Tly influences, that is so barren
of feeling would not be as equally a
cheerful and loving husband?
* * *
Good deeds, the loveliest flowers of
all, may blossom when the snow hides
the ground and the frost clouds the
pane.
* *
Some persons seem to think laugh
ing a smrui TaDii; or a very immvucsi
one. Never a beam of cheerfulness
brigntens their cadaverous countenances,
and the exhaling influences of
such persons cast a gloom of profound
sadness o-ver tfteir surroundings.
* *
The keynote in the management of
children is: Don't overmanage them.
Just let them alone and don't keep
t'liem in a worry abont*trifling things.
* * *
Careful, painstaking work sometimes,
seems pretty tough to you,
girls, but before you have passed half
way through life you will tfcank moth
er for having required it of you.
* *
Cleanliness is better than all disinfectants
known to science.
* *
The person who never makes a mistake
never makes anything.
* * *
There is no condition of life so low
but one may have hopes, and none so
high but may fcave fears.
* *
There are many hearts that would
be greatly benefitted and cheered by
more praise than they get in mis nie.
*
To feed the mind on evil thoughts
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of the General Assembly of tl:e Sratc?
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