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World Must R The Vo, Must Know, Wilson T That Whatever Thi Means. Divided to Be T West Point, X. Y., June 12.?Presi-1 dent Wilson, making his first address ! Eince the presidential campaign 'be-1 gan, today discussed preparedness, I militarism, Americanism, the causes of the war in Europe, peace, the Monroe 'doctrine, divided allegiance and the ideals of America. He declared it is the present imperative duty of! the United States to be .prepared, adding, "Mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what! she says." The president 6aid the United States should not be a blustering nation, a nation with "a chip on its shoulder,* hut a calm nation which will withVinnrl a 1 nn rr OO nnCeihlo dlVIU 1L t> iiauu CIO 1VJL15 uo 1?MV4 strike only for justice. The president's address ran through the almost entire list of subjects discussed by Former Justice Hughes in his telegram accepting the Republican nomination, arid he declared that the United States is ready to join with other nations to see that the kind of i f KaliAXTfici id ?riVATl JlJ'SllWC lb uciltrto J.JLX in c- . Shaking his finger emphatically, the 1 president told the graduates of the military academy and a large audienec. that nobody who does rot put America first can be tolerated. He added, however, tliat true Americans should set a good example. The president declared the present war did not come by accident, but that it had come. The United States wants nothing from Europe, he said, and there is nothing she wants that she must get by war. He sounded a wrrning that no man can tell what the next day will bring forth in the world's events. j The v.ord "Americanism" was used -ioday 'bv the president for the first time in recent addresses. He con* stantly referred to the West Point graduates to whom he was speaking, tout Yeferred mere to national r.nd in-1 ternational problems. He warned the graduates against militarism. The I president's speech was frequently interrupted ?by applause and he was cheered as lie concluded. The text of the president's speech follows: Time of Responsibility. "I. look upon this body cf men -wlio are graduating today with a peculiar interest I feel like congratulating them that they are liv lug in a day not only so mteresiiug j because fraught <v;ith change, but also | (because so responsible. Days of'responsibility are the only days that ?ount in time, because they are the only days that give test of quality. They are the only days when manhood and purpose is tried out as if by fire. "I need not tell you young gentle men that you are not liKe an orai-1 nary graduating class of one of our j universities. The men in those clrsses look forward to the life -which they are to lead after graduation with a great many questions in their mind. (Most of .them do not know exactly what their lives arc going to develop into. Some of them do not know what occupations they ore going to follow. All of them are conjecturing what will be the line of ' -3 A "I - - I v dutv and advancement ana tut; i ultimate goal of success for them. "There is no conjecture for you. You have enlisted in something that does not stop when you leave the academy, for you then only begin to j realize it, which then only begins to S be filled with the full richness of j ifo tv, o<j nin cr onH Vrtll look fOT- I A * O ^ ward with absolute certainty to the sort of thing that you will he obliged to do. "This has always Deen true or graduating classes at West Point, hut the certainty that ^some of the older classes used to look forward to was a <very dull certainty. "Some of the old days in the army, I fancy, were not very interesting days. Sometimes men like the present chief of staff, for example, could fill the lives with the interest of really knowing and understanding the Indians of the Western plains, knowing what was going on inside of their minds and heing able to be the intermediary "between them and those who , dealt with them hy speaking their! sign language could enrich their lives hut the ordinary life of an ordinary I officer at a Western post could not! liave been very excitiner. and I think ! . v.ith admiration of thoce dull years: through which officers who had not a ! J j ecognize ! i ice of America i ells West Point Lads,' I s Country Says, ? it r Allegiance Not olerated great deal to do insisted nevertheless j upon being efficient and worth while' nnri kppm'ncr their men fit at anv rate for the duty to which they were assigned. Many Thing's Ahead. "But in your case there are manyextraordinary possibilities, because, gentlemen, no man can certainly tell you what the immediate future is going to be either in the history of this country or in the history of the world. It is not by accident that the present great war came in Europe. Every element was there and the contest had to come sooner or later and it is not going to be by accident that the results are worked out, but by purpose?by the purpose of the men who are strong enough to have guiding minds and indomitable wills j when the time for decision anc set- { tlement comes. "And the part that the United States is to play has this distinction in it, that it is to be in any event a disinterested part. There is nothing I that the .'United States wants that it j [ has to get by war, but there are a; | great many things that the United States has to do. It has to see that } its life is not interfered "with by anyi bcdy else who wants something. "These are the days when we are | making preparation, when the thing ! most commonly discussed around ; every sort of table, -'1. every sort of i circle, in the shops and in the streets, is preparedness, and un' doubtedlv, gentlemen, that is the ' present imperative duty of lAmcrica, I to 'be prepared. But we ought to know what we are preparing. I remember hearing a wise man say once that the old maxim that 'everything comes to the man who waits' is all I very well provided ne Knowo waat ae is waiting for and preparedness might be a very hazardous thing if we did not know what we wanted to do with the force that we mean to accumulrte and to get into fighting shape. j ' I Knows Its Mind. ! "America, fortunately, does know i what she wants to do with her force. I America came into existence for a particular, reason. When you look about upon these beautiful hills and up this stately stream and then let your imagination run over the whole body of this great country from which you youngsters are drawn, tar ana wide, you remember that while it had aboriginal inhabitants, while there were people living here, there was no civilization which we displaced. It was as if in the providence of God I a continent had been kept unused and waiting for a peaceful people who loved liberty and the rights of men more than they loved anything els<? i to come and set up an unselfish commonwealth. It is a very extraordinary thing. You are so familiar with American history, at any rate in its | general character, I don't accuse yo'i of knowing the details of it, for I never found the youngster who did? but you are so familiar with the general character of American history that it does not seem strange to you, ? ~ HP Vl Qrn i DUt II is a very strungc: uiswi _>. jiii&it. , is none other like it in the whole annals of mankind?of men gathering out of every civilized naton of the world on an unused continent and building up a polity exactly to suit themselves, not under the domination 'of any ruling dynasty or of the ambitions of any royal family; doing what they pleased with their own life 1 ,1 ?VlQC On a. iree space i>i lanu >viiitu uuu ms.de rich with every resource which was necessary for the civilization they meint to build up. There is nothing like it Now what we are preparing to do is to see that nobody mars that, [ and that, being safe itself against in- j tereference from the outside, all its force is going to be behind its moral idea and mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says. I heard a man say to another, 'If you wish me to consider you witty I must really trouble you to make a joke/ "We have a right to - 41? y-L-P montin^ (T f vnil Set V T.O ULIC I CSC Vi ~ ? don't want to interfere with us; if you are disinterested, we must really trouble you to give the evidence of that fact.' We are not in for anything selfish and we want the whole mighty power of America thrown into that scale, and not into any other. The Difference Plain. "You kno-w the chief thing that is holding many people hack froia ftn-j , f thus;.:srn for wnat is called prepared- 1 ness is the fear of militarism. J want ; to say a word to you young ge;itle- | men about militarism. You're not a j militarist uecause you are muiiarv. i Militarism does not" consist in the J existence of an army/not even in the j existence of a very great army. Mili-! tarism is a spirit. It is a point of vie-v | It is a system. It is a purpose. The!, purpose of militarism is to use armies j, fr.r agression.- The SDirit of mili-! tarism is the opposite of the civilian spirit?the citizen spirit. In a country , where militarism prevails, the mili tarv man looks down upon the ciwi- , lian, regards him as inferior, thinks of nim as intended for his, the military man's support and use and just so long as America is America that < spirit and point of view is impossible 1 io o o in thio PA1111. Willi UO. 1 UV4 ^ *0 a.0 J VI, x xx bUig VVTV4M try, so far as I can discover, no taint J of the spirit of militarism. 1 "You young gentlemen are not pre- > ferred in promotion because of the t families you belong to. You are not i drawn into the acadcmy because you < belong to certain influential circles. < You do not come here with a Ion-? 1 tradition of military pride back of 1 you. You are picked out from the j citizens of the United States to be that part of the force of the United , States which maker; its polity safe against interference. You are the part of American citizens v;ho say to those who would interfere: 'Y'ou must not' and 'Y'ou shall not.' But you are American citizens and the idea I want to leave with you iboys today is this: No matter wliat comes always remember that first of all you are citizens of the United (States before you are officers and that you are officers because you represent in your particular profession what the citizenship of the United States stands for. ^ - nn 1Uam tan r lriye xugeuicr. "There is no aanger of militarism if you are genuine Americans and 1 j far one do not doubt that you are. When you begin to have the militaris' .,r\t +V10 militQTv cnirif th>lt j Lie 5|?il U :i]Vt tuv ^^* w, t , is all right?then begin to doubi. | whether vou are Americans or not. "You know that one thing in which j cur forefathers took pride was this, that the civil power is superior to the military power in the United States. Once and again the people of the United States have so admired some great military man as to make nim president of the United States when he became commander-in-chief of all the forces of the United States, but he -was commander-in-chief because he was .president, not because he^ had been trained to arms, and his authority was civil, not military. I can teach you nothing of military power, but 1 am instructed by the constitution 10 use you for constitutional and patriotic purposes. 'And that is the only use you ought to care to be put to, because after all what is the use in being an American if you do not know what it is? "You have read a great deal in the books about the pride of the old Roman citizen -who always felt like "drawing himself to bis full beigkt when be said, 'I'm a Roman,' but as j compared with the pride that must have' risen to his heart our pride has a new distinction, not the distinction of the mere imperial power of a great empire, not the distinction of being masters of the world, but the distinction of carrying certain lights of the world that the world h'as never so distinctly seen before, certain pniidir^tr iiorhtof libertv and orinciDle 0vt.?v?Xi?2 --O ? W- * and justice. A World Race. "We have drawn our people, as you know, from all parts of the world and we have been somewhat disturbed recently, gentlemen, because some of those?though I believe a very small number?whom we have , drawn into j our citizenship have not taken into; their hearts the spirit of America and I have loved other countries more than [ they loved the country of their adoption "We have talked a great deal about Americanism. It ought to be a matter of pride with us to know what Americanism really consists in. Americanism consists in utterly believing the principles of America and putting them first as aibove anything that might by chance come into compe tition with it. And I for my part 'believe that the American test is a spiritual test. If a man has to make excuses for what he has done as an American I doubt bis Americanism. He ought to know at every step of his action that the motive that lies behind what he does is a motive which no American need be ashamed of for a j moment. iNow we ought to put this test to every man we know. iW'e ought to let it he known, that nohody who does not put (America first can consort with us. But we ought to set them the example. We ougnt to set tliem the example by thinking American thoughts; by entertaining American purposes and those thoughts ami ' purposes will stand tae test of ox - ; ample ar.y v. he: ; in the world for they are intended for the be:: .-rim-n: <?:' ma:.kind. o u i ua ? v, v u 11 u' LU a .v in v?7C i v: >? words to you today, gentlemen, for j a double purpose?first of all. to ex- : press my personal good wishes lo | you in your graduation and my' personal interest in you. and, second i of all, to remind you how we must | all stand together in one spirit as j lovers and servants of America. And j that means something more than j lovers and servants merely of the j ['nited states. i ! For World Service. "You have heard of the Monroe ioctrine, gentlemen. You know that I kve are aireaay spiritual partners witn both continents of this hemisphere i and that America means something, >vhich is bigger even than the United States and that we stand here with :he glorious power of this country! 1 "eady to swing it out into the field }f action whenever iiberty and inlependence and political integrity are :hreatened anywhere in the Western i lemisphere. "And "we are ready?nobody has authorized me to say this, but I am j sure of it?we are ready to join with the other nations of the world in seeing that the kind of justice prevails ' anywhere that we believe in. ? "So that you are graduating today, gentlemen, into a new distinction. 1 Glory attaches to all those men whose nnmp? yvp love tn recount wTin havp made the annals of the American ! army distinguished. They played! the part they were called upon- to play with honor and with extraordinary character and success. I am congratulating you, not because you will ?e better than they, .but because you will have a wider world of thought and conception to play your nort in V T a m a n imoripan hll f pui i. ui, x aui uu Avuiji, v" v do not believe that any of us loves a blustering nationality, a nationality with a chip-on its shoulder; a nationality with its elbows out and its swagger on. We love that quiet, self-respecting, unconquerable spirit which does not strike until it is necessary to strike and then strikes to conrrnor Vpvor cinr-o T wuc n vnnn.2rstPr have I been afraid of the noisy man. I have always been afraid of the still man. I have always been afraid of the quiet man. I had a classmate at college who was most dangerous when he was most affable. When he was maddest, he seemed to have the sweetest temper in the world. 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