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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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officer at a Western post could not!
liave been very excitiner. and I think !
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v.ith admiration of thoce dull years:
through which officers who had not a !
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ecognize !
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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'
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, 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
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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.
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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
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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. He
would aprpoaeh you with a most ingratiating
smile and then you knew
that every red corpuscle in his 'blood
was up and shouting. If you work
tTiino-s nff in vour elbows vou do not
work them off in your mind; you do
not work them off in your purpose.
So my conception of America is a
conception of infinite dignity, along
with quiet, unquestionable pow?r. I
a?k you, young gentlemen, to join
with me in that conception and let
us all in our several ^spheres be soldiers
together to realize it.
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