Show NO CONUESTSAYS GROVfR EXPRESIDENT IS I LINE WITH BRYAN Dangers That Threaten American Citizenship at This Time Coursa of New and Strange Adventure Princeton N J June 2L Grover j Cleveland delivered the annual Founders I Foun-ders day address of the commencement exercises of the Lawrencevllle school here today His address was entitled Good Citizenship and in the course ot his remarks he sid The American people are tempted every day and every hour to abandon their accustomed ways and enter upon a course of new and strange adventure Never before in our history have we bffen beset with temptations so dangerous danger-ous as those which now whisper in our ear alluring words of ccnquest and expansion ex-pansion and point out to u fields bright in glory I only recently saw avery a-very useful book entitled Dont I contained a statement of numerous things which should not be done I am inclined to adopt the plan of this book to the extent of cautioning you against the Imperfect ideas of civic duties and warn you against certain dangers which threaten the soundness and safety of true American citizenship and which especially at this particular time to He in wait for us tr seem le wat on even t side Continuing he said You will prob atly be led by your reflections and studies to the conclusion that our government gov-ernment was formed for the express purpose of creating in a new world anew a-new nation the foundation of which should ba mans selfgovernment whose safety and prosperity should be secure in its absolute freedom from old world complications and in its renunciation of all schemes of foreign conquest and whose mission should be the subjection of civilization and industrial occupation of the vast domain in which it ha taken roct I you believe these things do not permit any accusation of ultra and progressive conservatism to trouble you I then the suggestion is made i that the time has come for our nation I to abandon its landmarks and to follow t low the lights of monarchial hazards and that we should attempt to employ the simple machinery of our population I and domestic government to serve the schemes of imperialism your challenge I of the proposition is entirely In order I you are satisfied that foreign conquest I I con-quest and unnatural extension or annexation I nexation are dangerous perversions of i our national mission and If it shall stem to you in the light of reason ad I history that such positions bring in I their train a peoples demoralization I and a decay of popular content more i surely destructive to the republic than I armies with banners you will not necessarily nec-essarily be wrong In the presence of our present predicament I pre-dicament of war we need have no fear that American courage in battle will fail to bring usvictory but I pray you I not t forzet that when the clash of arms is stilled and the courage of the I soldier h9 done its work we shall greatly need in dealing with a problem I that will confront vs a steady and uncompromising un-compromising moral courage which I unmoved br clamor and undisturbed by the excitement of triumph will de rand the things that true American I citizenship desires to be right and just and safe I |