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Show FOREIGN CITIZEHS WARNEDBYWILSaii CITIZENS OF FOREIGN BIRTH ADVISED NOT TO OPPOSE NATION'S PURPOSE. President in Memorial Day Address Urges Voluntary Military Service and Defends Proposed Alliance of Nations to Enforce Peace. Washington. President Wilson delivered de-livered a Memorial day address here on May 'M, in which he defined the spirit of America, warned citizens of foreign birth not to set themselves against the purposes of the nation, called upon young men to perform voluntary vol-untary military service, and defended liis recent su,';gestiin for an alliance of nations to preserve peace. He spoke at Arlington National cemetery before an audience made up largely of civil war veterans, who applauded him vigorously. A summary of President Wilson's Memorial day address at Arlington follows : "America must come first in every purpose we entertain and every man must count upon being cast out.uf our confidence, cast out even of our tolerance, tol-erance, who does not submit to the great ruling principle. "We are not only ready to co-operate, but we are ready to light against eny aggression, whether from within or without. We are ready to fight for our rights when these rights are coincident coin-cident with the rights of man and humanity. hu-manity. "America does not want any additional addi-tional territory. She does not- want eny selfish advantage over any other nation in the world, but she does wish every nation in the world to under-Bland under-Bland what she Btands for and to re-epect re-epect what she stands for. "I shall never myself consent to an entangling alliance, but I would gladly glad-ly assent to a disentangling alliance, an alliance which would disentangle the peoples of the world from those combinations in which they seek their own separato and private interests and unite the people of the world upon a basis of common right and Justice. "It is all very well to say that somebody some-body else must prepare, but are the business men of this country ready to lend a hand? "I for my part do not entertain any serious doubt of the answer to these questions, because I suppose there is no place in the world where the compulsion com-pulsion of public opinion is more Imperative Im-perative than it is in the United States. And now all the people of the United States are watching each other. There never was such a blazing blaz-ing spotlight upon the conduct and principles of every American as each one of us now walks and thinks in. And as this spotlight sweeps its relentless re-lentless rays across every square mile of the territory of the United States, I know a great many men who are going to stand up and say 'Here!' because America is aroused, roused to a self-consciousness and a national self-consciousness that she has not had in a generation. "The war in Europe has done a very natural thing in America. It has stirred the memories of men drawn from many of the belligerent stocks. It has renewed in them a national feeling which had grown faint under the soothing influence of peace, but which now flares up when it looks as If nation had challenged nation to a final reckoning and they remember the nations from which they were sprung and know that they are in this life and death grapple." |
