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Show w EXTRACT8 FROM PRESIDENT'S SPEECHE8. Our President, with his command of language, clothes his thoughts most attractively. In his New York City ojicdi-ucs uts maue many iorcerul points on the spirit of justice which pervades the American people. We present a number of patritoic uttorances made by the President yesterday: yes-terday: No nation ever more Instinctively turned away from the thought of war than this nation. There ia no spirit of aggrandizement In America. But there is something that the American people love better than thoy do peace and that is the principles upon which their political life is founded. They are ready at any time for the vlndl-cation vlndl-cation of their character and their honor. They will at no time seek a contest, but they will at no time cra-venly cra-venly avoid it. If there is one thing the country ought to fight for it Is the integrity of ita conviction. America has more than once given evidence of the disinterestedness of its love of liberty and the world now knows that there is a nation that can sacrifice its own interests and Its own blood for the liberty and happiness of others. Plans for the readjustment of the army must be carried out without delay. de-lay. The outlook for the United Statos may not be as bright tomorrow as It is today. The Liberty and honor of the nation na-tion are even more important than peace. To Invade Mexico would mean the losing of the confidence of the rest of the western hemisphere. If we are drawn into the maelstrom now surging in Europe we shall not be permitted to do the high things we would prefer to do. We must prepare to defend our rights as a nation and the rights of citizens In America and outside of It; must Insure the unembarrassed realization reali-zation of our political economy of the Americas. We live In a world which we did not make and because we think differently dif-ferently from the rest of the world, It Is provincialism to assume that the rest of the world will permit us to enjoy that thought without disturbance. disturb-ance. America Is the treasure house of the world. She alone today Is free to help find things wherever they show themaelveB In the world. And she Is forced In the decades of the future to furnish the world with its chief economic eco-nomic guidance and assistance. We should examine ourselves and so order that the tasks Imposed upon us will be well performed. We can no longer be a provincial nation. The question of perfection of na-tional na-tional defense Is not a question of war or peace. Our first and primary oblig'ation Is the maintenance of the Integrity of our sovereignty. There Is also the maintenance of our liberty to develop our political Institutions without hindrance hin-drance and the obligation to stand as the strong brother of those In this hemisphere who will follow the same Ideals of liberty. If we should get into Mexico the rest of the Americas would look across the waters and not northward What America has to fear are flank movements upon nor position In the western hemisphere. Win the spirits of those to the south of us and you have won the only sort of safety that America covers. There Is going on an economic revolution. rev-olution. None knows what will happen hap-pen when the war Is over. One thing this country will never endure is a system called militarism. America Is going to use her army In two way3 for the purpose of peace and as the nucleus for expansion Into those things which she does believe In the preparation of her citizens to take care of themselves. We should have a system of voca- tional education under federal guidance guid-ance in which the youth will be given training in the application of the principles of science in maneuver and business. Think of asking men who can be drawn into the .field to furnish merely mere-ly the stuff for camp fever and the bullets of the enemy. |
