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Show I GREAT OVATION- I GIVEN WILSON IPJ .Thousands Applaud Him on I III the Streets of Omaha Thea- I ! ter Crowd Enthusiastic. H ; Omaha, Neb., Oct. EpPresidcnt III! Wilson received what his political HI i lieutenants characterized as the great- I I est reception of his career. Ho tie - I ' dared for the "unshackling of Amer- I j 1 iican busineBB in order that i ma I) rneet the competition of the world aft- 91 Iff er tho European war and cited legis- III I lation of his administration as going II) ; far in this direction. Ill I' I Tho president was cheered during II I the day by crowds estimated at many II ! thousands. The size of the crowds III j and the enthusiasm shown far ex- II ceeded anything he has experienced 1 since his Inauguration. Thousands of I I people from near-by cities and states If packed Omaha's streets and shouted IS frantically every time Mr. Wilson ap- peared. It was an Impressive dom-I dom-I onstration, which greatly Pleased the III f president and his political advisers. l!J ' In Campaign Mood. 19! i While Mr. Wilson made no distinct-I distinct-I ly campaign speeches he nevertheless i I was In campaign mood Snfillng con III stantly, he shook hands with thou I Sb of People, patted babies on the I head waved his hat to enthusiastic I admlre78 and entered thoroughly into II the spirit of Nebraska's semi-centen- ( II I nial celebration. , j f m his afternoon speech the presi I dent declared dramatically that after I the European war the United States I I will live In a new ago. "For the next I decade he said, "we have got to I ?EV world That alters every J commercial question; it alters every I I exports stimulated by the war.'' I ' President Wilson declared at to- 1 nl JhtTdinner that he had been great- I Typleased by the reception accorded j I hlmTrnfyplannI brain is ; lv the people of Nebraska. m Uproar of Cheering. D Seldom before has the president re-B re-B celved Sen an uproar of JeerinB as S ereeted him from thousands of peo-il peo-il Slacking the Omaha auditorium toll to-ll S tfit The applause was sharp and I ei? splltSSg. He rose several time. and bowed, smiling broadly. Calls I f three cheers for our next presi- i I the crowd wetmeS'everal Thousand t IjIi en were present, several ;"UUD r I Mople packed the street outside. For i Lveral minutes there were such calls as "Who kept us out of ( i "Who prevented the stnKe. v Wnson-'Who saved the nation? f Governor Morehead of Nebraska i introduced the president. Every men- Uon o? Mr. Wilson's name evoked ap- J I-"It would be very ditncu J - tbe PhHiPPloes d Porto Wco "BIer S'Sn Silt inevitably In "we have been caugBi iu orld. the net ot e polttlc ot he J or 2Si ,J$St plains are "These great cen", S he 8aW, unlike either h 'oa6t many adding that on the Fac mc c the ST? hite m the Atlantic coast Orient, while on e some- the Influences o Europe times felt. , of Sp,r,t. rrr;s - ' P The president was .thank applause and shouts of "We thank yThe causes of the European war the president said, are not plainly Europe should understand j he said. "We are holding off he-erase he-erase when we use tho force of this nation, we want to fcnow what we are using it for. Fight In America. "There is as much fight in America as any nation in the world. Hla "Wo want always fo hoia me iorcw Iff of America to fight for the rights of mankind, not for the rights of prop-It prop-It erty. But in fighting for these things fl we Bhould know what tho touchstone li is. We must have absolute alleging allegi-ng . ance to America. We must be truly llll American. The rights of humanity H' are the essence ot freedom. 4 "Wo want all the world to know h that we are ready to use all our force HI to maintain peace among mankind. Kl The starting of wars can never again 1113 ne tne Private concern ot any one ljj nation. We must use all our force, Iff moral and physical, to uphold a Jf( league of nations, to uphold the peace llll o this world." l The president declared there was lilH no use fighting over petty things. He discussed the attitude of George lljy Washington on entangling alliances, HI saying he did not believe Washing- III ton meant the United States should Hi not'eome into contact with the world. 1 1 II Night Speech. Ill The president's night speech fol- j lows, in part: Until 1890 between us and the Pacl- Mlll fio there were empty spaces. There 11(1 were lines that represented a frontier, IHIl and tho process, the tidal process of II ( K American history, had not ceased, fid CBut tho census takers of 1890 reported Hi I thaitheycouldinotimy-loerdraw any frontier within the United States. nd since then what has been golny on has not been the extensive processes proc-esses that preceded, but the intensive processes drawing their life together in some places in very hot contact, creating the heat and hurry and excitement ex-citement of our cities, spreading our populations more and more over the quiet agricultural spaces, going bow-cling bow-cling Into the earth where tho great I mountains lifted themselves over the mineral resources of tho far west. And from that time to this America has taken on a new aspect. It Is not by accident. I take it, my fellow citizens, that only eight yeare elapsed before we got Into politics of the world. It was In 1898, you remember, that the Spanish war canfe. It was as If America had, In some rough and ready sort, completed this Internal process and now loked with pity upon other peoples near at hand less fortunate than themselves, looked with pity upon the conditions of men struggling strug-gling for some kind and part of the light of liberty in the neighboring Island Is-land of Cuba, interested themselves In afalrs which heretofore they had taken no heed of. And then tho Spanish Span-ish war startled us by its consequences. conse-quences. Wo had, as it were, touched a hous eof cards and it had collapsed and when the war was over we found the guardianship of Cuba, the posses sion of Porto Rico, the possession of the Philippines in our hands. And that frontier which no man could draw upon this continent in 1890 had been flung across the sea 7000 miles to the untrodden forests of some part of the Philippine islands. Ever sinco then we have been caught inevitably in the net of the politics of the world. Our Future Duty. So what I want to present to you tonight, my friends, Is tho picture, so far as I can, of our present and future fu-ture duty as Americans. It is not an easy thing to do. No man can speak with confidence upon so great a theme as that. You can only see hero and there an obvious aspect of it. but it is very important that wo should realize real-ize that the things that used to go on In Nebraska have to go on In a new way for a new purpose. Nebraska Ne-braska wns once, as I have phrased it, the melting pot In which the various vari-ous elements of America were fused together for the purpose of American life. Now, it is our great duty to fuse the eloments of America together-er together-er for the purpose of the life of the world. It would be reasonable to expect that some of the intensity of that process would center m communities like this. Inevitably, because of geographical geo-graphical reasons, if no other. These great central plains and valleys of the continent are unliko the states of either coast. On tho Pacific, Influences Influ-ences are at work which constantly remind the people of that coast region of the confused and perplexed politics poli-tics of the Orient Men are aware there of what is going on in the far east, and every breath that blows off the Pacific seems to bring them rumors ru-mors of some subtle influence in politics poli-tics about which they ask many questions ques-tions and conjecture many answers. On the eastern coast there are still felt more vividly,. I dare say, than you feel them, the influences of the old world of Europe. Not as old as the world of the Orient, but more nearly akin to us easier to understand, more Influential upon our life because out selves, were drawn. Not a single stock of Europe has failed to contribute to the variety of America, and out of this varied stock composed something that Is now part of Europe and is only a part and is an intensified part of America which we love. Programme Needed. We had a programme for America in respect of its domestic life and we shall not forget that programme, but we have never yet sufficiently formulated formu-lated our programme for America with regard to the part she Is going to play in the -world, and it is imperative impera-tive that she should formulate it at once. But in order to carry out a programme you must have a unification unifica-tion of spirit and purpose in America which no Influence can invade. There Is no use having a programme unless you have a concerted and united force behind the programme, and you can reverse the proposition and say that you cannot have a programme until you have got a unified force. Because only such a force can conceive a self-consistent self-consistent programme. In making that programme, what are we going to say to ourselves? And what are we going to say to the world? It Is very important that the statesmen of other parts of the world should understand America, America has held off from the present conflict with which the rest of the world is ablaze, not because she was not interested, inter-ested, not because she was indifferent, but because the part she wanted to play was a different part from that. Singularity of the War. "The singularity of the present war is that its origin and objects have never been disclosed. They have obscure ob-scure European roots which we do not know how to trace. So great a con. flagratlon could not have broken out if the tinder had not been there and the spark in danger of falling at any time. We were not the tinder. The park did not come from us. It will take the long inquiry of history to ex. plain this war. But Europe ought not to misunderstand us. Wo are holding off, not because we do not feel concerned, con-cerned, but because when we exert tho force of this nation we want to know know that we have always remembered remem-bered and revered the advice of the great Washington, who advised us to avoid foreign entanglements. By that I understand him to mean avoid being entangled in the ambitions and the na. tional purposes of other nations. It does not mean, if I may be permitted to venture an interpretation of the meaning of that great man it does not mean that we are to avoid the en tanglemonts of the world, for we are part of the world and nothing that can bo indifferent to us. We want always al-ways to hold the force of America to fight for what? Not merely for the rightB of property or of national ambition, am-bition, but for the rights of mankind. Nothing that concerns the essential rights of mankind can be foreign or Indifferent to us. But in fighting for these things, my fellow citizens, we ought to have a touchstone. We want to have a test. We ought to know whenever we act what the purpose Is. what the ultimate goal is. Rights df Man First. "Now the touchstone is this: On our own part absolute singleness of heart and purpose in our allegiance to America and then a Justification of that allegiance to America by holding the doctrine that is truly American, that the states of America were 6et up to- vindicate the rights o-man and not the rights of property or tho rights of self-aggrandizement and aggression. Property we have found to be the in. dispensable foundation of stable institutions, insti-tutions, but the rights of humanity are 1 1 the essence of free institutions and nothing can take precedence of .them. "So that when we look forward to the years to come I wish I could say the months to come to the end of this war wo want all tho world to know that we are ready to lend out-force out-force without stint to the preservation of peace in the Interest of mankind. The world is no longer divided into little circles of Interest. The world no longer consists of neighborhoods. The world Is linked together in a common life and Interest such as humanity never saw before and the starting of wars can never again be a private and individual matter for- the nations. What disturbs the life of the whole world is the concern of the whole world and it is our duty to lend the full force of this nation, moral and physical, to a league of nations which shall see to it that nobody disturbs the peace of the world without submitting his case first to the opinion" of mankind. man-kind. When you are aBked, 'Aren't you willing to fight?' reply, yeBf you are waiting for something worth fight ins for. -You are not-looldns about oi petty quarrels, but you are looking i about for that sort of quarrel within whose intricacies are written all the texts of the rights of man; you are looking for some cause which will ele-vate ele-vate your spirit, not depress it; some cause In which It seems a glory to shed human blood, if it be necessary, so that all the common compacts of liberty may be settled with the blood of free men. How to Die. "Every man has to die. It is done only once and, being a single and dis-tinguished dis-tinguished act, it ought to be done for a single and distinguished purpose. It ought to be thrilled through with the purpose of life, so that as a man lived and loved, so he may die, striving for the things which put all the corpus-cles corpus-cles of his blood into shouting shapo whenever great things were proposed. I "You see, therefore, I think what the thrill of suggestion in the mem. ories of Nebraska is for me when I think of this nation as a whole. "It has been necessary for nearly four years past, my fellow citizens, for me to think of America as a whole, not to think of nay special position, not to think of any special sympathy; merely to try toconceive in my own heart what the America that you and :I love is, what It has been and what t ought to be; to try to guldo the counsel of this nation so that men may see afterward stamped upon tho conduct con-duct of that time some guiding principle, prin-ciple, some ruling passion of the mind, some persistent conception of what America stands for, so that along the horizon, under the dark, murky clouds of doubt that have shadowed our time, there may appear a gleaming, clear light of a day that is going to dawn when the liberties of mankind shall have behind them the united force and affection of all the people of the world." n n . |