“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.”
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We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?