“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.”
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Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.