AN

AMERICAN INTERPRETATION

EDITED BY

CHRISTIAN GAUSS
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

AUTHOR OF "THE GERMAN EMPEROR AS SHOWN IN HIS

PUBLIC UTTERANCES”.

SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY

CHICAGO

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1917
BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
- Fred hewton Scott

12-13-27

CONTENTS

TIMOT ..........

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INTRODUCTION .....

LINCOLN—GETTYSBURG ADDRESS............. ................. 17

LOWELL-DEMOCRACY .

19.

CLEVELAND-THE MESSAGE OF WASHINGTON............ 49

ROOSEVELT-OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A NATION.... 59 -

WILSON—THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION OF

INDEPENDENCE ....

WILSON—THE AMERICAN OF FOREIGN BIRTH........

WILSON-AMERICA FIRST ..

............

WILSON—THE SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP..

WILSON—ABRAHAM LINCOLN ............ .................

WILSON—A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE.........

WILSON-MESSAGE TO CONGRESS............. .................113

WILSON-REQUEST FOR A GRANT OF POWER..............119

WILSON–WAR MESSAGE ............. ............... .126

WILSON—Flag DAY ADDRESS............ ................141

WILSON-REPLY TO THE POPE.............. .................151

LANE-WHY WE ARE AT WAR.... ..............156

Root—THE DUTIES OF THE CITIZEN..... .....................163

WILSON—WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS.....

" DEMOCRACY MEANS..........................182

WILSON-SECOND WAR MESSAGE.............................194

APPENDIX , ,

LLOYD GEORGE—THE MEANING OF AMERICA'S

ENTRANCE INTO THE WAR..........................209

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES......220

BIOGRAPHICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES................241