FIVE APPEALS TO AMERICAN PATRIOTISM Declarltion of Independence Washington's Farewell Address Monroe's Seventh Annual Message Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech Wilson's War Message Issued by The Publishing Bureau of Hongwanji Mission Honolulu, T. Н. . July 1st, 1917 PREFACE Owing to the earnest admonitions of the representative of the Citizenship Educational Committee, our Hongwanji Mission began to take its part in the work of enlightening the young Japanese minds two years ago. To my great satisfaction, the first general meeting held at the Japanese High School under our auspices was a success. Since then we have been dcing our utmost to help out the work of the campaigners by counsel, suggestion, or taking the young men under our gidance to the meetings. We have now two representatives in the supervisory committee. That we have been unable to make particular and substantial contribution toward the end in view has been, however, my constant regret. Now is the time for those living in this country to be more than mere spectators. The life of gratitude and thanksgiving is a fundamental principle of our fellowbelievers. Today is the most opportune time to evoke this spirit in their minds, and thus we have begun our movement toward the control and conservation of food supplies. Since the United States has declared that a state of belligerency exists between this country and the German Empire, President Wilson has read his war-message before the joint session of Congress, and the War Bill for $7,000,000,000 has been rushed like a shot through the Legislature. America is now alive with patriotism. This affords a splendid opportunity for inspiring the American spirit in the sons of the soil, and the President's now famous proclamation with its elevated devotion to |