2. To maintain law and order.
3. To foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent. Americanism.
4. To preserve the memories and incidents of our association in
the Great War.
5. To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the
community, state and nation.
6. To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses.
7. To make right the master of might.
8. To promote peace and good will on earth.
9. To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of
justice, freedom and democracy.
10. To consecrate and sanctify comradeship by devotion to mutual
helpfulness.
This is the program and platform of the wonderful organization
whose potential membership is the four million and more men who
wore their country's uniform in the war.
It is big enough and broad enough to admit every man and woman
who joined the colors. If, as has been intimated, there are some
few ex-service men who think they see in this tremendous
movement something personal and partisan, they should take the
blinders off, forget their unworthy fears, and come out into the
open with their comrades, determined, as every man is who has
already joined, that the American Legion will never be made the
vehicle of personal ambition nor the creature of partisan
purpose; but will be conserved to foster and promote only those
high purposes which are so nobly defined in the language which
is quoted above, taken bodily from the constitution of the
Legion.
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