Douglas Island news., 1917-12-28
SEC. DANIELS
 ON AMERICANS
Cabinet Official Pays Glowing Trib- ute to Young Men of
 United States

Secretary Daniels in a recent ad- dress In New York said In purt
 "A few months ago there was a prevalent notion that American manhood had become soft and vas dominated by materialism. We saw tho young man immersed in busi- ness and pleasure, and we asked our selves "Is the youth of our day made of the same stun as the men of 'tG and of the sixties? There were many voices telling us of moral lab- biness. physical undtuss, and spir. ituaI death. They said tho only motto of today with American young men Is Get rich and have a good time. And there was a measure oi truth in this diagnosis, but thc grim business of war has already taught us that we had accepted tho life of the few us typical whom it was tue exception. Perhaps we would have always accepted this uufayorablc view Of the youth of our day. and thus wrougcd them, if there had not come time Of testing. But thc time came Co measure manhood. ls it soft or hard? Is it Of tho stern stuff that gave us Nathan Hale and Pau Revere? Or is 2; Iolcted Ar ericanism that lacks yirility and readiness Co die for principle?
 War Has Brought Answer
 "war has given the answer. The accepted mlsconcepton of the youth of today has been removed amid the perils of thc deep and in the liquid fire of the trenches. where American youths have freely given their lives. American yalor i'm 1917 is seen as we'll in the contonments and train- ng stations and on che ships where a million men are undergoing thc rigorous training to 1t them Co do the big task they will accomplish. Our sorrow oyer our earliest sacri- Aces in this war is assuagod by our pride that America possesses 1O,- 100000 valorous and chivalrous young men and more, ready to fight until the world is freed Of the mon stor of Military Autocracy which knows no law except
 Let him take who has the power
 And let him keep who can.
 Not a War of Hate
 "Wc have entered in this war with no passion, no envy, no prcj- udlces. no desire for anything that belongs to any other man or ma ton. No shibboleth of hate, or sem- blance of it, has been raised. When our ships have been ruthlossly sunk and women and children have been murdered, we have highly resolved to make the seas more safe and never to rest until the men respon- slble for these crimes are made im- potent to repeat them, but in an America there is no flame of rage, no passion for vengeance. no hatred of the people of Germany who have been made tho instruments of bcs- tial warfare. We have looked be- yond the men under the sea, whose pyratical acts shocked civilization, and we have seen that they were the pawns and agents of a Juggr- naut which compelled them to conn nit murder or to themselves face the death squadron.
 "A long imposed autocratic lm- periallsm has made German soldiers efficient vassals of vengeance. Now and then. as when certain sailors throw their captain overheard in the vain attempt to save their souls from under-sea slaughter of chil- dren. there has been an attempt to revolt against the most highly or- ganized tyranny the ingenuity of subsidized service could impose. But ingralned submission, trained skill in the use Of the weapons of War, and the certainty of cruel destruc- ton by even the whisper of protest to the enforced barbarism, have made the Kaiser's war machine potent thing of evil. We have seen this monster destroy small states. ravage peaceful territories, and seek to lnclte the whole world to se- dition and murder. But, deep as is our determination that the world shall never be dominated by force, 1t is the glory of AmeJica that its ..t.. t. tt, ,.rt,, ,F ,.oeoTrffor, o7,d