The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-01
SETTLEMENT WITH GERMANY
DR.. Hornaday's "Logic of This War; Before
Canadian Club
Canadian Club

(American Defense Society,"
Out of the many thoughts that
come crowding into my mind it is diff
1cult to choose the few that may be
mentioned. But first of all I am re-
minded that few hundred miles
north of us there lies a great boun-
Diary line, quite undefended, line
5000 miles long. 1t never has been
violated. 1t never will be violated.
1t is safe because it represents gen.
tlemen's agreement. And by way of
contrast I am reminded of another
boundary which in July, 1914, came
prominently into the eye of the
world. 1t was in June, 1904, as
nearly as 1 can remember, that King
with Bloody William of Potsdam.
They met to express their mutual re-
gard of each other and to pledge
each other to the peace that then ex-
listed between their respective coun-
tries. They fell on each others necks
and wept glad tears of joy down each
others back. But Leopold happened
to catch Whit of the war1ike breath
Of William. It gave him a great
shock. He hurried back to Belgium.
He sent for his ministers and he said,
Look here, we must fortify our
frontier, and we must do it immedi-
ately." And King Leopold and his
people went straight to work and
strung a chain of forts on the boun-
dairy line between Belgium and Ger
manyf. King Leopold was pretty
wise man, even if he wasn't saint.
He knew hawk from a handsaW,
and he knew his Emperor William of
Germany a great deal better than the
rest of the world did except France.
France also established a boun-
Diary line of forts. Well. we had
rude awakening in July, 1914-that
is to say, France, Russia, England and
Canada did. France was the first to
awaken. England was next, with
Canada an absolute neck and neck
second.
I will not be1itt1e the magnificent
government of Canada and the people
of Canada by trying to trace what
that country has done UP to this day,
and it is certainly beyond the words
of man to adequately characterize
the glories that have been won by
the magnificent troops of Canada.
We on this side of the line have
watched the career of the Canadian
government and the Canadian people
Nand the magnificent Canadian troops.
We have watched you here and on the
other side with feelings of ency and
admiration. We have been proud of
the fact that we Americans live on
the same continent with the people of
Canada. And there was time when
onep lain speaking gentleman on this
side of the line said to his country
men, "Now, in heavens name If we
haven't got enough red blood in our
veins to go into this war and help lick
Germany and act the part of red
blooded men, then we had better ask
red blooded men to annex us to Can
ada"
AT last the American people awoke;
but, sad to say, the whole of the year
1914 and the year 1915 were lost to
thee ause of preparedness. God help
US, it was lost, And we are paying
| the penalty today. But there is an
old saying I thought of today. The
| American people are hard to arouse,
| that the American people are all right
| if you only get them awake. Now,
| this old saying that I was going to
mention is this: Beware of the pa
tient man. And I will add to that,
beware of the cold fury and the pa
tient patriotism of Woodrow Wilson,"
1t seemed to us that the time would
never come when we would enter in
| to do our part like great nation and
| like men, but it came. 1t came. It
was impossible for Wilson to declare
war Immediately after the Lusitania
was sunk, The American people were
not awake; they would not have sup
| ported him. But in his wisdom he
struck at the psychological moment,
| at the first moment when it was pos
| sible to go forward with all the Amer
lean people behind him except the
censpirators, the slackers, the traitors.
Bear this in mind, men of Canada
and people of the United States-the
people of the United States are in this
war to the everlasting finish:
Letters from all over the country
today. from the Pacific coast and
everywhere in between, prove that
fact conclusively, and there is no
doubt about it. The American people
are aroused at last: They are aroused
to the determination that the greatest
foe that civilization ever had since the
world began shall be thoroughly and
certainly licked and punished.
This is the message that I want to
give you.N 1t is in one sense a lesson
in logic. Now. facts are a good deal
like men. When you see men in citi-
! zens' clothes passing up and down the.
| street and mixing up all around you
| you are not impressed by the speeta-
| Gle. 1t is no spectacle at all. You
are not greatly impressed. But call
up these men. pick cut the best men
of the 1et-tf1e representative men
put uniforms en- them, organize them
| drill then-then what? You have
| the incarnation of human force. You
have spectacle SO fine that men run
to the sides of the street to feok upon
it, all because of the orderly array in
which these men are narsha1ed and
| arranged.
The facts of history, the facts OF
war-yesterday and today-are just
like that: If you only stop to marshal
the facts that you have, set them out
| in orderly array, spread them out be-
fore you like deck Of cards on the
tabie-face pp-you come to some
! irre4istih1e, inevitable conclusions.
The logic Of the facts of this war,
gentlemen, are as inexorab1e as death
and as indestructible as the 13-ineh
armor plate on battleship. Now,
that is what we want to get at, the
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