Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-12-07
Believes it is His Paramount
Duty to be Present at the
Peace Conference.
Much of Address Devoted to Rail-
road Problem. makes Appeal for
Woman Suffrage. endorses Plan
for Levying six Billion Dollar Tax
in 1919.

Gentlemen of the Congress: The year that
has elapsed since | last stood before you to
fulfill my constitutional duty TO give the
congress from time to time Information on
the state of the Union has been crowded
with great events, great processes and great
results that / cannot hope to give you an
adequate picture of its transactions or OF the
far reaching changes which have been
wrought in the life of our nation and OF the
world You have yourselves witnessed these
things, l have. 1t is too soon to assess
them and we who stand in the midst OF
them and are part of them less qualified
than men of another generation will be to
say what they mean or even what they have
been. But some great outstanding facts are
unmstakable and constitute IN a sense part
of the public business with which it is our
duty to deal. To state them is to set the
stage for the legislative and executive action
which must grow out of them and which we
have yet to shape and determine.
Reviews Troop Shipment.
year ago we had sent las, 1913 men over
seas Since then we have sent l,950,5l3, an
average of 1882 each month, the number
in fact, rising in May last to 245.95l, in
June to 27s,76o, in July to 307.ls2, and con-
tinuing to reach SIMILAR figures in August
and September-in August 2s9.57O and in
September 257.43s. No such movement of
troops took place before across 5000
miles of sea, followed by adequate equipment
and supplies, and carried safely through
extraordinary dangers of attack-dangers
which alike strange and infinitely diff
ficut to guard against. In all this move
ment only 1853 men were lost by enemy at
tacks $50 of whom upon a single
English transport which sunk near the
Orkney islands,
United Nation.
need not tell you what lay back of this
great movement of men and material. 1t is
not nvdous to say that back of 1t lay a
supporting organization of the industries OF
the country and all its productive activities,
more complete, more thorough in method and
effective in results, more spirited and unani-
nous in purpose and effort, than any other
great belligerent had ever been able to eff
feet We profited greatly by the experience
of the nations which had already been en-
gagged for nearly three years in the exigent
and exacting business, Their every resource
and every executive proficiency taxed to the
utmost. We the pupils. But learned
quickly, and acted with promptness and a
readiness of cooperation that justify our
great pride that we were able to serve the
world with unparalleled energy and quick
accomplishments.
Praise for Heroes.
But it is not the physical scale and execu-
tive efficiency of preparation, supply, equip
ment and dispatch that l would dwell upon,
but the mettle and quality of the officers and
men we sent over and of the sailors who kept
the and the spirit of the nation that
stood behind them. No soldiers sailors
ever proved themselves quickly ready
for the test of battle acquitted themselves
with more splendld courage anu achievement
when put to the test Those of who
played some part in directing the great
processes by which the pushed ire
sistibly forward to the final triumph may
now forget all that and delight our thoughts
with the story of what our men did Their
officers understood the grim and exacting
task they had undertaken and performed
with audacsty. efficiency and unhesitating
courage that touch the story of convoy and
battle with impershable distinction at every
turn, whether the enterprise were great or
smal-from their chiefs, Pershing and Sims,
down to the youngest lieutenant and their
men worthy of them-such men as
hardly need to be commanded. and go to
their terrible adventure blithely and with the
| quick intelligence of those who know Just
what it is they would accomplish am
| proud to be the fellow countryman of men
| Of such stuff and valor. Those of us who
| stayed at home did duty; the could
not have been won or the gallant men who
| fought it given their opportunity to win it
otherwise; but for many long day we
| shall think ourselves 'accurs'd not
| there, and hold our manhoods cheap while
| any speaks that fought with those at St.
| Mihiel Thierry. The memory of those
| fortunate men to their graves. and each will
| have his favorte memory. "Old men forget
yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember
| with advantages what feats he did that
| day."
Our Men Turned Tide.
| What we all thank God for with deepest
gratitude is that men went in force into
| the line of battle just at the critical moment
| when the whole fate of the world seemed to
hang in the balance and threw their fresh
strength into the ranks of freedom in time
| to turn the whole tide and sweep of the fate
| full struggle-turn it once for all, that
| thenceforth it back back, back for their
| enemies always back. again forward.
After that it only seant four months
| before the commanders of the central empires
! knew themselves beaten, and now their very
| empires are in liquidation.
Nobility of Purpose.
| And throughout it all how fine the spirit
of the nation was What unity of purpose
| what untring zeal. what elevation of purpose
| ran through all its splendid display OF
strength. its untiring accomplishment
| have said that those of us who stayed al
home to do the work of organization ano
supply will always wish that we had been
| with the men whom we sustained by our Ia
bor but never be ashamed. 1t has
been an inspiring thing to be here in the
midst of fine men who had turned aside from
every private interest of their and de-
voted the whole of their trained capacity to
| the tasks that supplied the sinews of the
| whole great undertaking The patriotism
| the unselfishness. the thoroughgoing devotion
| and distinguished capacity that marked theii
toisome labors. day after day. month after
| month. have made them fit mates and com
| rades of the men in the trenches and on the
sea. And not the here in Washington
| only. They have but directed the vast
| achievement. Throughout innumerable facto
ries. upon innumerable farms. in the depths
of coal mines and iron mines and copper
| mines wherever the stuffs of industry were
| TO be obtained and prepared, in the ship
| yards. on the railways, at the docks. on the
4 sea. in every labor that needed TO sus.
| tain the battle lines. have We'd with
each other to do their part and do it well
| They can look any man-at-arms in the face
| and say: I'VE also strove to win, and gave
| the best that in to make fleets
and armies sure of their triumph"
| Tribute to Women.
| And what shall we say of the women--oi
their instant intelligence. quickening every
task that they touched their capacity for or
ganization and cooperation. which gave theil
| action discipline and enhanced the effective
| ness of everything they attempted: their apti
| tude at tasks to which they had never before
| set their hands their utter self sacrific,
| alike in what they did and in what they
/ gave? Their contribution to the great result
| Is beyond appraisal. They have added a new
luster to the annals of American woman
| hood.
Equality for Reward
| The least tribute pay them is t.
! make them the equals of men in politica
| rights, as they have proved themselves theil
equals in every field of practical work they