Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29
1OU ARE GOING OUT TO
VTNDICATE THE MAJESTY
OF THE u. S., SAYS McADOO


In addressing the soldiers in Tex
as training camp, Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo said:
We did not seek this war. 1t
was forced upon us. The Kaiser had
a notion that America would not
fight. He had been told so repeatedly
by spies and propagandists in this
country, and he actually believed that
he couldN insult this Nation, that he
could transgress its vital rights with
impunity and that American manhood
was so debased that we would not
strike back. But we have given him
the surprise OF his life. The thing
that is going to determine the issue
in this great war-and that issue is
really the vital question OF the future
of civilization itself--rests in the
stout hearts and the strong right arms
of you gallant men, You patriots who
are going out to achieve victory and
rescue the world from the blight OF
German oppression and military DOM
nation
i want to give you the assurance
that never were the American people
so determined as they are today and
that they are going to back you men
to the utmost limit
War LIS serious business, but, my
friends, there is nothing of such in
estimable value as liberty and indie
pendence and democracy There is
nothing more worth fighting and
dying for.
Until this war broke out, we had
supposed that it was impossible, in
the enlightened stage to which hui
hn1
worldwide cataclysm of this kind to
occur. 1t was an illusion. Strange
TO say, it was in these modern times
that despot was developed who rep
resenta in himself the combined lust
for dominion of Caesar, of Alexan-
der, of Hannibal and of Napoleon.
U. s. to ''See 1t Through
"Germany's military rulers set out
fifty years ago with the deliberate
purpose Of metamorphosfng the soul
of Germany, of changing the soul of
y great nation and making it believe
that force and not right is the COM
DeiIing power and ought to be the
governing power in the world. These
military autocrats have constructed
the most formidable military machine
ever created in the annals of time
AAAok 40 b44O ArStS10A bAIuk WE nave SOt
10 destroy if we would save this Ma
ton for ourselves and for posterfty.
That is the thing that America has
set out to do and she will never stop
until the job is done.
ut is glorious thing to die for
country. I envy the man who
gives his life to his country.
I do not care whether he
gives 1t in the serried ranks of the
Army or in the clash of fleets In the
Navy or in the uAdramatic toll Of
civil life, 1t Is glorious thing to die
for country. What nohler use can
n man make of his life than to trans
mute it into liberty for the benefit OF
mankind Such lofty sacrifice is the
one thing that makes civilization
worth while and fills the future with
promise-that man are willing to go
out and make the supreme sacrifice
FOR the rights of humanity. That is
what you men are going to do. You
are going cut to vindicate the majes-
ty OF America, the might of right,
and re-establish Civilization upon the
secure rock OF justice, humanity and
liberty.
II wish you all godBpeed, and
want you to know that there goes
with you, wherever you may be, the
affection of great people backed by
their determination to stay with you
to the death and until a triumphant
victory ia won -