Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-30
DALE BRINGS AP-
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PLAUsB AND TEARS.
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Well never win the war while tho u
boats sink twice the tonnage we can
build, while we haven't guns in
France except those we get from
France, while Italy can go down to
defeat for lack of guns.
"Weu never win this war or hope
to win it until, through men of vision
men of ability and efficiency, we send
our boys more guns and supplies than
they say they need.
Don't believe that Germany is
licked, either through the blockade or
through food shortage.
| Germany has dug herself in on 70
miles of western front and on that
line-by the use of guns, and guns
this war will be settled" (Long and
| loud applause.)
Referring to the U-boat menace,
Mr.. Dale said that it was the most
"cursed and devilish invention that
the brain of man had ever created -
Describing the CHEEKY greeting of
wounded soldiers, going back to En-
gland, as they sang "Pm Going
Home" and otis a Long, Long Way"
he told of the constant danger that the
black periscope of U-boat might
rise and menace that hospital ship.
back across the channel" said the
speaker, land I asked what a certain
light was that lowered over our
ships. "That's an airplane, our con-
vOy,' was the answer. And into my
mind came the words of that most
beautiful hymn by Cardinal New
man:
| Lead, kindly light, amid tn encirc-
ling gloom,
"3The night is dark and I am far
from home,
"Lead thou me on
"And then the final verse:
$3.50 long thy power has kept me,
sure it still
"'Wilt lead me on etc.
This strain of optimism was the
cheering thought that ran through
the fabric of the address, so strong
that at the end, a Rutland audience
noted throughout New England as
cold and undemonstrative-c
aloud "go on, go on" and applauded
for several minutes until the speak
er, both mutely and through the
chairman, implored the audience to
shave hearth
Expressed briefly, that optimism
played like an electric impulse
through his references to the spirit
of the French.
"Some say it was tactics; some say
it was a German error, but what
made the French victorious at the
Marine, at the Somme and at Yer
the Allies, that inspires them through
this awful hell of war. It is the
Spirit of God himself, and through
that Spirit the allies cannot fail"
CAT this point the applause was al
most deafening.)
eff the Hun had gone after the
channel ports of France" continued
the speaker, eff he had conducted
what was legitimate and honorable
warfare-if any such war can be
honorable-he might have swept
through northern France and cut it
off and held it as he has held Belgium
and eastern France. But he went
through Belgium, committed the vii
est and foulest international crime of
history-and failed.
"When that failed and the German
began to understand something of
the French character, he began to at
tribute it's force and power to super
stition-for in such light regard he
held the religion of the French-and
he resolved to batter down the visible
emblem of that religion.
"He said, Let us bomb and burn
and batter down and destroy his holy
places And so through Scissors,
Arras, Albert, Bapaume and Rheims
he swept and laid low the cathedrals
the sacred buildings of the French
people.
'EAt Rheims I saw a few little piles
of broken glass-all that is left of
the beautiful rose-window. l saw
few heaps of molten metal-all that
is left of those wonderful chimes that
sounded the Angelus through the
centuries, and, walking reverently
through that ruined cathedral 1 saw
the black-robed figure of the aged
cardinal, his spirit and his great
heart still unconquered!
II saw hundreds of soldiers, kneel-
ing devoutly among the ruins of their
churches-one of the most touching
scenes I saw in France and say to
you that again the Hun failed. He
has never even guessed at the depth
and strength Of the wonderful old
he has set it afre with flame that
burns today stronger, purer and
higher than ever before"
Speaking of the American troops
in France, Mr.. Dale said:-
81 was always proud that was an
American while in France, but was
particularly proud on three or four
occasions. One was at Verdun, when
the veterans of that terrible conflict,
men who salute acres and acres of
their heroic dead, grew enthusiastic
and animated when they spoke of the
entrance Of my nation into the war.
zone was in little, muddy, almost
ruined village, when a little French