The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-26
this war was entered BY the United
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this war was entered BY the United
States"
Knew What Was Expected.
"You knew what we expected OF
you and you did it. / know what you
and the people at home expected Of
me; and am happy to say, my fell
low countrymen, that i do not find in
the hearts Of great leaders with whom
It is my privilege now to cooperate,
any difference Of principle or of funda-
mental purpose. It happened that it
was the privilege Of America to pro-
sent the chart for peace and now the
| process Of settlement has been rem
dered comparatively simple by the
fact that all the nations concerned
have accepted that chart and by the
application of these principles the
world will now know that the nations
that fought this war as well as the sol
J diers who represented them are ready
to make good, not only In the asser-
ton Of their own interests but make
good In the establishment of peace
upon the permanent foundation of
right and Of justice. Because this is
not war in which the soldiers Of the
free nations have obeyed masters. You
have commanders, but you have no
masters Your very commanders rep
resent You in representing the nation
Of which you constitute so distin-
guished a part. And the kind Of peo-
pie and everybody concerned In the
settlement knows chat it must be q
peoples peace and that nothing must
be done in the settlement of the issues
Of the war which is not as handsome
as the great achievements of the
armies OF the United States and the
allies
No Retreat.
1T liz difficult, very difficult, men, In
any formal speech Ike this, to show
you my real heart, You men probably
do not realize with what anxious at
tention and care we have followed ev-
cry step you have advanced and how
proud we are that every step was In
advance and not In retreat. That ev-
cry time you set your face In any d.
rectiop you kept your faces In that
direction. A thrill has gone through
my heart rs il has gone through the
heart OF every American with almost
every gun that was fired and every
stroke that was struck In the gallant
fighting that you have done, and there
has been only one regret in America
and that was the regret that every
man there felt that he was not In
France, too. 1t has been hard thing
to perform tasks In the United States.
It has been hard thing to take part
In directing what you did without COM
Ing over and helping you do it. 1t has
taken LOT of moral courage to stay
at home, but we are proud to back
you up everywhere it was possible to
back you UP. and now am happy TO
| find what splendid names you have
made for yourselves among the civil
ian population OF France as well as
among your sofnrades in the armies Of
France, and it is d fine testimony to
! you men tf@t these people like you
and love you and trust you; and the
finest part OF 1t all is that you deserve
| their trust.
II feel comradeship with you today
which Is delightful as I look down
upon these undisturbed fields and
think OF the terrible scenes through
which you have gone and realize how
the quiet OF peace, the tranquility Of
settled hopes have descended upon us,
and while 1t La hard far away from
home to confidently bid you Merry
Christmas, can, [ think, confidently
promise you q Happy New Year, and
can from the bottom OF my heart say
God bless you"
Ia speech at a reception rendered
him at the Hotel De Vile at Chau-
mont, he said;
II feel that / have been peculiarly
h0nored Tia the generous reception you
have given me and 1t Is the more de-
lightful because it SO obviously comes
| from the heart and ! cannot but be-
| liavs that il is an instructive response
to the feeling that Is In my own breast,
because / think that even you who
feel contact With our soldiers cannot
bat realize the depth and sincerity OF
this feeling of the United States FOR
France. 1t rs ala ancient friendship,
but Ii has been renewed and has taken
on new youth. 1t Is friendship
which Is not only tentative but one
based upon 8 communion of pTineipIe
| Yanks Feel at Home,
eY0t have spoken very generously
and beautifully of tbs relations which
have sprung up betWseB yourselves
ahd ouR soldiers, That is because
they came not only to associate them
selves with YOU AS tho champion OF
liberty, but they came with personal
affections In their hearts for the peg
pie of France and IT must have been
that which Jon realized. They did not
come as strangers In their thoughts,
They brought with them something