The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-04-12
1900 TROOPS
PASS IN REVIEW
Fighting Machine From Meade
Stirs Patriotism
CLIMAX TO GLORIOUS DAY
Every Man Marches Like Veteran
Most Notable Spectacle
Ever Seen In
Baltimore.

Baltimore, April 6.-Four hundred
thousand persons sat down to their
dinner tables in Baltimore tonight
with one exclamation ringing through
their minds-"Good Night, Kaiser
Bill"
Even the President of the United
States must have had such thought
uppermost in his mind as he pondered
over the scenes which he and Mrs.
Wilson and 399.99S other spectators
had witnessed in this town on the
first anniversary of this country's en-
try into war.
There were that many persons, and
more, who saw the 10000 soldiers of
the Liberty Division of Camp Meade
go marching through the streets this
afternoon-soldiers, every one Of
them, and every inch of them going
forward eagerly and confidently and
determinedly on their way to meet
the Boches.
Never has Baltimore seen such
pageant, never has this city been SO
stirred to its depths, never has pa
triotic fever leaped so highly and so
gladly and so courageously as it did
when these men of Baltimore, Of
Maryland, of Philadelphia, of Pennsyl-
vania and of the District of Columbia
went by in review before their COM
mander-in-chief-the leader of them
and of this nation.
Those $4,000 soldiers were bearing
with them a message This message
was clear and convincing. 1t told a
story to every American among the
hundreds of thousands of Americans
who choked the city streets and who
went into de.irium of pride and en-
thusiasm as they read the tate. The
message was stamped on the tanned,
alert, cheerful faces of that moving
host of khaki-c,ad men. The Presi-
dent peered at it and studied 1t, and
a glow of satisfaction came over his
face, hope and Joy and gratitude rang
vibrantly in his heart, and the eyes
became the mirror of his soul. Those
eyes which have seen so much and
studied so much. knew that the It'd
ings which they had received were
true.
The 400. 900 felow-Americans of the
President read that message and they
interpreted it the same as he. That
is why they went home with exulta-
~, hot, wi hot ic ~
said in unison, Good Night, Kaiser
Bill"
The message said that these were
the boys of the Army of Liberty, the
men of the Seventy-ninth Division.
members of the National Army, the
greatest army the world will ever
know. That message reminded the J,
President that year ago when his
clarion call came to America to
avenge the weak and to crush the
tyrant, to make the world safe. for
democracy, that thought of them -
soldiers had not even been conceived.
They reminded him how the coun--
try, knowing that it must go forward
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heart when it looked around and saw
not myriads of soldiers to defend it's
honor, but mere company of uni
formed men who were but dot
against the vast army of imperialistfe-
mad militarists.
But on that day the President har
spoken his trust in the valor and de-
termination of his countrymen. He
felt that he could take men from the
work bench and from the factories,
from the mines and from the farm
lands, from the law courts aau from
the medical schools, from banks and
business houses, from the busy marts
of trade and from little country towns
and mould them into an army that
never would brook defeat.
That was why that CLEAN of
triumph came into his eyes as the 49,
600 men swept by him-the infantry
and the artillery, the field signal bat
talons, the machine-gun companies
the members of the sanitary trains,
the generals and the buck privates,
the whites and the blacks-all Of
them with hearts that kept humping,
humping proudly as their feet went
tramp, tramp, tramp down the wide
avenue past the Presidential review
ing stand.