Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-12-07
those who know just what Il ID they
would accomplish.
Proud OF His nounhhoxs

those who know just what II 10 they
would accomplish.
Proud Of His Douohboys.
~ I.aaR~preudS- be the, fellow-eoun-
tryman Of men of such stuff and valor
Those CT us who stayed at home did
our duty; the war could not have been
won or the gallant men who fought it
given their opportunity to win it other
wise; but for many a long day we
shall think ourselves "accursed we
were not there and hold our manhoods
cheap while any speaks that fought"
with these at st. Mihiel or Thierry.
The memory Of those days of trium-
plant battle will go with these FORUM
ate men to their graves, and each will
have his favorite memory. "Old men
forget; yet all shall be forgot, but
he'll remember with advantages what
feats he did that day"
What we all thank God for with
deepest gratitude is that our men
went In force into the line OF battle
just as 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'iul struggle-turn it once for
all, so that thenceforth it was back,
back, back for their enemies, always
back, never again forward! After
that 1t was only scant four months
before the commanders of the Central
Empires knew themselves beaten; and
now their very empires are in liQuida-
ton!
And throughout it all how fine the
spirit OF the nation was. What unity
of purpose, what untiring zeal. What
elevation of purpose ran through all
its splendid display of strength, its
untiring accomplishment.
have said that those of us who
stayed at home to do the work of or
ganization and supply will always
wish that we had been with the men
whom we can never be ashamed. It
has been an inspiring thing to be
here in the miCrt of fine men who
had turned aside from every private
interest of their own and devoted the
whole of their trained capacity to
the tasks that supplied the sinews of
the whole great undertaking. The
patriotism, The unselfshness, the
thorough-going devotion and dis
tinguished capacity that marked
their toilsome labors, day after day,
month after month, have made them
fit mates and comrades of the men in
the trenches and on the sea.
Entire Country Behind Army.
And not the men here in Wash
ington only. They have but directed
the vast achievement Throughout
innumerable factories, upon innumer-
able farms, in the depths of coal
mines and iron mines and copper
mines, wherever the stuffs of indus
try were to be obtained and prepared,
in the shipyards, ON the railways, at
the docks, on the seas, in every labor
that was needed to sustain the battle
line, men have We'd with each other
to do their part and do it we'll. They
can look any man-at-arms in the face
and say, we also strove to win and
gave the best that was in us to make
our fleets and armies sure Of their
triumph!
Appeals For Equal Suffrage.
And what shall we say of the wom-
en-of their instant intelligence,
every task that they
touched; their capacity for organiza-
ton and cooperation, which gave
their action discipline and enhanced
the effectiveness of everything they ;
attempted; their aptitude at tasks TO
which they had never before set their
hands; their utter self-sacrifice alike
in what they did and in what they
gave? Their contribution to the |
great result is beyond appraisal. They
have added new lustre to the annals |
Of American womanhood.
Urges Colombia Treaty.
l hope that the members of the
Senate Will permit me to speak once |
more of the unratified treaty of |
friendship and adjustment with the !
Republic of Colombia. I very earn
estly urge upon them an early and |
favorable action upon that vital mat
er. believe that they will feel with J.
me that the stage of affairs is now
set for such action as will be not only |
Just but generous, and in the spirit |
Of the new age upon which we have
so rapidly entered.
So far as our domestic affairs are
the problem of our return
70 peace is problem of economic
and industrial readjustment That
problem is less serious for Us than It
nay turn out to be for the nations
which have suffered the disarrange-
nents and the losses of war longer
han we.
Our people. moreover, do not wait
o be coached and led. They know
heir own business, are quick and
'esourceful at every readjustment,
lefinite in purpose and sef-reliant in
.ction. Any leading strings we might
eek to. put them in would speedily
become hopelessly tangled because
hey would pay no attention to them
md go their own way. All that we
an do as their legislative and execu-
i've servants is to mediate the pro-
ess of change here, there and else
where as we may. have heard much
ounsel as to the plans that should be {