The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-19


lchief, for the invaluable assistHnc
Whict had been given spentaneyusA
during this war, to the defenders c
right and liberty.
!. Even before America had resolve
to intervene in the struggle She Rha
Esshowato the wounded and the o1
: phans of France .solicitude and
generosity the memory Of which viii
always be enshrined in our hearts
The Hherality OF your Red Cross, Asth
countless gifts Of your fellow citizens
the inspiring initiative of American
women, anticipating your military ant
naval action and showed the world tt
which side your sympathies inclined
And on the day when you flung your
selves into the battle, with what de
terminal on your great people ant
yourself prepared for united success
Some months ago you cabled tl
me that the United States would sen6
ever increasing forces until the day
should be reached on which the allied
= armies were able to submerge the
enemy under an overwhelming hoW
Of new divisions and in effort for more
than year a steady stream OF youth
and energy has been poured out upon
the shores Of France.
mo sooner had they landed than
your gallant battalions fired by their
! chief, General Pershing, flung them.
selves into the combat with such a
manly contempt CT danger, such a
smiling disregard of death, that our
longer experience of this terrible war
often moved us to counsel prudence
They brought with them in arriving
here the enthusiasm Of crusaders
leaving for the Holy Land
It is their right today to look with
and rest assured that they have pow
erfullv ded by their courage and
their faith %
Eager as they were to meet the
enemy they did not know when they
arrived the eaormity of his crimes
That they might know how the Ger
man armies make war it has been
necessary that they see towns system
atically burned down, mines flooded,
factories reduced to ashes, orchards
devastated. cathedrals shelled and
fired-aH that deliberate savageFy
aimed to destroy national wealth, ma
ture and beauty, which the imaginar
ton could not conceive at distance
from the men and things that have
endured it. and today bear N5tness to-
II - e
In yeur turn, Mr. President, you
viii be able to measure with your
own eyes the extent of these sdisas-
ters, and the French government will
make known to you the authentic
documents in which the German gem
eral staff developed with astounding
cynicism it's program OF pillage and
industrial annihilation. Your noble
conscience will pronounce a verdict
on these facts.
Should this guilt remain unpun-
ished. could it be renewed, the most
splendid victories would be in vain.
'fMr. President, France has strug-
gled, has endured and has suffered
during four long years; she has bled
at every vein; she has lost the best of
her children; she mourns for her
Youths. She yearns now even as you
do. for peace, OF justice and secur-
ity.
1T was not that she might be ex-
posed once again to aggression that
.he submitted to such sacrifices. Nor
was it in order that criminals should
go unpunished; that they might fift
their heads again to make ready for
new crimes that under" your strong
leadership America armed herself and
crossed the ocean.
Faithful to the memory of La
Fayette and Rochambeau, she came |
to the aid cf France because France |
herself was faithful to her traditions.
Our common ideals have triumphed. |
Together we have defended the vital
principles of free nations.
"Now we must build together such /
a peace as will forbid the deliberate I
and hypocritical renewing Of an or
"anisn1 aiming at conquest and op-
preston.
peace must make amends for the |
misery and sadness of yesterday and |
it must be guarantee against the
dangers Of tomorrow The associa-
ton which has been formed for the
purpose oie war between the United |
States and the allies, and which con-
tains the seed of the permanent in |.
stitutions of which you have spoken
so eloquently. will find from this ray
forward a clear and profitable en-
nlOyment in the concerted search for
equitable decisions and in the mutual
support which we need if we are to
make our rights prevail.
Whatever safeguards we may erect
Tor the future no one, alas, can assert
hat we shall forever shake to man
<ind the horrors of new wars. Five
years ago the progress of science and
she state Of civilization might have
permitted the hope that no govern
nent. however autocratic,~ would have
succeeded in hurting armed nations
upon Belgium and Serbia
Without lending ourselves to the