The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-06-06

President Wilson Makes Stir.
ring Patriotic Address to Big
New York Audience.
NO LIMIT TO AMERICAN ARMY
Troops Will Continue to be Sent to
France as Long as Necessity Ex-
lists, Executive Says.

New York.-To win the war the
United States is determined to set no
restrictions on the number of men to
be sent TO France, President Wilson
declared here in speech reaffirming
the purpose of set no limits on its eff
forts. The President was preceded
by Henry P. Dawson, chairman of the
Red Cross, who told of his experiences
on recent visit to the battle fronts.
The full text of the Presidents
speech follows:
'Mr. Chairman and Fellow Country
men: 1 should be very sorry to think
that Mr.. Dawson in any degree cur
tailed his exceedingly interesting
speech for fear that he was postponing
mine, because l am sure you listened
with the same intent and intimate in
tent with which l listened to the ex-
traordinarily vivid account he gave Of
the things which he had realized be-
cause he had come in contact with
them on the other side of the waters.
1--WE compass them with our mag
nation; he comprised them in his per-
SOnal experience, and 1 am not come
here tonight to review for you the
work of the Red Cross; 1 am not com
petent to do so, because I have not had
the time or the opportunity to follow
In detail. l have come here simply
to say a few words to you as to what
1t all seems to me to mean and it
means a great deal.
Two Main Duties.
There are two duties with which
we are face to face. The first duty is
to win the war. And the second duty
that goes hand in hand with it is to
win it greatly and worthily, showing
the real quality of our power, not only,
but the real quality of our purpose and
of ourselves.
cot course, the first duty, the duty
that we must keep in the foreground
of our thought until it is accomplished,
is to win the war. I have heard gen
tIemen recently say that we must get
100000 men ready. Why limit it to
100000?
Il have asked the congress of the
United States to name no limit, be-
cause the congress intends, am sure,
as we all intend, that every ship that
can carry men or supplies shall go
laden upon every voyage with every
man and every supply she can carry.
And, we are not to be diverted
from the grim purpose of winning the
war by any sincere approaches upon
the subject of peace. l can say with
a clear conscience that 1 have tested
those intimatiOns and have found them
insincere. I now recognize them for
what they are, an opportunity to have
a free hand, particularly in the east,
to carry out purposes of conquest and
exploitation.
To Stand by Russia.
Every proposal with regard to ac-
cOmmOdatiOn in the west, involves a
reservation with regard to the east
Now, so far as 1 am concerned, 1 in
tend to stand by Russia as well as
France"
A voice from the audience inter
Tupted with:
God bless you!"
"The helpless and the friendIess are
the very ones that need friends and
Succor; and if any man in Germany
thinks we are going to sacrifice any
body for our own sake, tell them now
they are mistaken.
e For the glory of this war, my fell
low citizens, insofar as we are con-
cerned, is that it is, perhaps for the
first time in history, an unselfish war
I could not be proud to fight for a
selfish purpose, but 1 can be proud to
fight for mankind. If they wish peace,
let them come forward through ac-
credited repres entatives and lay their
terms on the table. We have laid ours
and they know what they are.
But, behind all this grim purpose,
my friends, lies the opportunity to
demonstrate not only force which will
be demonstrated to the utmost, but the
opportunity to demonstrate character,
and it is that opportunity that we
have most conspicuously in the work
OF the Red Cross.
Great Duty Comes.
'My friends, a great day of duty has
come and duty finds a mans soul as
no kind of work can ever find it.
MAY l say this? The duty that
faces us all now is to serve one an
other, and no man can afford to make
q fortune out of this W.T.. There are
men amongst US who have forgotten
that if they ever saw it. Some of
you are old enough am old enough
to remember men who made for
tunes out of the Civil war, and you
know how they were regarded by their
fellow citizens. That was a war to
save one country-this is a war to
save the world.
"And your relation to the Red Cross
is one of the relations which will re-
Iieve you of the stigma. You can't give
anything to the government Of the
United States; it won't accept it.