The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-26

made no guns and is sending our boys
across the sea to put them up against
the great guns of Germany
They tell us our boys are to be pro-
tected by the guns of England and
France, he continued but this govern
ment ought never to send them over
there until they can be protected by
our own guns. Send the guns ahead
and then send our noble bows behind
the guns.
The speaker said that in one place
he saw 10000 American soldiers and
they had only three little guns which
they had borrowed of the French
When Germany began to realize that
the French were sustained by their in
domitable spirit and their religion Ger
many undertook to break down that
spirit by training the big guns on the
French cathedrals and things which to
the French are spiritual These sacred
edlfices were reduced to little piles of
ruins, and yet the great heart of the
French was unconquered.
At this point in his address Con
gresham Dale said he realized that he
always spoke too long, and n voice in
the audience exelaimed eco on.
II shall have to 90 on a little, be
canS" ! have left ont something |
wanted to say the speaker said, and
then he stated that the reason why he
went abroad was to see the bows and
get the inspiration that would come to
him. lie said that on several occasions
especially he was proud on that trip
because he was an American. One Of
those occasions was at Eerdun, when
the veterans of that terrible conflict
grew enthusiastic and animated when
they spoke of the entrance of the Unit
ed States into the war Another was
in little muddy and almost ruined vii.
lage when little French lad who new
or had seen him before held I'D his lit
tic hands and wanted to be taken UP
into the American s arms.
| But the proudest moment was when
he saw 10000 American soldiers march
ing under command of Major Ashley of
Burlington. He went on to say that
somehow, from their physical shape
the expression of their faces, they give
the impression of being ''the finest
boys in the world
The pity, | thought. of the condi-
tions, y the speaker said, referring to
the lack of guns. He said the bows
| were well taken care of, and this re
mark was made with apparent sinceri-
~. Il was appalled, when l came
back and realized that this government
had not made a gun and that 100 ships
that ought to be sailing were lying with
empty bunkers at the docks, because
the heads of departments said thew
didn I know how to deal with the sit,
uatlon. Do you wonder that | said
with all reverence, For God S sake
wake M, =
In closing his address Congressman
Dale said he had been informed that
campaign was in progress here to
raise money for the Knights of Column
bug war camp fund He said that when
the boys come back from the front
they have no place TO 90 except to the
societies that maintain places for them
s7lch as the y. VI. c. A. and the knights
of Columbus, and each one goes to the
place that most fully represents his re
lgion, not because it is religious prop
oStlon. but because he wouldn t fee
az much at home in one place as il
the other. He said the Red Cross anf
the y. NJ. {. A. had received more than
they asked for, and he urged that tn,
Knights of Columbus be treated in tn,
same way.
Congressman Dale was applauded re
peatedlv during his address, and the ap
plause was especially marked at tn
close. At the request of Chairman
Smith the audience sang one stanza 0
: America, also to the same tune stanz
entitled God Save Our Men, written o.
I blackboard