New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-31


Great Britain and the United States,
but for France, for Italy and the
world, enter into great league and
covenant, declaring ourselves first of
all friends of mankind and uniting
ourselves together for the mainten-
ance of the triumph Of right"
No other audience during his Euro
pean appearances has absorbed the
Presidents utterances so eagerly, so
understandingly, has so quickly re
sponded to every important point, az
did the Free Trade Hall audience. No
other audience has resembled so no
ticeably the character and types of
people to whom the President has been
accustomed to speak at home
Perhaps this was because Lancashire
has contributed so many citizens to
the United States and has such close
industrial connections and follows
American affairs with keener interest
than most English counties.
Speech at Luncheon
Later the President made brief APP
pearance In the balcony of tho Royal
Exchange, where he spcac Finally he
took luncheon with 200 prominent men
in the Midland Hotel, where he made
an acknowledgment of Manchester's
hospitality, saying:
you have again made me feel the
cordially Of your friendship, and |
want to tell you how much | appreci
ate it. not only on my own behalf,
but on behalf of my partner
at is very interesting that the
Lord Mayor should have referred in
his address to very vital circum-
stances in our friendship. He re-
ferred to the fact that our men and
your mon have fought side by side
in the great battles. But there was
more than that in it, For the first
time, upon such scale at any rate,
they have fought under q common
commander. That is an advance
which we have made upon the pre-
particularly interested in has been
the generosity of spirit with which
that unity Of command has been
assented TO. l not only had the
pleasure of meeting Marshal Foch,
who confirmed my admiration Of him
by the direct and simple manner
with which he dealt with every sub
ject we talked about, but I had the
pleasure Of meeting your own com
mander and I understand how they
co6perated, because ! saw they were
real men.
Unity Secret of Success
at takes real man to subordinate
himself, and it takes real soldier
to know that unity Of command is
the secret Of success. That unity of
command did swing the power of
nations into q mighty force. I think
we all must have felt how the mo-
mentum which got into all Of the
armies was concentrated into the
single army, and we felt we had
overcome all the obstacles.
with our unity Of command there
arose a unity Of spirit The minute
we consented to cooperate our hearts
we're drawn closer together into CO.
operation, and so from the military
side wo had given ourselves an ex-
ample for the years to come. Not
that In the years to come we must
submit to a unity of command, but
it does seem to me that in the years
to come we must plan unity of pur-
pose, and in that unity of purpose we
shall find great recompense, a
Strengthening Of our spirit in every
thing that we do.
Jealousy a Cancer
"There is nothing so hamperfng
and nothing so debasing as jeal-
ousy 1t is q cancer, 1t is cancer
the counting room. 1t is cancer
in the heart, not only that, but in
throughout all the processes Of civil
lization, and having now seen we
can fight shoulder to shoulder we
win continue to advance shoulder to
shoulder, and I think you will find
that the people of the United States
are not the least eager for the pur-
pose.
~ remember hearing the story of
a warning that one Of your Austral
ian soldiers gave TO one Of ours.
Our soldiers were considered by the
older men to be bit rash when they
were in the field ! understand that
one friendly Australian said that
our men were rather rough. On one
occasion an Australian said to one
of our men: Man, barrage is not
thing to lean up against
Proud of u. S. Energy
"They were little bit inclined to
lean up against the barrage, and yet
I must confde to you that was a bit
proud Of them for it, They had
come over to get at the enemy and
they didn't know why they should
delay
"But now that there is no common
enemy except distrust and marring
Of plans we can all feel the same
eagcrness in the new combat and
feel that there is common enter
prise before US
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