The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-03
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 town to the youngest lieutenant And theil men were worthy of them-such men as hardly need to be commanded, and go to their terrible adventure blithely and with the quick intelligence of those whS Know just what it is they would accom-. plish.
 I am proud to be the fellow coun- trymen of men of such stuff and valor Ihose or us who stayed at home did our duty, the war could not have been won or the gallant men who fought it. gwen their opportunity to win 1t oth- erwise, but for many a long day we shall think ourselves "accursed be- cause we were not there and hold our manhood cheap when any one speaks who had fought" With these at St Mihiel or Chateau Thierry. The memories of these triumphant battles VIII go with these fortunate men to tneir graves and each will have his favorite memory. i"Old men forget, yet all shall be forgot. but he will re- member with advantages the feats he did that day.
 TURNED THE TIDE
 What we all thank God for with deepest gratitude Is that our men went in force into the line of patlle just at the critical moment when ths whole fate oftthe 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 off the fatal struggle. turn 1t once and for all, so that henceforth 1t was back back, back for their enemies; at- ways back, never again forward. After that-it was only 8 scant four months before the commanders of the central powers knew themselves beaten and now their very empires are in liquida- tion.
 And throughout 1t all, how fine tie spirit of the nation was; what unity of purpose; what untirNhg zeal; what elevation of purpose ran through all it's splendid display of strength, its untiring accomplishment! I have said that those of us who stayed at home to do the work of organization and supply will always wish that we had been with the men whom we sustained by our labor, but we can never be ashamed
 It has been an inspiring thing to us here in the midst of fine men who had turned aside from every private inter est 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 unselfishness the thoroughgoing devotion and expert ca pacity that marked their toilsome labor, day after day, month after month, have made them fit mates and comrades of the men in the trenches, and on the sea. And not the men here in Wasn- ington only. They have but directed the vast achievement. Throughout in- numerable factories, upon innumerable farms, in the depths of the coal mines, and iron mines and copper mines, wherever the stuffs of industry were to be obtained and prepared in the shipyards, on the railways, at the docks, on the sea, in every labor that was needed to sustain the battle lines. men have vied 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 triumphs."
 N GIVE WOMEN RIGHTS
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 4as ieasi s1.sgte esr I@g s2ta ss to make them equals or men III political rights as they have proved themselves their equals in every field of practical work they have done. whether for themselves or for their country. These great days of com pleted achievement would be sadly ma W justice. Besides the immense practl- cal services they have rendered the women of the country have been the moving spirits in the systematic eco- monies by which our people have vol- untarily assisted to supply the suf- fering peoples of the world and the armies upon every front with food and everything else that we had that might serve the common cause. The details of such story can never be fully written. but we carry them at our heartstrings and thank God we can say that we are the kinsmen of such.
 And now we are sure of the great triumph for which every sacrifice, was made. It has come, come in it's com pleteness, and with the pride and in- spiration of these days of achievement quick within us we turn to the tasks of peace again, peace~secured against the violence of irresponsible monarchs and ambitious military coteries, and made ready for new order for new foundations of justice and fair dealing SEEK INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE We are about to give order, and or- ganization to this peace not only for ourselves but for the other peoples of the world as we'll so far as they will suffer us to serve them. It is interna-f tional justice that we seek, not domestic safety merely. Our thoughts have dwelt of late upon Europe, upon Asia, upon upon the acts of peace and accommoda- tion that wait to be performed at our own doors. While we are adjusting our relations with the rest of the world, is 1t not of capital importance that we should clear away all grounds of mis- understanding with our immediate neighbors and give proof of the friend- ship we really feel? I hope that the members of the Senate will permit me to speak once more qf the unifications of friendship and adjustment with the re- public of Colombia. I very earnestly urge upon them an early and favorable action upon that vital matter. I believe that they will feel with me that the stage of affairs is now set for such action as will be not only just but generous and in the spirir of the new age upon which we have so happily entered.
 So far as our domestic affairs are con- cernsd the problem of our return to peace 6 Q problem of economic and in- dustrial readjustment. That problem Is less serious for us than 1t may turn cut to be for the nations which have suffered the disarrangements and the losses of war longer than we Our peo- pie, moreover, do not wait to be coaxed
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